Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A manure prepared from night-soil dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. The contents of a dry closet, treated for use as manure
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.
Examples
“The manufacture of a manure from night-soil, called "poudrette," has long been practised in the neighbourhood of”
“Our privies are deodorized by the use of muck, which is sprinkled over the surface of the pit once a week, and from them alone we thus prepare annually, enough" poudrette "to manure our corn in the hill.”
“Reverted phosphate, finest steamed bone-dust fish-guano, poudrette 83”
“In all sections where corn is worth 30 cents and over a bushel, great benefits may be realised by the skilful manufacture and use of poudrette.”
“Among fertilizers, wood ashes, salt, bones, lime, guano, and poudrette have been used in wheat culture with decided advantage.”
“Both in Mexico and Peru the soil received a dressing of poudrette.”
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
“At that time good decayed cow dung or poudrette should be spread one inch deep, and any close growing crop which is not valuable, such as _sunn_,”
“When the vault is full, the mass should be removed, worked well over and after a few days standing, will be ready to use to manure corn, tobacco, etc., in the hill, or for any purpose to which guano or poudrette is applied.”
“Those substances that act as stimulants to vegetation, such as lime, poudrette, ashes, etc., etc., favor the growth of the plant without injuring the coloring matter.”
“Bone-dust, ashes, poudrette, barnyard manure, and muck with lime can be used alternate years, so as to give variety of plant food, and a plantation thus sustained can be kept twenty years or more; but under the usual culture, vigor begins to fail after the eighth or tenth season.”
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frogapplause A manure prepared from night-soil dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum. Mar 2, 2011