Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-25

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LIQUID substances may pass down upon il.
\ The excrements Of animals are ordin- : :
'atily deemed of the highest value as con
tanning the, elements OF vegetation in the
most concentrated and active and soluble
form. A farmer should save everything
OF this sort as scrupulously as we would
save gold dust. III he has sheep In a
situation TO be brought up at night with |.
out driving too far and without too much
trouble they should be constantly yarded I
| at night in places well Uttered with straw
or refuse hay or leaves; and these when
well saturated with their deposits should
be carefully removed to the Compost heap.
| If he has cattle, cows. oxen, or horses,
They too excepting in some cases where
the oxen have been in the yoke all day
and YOU wish. to give them their feed and
repose in an open pasture by night, should
be invariably tied in the barn at night
| over. YOUR manure vault, where their
ldroppings both liquid and solid may be
easily thrown or fall into the common
I receptacle. Or If your cattle for any rea-
son should remain in an open yard, that
yard should be we'll Uttered; and all the
manure exposed TO loss through the infu-
ence Of the rain or sun, or air, should be
as regularly as the day comes removed
to the manure heap. Your hog-styes
should be so formed and placed that their
contents should be all saved likewise and
frequently transferred to the general de-
post. Weknow that some may boggle
little about this constant removal Of the
- xarb,, - Pill MT
to their being all placed in one great
bank. Let your styes likewise be we'll
Uttered; and abundant supplies Of bog
med or, If nothing else is attainable, sim
pie mould be thrown 10. In the next place
look after your poultry house and your
, pigeon house. The excrements of poul-
try constitute some Of the most powerful
manures that can be obtained. If you
cannot induce them TO make their roosts
I directly over your manure heap, then be
: sure that they make their roosts, where all
I their deposites may be saved. Next take
care Of your privy. Let this be so con-
e triyed by swing doc. on the back side,
5 and by having the building elevated and
s only a small exca walton for the vault, that
r you can daily in summer and frequently
d, at other times cover the contents with
Q fresh mould, pile Of which ought al
: ways 70 be laid near at hand; and in this
i way the place will be prevented from be-
e coming offensive, a matter so highly i'm
}, portant to health and comfort; and the
J. lcontents can, be easily and without incon-
il venienee transferred to the common recep.
|, taele. Or else, which is by no means a
o bad plan, but in many cases highly eligi.
e bic, let your 2riVies be constructed in
s some corner of your barn or at the side o.
IF yonr barn, so that the deposits may go a
e once into the barn cellar. Next carefully
/, save all your dish water, all your soar
d suds, all the emptyings Of your chambers
d all the water. in which your hogs art
r. killed; and indeed everything of this sort
ID and let that 60 either by some tight drair
10 directly into your manure cellar, or els
I'd regularly and scrupulously save it in tgh
ID barrels or tubs and when these are fuI
Or cause them to be carefully emptied upo
n your manure heap Next 60 to the place
Il in your pastures where your cattle ar
of accustomed TO collect either for shade O
~ lrepose and carefully and frequently re
he move TO your barn cellar all the deposits
of which are accumulated here Then q
lis into the roads. and highways and dali
re collect everything of this sort, which ma
ly be found as much as you would go int
y, the road to pick up money, if you ha
nd known that money had been droppe
he there. The amount which may be acct
in mulated in this way you will find at tn
be close Of the season vastly to exceed you
OF expectations; and most amply to comper
< safe the trouble or expense, which it ma
Ice OCCASION =1-
cd We shdllrreserve our further observe
ID tons on this subject until another numbe
IA We do not profess to offer any thing ne
es, or to have any thing new TO offer on th
me hOmely subject; but we may at least hof
Ia that some plain Suggestions vii atIeast pu
nd our farmers upon inquiry whether theI
Nd. are not some sources of supply within the
led reach, which they ma have hitherto pa
1e- tally overlooked; and whether the COZ
bic tinual complaints which we hear ever
he where Of the want Of manure aud the d
all fculty Of procuring it may not be in sou
SIS measure attributable to their own fault
me neglecL-N e. Farmer.
s,s There many valuable suggestions in d
O's foregoing Butt strikes me that one or two thin
ex- carried beyond the pointo economy. Ont
nts writer's own princiPle-which is the true one-th
pm sol can be constantly drawn upon, and nothir
90 returned, without being eventually exhausted d
nal pasture needs nanurng, as well as other rount
ee- And question the economy that would yard shet
ees during the Of gruss and thus collect toget
er- for the sake Of scattering tagan, the manu-
as from these animals, which 80 well scatter il the
vet selves when lett their own way. Whenever tn
IaI i've down IN ocks Il on the highest grounds hs