The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1850-12-11
.7GRICUL TUR.IL.
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Hints about Manure.


having, think, clearly proven 10 you that "
is all produced fiom vegetable and that ant
mails have no power whatev',r 10 add one SIN
gle atom to The vegetable matter received into
their system. md they deposit less in the land
than they receive in the shape Of food, let me
mex, proceed to speak OF the methods oil man.
ufaciuring manure. Aud, gentlemen, you oil.
ten NIX your dung in manner which must
say shp~.a g ea, want Of practical Knowledge
| have seen manure placed in position where
all tho water from the ouibu'ldlngs poured
down upon il, and washed the soluble matter
sway iuro a neishborIng pond, there TO poison
he hp,er,. have gone among hegps Of dong
which we're s,earning away al fearful rate,
and my nos,rils have instantly informed me
Of the escape Of Substance which has very
high price IN The market, yet The practical
man appeared to be quite una"are that he
vas losing one Of the most valuable ingredients
of manure, nancy, smmonis; he did not ap.
pear TO imagine tina, he had any means ~hat.
ever OF helping himself. Now wish TO point
GU, ho~ pleasant, il would be TO the pocket 10
| have a little mpre knowledge on this subject:
Il 10 The pocket after all which suffers most.
You may term ne sheo e'icai, II you please I;
bu, | mus, say tina, think there are as many
crude theories among the s,.caled practical
men as ever emana,ed from tho btoins Of all
the scientific men Of The world combined -
! Nov LET US look at lhi. manure. When the
chemist comes 10 examine II, he hnds that
there are certain ingredients IN manure, which
are naturally volatile, or which become VIOLA
tile in The process OF Fermentation, and go of
into thin air, il not prevented; that there are
other substances which are soluble in water,
or become stluble IN The process OF lermena
ton, and shlch, If acted upon by water, are
carried away mi that there are other lngre.
dents which are neither very volatile nor We
~ soluble. Now, to br,ug chemistry to bear
no further than this. the question reslly Is,
how TO stop the volatile substances from going
INTO The air, and how TO prevent the soluble
from being washed away. [, 50 happens that
these worry subsianees-the volatile and the
soluble-are hose which II costs most mon.
ey in the market TO import upon The farm,
whether The tarmer obains them IN the lo' m
Of cugno or in an, o'hef form. NV il 10 Ger.
lsinly very easy 10 ares; ono Of these wasting
processes, that is 10 say The wishing Of the ma
nute there is 20 difficulty in preventing the
loud manure from beng washed away; and
whatever the farmer nay say as TO the los.
Icing II NJ, | an prepared TO prove ,ha, OF
some farms which have seen, Of FIVE or 81,
hundred acres in event, tho loss was a, leas
81 900 year. Nov this, | say, can 10
great degree be prevented. II the farmer, o,
his landlord. will no, goio tho expense OF hav
like railray station he might at icas', b,
shoots or cutters, prevent The rain from III,
uuilhiHsf lilAi'S W. etlt uiu- NHt iVhphhub
loud and urine from the dung heap and ca,
lie should b. conveyed INTO q reservoir, sn'
IN dry weather pumped back again over ,h
straw, which will thus more quickly sune
decomposition. You are all aware tina, vege
table matter decomposes most read ~ IN con
tact with animal matter. In illustration an
IN proof of this. nerd only refer 10 the tha,ch
ed buildings where pigeons are kept. io
says find that portion Of the lha'ch ~her
lie pigeons deposite their exctemenrs give
way FIST. While, therefore, YOU are 10 pun
the urine buck again, so as to allow decompc
sinon to take place mote quickly than 1t 9th
er@ise would do, tho next q iest,on IL how ,
pteven, the escape of the volatile materials. =
OF these volatile matters ono is called ammo
MA and Is easily arrested By means Of Cyl
SUN, or, what is better si,Il suphurlc acid.
Well then, gentlemen, we have seen thu
you may arrest the volatile matters, MS d!
ammonia, by applying gypsum or sulphur
: acid. hardly like TO name these ,h,ns
!, among practical men, lest should be censu
ed. know that some persons have such a
$ hn'ipathy TO chemical names as to consld
them as anything else rather than terms u
p'ied 10 designate substances IN nature. B
=
, things by name. There is tho chatcoal
vegetable matter ~ this manure, which 20
81 into the atmosphere by the action Of Il
az, ~ the same way ns the Goals dssppe
from n fire. place, where nothing ,s left b
the ashes; the charcoal having assn ned Il