The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-22
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MAKING MANURE.

MrssRs. EplroRs: In your Journal
(the SnIl ai the snulh, have seen VA
riaas articles from time 10 time on IN.
subject of the impro ement Of our wprr
lands, and the great importance o
keeping up the fertility oi our fresh
er lands. By those articles we we're
persuaded Of the necessity Of such !
course. but there they invariably stop-
ped. without giving Us the muIas uI,e-
randi By which 50 desirable a result
might be accomplished. They say ma
nure-manurr. admit manure i.
god and pays well. but what have
been anxlously looking for in youl
pages. | have MT seen as vet, viz
a treatise on making manure, Civ
ing in detail the best mode Of max.
ing the greatest quantity that will pay
the trouble Of making, hauling out and
spreading on the land. The usual mode
oi making manure through the country
as FAR as | have been able to observe,
is simply to have mule lot wit, shed
in it barely sufficient to shelter the
stock from rain, aud COW lot, with
rarely ever shed in il. Such is the
fixtures for manure making generally,
II manure it can be called.
For my part, hardly think il de-
serves the name, for having been ex-
posed IN the open lot the greater por-
tion OF the year to the evaporating in
iluences oi the sun and the Ieechings
Of the rains, it is scarcely anything but
the rottcd pine straw; yet all of the
most valuable portions Of the drop-
pings of the stock have either been eva
porated by the sun or lecched out by
the rain many in this vicinity make
largely of IN .nfhes.s - --ss~su "
makv ,t, believing it does not pay. As
for my part, would rather have it than
none, although it scarcely pays for it.
self, but BY adding ten bushels OF cot
ton seed TO iour horse lnad of it, and
spreading it on an acre Of ground, il
will make you from one hundred and
fifty to se,en,y-fve pounds Of cotton
to the acre more than il would have
made without, and by continuing it on
land, it will not deteriorate from cul
tiyation, but will slightly improve.
Such has been the result with field |
have had in cultivation Tor the last five
years.
Not being chemist, l do not know
what portion Of the tcrtilizing proper
ties Of manures made as above men.
toned, is lost from the effects oil the
sun and rain, but believe it cannot b,
less than three fourths, aud probabl,
much more. This opinion may startl,
some, and be laughed at by others; bu
judging as have through observation
alone, | am constrained to believe it
made such several years Of my life
and if you think my estimate is to'
high, try the experiment. Take ont
load oi manure from under shed wher,
il has not been exposed to the sun o.
rain, and put it on AN acre oil ground
and then put four loads that have beer
subjected to the influencesoi the SUI
and rain on an acre by the side OF th'
other, ami you will find that the acr,
with one load on it, will show the effect
Of the manure most, and yield the mos
in the end. We're the yields the same
it would be economy to make manur,
under the shelter, as it is just as macl
work TO haul out and spread load o
sorry manure as load OF good manure
We not only want the best manure ",
can make, but economy suggests tina
We adopt plan by which we may b
enabled to save the evaporation an,
leechings Of our barn yards, though ",
should make less in bulk but let it b.
twice, ave, thrice as mu,h in fertiliz
ing properties.
The next question is, hoW are We t
gain that point? answer. by shelter
my our manure yards at least ha {, an
reducing them IN many instances I
less than hall their size. believe j
the benefits to be derived from she
SO strong. that have constructed on
the body Of which is twenty-iour b
forty feet, and a four foot story on il
The floor is eight feet from the ground
and large door at each end. 1t ais
has sheds on each side, eighteen fee
wide, making in all forty by sixty feet
under shelter, for the benefit Of maxim
manure, aud the body, half stor,
forly by twenty,four, will hold my el
/ re crop Of fulder. My lot is enclose
with a plank fence, and Is one hundre
feet long BY sixty wide; the posts {
tie shed beng pOsts for the fence als'