Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-04-15
Agricultural.
From the Farmers Cabinet.
. OuDIuCts
Manure and the i'll effects OF dirty
stables

From the Farmers Cabinet. .
Manure. and the i'll effects Of dirty !
stables.
The following judicious remarks on
the preservation Of the urine of animals,
have been extracted from Havward's Ag-
riculture, and may be acceptable and use
| ful TO the readers of the Cabinet.
"The superior effect of putting the ma
nure on the land as it is produced, as stat
ed by Sir Fl. Davy to be the case with Mr..
Coke, may be accounted for as arising
from the urine absorbed by The litter which
if left in the usual way, spread in an open
yard, would have been wasted and lost.
To show the ferlilizing effects of urine, |
Sir John Sinclair says, "every sort of
urine contains the essential elements Of
vegetables in a state Of solution. The
urine of horse, being so much lighter,
: would be more valuable than its dung, if
both must be conveyed to any dstance.-
: The urine of six cows or horses, will en-
! rich quantity of earth sufficient to top
Il dress one acre Of grass land; and as 1t
Y would require four pounds worth Of dung
: to perform the same operation, the urine
: of cow or horse is worth about twelve
n shi!lngs (S3) per annnm, allowing eight
: shiIIngs per acre as the expense of pre-
v pairing the compost, The advantages of
e irrigalng grass lands with COW urine, al
e most exceeds belief. Mr.. Harley, OF
v Glasgow, (who keeps large dairy in
5, that town. by using COW urine, cuts some
= small fields of grass six times and the
to average Of each cutting IS fifteen inches in
l. length"
m In note on the above, the author OBJ.
K serves, that whilst recommending tn
= careful and effectual draining of stables
r. for the preservation of the urine, as tn
W most valuable part of animal manure,
lp will also state a circumstance which can
bit not be thought unworthy of notice to az
Sc rculturists, which occurred to me, t
O. show how necessary this is also TO tn
Tx health of animals.
ifv e. took possession of some stables, wit
nd the horses that had been some time ke|
as in them, and to my misfortune, in yer
or short time | found that horses kept
he those stables had been subject TO the drea
AN ful disease called the mad staggers for 81
ing veral wears. Some horses had died, ar
md the horses then there, and which had bee
be- for some time kept in the stables, were
he wretched condition. Two fine fresh no
inc ses which were put into them, were wit
for in few months seized with the mad sta
ing GERS, and one of them literally killed hi
for self by knocking his head about agar
we, the manger and stall the otner was Sd
will ed by copious bleeding and removed IL
Iva fresh stable, but was so reduced as TO
hall Ilessened in value one-half. My neis
uire bors advised the pulling down the stabI
lore, considering the disease infectious;
1t having, on going into the stables early
heir the morning, been almost suftocated
ts- blinded by obnoxious gas, examined
mast floor and drains, when found the for
se.- to consist of large burr stones, laid 0
they stiff clay; and the floor sunk so low
e ne low the the drain, as not to admit OF
3 SIN draining away of the urine. This str
, full me to be sufficient cause to affect
lis is brain OF any animal confined in it,
walls same as it had the horses. there
them had the floor taken up, relaid, and pro
ly drained and the walls and cell
est manger, cribs, &c: washed with q
n our lime; and from that time for ten yea
N the never had diseased horse.
BON it, The mad staggers is undoubtedly
or has client Inflammation of the brain OF
conf. horse, produced, in all probability, b
Nv re- haIing noxious. acrid gases, such as
nifests the product of foul stables for we T
I'd SETS see cases of this disease among b
oon as who breathe a pure, uncon,aminate
here is mosphere. Horses which are ke
5 conf confined stables in cities, where the
mt can nure and urine are deposited in c.
t child, underneath them, are most subject
,nce- disease. The remedy, or rather
forts to mode Of preventing the disease, is SO
5 heart Gus, that every person whs has cha
nstantlv so valuable an animal as the horse. {
mes the be appraised of the importance OF Ike
! all the clean stable, so as 10 insure pu
moment mosphere, that the lungs or brain m
S child, suffer injury by inhaing ammonlat
Ience- or spirit Of hartshorn, which tends
heavenly duce irritation and Inflammation
Then we fine. tender membranes, which u
in US - nasab processes and the lungs OF
RS He mails.
lis heart. The disease called hollow horn
-tily con- tie. is inflammation of the interior
idence in head and horns, which communIca
He deny the nasal processes, and very p
tie. It is proceeds from the same cause VIII