The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

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before the public with so much flourish of trumpew,
backed up and endorsed by the specious but deceptive
analyses of " distinguished chemists," and offered to
farmers with • very patronising air. But though sc.,.
duty to our readers has tnimilled us to oondetnu a.
majority of these manufactured stuffs, we are none ths
lees roily to bring to notioe anrlbing which really pm,
mises to be useful to the public. We, therefore, refer
with pleasure to • new enterprise recently started at
Southhold, L. 1., Irving for its object the preparation
of a cheap fertilizer from the immense number of fish
that abound upon oar sea war. Repe•ted efforts have
been made to manufacture these fish into • condensed
dry manure, capable of transportation, and at a prie.
which would warrant farmers parebuing it as a far-
Wiser, but for various reasons all meeker efforts bars
failed. Last season &gentlemen erreted works at South.
hold to manufacture " fish oil" and "SA guano,"
under the patent of Messrs Thurneysses and Demolin,
of Paris. It was so late in the semen before the imps.
rains was completed that only preliminary experimens•
were made. • promos is essentially as follows
fish are taken in quantities of three tuna or so, pat into,
a some between two cylinders heated by steam Ider
high pressure, and there °coked while kept in motion by
the revolving of the cylinders. They are next tram-
(erred to strong begs, and subjected to powerful hydrae-
lie pressure while still hot, which extracts most of the
water not previously evaporated, together with • lane
amount of oil. The mass thus dried is ground finely
and put into bags. Only about one fourth of the original
weight of the fish remains, but this contains the chief
valuable fertilising elements. The profit derived from
the oil will enable the manufacturers to tell the fish at a
low price. As above rated, only a small quantity was
made last season. Deeming the master of sufficient in.
Wrest to our readers, we ourselves selected an average
specimen from the mass thus manufactured, taking oars
that there should be no chance for collusion in the fit-
tins up of "prepared samples," as Is too often done.
The specimen thus procured we forwarded to Professor
Johnson, of Yale College, for careful analysis. The re-
sults we have not space to give in detail, but both Pro-
lessor Johnson and ourselves spec) in the opinion thm
with • little more perfection in the machinery It tepee.-
belle that the proper will prove eneoreful • and en,
shall soon have in operation, not only in Sour:hold but
elsewhere a feasible plan of rendering available es
manure a'large amount of the stores of fish abounding
in our water. As are as the factory is in operation,
we intend to procure samples from the materials as
actually offered in market, and submit them to the most
rigid analytical tern, and give the results, whether
favourable or otherwise. Tito proems Is not • "secret"
one, but is reured by "Letters Patent" in Europe and
America, and there seems to he little thanes for decep-
tion. As rights to mininfortare all different pointe Sri
offered to the public if tbe article should prove as
valuable ea it now promises, there will be competition
enough to keep the pore in due bounds. A pamphlet,
giving the details of the mode of manufacture under the
patent, can be obtained.—A "erica* Agrierteris.
ADVANTAGIS 01 A MILD Wnirtn.—The whiter now
fast gliding away has been remarkable for its mildness.
Up to February 12 the weather was, for the most part,
like that of an ordinary November. There was an alo
sense of snow, as well as of cold. The ice dealers had
well-grounded fears lest their crop would be cut short.
Farmers were anxious for their exposed wheat fields,
and were mush hindered in getting out fuel and lumber.
But we are now looking out for the advantages of such a
winter. And the one which strikes as first, is the say.
ing of fodder it occasions. Throughout the early part
of winter young cattle and sheep required but little
feeding : they much preferred the green food they could
glean from the pastures and corn field. And other stock,
oonfined mostly to the barn, ate less food than num!, in
winter—they were not obliged to eat for feed and for
fattening too. An intelligent farmer lately gave it as
his opinion, that the daily saving of hay in • neighbor-
ing country town, was at least 50 tons. In one of one
exchanges we see it estimated that the daily saving of
hay in • single county in this State amounted to one
hundred tons. Multiply either of these numbers by the
number of days lea than usual that cattle have required
feeding this winter, and we ascertain, pretty nearly, the
hay and money saved in each case by the mild weather.
many sick and poor thrown out of employment, and
bonded suffering from cold and hunger, and saw nothing
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before them but starvation or crime to avert It? But
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of the turtle dove will be heard in the land. Let us not
fail to nor the hind of Providence, which tempers the
eiplins, mingles so many mercies—lbid.

How MOOR MAJNOXX TO JACK ANIMAL—Then Is I
limit, doubtless, to the quantity of musk and litter that
may profitebly be mixed with the dropping, of animals.
