Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-12-30

there 4 les ofit but he manure Of farm worth more
BY corn crop 10 tho crude than In the rottsd condition
Manure II damaged much wore than hay by being sum.
gcs il much than through the eo as little or no
decay goes on outdoors through the winter.
There are circumstances, however, under which Il
Bommers method Foul weeds if seedy should he rot,,
In compost heap Certain strong manures as unleachei
ashes lime, hen dung and guano may be evenly dis
tbutcd IN compost and ts probable thss n NAV :on.
times pay dilute them with neutrsi substances Ni,h,
soil may be composted for tho convenience Of handling
Weeds may be ermented aud used the same season. Il
arc scan' OF MANURE and wish to mend poor spots In
tho crops but a. general rule. should not submit,
10 this waste OF heat and odor lndsn l. 90 gross
feeder that may rment Amost any long manure under
Tho writer raised very good corn last year on poor
and with pine wood shavings plowed In and sink slops
Tor manure. No man should rot his manure with
the idea that In some mysterious way no can make "A
more. IL impossible to make whistle. &C. &C., and
tho converse Of this proposition IL equally true
Green crops, plowed In, arc after all tho faste,f vay
IN which man with extraneous resources improve
his iarm The manuiing properties Of piece Of clover
can DO IN no way enhanced by feeding down aud when
ever that course Is pursued IL is from motives Of econ
omy or foe coavcnences in 'piowing rit In. Those
substances las horse manure) which have been least
acted upon in their transit through the animal are
best for fermentng-tnake tho best hot-beds Cow
manure cold, because Ii has been perfectly digest
cd
damages y heating There we'll authenticated ns,an.
oes OF fire occurring in this way.
wishing TO manurea piece Of ground tho writer last
year plowed under stout growth Of grass and sowed
buckwhcat about the 2o,h june just before ost came
Tn the fall, the backwheat plowed In by two
teams and two plovs, narrow behind a wide ouc
IN the Same iurrow, going measured loot
deep The buekwheat came up again and killed by
the frost III he has succeeded in manuring the ground
sufficiently for root crop no has done It cheaper than in
any other way Ii was thoroughly dressed with leached
ashes three years ago.
Ledching Of downward into the subsoil pro.
badly amounts TO iess than many persons aPprchend II
any process Of that sort had been going
past ime the subso would havo shown more traces OF
organic matter. Ii is generally admitted that mineral
matters to form the ash pants are continually working
towards the surface aud tho aeriorm constituents OF
nures certainly Percoation of water contnu
ally going through tho soil IL l. thus that springs arc
supplied, aud yct thewater brings through little but car
bono acid II teaching went on to any great extent
springs would be muddy But the openings to natures
great underdains clear crystal The especial anu
monacal constituents Of rain water probably filtered
out In the transition. l.I.
year ago last summer, pit dug near the writer's
residence about i've feet Deep and walled up, about so
feet square, to within loot of the surface OF the ground
IL was covered with plank and lew inches OF dirt Into
this pit opened wooden drain from the wash house and
the drain from tho kitchen sink Tho soil a loam with
some gravel-surface a little sticky when wet Before
coFcrng tho pit half rotten chip refuse was thrown
in to act as absorbent Wash-water and the worth
less slops from tho house. cmped into the wo sinks
aud found their way to the pit There no smell al
any tme IRON the pit sinks. ancied the grass grew
little greener around tho edges OF the pit Last summer
this reservoir opened Ii more than half full of
the CLEAR stun" You will excuse from enumeratinp
the separate stenches rampant smells coucban and oors
dormant, that came forth There a thick cream of
greasy matter the top II carried out in pail. TO
tho poorest Of corn and corrots aud turnps n. m
bergamot lot eOurse We had intended simply rrigate
with it, but the smell ntolerahc that vs were nl
forwards Obliged pillow it under The pit had clearly
filtered away the water and retained the manure and so
after removing the chief dirt closed the Dit without
putting IN any absorbent We dealing more bounti.
fully with it this year, by the amount of the chamber
Stops
cannot quite bring myself close this communication
without
rejection or ioo Ii was the practice Of the paean
Romans TO burn their dead and garner the ashes in nrs
The belief in ual resurrection led the christian Roman
TO bury his dead. So does full belief In the doctrine oil
the ransmnaiion OF organic atoms, lead to careful pre-
servation ofther wasting forms until the time Of their
puure. |
We have also seen In the progress of these cousder
TONS that every alteration structure, that vegetable
substance undergo after harvesting is abasng change
every step taken is In rerograde direction toward
destructon-iha ammonia and carbonc acid are about
the Zero point from which the process vi
advances again in the tissues of plants 1t il true that
animals make organic substances that the
OF which they composed such fat aud bone are
treiy derived IRON the vegetable word- is equally true
that these materials have TAKEN the change from yeee
table to animal matter, the nitiatory in REORGANIZATION
IL oil no consequence to the argument that many of the
properties OF plants highly concentrated Ia the
hesh of animals than in their substance Verify man
who Is but little lower than tho angels in one sense is
little lower than the plants in another.
IN anu OF itse,
OF growth plants passive-merc recipients OF the
suns actionG Ii is certain that their growth confined
to the hours OF light aud that in the night il not only
stops but goes back little Ii is said that the solar rays
In some way spend their iorco the green growing
plants and that the growth of the plants other things
being equal, tells how muehpght they have received In
TACT that IT Is because IL has taken much sunshine to
build them in their growth that they give out light
and heat when they are burnt these genial influences be-
ing reproduced in the destruction Of what they have been
spent IN composing. The inference from all this IT, that
when buried imponderablo Influences are OK
ted on the roots OF plants growing them.
IL u peculiarly OF great men, that what they have
written, still contain thoughts as the aggregate
knowledge OF humankind increases. Milton aposrophsss
the SUM- as both eye and soul Of this great world" The
expression Is almost prophetic. As il to Indicate those
truths, light has ever been associated with the physical
and moral well being OF mon. IL has been customary with
nations IN all agei to surround their dvincs with halo
Of glory and TO enshroud in darkness the spirits Of evil
Tho devout Parsee s somewhat than pautheist who
worships the god Of day. w. FsTgusonuLe, ". Y.
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