The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-05-31
CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 81 1854

| leaves and other trash, when, perhaps, you
could do nothing else-as they should be
hauled at wet times-put them in your
stables, lots, cow and hog pens. If you feed
your hogs they will make you n good deal of
rich manure, if penned in leaves. Put leaves
and sawdust in your fowl houses, and make
manure little inferior to Guano. Have
pens constructed, throw in leaves and then
your ashes leached and unleachcd, then
leaves, making layer Of ashes and leaves
alternately; pour in oil thesoap-suds, and
in the course Of twelve months you may
thus make, with little trouble, and no ex-
pense, quantity of fine manure which 9TH
erwise would be lost. And if You can af-
ferd il without detriment to yourself, pur-
chase guano; il pays well and its influence
is rs lasting on the land rs any other ma
nure, and perhaps longer know nothing
practically Of the guano, those who have
tried it recommend 1t very highly. 1t can
be brought to any point of the Charlotte
Rail rond for 81 80 per hundred pound,
perhaps little less, or little more. Two
hundred pound to the acre is about equal to
light blessing of stable manure, and with n
favorable season, will increase your crop
from fifty TO hundred per cent. 1t is adap-
ted to every kind Of soil that needs manure.
but more particularly to light sandy soil
1t should be thoroughly mixed with dry dirt
as vehicle for spreading or scattering it
over the land. When used for cotton or
corn, it should be put deeply into the drill
below the seed, if il come in imme 1iate con-
sowed broadcast, and plowed in before SOW
ing the wheat. 1t should be kept perfectly
dry until put into the ground-neither ashes
nor lime should be mixed with It. This is a.
bout the sum and substance Of what Horace
Greedy SAYS about guano, and he has ex-
perimented as much with it, probably as any
other person. Mr.. Wm. ] Cureton is en-
perimenting with It, but know nothing Of
the results; as last season was very unfnvor-
-iia j snnnnse he was unable to test fairly
its fertiizing powers. - O.
So YOU see by alternating crops-plant-
ing and sowing abundantly of peas and
small grains-making all the manure we
cnn--buving all the guino we can afford
we may in n few years, make worthless
plantation equal to the Mississippi Valley in
fertility, and far superior in point of health
and climate. We may and can enhance the
value Of our lands far above the price Of
the virgin soil. And the comfort and con-
ISOLATION Of rich lands to cultivate, producing
exubriant crops, not requiring half the labor
and rain Of a more sterile soil, are subjects.
within themselves, delightful for n farmer
to contemplate.
In fact farming is the most certain and
sure business that man can engage in when
combined with energy, industry and perse-
verance. 1t il equally as lucrative and res
pectablc as any of the learned professions,
and has this advantage--success only de-
pends upon your own attention, industry
and economy--wherein, in many other call
ings, success depends upon wealth, a name,
friends, OF other contingencies, let the quail
ihcation' be what they may. The road to
wealth may be open to all, and the frmcr
s as likely to find it as any one else.
HENRY