The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-02-03


Der every isad.
Fsalhe 5. caruiins remrersses Adse.sie-
ON MAKING AND APPLYING
MANURES.
FR0M the aGncuLTrRsL sOcIETy or PEN
DLEToS.
Ga ne subject Of. making and apply
5ng manures," your COMMUNE are aware
that they will. in al probability. fail 10 ad-
vance single original idea. For on that
subject. ne have already had . line upon
line, and pFecepi upcA prcccPl.- !" here a
iitile sad there good deal" But IS we
are only required 10 give our own expe-
Tience IN The matter. lkaf member Of your
committee, on whom The task has deyolv-
ed. ventures on il with much diIlidence;
for although he has had some experience
in the business, having made and applied
manure more or less. for the last Eileen
years, he Is not aware that he has done
any thing more than has been done by
many others IN our district He has APP
proprialed al the means in his reach,
such as hare been recommended from
nDe 10 lime, BY such agricultural works
as ne has read. lie has tried corn stalks,
wheat, and ether kinds Of siraws, leaves,
weeds, cotton stalks, &c Aud gives a
decided preference 10 The former. Straw
is believed TO be next best; and leayes Of
less value than either.
Believing as he did. however. previous
% reading Col. Rnilin's valuable Essay
on Calcarious Manures," that putrescent
Inahire. applied in large quantities, was
all that our lands required to render them
IS rich and productive as was possible
10 make them; and consequently wishing
10 retain al the vegetable olIal on The land
that had produced il, he was in the habit
of using more leaves as litter for his cattle
pens, ihaa Of either corn stalks or straw,
which latter was fed 10 his cattle, or
used in litlering stables or hog pens. In
deed, he believes he has used more leaves
than was profitable in that way. For a
certain quantity. in proportion to the
numberof ca',le 10 be penned on them.
may be, lin the absence OF snfliciency
of the other articles named,l adVania-
geously nsed; butifwe exceed that guam
iity that is absolutely necessary to mix
with, and absorb all the manure Of the
cattle, il will be loss OF labor, or labor
badly applied, and we should save mnclf'
in hauling them immediatelytO our fields,
and spreading them on the surface TO de-
cay there, or 10 be plonghed in with
wheat or other small grain. Besides hav-
ing oursef experienced their good effects
when ihus applied. we are sustained in
this opinion by the high authority Of the
editor Of the Farmers Register. In
iate volume Of the Register, in long ar
ticle on the most profitable, or ecnnomi-
cal application Of leaves Cor manure, he
comes to the conclusion that casting them
directly to the fields and spreading them,
is the most economical application Of
Them; that they are Especially pine leaves
decidedly beneficial when spread on wheat
before, or perhaps shortly after its COM
isg up. II make this statement from me-
JnOry, as The work is not before me.
Oar recent practice has been. 10 use
leaves only 10 make up any deficiency Of
The other articles, including Gotten stalks,
when they are so large as TO require re-
moving out of the way Of the succeeding
crop, which crop, we will here remark,
has been, for the lastfew years, principal
ly ,shsa, which succeeds admirably after
cotton! At least, we think, twenty-five
pc. cent. better than after corn.
o. a small farm, on which one of your
Committee resides: and on which he
works but one constant hand, keeps two
horses, yoke Of oxen, and through the
winter. but two milk COWS; he has made
in the course Of the last winter one hun.
dred heavy carloads Of manure. This
was done BY hauling in all the corn stalks
that grew on about fifteen acres of land,
and spreading them, Preserving enough TO
litter his stables through the winter with
leaves, the scrapings from fence.corners,
she wood piles, and from about the ash
hoppers, in alternate layers over his lot:
on which, Except at night, and in bad
cSesiher, when they are housed his cattle
.were allowed 10 run at all times till turned
out in the spring.
As soon as his corn was planted in the
spring, his stables and COW houses. (which
had been kept well Uttered with the re-
served stalks were cleaned out. and the
contents spread evenly over the lot; and
then, as soon as possible, taken, up and
PIT iais large pens; beginning on one side
oil the lot, and taking all clean as we went,
which mixe1 the whole well together in
the pens. In this state it was left till the
corn was up. and run once round with the
plough. We then commenced caring il
out and deposited a shovel fall on each
side Of the bill, In tie recently opened fur
rows, taxing care 10 cover up every morn
ing what had been put oat the previous
day. by running anotherfurrow on each
side, throwing to the corn. The first fur
row was thrown from it. This mode Of
applying manure is probably new 10