The quantity of ?moss voided also, is &fooled very muth
by the feed of the animals, and by other oiroutnstonost
In the open air in winter, much of the food passes of
through the lunge and skin, to keep up the heat of the
syetem, that would pass through the bowels In • warm
etable. The foie«, as they are thrown into a heap in
the ordinary method of cleaning the stable, pals into
fermentation rapidly and • portion passes off in the
form of pc, and is lost. Without absorbents, very
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MN the thief loading the manure into the cart with a
dung fork. But they can easily satisfy Unwisely« of
the theft if they will compare the effects of stable
manure }l:liaise:posed for a winter, with • like quantity
that is treated with absorbents, and kept under war.
The ;others! err« Is to undervalue the need of abaci,
bent., and to furnish the yards and «able* with but a
small part of the muck that might be Prolkahly used.
If there be an instance of error in the other direotion,
we have not yet found it in • very lams °lmmune of the
practice of our beet farmers. We have visited numerous
farms the past season, for the purpose Of 10•XIXIT Into
this matter, where the quantity of manure manufactured
upon the premises varied from two hundred.kwAste
two thousand, and have not found tieing« es« wbese
muck was used in exotic Indeed, this s hardly positble, while the muck itself «mists of the elements of the
crops the farmer wishes to raise. The manures heatalm
the decomposition of the muck, and the whole mesa
beoomes available for the foodof plants. The moat«
of a farmer in all the older Stites can be measured by
the extent to which he uses muck, Or other absorbents,
Fin his yards and stable'. We fogad some poor fanners
«taking not more than three cords of manure, or six
loads for each cow, cm, or hone, and not more than one
cord for each pig. Others, who thought themes's«
pretty good farmers, made five cords to each cow, and
one or two for each pig. In atingle Instance we found
as high eaten 0? twelve cords bra cow, and,four or flee
for each pig. In this case the pits, were, -qf mime,
kept in the styes continually, and nothbig sees wasted
In the highways and pastures, as is quite too common.
The horses and oxen were also stabled the moat of the
time, and the oows put in the stable during the summer
nights, and fed with green oorn fodder as soon as it was
large enough. Our own rule in making manure is,
fifteen cords for each cow, ox, or horse, and live for
each pig. The routine of management for the stable
is this :—A large shed Is attached to them, which ia
kept well supplied with dry muck. A stook is kept on
hand for several months • head, as the drier it is the
better. A coating of this muck is kept eonseently
to
the stables, mix or eight inehes in thiektian. Thit is
lain upon by the cattle, and receives all their droppMgi.
The solid fame are removed every morning into the
dobarawn,oelfolrard., beiiposingsath
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.z)tesi, detain:lee Thlicemneoth.atingtliamicuekthe
remains about two weeks, when it is • good deal vetted
by the heat of the animals, and thoroughly taturatepl
with liquid manure. It is then all thrown into the
cellar, and another coating is put under the animals'
to go 'through the same process.. The ninth is covered
with • bedding of draw, or refuse hay every night. In
this way the anima« are keptdry end onnifmthla, and
the heat of their bodies is available, whenever they he
large quantities of muck used in this way, it 18
still found that the mann« heats in the cellar
beneath, though there is little smell of ammonia. In
the fall the manure in the cellar is removed to the fields
and heaped up with about twice it. bulk of muck.
These heaps are forked over once or twice during the
winter, and at planting time they are spread upon the
ground, and ploughed in. The manure made during the
winter is either put Immediately into the soil in the
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tificate of its value as it needs. Of all methods that we
it only when we give up tilling the soil. A farmer,
quantity. He is perfectly safe in hiring all the labour he needs to draw the muck, and to handle it in the
stable, the cellar, and the field. We are confident, that
no farmer who once sees the results of this method in
his crops, will ever be satisfied with a leas quantity of
manure from his stook.—J,
leraoven Slims rtooas.—A correspondent writ-
ing to the Editor of the American Apricakitrist, says " Some years ago my stable was laid with • plank Boor.
My horse • late purchase, (I keep but one) became lame.
An experienced horseman attributed it to bad shoeing.
I had the shoes removed, and a few days after replaced,
but the lameness, which was in the fore feet, continued.
Upon a careful examination I same to the conclusion
that drylleat was the muse of it, I then had recourse to
to stuffing with moist manure at night, which entirely
remedied the lamenesa. But I found thia troublesome,
and apt to be neglected when the lament« was sure to
return. I then took up the plank in one stall and filled
up to the floor with gravelly clay. Bus I did not like
this owing to the soaking of the day with the droppings
of the animaL I then removed the day for about two-
thirds or three-fourths of the hmeth of the «all, and laid
down plank for the part removed emu with the original
flour leaving the horse to stead with his tees feet on the
clay. nua hat beam COntissed lee mew thin a yew,
and """moM 440444 Istmoft • lipthiler requires
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