The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-12-16
LETTER FROM SAMUEL VILLA MS.

FRIENDS BArEHAM g. HAREIs:-John Fos-
ter's account Of his farming in the Cukivator
of the 18Th Of October, ought to stimulate
every man who lives by the plow. $4,65a,
one year1 clear profit from 275 cleared acres
in the interior of Ohio, if not ::proved by fig
ures, would be almost incredible. That three
tons of hay to the acre was doubtless due to
the ditchng and draining. Such crop must
not be expected every year without compen-
sating the soil with top dressing Of liquid
or strongly azotlsed manure. should like
to know how NJ. F. makes, saves, and ap-
plies his manures. take it that all long
continued success in farming depends on the
true system, Of making, saving and applying
manures. It is painful to see the drudgery,
call it not labor, of SOME farmers in the
spring ofithe year. hauling out stable dung
whose organized nitrogen has been washed
away and evaporated, or burned up. There
is no doubt but that one load of stable manure
composited with swamp muck, or kept under
cover until applied to the soil, is richer in a.
mmonia than three loads of ordinary farm
yard manure. The late lamented Delafeld
was so fully impressed with this fact, that he
took as much pains ia forming his manure
heap at his stable, as he would in making a
hay stack; all refuse vegetable or animal mat
ter, dead animals, &C., were all buried in the
tall pile. which if likely to heat from too ac-
tive fermentation was wetted with the drain
ings from the pile, or rain water conducted
from the stable roof He said that when hau-
led to the fields in the spring the entire pile
was as homogeneous as a"Stilton Cheese" ?"
Joseph Wright, who has sold $4,000 worth OF
seed leaf tobacco, the product OF four acres,
says he cannot depend on large fgrowth if
he onits to treat the growing plants with Ii
quid manure; to this end he has his stable
floors made tight and descending to trough
below, this Is drained through pump logs to a
large cistern, together with water from the
stable roof, (t needs. much dilution,) from this
cistern the liquid is pumped into cask on
wheels by which it is distributed to the grow
ing plants. Leibg says that the "liquid man
ure of animals contains nearly all the nitrogen
present in the food consumed" Mr.. w. says
his experiment fully confirms this theory.
There is little doubt but that the quickening
effect of super-phosphate of lime and guano,
the one. and found in the other. In proof Of
it, the Peruvian guano. from a arainless region,
s more than twice as effective an amendment
to the soil. as the guano from The humid and
rainy region of Patagonia--when the iuor.
ganic matter, sulphate and phosphates are
nearly identical in both kinds.
= WY is Irl-ELLA WENTWORTH, in fher
new journal, very pertiDently asks:
Why is it that those gallant gentlemen
who persist that women are angels, still re.
quire them to work for one.third the price
they are willing to pay males for the same
labor. Is it because they think the spiritua
nature of woman 10 above such common ne
cesAties as bread and butter.eottcnl and dipt