TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Method: The method of making a fertilizer composition comprises (c) forming the fertilizer composition into prills or pellets, and adding humic acid as a hardening agent, either in the second composition of step (b), or added during the step (c). The step (a) comprises: contacting the raw manure with a hypochlorite compound comprising calcium hypochlorite, and/or sodium hypochlorite or with a contacting the raw manure with a mineral acid comprising hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, and/or nitric acid; a pit composting process, which is carried out for a time period of 2-3 years; or drying process for a period of time long enough to render a moisture content of the substantially decontaminated manure below 20%. The hypochlorite compound is added at 0.5-3 wt.% of dry ingredients. The second composition is prepared as a water suspension prior to step (b). The mineral acid is added in sufficient quantity to reduce pH of the partially decontaminated manure below 3. The drying process is a solar drying process. Preferred Components: The humic acid is leonardite or potassium humate. ACTIVITY - Fertilizer.    MECHANISM OF ACTION - None given.    EXAMPLE - Chicken manure and swine manure (50 wt.% of each) were decontaminated by anaerobic/facultative composting for three years in an 8 feet deep pit, amended with 10% top soil that was layered onto the manure as the pit was filled during the first year and then held, loosely covered, for two more years at which time it was removed from the pit and dried to below 15% moisture in the sun, for three weeks, while layered on the ground in piles 1-2 feet deep. The manure, after drying, was determined to have a total viable plate count of 7x 105 colony-forming unit (cfu)/g. Bacillus laterosporus (80 vol.%) was blended with Bacillus licheniformis (20 vol.%) and the resulting spore count of the blend was 8x 108 cfu/ml. The decontaminated chicken and swine manure (50 wt.%), humic acid (18 wt.%), superphosphate (17 wt.%), urea (11 wt.%) and potassium chloride (4 wt.%) were added to conical dish, operated at a 45 degree angle, and the Bacillus spore suspension was sprayed on at the rate of 10 wt.% and worked up to give a fertilizer composition.