Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-18

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ficult TO turn him from his accustomed
track; but will any rejecting mind pre-
tend thai he works il right"
But we will proceed TO say what may
be done; and then leave it to the farmers
TO say what ought to be done. /
In the first place, then, manure should
be rs much specific object Of lator and
pursuit with the farmer as any OF his
crops, simply because he cannot have any |
crops without il. His first business should
be 10 provide place fol its deposit, its ac-
eumulation and its security. Manure is
money Ii costs money. Ii produces
money. Precisely then as he would take
care Of his money, let him take care Of
his manure. For his use there is no diff
ference between them save that the re.
turns of manure skillfully and faithfully
applied are usually more certain and pro-
por,ionately more liberal than the returns
of money. He wants therefore a place
for its deposit and its accumulation. 1t
should be near at hand, where it will be
easy to transfer to it all that will contrib
ute to its increase. II should be near the
barn, where il may receive all the depos-
its Of the cattle; and should be so agitat-
ed that the liquid as well as the solid ma
nure may be secured. It should be in
the neighborhood Of the hogs pen, that
their manure may go into the common
heap. II possible the privy should be
near to it, that the powerful manure FUN.
ished from that source may be mixed with
the collections and The sink should be
/ uo1 nftyI oh
into the common receptacle to noisten it.
and increase its efficacy. 1t should be
the great object of the farmer in the next
place to secure it from the sun, the rain,
and the air. Manure thus protected and
housed iI the opinion of some of the best
farmers in the state, is far more powerful,
and, to use their own phrase, it is worth
fifty per cent more than that, which is ex-
posed in the usual mode. 1t is more ac-
tive, and more powerful. A barn cellar
built expressly for the purpose of thus Sc
curing the manure. is the proper recepta-
Gle for the compost heap: and to form a
general deposit of whatever may be thrown
into il.
No farmer therefore should be without
cellar under his whole barn. The cos,
is comparatively trifing; the uses and ad
vantages most important 1t should b.
we'll stoned the bottom made slightly
dishing; and paved or made imperviou:
to the water by being puddIed with siay
Il should have trap-door or doors in the
barn floor and where the cattle are tied
so that all their droppings may be thrown
into il; and that mud, or mould or pea
may be easily put into it both for the SAX,
Of increasing the heap by these VALUABLE
additions; and that they may act Iikewis
as absorbents to gather and FIX all the Ii
lquid manures II should be- high enoug
to receive a wagon or cart for The purpos
Of loading; and it should be completel
enclosed that the contents may be secure
from the SUM- and rain and air. Tn
proper site for barn is on a side hill
where the bottom Of the cellar may o
one side be on level with the surface
the ground and where three sides bein
formed by an excavation into the side hi
may be we'll stoned; and the fourth sid
d protected by movable wooden doors.
L. should be likewise a place for housing
m certain number Of store swine, who al
to be employed in turning, dissolving an
, lenriching the contents of the cellar. Sue
81 is what barn cellar ought to be.-The1
~ are few situations, where such a celia
a., cannot be formed. We have seen man
i such cellars, aud are happy in perceivin
that they are fast coming into use; an
that in regard to barns recently erecte
q or in the process Of erection, valuab
barn is now seldom built without sue
-, provision. The cost of such a cellar wi
in any situation be fully paid for in a sho
,. time by the increased quantity and il
creased value of the manure-We ott
i hear farmers say they would have bal
cellar if they could afford it. Now Y
say that if any man calling himself
farmer cannot afford to make cellar u
- der his barn. he hardly deserves the nan
Of farmer and certainly has no prete
sions to the character of skiIfuI or wise
y provident We should add that such
. hcellar should always if possible open
llIe the South. In the spring this is desil
old bic in order to facilitate the removal
GIL the manure; and In cellar opening
! OF the South, the contents of the cellar a
OF far less likely to be frozen than il t
lure opening of the cellar were to the MOI
rye and in the shade.
dol We leave this subject for the pres.
city and shall endeavor to resume it in q
ntry next. The importance of barn eel
wen is so great that we take every occasion
the urge lis erection on every thrifty farm
ned. and the Suggestions here given, thou
Ebat they may be familiar, embrace the pro
\ or isent aud important points in the c,
uch struction of barn cellar. .......
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