Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-07-19
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Southern Agricultasr's'.
ON MANURES.
Barnwell, June. 1887.

The SOl Is Hot 'ti i'N''' '''O
,urn his attention 10 making manure, or
abandon the'soil. Already has the climate
been changed, by the incons;dcrate custom
of clearing lands every year for 1t has
become scklier, colder, and therefore less
conoenial to the cotton culture. The soil
is liz hit and easily worked. The materials
for making manure are in abundance. And
WHY should we not avail ourselves of these
adyantages7 Not one planter Or farmer
IN ten, thinks Of manurlng at all. While
one will be deriving fine crops from manu-
ring. his next door neighbor will not delgn
to inquire into the cause. Even those who
turn their attention to manure, do not un-
derstand the plainest chemical elements by
which they arc to be regulated in lis pro-
duction. Because it may be beneficial to
manure with cotton seed on top, planter
will use cowpcns and stable manure in the
same wav,-as if the sun would not extract
much of the strength Of the manure, be.
fore if could be covered with the plough.
Cotton.seed can be used on top; because,
before it ferments, and before the sun can
extract its alimentary properties, 1t is cover.
ed in the working of corn. only men.
ton this 10 show, that, our planters, by not
thinking for themselves, are frequently IN.
consistent. There is my neighbor. Squire
Suooks. who. the moment his manure ar.
rives in the field, covercs it with dirt, and
vet he manu:cs his corn with II: on
top.
OF making manure:
l. The stables are filled with oak leaves,
rotten wood (oak BEST pine trasf: h'ap0s
in the woods for at least SIX months beloIe
used. and sometimes clay, well broken up.
This is taken out Of the stables every Two
months. if possible, during rain, heaped
and covered with clay or sand; if not du-
ring rain, pour upon the heap, before COW
ernu it, sufficient quantity oil water 10
ossiS, fermentation. Even while the mass
is in the stable, little water, occasionally
snrinkled, with the use of the grubbInS.
hoe at least once a week, will have a good
effect. BY grubbing with the hoe, the an
imal is cfectuay combined with the vcse-
table manure, and Jumps o. clay, or rotten
wood, are pulvarzcd.
2. Tie poultry houses and yards are
cleaned once month, and the yield there
from, thrown into the stable.
3. All the Pride Of India berries are
raked, and thrown into the stable.
4. There is a pen, six feet square, and
six feet deep, b4low the surface of the
earth, filled with leaves, and covered, INTO
which the cook and washer throw their
,slops and suds. This is empIed at the
proper time, hcaped, and covered with
trash, &c.
5. Hog-pens arc made, SIX feet square,
and six feet below the surface OF the earth,
filed with leaves, and protected from the
rain. The floor is made OF, rails, through
the intervals or which the animal matter OF
the hogs is dropped. On the floor is a
covering Of pine trash, Tor beds, which tie
sharp feet Of the hogs will, in a short time,
cut into fine pieces. The hogs arc either
penncd here the whole year, or sleep in
them every night, or, at all events, arc pat
uD al least one month to fattcn, for bacon.
Manure thus made, is equal TO Cotton
seed.
6. Each nogro is allowed to keep one Or
TWO hogs, on condition. that they are pen.
neG, as above stated. Hogs fattcn best on
wooden floors; and though raw cotton
seed will kill them, they fatlen on 1t when
boiled with the offAIs Of the garden and
fields. They do not like cold orrailn, and,
in the end, it would be decidedly cheaper
10 pen them all the year, except when they
arc allowed to run the pea, potatoe, and
slip fields. In the way have described.
they will make more manure than the cot
ION seed they eat. Besides, there is no.
.hing safer than q have our hogs always
N sight.
:. Cattle pens. The manure made in
'hesc pens is always indifferent, unless they
De covered. Ia this particular, our plan
ters up here, labor under great mistake.
Their plan is this Leaves and trash,
thrown into pen, are trampled on BY cat
lie. cxposed TO ;he weather; and by the
lime the mass is hcaped for fermentation,
the best part of its manuring qualities has
cvanorated. On the other hand, when in
stalls. the leaves are not only tramped, but
they absorb the animal matter and retain
itnn,iI the manure is used. A COW, when
stalled, will make four times the manure o
a horse, in year. It's dung is more sus
ceptibIc denomination with vegetable mat nat
ter and. for the same reason. It is renacf