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Horse manure   /hɔrs mənˈʊr/   Listen
Horse manure

noun
1.
Horse excreta used as fertilizer.





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"Horse manure" Quotes from Famous Books



... in figures, and after dealing with the beneficial results of purifying the air of towns by the rapid abstraction of refuse matter, he passed on to review "other fertile causes of mischief" in poisoning the air of towns, the chief of these being horse manure, the dust ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various
... tolerated, although it is a notorious carrier of dirt and disease, and is bred by dirt and dirt only, its eggs being hatched in old stable manure. The diminution of late years of house-flies in London houses is simply and solely due to legislation compelling the removal of horse manure from the "mews" so frequent at the back of London streets. Egyptian natives still allow flies to gather on ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester


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