yard-stuff

Updated: June 9, 2025

Of milk of course, and cows, and sheep, and horses; and of your body and mine for we shall drink the milk and eat the meat. And therefore it is a flesh and milk manufactory. We must put into it every year yard-stuff, tank-stuff, guano, bones, and anything and everything of that kin, that Madam How may cook it for us into grass, and cook the grass again into milk and meat.

Charles Kingsley - Madam How and Lady Why