Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-10-16

10 tlme, oe Cleaned out and replaced by fresh
materials. When removed, it shonld be
formed into compost heaps, and mixed with
plaster, or charcoal, to economist the am
moia. Hogs are most excellent manufac-
lurers cf manure but, to render them eff
cien,, you must furnish them with materials
to work with. Each hog in pen, is capa-
BILE, during the fa,,ening season, of convert
ing two loads of such materials in good
manure. n % animal vods more urine than
the hog, and there are none voiding i! of so
rich quality it abounds in urea, albumen,
common salt, muriate Of potash, gypsum,
chalk, glauber's salts, while the solid eva
cua,ions, are supposed to be as rich, in nu
,ritlve elements as are those of man. Sub
stances so enrichng, should then, most GER
,ainly be onomised-should be made to
perform their rightful Offices in the improve
ment of the soil-in the nulure, elaboration,
and perfection Of the products of the earth
All hogs when first taken up for falten-
ing, should receive two or three doses of
-four of phur, and as many of Copperas, in
messes Of bran or meal, say table spoon
full: each dose, at intervals Of two days apart
Their food for the first two or three weeks
should be pumpkins, apples and roots, or
other vegetables which should be boiled or
steamed, made into mashcrs with bran or
meal, the latter being increased from day to
day, SO that when they come to have corn
or meal altogether, the change may no. be
injuriously felt by them.
We hardly know, whether i! would be
prudent for us to remind our readers, ,ha,
cooked corn meal, will 60 farther by 80
per cent, in fattening hogs, than will the
unground and uncooked whole grain,-and
,ha, saving Of Is or 20 per cent. may be
effected by boiling the whole corn. low
ever, let it be prudent or otherwise, as we
have told them SO, we will take the respon
sibility of asking them, to try the expert
ment, and of personally experimenting it,.
Many barrel of corn that had been given
out for fa,tening hogs, for want of personal
supervision, has found its way to neigh
boring grogshop.
Charcoal, fishes, Rollen Vood, and Sail,
at all times during the periods of fa.lening,
should be accessible TO the hogs.
Caule-yards-EI as many loads Of
rough materials hauled as will cover your
cattle yard II inches in depth fashion
these asin-shaped, SO as to prevent the es-
cape of the urine. Occasionally spread
plaster over your yards after the cattle are
confined therein adding as you can, other
rough materials from time TO time and our
word for it, by next spring, all such maleri-
ais will have been made into The most en-
richng fertilizers which you could desire.
Materials for Manme.-Y should
gather all the substances on your farm that
can be made into manure and carefully com
post them, SO as to be converted into mould,
which, permit us to assure you, is to the
elements Of fertility, what the blood is to
the human system, the ife-spring and source
of vitality. Without there be mould in the
soil, or something identical in constitution,
no soil can be fertile notwithstanding all
the inorganic elements were therein pres
ent:-withoM the nutritiue principle, infer
tility is ineritab7e. Mould or animal and
vegetable matters, in state Of decay, is as
indispensable to good soil, as flesh is in
the concocting Of q good pot of soup.
Upon this subject Professor Dana who
we look upon as one of the genuine lights
Of az ricullural science, says:
".Nould is truly manure. If the mould
of soil were separated from the earthly por-
lions of soil, i, would deprive that soil of
the power of growing crops. Here, then,
we come 10 broad distinction between The
soil and manure. The soil is the earth on
which plants grow,-.he mould is the ma
uure of that soil. The soil is the earthly,
the mould, that is, the carbon and salts.
} together with the elements of water, are the
vegetable part of arabic land"
We repes. - The making and preserr-
inc of dung heaps should be The first object
tile first duty of every farmer, as without
putrescent manules, land cannot be preserv-
ed in a stale of fertility.
Pumpkins-It 1t will be we'll to have your
pumpkins gathered before they become IN
iured by the frost. As to the time Of so
doing, your own good judgment must de-
termine. Have them carefully hauled IN
so as to prevent their being bruised, and
stow them away in some cool place. In
feeding them out TO your hogs and mich
cows, you will increase their value as food,
by having them cooked For hogs especial
", is cooking necessary, as ii prevents their
purglng.
Roots of all kinds, should be harvested
and pu. away, before being injured by the
! frost.
Time ofputting up hogs 10 fatlen.-The
precise time when this is to be done, will
of course depend upon your supply of mast,
to sustain them in a thriving condition in
The woods All we wish to impress upon
your mind, is this hogs fa,len much bet
ter in weather moderately warm, than they
do in cold weather, more Of the food is re-
ouired to keep up the heat Of their bodies,
so ,ha, all abs.racted in that way is a tax
upon flesh and fat.