During a dry season, every country resident should secure several barrels of road-dust. Those who keep poultry may secure by its use a valuable fertilizer, nearly as strong as guano, with none of its disagreeable odor. Place an inch or two of road-dust in the bottom of a barrel; then, as the poultry house is regularly cleaned, deposit A layer an inch thick of the cleanings, and so on, alternately layers of each till the barrel is full. The thinner each layer is, the more perfect will be the intermixture of the ingredients. If the soil of which the road-dust is made is clayey, the layers of each may be of equal thickness; if sandy, the dust should be at least twice as thick as the layer of droppings, old barrels of any kind may be used for this purpose, but if previously soaked with crude petroleum or coated with gas-tar, they will last many years, If the contents are pounded on a floor into fine powder before applying, the fertilizer may be sown from a drill. Inroad-dust is one of the most.

Perfect deodorizers of vaults converting their contents also into rich manure. Place a barrel or box of it in the closet, with a small dipper, and throw down a pint into the vault each time it is occupied, and there will be no offensive odor whatever. This is simpler, cheaper, and better than a water-closet, and never freezes or gets out of order. Mixing the road-dust with equal bulk of coal-ashes is an improvement, making the fertilizer more friable.