Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-03-18
agrifultural.
Manure

Manure.
4 have said q family Of ,ix persons
could, BY saving all the house slop, iha,
ussally goes into the drain, make manure
esOsgh % Prodaee one hundred bushels OF
wheat.
Without close examination. this will
appear like "a wild estimate, or rather, like
an assumption requiring proof.
All manures are rich, as have hereto
fore shown, in proportion to the amount
OF ammonia they contain. IL 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 tan, from which all the
coloring matter has escaped leaving only
the woody fibre,
IL is common but mistaken idea, that
passing food through the body, gives il
ferilizing principle This process only
deeOmposes il, and i,s il for the use Of
vegetation. A larger amount Of manure,
and possessing the same qualities, woulc
be produced by rotting il in a compost
heap, where the passes are preserved, as
by passing it through the body Of an
animal. Generally The manure of the
compost heap is best; for then all the
nitrogen, 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 losing the most
ferilizing portion the nilrogen-cOntain-
ed in the food.
All manures, | have said, are rich in
proportion to the ammonia or nitrogen
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 marke, and is
valuable just in proportion to the nitrogen
contained in it. A crop of clover plowed
in, il far better manure than crop of
straw, because clover contains a far grea.
ter per cent. of nitrogen. So, the manure
OF the hen.house, is tar richer than that of
the hog-stye, and that of the hog-stye Tar
sicher ttan that Of the co s>yard, because
the bugs and worms constituting the food
OF the fowls. contain 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, but the constitu-
ent parts of the food that gives richness
and value TO manures.
Nitrogen is indigesiible. In the con.
sumption of food in the body, about one
half of the organic substance of it is
given off by the process of breathing,
sweating. &C., through the lungs, and
pores OF the skin. N trogen remains
unconsumed, and almost wholly nm
changed. passing off in he urine. Ii is
this which gives it is peculiarly offensive
smell.
BY far the largest portion of nitrogen
contained i'll the food passing off in the
urine, we see the necessity OF saving it as
part OF the manure, If we would get the
fall richness of the stable, compost heap.
10 preserve it in the stable, the earth,
under the floor, should be followed bowl
shape, so that all liquids can run into it.
In this should be placed straw, or other
litter, well sprinkIed with lime. to aid in
decomposition, and plaser to detain the
ammonia Or nitrogen, and disinlect the
heap. When it can be obtained, charcoal
dust should also be literally used as il. has
a great affinity for nitrogen, which it will
Eo'd inlls pores for agricultural purposes.
As of en- as this compost heap becomes
full, or fully saturated. it shonld be lemov
ed, and a new one formed.
BY chemical analysis it is found that
each pint of hrman urine will produce
pound Of wheat. By adding this to the
compost heap, a family of six will add
twelve pounds of wheat each day to their
xeal'a, or seventy. We bushels in the wear.
10 the heap add, in the course of the
year. fifty bushels of hydrale (air-slaked)
Of lime, and plaster to disinfec, it. pour
on your cish-water, your pot liquor, your
soap suds heap on your potato tops, YOUR
old cucumber vines, ahd cabbage stalks.
that now disfgure your garden ; spread
the whole on about five acres, and low i,
IN, and you will be 100 bushels of wheat
in a year, the richer for it.