The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-07-19
From the Ohio Fsrmee
How 10 Save Manure that win Yield
100 Bushels of Wheat.
BIZ L. v. PIERCE.

100 Bushels of Wheat.
By L. v. PIERCE.
Mn. FARnTR:-I have said family
of six persons could. by saving all the
house STOP that that usually goes into
the drain, make manure enough to pro-
duce one hundred bushels Of wheat.
Without a close examination. this
will appear like a wild estimation,
or rather. like an assumption requir-
ing proof:
All manures are rich, as | have
heretofore shown. in proportion tu the
amount of ammonia they contain. II
manures lie around the yard, and the
gaseous ammonia is suffered to escape
into the atmosphere, they are but little
better than dry bones, or fan from
which all the coloring matter has es-
capped. leaving only the woody fiber.
Ii is a common, but mistaken idea
that. passing food through the body,
gives il fertilizing principle. This
process only decomposes it. and fits il
for the use Of vegetation. A larger
amount Of manure, and possessing the
same quantities, would be produced by
rotting it in compost heap, were the
gasses preserved, as by passing it
through the body Of an animal. Ge-
nerally the manure Of the compost
heap, is the best; for then all the ai.
frogen, which is the basis OF ammonia,
is preserved; while in the ordinary
way of suffering dung to lie around
the yard, it mostly escapes, thus. loos-
ing the most fertilizing portion-the
nitrogen-contained in the food.
All manures, have said. are rich
in proportion to the ammonia or nitro.
gen they contain. Let guano be spread
out, until the nitrogen has escaped,
and il is no better than dry cow dung,
That article is tested, chemically, in
the market, and is valuable just in pro-
portion to the nitrogen contained in it.
A crop Of clover plowed in is far bet
ter manure than crop Of straw, be.
cause clover contains a far greater per
cent of nitrogen. So, the manure ol
the hen house, is far richer than that
of the hog-stye, and that of the hog
stye, far richer than that of the COW
yard, because the bugs and worms
constituting the food Of the fowls con-
tain more nitrogen than does the food
Of hogs, and the food Of hogs contains
more than hay on which cows are kept
1t is not the manner, then, in which
the decomposition takes place, but the
constituent parts of the food that give
richness and value to manures.
Nitrogen is indigestible. In the
consumption of food in the body, about
one half Of the organic substance Of il
is given of by the process Of breathing.
sweating, &C., through the lungs, and
the pores of the skin. Nitrogen re.
mains unconsumed, and almost wholly
UNCHANGED passing off in the urine. |,
is this which gives it its peculiarly
offensive smell.
BY far the largest portion OF nitro.
gen contained in the food passing of
in the urine, we see the necessity ol
saving it as part of the manure, il we
would get the full richness of the
stable, compost heap. TO preserve i
in the stable, the earth, under the floor,
should be followed bowl shaped, Sc
that all liquids can run into it. In
this should be placed straw, or Other
litter, well sprinkled with lime, t
aid in decomposition. and plaster t.
detain the ammonia or nitrogen, ant
disinfect the heap. When it can b.
obtained, charcoal dust should also b.
Lliberally used, as it has great affinit,
for nitrogen, which it will hold in it
pores for agricultural purposes.
As often as this compost heap be
comes fully saturated, it should be re
moved, and new one formed.
BY chemical analysis it is foun,
that each pint of human urine vii
produce pound Of wheat. BY add
ing this to the compost heap, a famil,
of siv will add twelve pounds Of whea
each day, to their wealth, or seventy
five bushels in the year.
To the heap add, in the course 0
the year, so bushels Of hydrate lsil
slaked) Of lime, and plaster to disin
feet it, pour on your dish-water, you
pot-liquor. your soap suds ; heap OF
your potato tops, your old cucumbe
vines. aud cabbage stalks, that nov
disfgure your garden; spread tn
whole on about FIVE acres, and plov
it in, and You will be 100 bushels q
wheat in a year the richer for il.