Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-11-20

nave IHuiCdteu duu having udu OCCdSiOual-
ly, while in process Of accumulation, small
quantity of gypsum sprinkied over them,
and little common sal. also, if convenient
ly TO be had-be applied in sufficient quanti-
ty in spring or fall to the field you had linn
ed six months or year before, and my life
upon it, you will never look upon that field
again without feelings Of mingled pride and
JOY; and when your first crop thereafter
shall have been harvested and sent TO mar
ket, there will be glitlering return tina.
will dlfuse a general joy through your
household, and make you feel disposed 10
stand up and say to your own soul 81 am
indeed a man." | should not have omitted,
in speaking of the Accommodations about your
dwellings, to have mentioned your wood
ashes. These | consider, leached or I'M
leached, among the most valuable Of all ma
nures. They canno, be purchased in suf-
ficient quantities, and besides they are too
much adul.era!ed by those tina. deal in them
to make them safe article TO buy. But
those made upon your own hearlhs are Of
grea. value and should be most carefully
husbanded. They usually sell bad, as those
in market most commonly are for IL to Is
cents per bushel. If good, they are we'll
worth 25 cents on the farm. At this rate
every fireplace on your farm will make at
least cents worth per day in winter. 1t
is easy 10 see from this, that there are many
dollars thrown away by most Of us for the
want Of due care and economy in this little
particular. And though these ashes may
not shine with the brightness of the dollar,
where carelessly thrown in some gully or
road or other by-place to be got GU. Of the
way, a skillful farmer can soon make few
bushels of them shed the luslre of the half
eagle through the inters!ices of his slken
purse. They should be distributed as e.
qually as possible at short intervals through
the cattle yards or compos, heaps. to i'm
part some of their fine properties 10 the
whole mass. There is one other source Of
manure on your farms, which: though it
may appear trlfl'ng, still deem of suficien.
importance 10 mention here. |! is the offal
from your slaughtered animals, the hair and
other parts which are usually thrown away,
the carcases too of such animals as die oc-
casionally from accident, disease or old age;
the bones also that are thrown from your
kitchens or lie bleaching in your fields.
Are you aware that all these things are as
valuable, and lille more so, than the best
Peruvian guano, which is brough. 10 you
the distance of fifteen thousand miles, and
which many of yoh now purchase a! the
rate Of ifty-fve tpsixty-fiv dollars per ton?
If you were le~fefect upon this, surely, as
sensible people, you would save and turn
them to account in your compost heaps or
in some other mode.
From what have said, il will be percsiv-
ed, tina, regard lime and the pu.rescen. ma
nures to be raised and collected on the farm,
as the two great levers in the improvement
of our lands These, with re- ular rotations
of grass and grain crops, will, know, &C.
complish the object with certainty and in
reasonable time; and without these ] have
no faith in the success or adaptation to our
lands of any system of improvement. have
ever heard or read of. There are many
other manures and many improved modes
Of cultivation, which are of great value and
greatly expedite and facilitate the operations
and progress Of the thrifty farmer. Blu.
they are auxliaries only-most important
aids, if you please, but still, in my judg-
ment, secondary always to the two great
subslrata ! have mentioned. 1t must not be
inferred that object 10, or would discour-
age the use of what have here termed aux
lIary, or, as some say, Dough! manures.-
Far from it. | most warmly commend and
earnestly recommend the application to his
lands, in the shape Of manures Of some kind,
of every spare dollar Of capital the farmer
can command. These are investments,
which, judiciously made, are certain to pay
much better interest than banks or money
stocks Of any kind, and besides are free
from the dangers of overtradng and bank
ruptc;es. But wish to urge upon you the
importance of beginning at the right end,
and first rearing and hedping up safe
foundation before you cree; the supers.ruc-
ture; Of regarding all other manures as aids
Of, aud co-opera.ors with lime aud the pu-
crescent materials Of the farm, and not as
superceding their use or al all diminishing
their importance. 1t may not be amiss for
me here to state the striking results produc-
ed ON a small farm of my own, by the use
Of lime and putrescent manures, aided some
little by gypsum and clover. This farm is
the one on which now reside-is situated
on the table lands Of our county, and is of
the same general character as those lands,
which constitute perhaps half Of the entire
surface of the county. When it came into
my hands it had been worn out and aban-
doned as waste and good for nothing. The
fields which had formerly been cleared and
cultivated, were covered with a very sparse
and stinled growth of cedar, the intervals
between which were either naked or having
on them light growth Of poverty grass
1t was worth in the market then, suppose,
about three dollars per acre, certainly it did
not pay, and could no, then pay by cclt!va-