Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A manure prepared from night-soil dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The contents of a
dry closet , treated for use asmanure
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Examples
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The manufacture of a manure from night-soil, called "poudrette," has long been practised in the neighbourhood of
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson
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"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."
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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.
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Among fertilizers, wood ashes, salt, bones, lime, guano, and poudrette have been used in wheat culture with decided advantage.
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Reverted phosphate, finest steamed bone-dust fish-guano, poudrette 83
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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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 Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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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_,
The Cauliflower 1877
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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.
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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.
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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.
Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863
frogapplause commented on the word poudrette
A manure prepared from night-soil dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum.
March 3, 2011