Make up beds for mushrooms with well-prepared dung towards the end of the month.
Maintain the heat in hotbeds and pits by means of fresh dung linings.
The following are organic manures: Farm-yard manure consists of the mixed dung of horses and cattle thrown together, and more or less soaked with liquid drainings of the stable or byre.
A single crock may be used in some cases, and in others no crock at all, but a handful of half-decayed leaves or half-decayed dung thrown into the bottom of the pot.
Bedding plants thrive best in a light loam, liberally manured with thoroughly rotten dung from an old hotbed or thoroughly decomposed cow droppings and leaf-mould.
The dung of the domestic fowl is very similar in character.
When the heat of the original bed subsides, linings of fermenting dung must be added, and these must be kept active by occasional turnings and the addition of fresh material as often as required.
Parian: a pure and beautiful marble of Paros; coprolite: the petrified dung of carnivorous reptiles.
A very interesting variant of the infantile theories of procreation of the living in dung is found in the book, “De Homunculis et Monstris” (Vol.
Horse manure or dung was an easily procured material that served the purpose of keeping warm at an even mild and moist heat a vessel that was put into it.
In any case it is worth remembering that out of dung and urine, things that decompose malodorously and repulsively, fresh life arises.
Incidentally we should note that the bodies in the philosophic egg turn actually into a rolling, stinking, black mass, which is expressly calleddung by many authors.
In the preceding case surely the narrower meaning of animal belly or dung should not be overlooked.
An attenuation of the comparison dung = gold seems to be coal = gold.
It is found on dung and manure piles, in richly manured fields, and sometimes in woods.
It is usually found on dung and on grassy lawns during May and June.
Found on dung and dung heaps and in well manured grass plots from May to October.
Found on dung and in richly manured pastures, from July to frost.
In the Zuur veldt, in Tartary and Central India, where fuel is scarce, we have seen the cattle-dung collected and piled along the tops of all the walls and other enclosures to dry.
Then between the walls of clay they make a long line of fire with dry cow dung and chips of hard, dry wood.
Wet cow dung is the best material we know for preserving the moisture of the skins on which it is spread.
These pots are then luted down with clay, and placed in a clay furnace heated with dry cow dung and charcoal.
The sheet should be kept damp, not wet, by spreading ox-dung or damp earth upon it till the frame is ready.
Every Bairagi cooks his food within a space cleansed with cow-dung water by himself or his disciple, and will not leave the space until he has finished his meal.
To eat three balls of cow-dung every morning for a year.
In front of the house, which is to be the scene of the wedding, two pits are dug, into which cow-dung water is poured.
The dung of the buffalo, exposed for many years to the action of sun, wind, and rain, became as dry and firm as the finest compressed hay.
There are times when fowls dung more loosely than at others, especially when they have been fed on green or soft food; but this, may occur without the presence of disease.
The urine and the dungare valuable, being, from the very nature of the food of the animals, exceedingly rich and oleaginous, and materially beneficial to cold soils and grass-lands.
All loose straws sticking to the wool should be picked off, and whatever dung may adhere to any of the feet brushed off.
Sometimes when a sheep scours in warm weather, and clotted dung adheres about the anus, maggots are generated under it, and the sheep perishes miserably.
Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea.
The reader knows, that by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields.
We sleep on the earth, we cook with sheep-dung fires; we have not water even for drinking.
Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.
And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end thereof: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be gathered up, nor buried: they shall lie as dung upon the face of the earth.
His name was Major Middleton That manned the bridge of Dee; And his name was Colonel Henderson That dung Pitmeddin in three.
There was no fuel with which we could light our fire; even the dung of animals was so scarce, that we could not, during seven days, afford to cook our scanty meals more than thrice, and the four last grouse that we killed were eaten raw.
The hoopoe lays from two to four eggs; its nest, placed in the hole of some tree, is a mixture of cow dung and small roots.
When wild, it may be continually seen in fields, searching for its favourite insects among cow dung and the excrements of other animals.
This bird, which is very cleanly, always deposits its dung in one particular spot.
It may also be caught with lime twigs placed in the yard, or before the house, on horse dung and among scattered grain.
Owing to their dung being very liquid, abundant, and foetid, they must be cleaned regularly every day.
And no wonder,' quoth he * 'When the drawer of dungturns a stoker wight.
Then they shut me up in the byre and throw me beans and crushed straw,[FN#25] mixed with dirt and chaff; and I lie in dung and filth and foul stinks through the livelong night.
From the appearance of their camp and quantity of camel dunghe slept more than one night here.
On further examination we found thedung of camels and horse or horses, evidently tied up a long time ago.
On our way here today, about three miles from camp, passed the remains of Burke's horse and saddle; they were recognised as his by camel dung being about the camp.
Paracelsus refers more than once to the heat of horse-dung used in 'separations', e.
The dung of mules and asses, which are their only beasts of burthen, is of very little value for this purpose; and the natural sterility of their ground requires something highly impregnated with nitre and volatile salts.
They have recourse therefore to pigeons' dungand ordure, which fully answer their expectations.
Still keeping along the southern wall in a westerly direction we find the small Dung Gate, called by the Arabs Bab-el-Mogharibeh, Gate of the western Africans.
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate.
Starting from the Aksa the city wall goes to the south, and then turns again to the west down to the Dung Gate.
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
To insure the improving the lands, no tenant shall be at liberty to sell or otherwise dispose of any straw, turnips, hay, or dungproduce upon his farm.
No sub-tenant shall be at liberty to sell or otherwise dispose of any straw, turnips, hay, or dung produced on his farm except to neighbours, tenants on the property.
Their dung is frequently allowed to accumulate about them; and I was told that this part of the house is sometimes used by the family in winter as a privy.
That is the jewel he digs for, and esteems all dung in comparison of it.
I count all loss and dung to be found in Christ, not having mine own righteousness, and yet I press forward, and follow after perfection, as having attained nothing yet.
And therefore should you pray always in Christ’s name, that the prayer which, of itself, would be cast as dung on our face, may have a sweet savour from him.
For faith abstracted from Christ is but an empty notion, and among the dung and loss that Paul would quit to be found in Christ, Phil.
I sent my interpreter and an Imperial soldier, who was with my horse, to get the steamers round to Wai-quai-dung to make the Futai answerable, and also sent for my body guard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
