Instructions

Things You'll Need:

 Cow manure and urine
 Optional planting soil
 Wood ash
 5-gallon bucket
 Tarp
 Cinder blocks
 Waterproof draping of your choice
 Green plant life
 Burned thistles
 Optional potato leaves
 Shovel
 Water

1. 1

Place cow manure into a large pile. Planting soil can also work.

2. 2

Mix the manure or planting soil with some green plant life, a little bit of ash from burned thistles, worm
wood, ash from tree bark or wood ashes. If you have potato leaves, mix that in, too Your pile of half-and-half
should be 6 to 7 feet tall.

3. 3

Set your mixture on something that is waterproof.

4. 4

Form a roof over your pile with tarp and cinder blocks or something similar.

5. 5

Pour lant (stale cow urine) over the pile once a week for three to four months. Once you see yellowish
crystals forming on top, you can stop the lant.

6. 6

Scrape off the top layer when the potassium nitrate (crystals) that has formed has effervesced 6 to 10
centimeters thick. Keep up this practice until the saltpeter has been harvested.

7. 7

Treat the saltpeter earth when all is harvested by using a bucket. Poke holes in the 5-gallon bucket, and put a
paper (non-charcoal) filter on the bottom. Fill the bucket three-quarters high with the left over pile. Set a pan
under the bucket, and slowly pour boiling water over the mixture. Continue with this until the pile is gone.

8. 8

Take the mixture from the pan under the bucket, and pour it into containers. (Black works the best.)
Continue this until all is gone.