Note 82 — Chapter XV · INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.

Liquid manure fills an important part in the economy of Swiss husbandry, under the name of Jouche or Mist-Wasser in the German Cantons, and of Lisier in the French Cantons. They collect in large casks the drainage of their manure-piles, stables, and hog-pens, and bring it in carts to the fields, where it is drawn off into wooden tubs fitted to the shoulders of men, and sometimes of women, who, walking along the furrows, distribute it in due proportion to each plant, by stooping to the right and left, the coffee-colored nectar pouring over their heads. It would be impossible to perform an uncleanly task in a more delicate manner.