Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-08-31
THE AGRlC ULTURIsT.

of forming d,mg-heaps it ought to be
first and daily care, for without dung there
no harvest."- Chaptaz
''The quantity of liquid manure produce
by one cow, annually, is equal to fertilizi'
Ia acres of ground, producing effects as dt
rable as do the solid excavations. Aecord c
loan, saturated with urine, is equal TO a cor
of the best rolled dung. If the liquid an,
solid evacuations, including tho litter, ar,
/ kept separate; and soaking up the liquid BY
loan, it is found they will manure land in
PROPORTION by bulk Of 2 liquid to solid
while their actual value is 9 to L. One hun
dred pounds of Cows urine afford 25 pounds
OF the most powerful salts which have ever
been used by farmers. The simple state
ment, then, IN figures, of the difference in
value OF the solid and liquid excavations Of q
cow, should impress upon all the importance
OF saving the last in preference TO the frst."-
Dana's Muck Manuel, p. III.
"Urine is always most valuable manure
No farmer should permit ii to run to waste, but
should so prepare his cattle-yard, by loan or
swamp muck, and by plaster, as 10 save these
invaluable products of his stable, and Of his
own dwelling. As the urine is commonly
mixed with the solid excrements in the barn
cellar or cattie-yard. il increases the value Of
this manure, 1t promotes its decay, and adds
its own salts; but if the whole is exposed 10
inc influence OF atmospheric agents, it facili
lates nler action, and aids in depreciating its
value ; hence it is wholly lost to the farm
Farmers ought to know this, and to be an
priced of the fact, that at least one half of
their manure is wasled"- Grey's Elements
Of agriculture
upon all our farms, the dung of quadru-
reds Is exposed to the open air. without the
protection OF shed, soon as it is rcmov.
ed from the stables; and is thus wasted by
the rams, which carry Off all the salts urine,
ana soluble Juices. and form at the foot Of the
mass rlvulet of b'ackish fluid, which is eli
Their wholly evaporated or lost in the ground.
In proportion as fermentation advances, new
soluble combinations are formed, SO that ali
the nutrtive and stimulating principles of the
dung gradually disappear, till there remain
only some weak portions of the manure, IN
termingled with stalks of straw which have
lost all their goodness Chapfaps .4gricul-
turdl Chem D. So
VALUABLE llINr-''To remedy as much
as possible an abuse so injurious TO agriculture
1t is necessary at least to dig deep ditch I'd
receive all the juices that flow from the dung.
nil, in order that they may be used in the
spring upon the corn or grasslanls or tina.
they may be preserved TO water the grass
lands with, after the first moving. A large
cask fixed upon small cart, and which can
De hted by means of a hand pump, is sufli-
cient Tor this purpose, Beneath the tap of
the cask must be fitted narrow hest about
four feet long, with the bottom pierced with
holes, through which the liquid may be scat.
tered. This mode Of watering, when used
alter moving, produces powerful effects upon
the crops OF the following year,"-Ib
v CI,tNf IN IN. &c.
statement last quoted, the writer may be per-
mtte1 TO notice an experiment with the liquid
manure, made by himself daring the pas.
year. Some 80 gallons OF liquid were drip
ped iii the month of October, from an e.acua
ton beneath his horse stable, and evenly dis
trlbuted over small area (perhaps 90 square
rods) Of old meadow land, the soil stiff CLAW
loan, on which but little grass had grown for
4 or years. When that area was moved a,
bout the first of August last, ii was Judged TO
yield at the rate of at least 3 tons to the acre
an increase OF certainly not less than 5 to |.
and attributable TO no other assignable cause
Than that dressing OF manure, Of which, too. 4
considerable portion must have been made Of
water.