Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-01-15
NO. TX.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

MANuREs.-rhe annual waste of valuable manures
ny farmers, makes, in the aggregate an immense sum.
Suppose It to be bu, live dollars worth "a low es,
mae,) fnr each one in the county, and In The whole
| il will amount To thousands
Waste - the consequence Of carelessness. Loads
of vegetable matter are suffered la he scattered about
in by-pIaces. aud never collected for USE Drainage
from the yards, tpertaps 10 running brook) is a.
nolher process Of gradual waste. The soluble ma
nures thus carried oil are fmore immediate value 10
the growing crops than the remaining solid portions,
The latter having TO decompose and be dissolved in
water before plants receive any benefit frsm them.
| Some have so little regard for the animal excre-
ments, that the cattle and sheep permitted TO roam
at pleasure, during the winter and spring and, in
too many instances, wander about the highways
The hay and corn stalks often fed in these places
and sech portions the cattle refuse to eat are lost,
because never gathered up and the droppings also
remain as though the laws of the country required
the wagon track to be rich soil. Many places may
be seen where there is quite much mature in the
road adjoining barns as IN the yards.
II is common custom, in villages, 10 enrich the
gardens in the spring with The best manures costing
high price; and then during the summer, men are
hired TO throw that same manure. (now concentrated
in plants called weeds Unto the street, as # they were
noxious articles. Garry them to the manure heap,
ana give tnem as nlucn atettOn as Ine cleaDlDgs at
the stable
Dead animals are carted to ohoIows, and by-places,
as remote as possible,and left be eaten BY crows
and other animals, or to decay and render The sur
rounding atmosphere unpleasant ana unwholesofne.
This is not good economy. Take the carcass tosome
cevenient place, where you give it good cover
ing OF earth. As decay progresses, he flesh passes
into gases. which are taken up by the soiland there.
bv the earth forming the covering is rendered more
ferlizing han the matter taken from the barn ward
Thus the farmer can manufacture eight or ten loads
OF rich compost, with httle expense or trouble, aud
cheaper than any other process. The bones are NOS
to be disregarded. Have them put into couven,ens
place, and when rainy day comes, break them up
IN small pieces. and scatter them on your lands.
They much used for wheat, and urnlp crops.
Bone dust, in some portions of our cousry, con-
sldered an indispensable article, and ~ England is in
very general use. Human bones have been gather
ed on The baule field of Waterloo, and carried 10
England By ship loads, there To be used for msnur-
ing land. They considered al ofsuficent vaIue 10
he transported from this Country England for that
purpose.
Save our soap suds. Instead Of throwing them
the ki,chen door, to form offensive mud -hule
ponr them ON the manure Ieap, sprincle them on
the meadow. Make but trial of it, ard you will
not again cast them away useless Leached asli-
also condemned, and cast INTO the street. They
an active promoter ofyegeta0n, aud hence worth
saving.
II you wonid raise good crops. they must be fed.
All vegetable matter Inch will decay. affords nour-
ishment producing cash in the shape of grain&e.;
therefore look after 1t carefully az you do be sig
pences in the purse.-Deckertown Home Journal