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

udSc iiuiCdtcu anu having ldu OCCuS'ouoA
y, while in process Of accumulation, small
quantity of gypsum sprinkied over them,
and little common salt also, if convenient
ly to be had-be applied in sufficient quanti-
~ 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 gliueriog return that
will diffuse a general JOY throug h your
household, and make you feel disposed 10
stand up and say to your own soul 81 am
indeed man" should not have omitted,
in speaking Of the accumula.lons abou. your
dwellings, to have mentioned your wood
ashes. These | consider, leached or un-
leached, among the most valuable of all ma
nures. They cannot be purchased in suf-
ficient quantities, and besides they are too
much adultera!ed by those that 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 5 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 60, out Of the
way, skillful farmer can soon make few
bushels of them shed the luslre of the half
eagle through the interslices of his siken
purse. They should be distributed as e.
qually as possible at short intervals through
the cattle yards or compost 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 trflIng, still deem of sufficient
importance 10 mention here. 1t 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 ields.-
Are you aware that all these things are as
valuable, and little more so, than the best
Peruvian guano, which is brought 10 you
the distance of fifteen thousand miles, and
| which many of yoA now purchase at the
rate Of fifty-fve to/sixty-fv dollars per ton?
If you were iefefect upon this, surely, as
sensible people, you would save and turn
them to account in your compost heaps or
/ in some other mode.
From wha, have said, it will be percsiv-
ed, that regard lime and the putrescen. ma
nures to be raised and collected on the farm,
as the two great levers in the improvement
of our lands. These, with eeular rotations
of grass and grain crops, will, know, ac-
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
and progress of the thrifty farmer. Blu.
they are auxiliares only-most important
aids, if you please,-but still, in my judg-
ment, secondary always 10 the two great
subslrata have mentioned. 1t must no! be
inferred that object TO, or would discour-
age the use of what have here termed aux
ilary, or, as some say, bought 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
L ko,,
3 stocks of any kind, and besides are free
. from the dangers Of over-trading and bank
, rup,c;es But wish to urge upon you the
!, importance of beg inning at the right end,
and first rearing and hedping up safe
foundation before you erect the superstruc-
ture; Of regarding all other manures az aids
Of, and co-opera.ors with lime and the pu-
! trescen, materials Of the farm, and not as
: supercedng their use or at all diminishing
their importance. 1t may not be amlss Tor
, me here to state the striking results produce
ed on 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 very sparse
and stinled growth of cedar, the intervals
, between which were either naked or having
on them light growth Of poverty grass
: II WAS worth i'm the market then. | suoDose
, about three dollars per acre, certainly i, did
no, pay, and could not then pay by ccltiva-