Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1834-10-23
LIQUID MANURE

the farmers and gardeners of German Swi,zor.
ana give the name of guile in French hsie,, to the
Hql'u manure obtained from their stalls and stables
anu co'lecled into the underground pits or re,er-
so'ts IN winch II Is allowed to ferment in a mus.
couS or Shiny state. The manner of collecting il.
adopted by the agricuturists of Zurich. is as fol
lows The floor on which the cattle are stalled
Is formed OF boards, with an inclination of / in
from the head TO tho hinder part of the an imal,
whose oxcrements' fall into gutter behind, In the
manner usual IN English CO Shouses. Tho depth
oi 'his gutter Is 10 IN, its width ~; it should be
so formed TO be capable of receiving at pleasure
water 10 be supplied 10y reservoir near il il com
municates with five pits by holes, which arc open.
ed for the Passage of the slime, or closed as ocea
sion requires. The puts, OF reservoirs of manure.
are covered over with the floor Of boarding, placed
u little below that on which the animals stand
ms covering is important, as facilitating the fer
heh'alon. he plls or reservoirs, made OF
masonry, well eemen'cd md shoul ba boomcd
IN clay, well beaten IN order to avoid infltratior
ihey should be five, in order that the liquid may
not DC disturbed durlug the fermentation, which
lasts about four weeks, Their dimensions should
be calculated according to the number OF animals
the stable holds so that each my bs filled IN
week but whether full or not, the pit must be clio
sed at the weeks end, in order To mana ain the reg
uiarity OF the system of emp,ying. The reser.
volrs are emptiedby means of portable pumps. In
The evening the keeper Of The stable lets n proper
quantity of water into the gutter; and on returning
TO The stable in the morning, he carefully mixes
with the wafer the excrement that has fallen into
II, breaking up the more compact parts, as to
form of the whole an Equal and flowing liquid On
the periec, manner in which this process is per
formed, the quantity of tho manure mainly depends
The liquid ough. neither 10 be too thick for tn the
fermentation would be difficult, nor too thin, for
III that case 1t would not contain sufficient nuritv
matter. When tho mixture Is made, ii is allowed
TO run oil into the pit beneath and the stable keep
er again lets water into the trench. During the
day, whenever he comes into the stable, he sweeps
Whatever excrement may be found under the cattle
INTO the trench, which may be emped as often rs
the liquid II contains is found TO be of due ihicK
ness. Tho best proportion OF the mixture is three
tourlhs of water to one fourth Of oxcr0mcn if the
cattle be ed on corn in course of tattenng one
fifth Of excrement.
This mode OF increasing the manure produced
by stalled cattle and cows is in general use IN IIol.
land and the Netheronds and We have seen II
rractiscd in France, a, Trappe and G,ignion, near
Versailles al Reville nenr Nancy at Ebersbcrs
and Scheissheim near Munich Il 1t Hohcnhem 4
We'll, near Stu,gord We would strongly ,ecc M
mend the practice to the Brush farmer and not to
the farmer only, but to every coirascr who keeps
COW or pig nay, to the cottogcr who Is with
out this comfort, but wlo has a garlau ~
which he could turn the great ACCESSION al ma
nurc so acquired to due account. Let HIN sink
tubs or large earthen vessels IN the gtound,
and let the contents Of the portable OF as
water closet, oil the water used for wosh.ng IN
house, soarsuds Stops, and fermentabs fla al e.
very description, during week, DO cafr5ei ri,
poured into OF these tubs onh IT no, ~ po
Saturday night let it be filled up with walet o.
any kind, well stirred up, the I'D replaced, md t.c
whole left for week. Begin Monnay morn.
ing with another tub AID when nfcr five weeks.
the whole five tubs filled, empty he frs ii Nr
roots of growing crop. and refill or US Two i1r
ger tubs, and continue filling ono for n month; th-n
begin the other, and o, The end Of a month empjy
the frs, and SO