Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-02-27
From the North Carolina Culiivator.
FJRE.FANGED BlRN.YARD MANURE,


From the North Carolina Culiivator.
FIRE-FANGED BARN-IARD MANURE.
Mr. EDITOR : In haste correspond with you
once more The nrticle that shall now treat
| upon il 6re-tangel manure, which is manure
that has heated too much.--l believe that thou
sands upon thousands of dollars are lost to the
people Of North Carolina and elsewhere annual
iy by this one thing. The reason that speak
thus, is that have tried it and Am satisfied. |
desire all persons having their doubts about it,
| to do tho same. My experiment was this had
manure which had frc-fanged badly, and learn.
ing from the Farmers Journal, that such manures
lost from fifty 10 sixty per cent OF their ierill.
zinu Qualities, was determined on trying it, 10
| see whether or not these things be so. The
ground, that selected for my experiment, was
a potato patch the potatoes had been set out
about two or three weeks and were taking vee
| ry pretty start to grow. took the dirt away
from around the slip until came near the roots; !;
then took of this fire-fanged manure enough
to put about full pint at hill In this way !
| manured row. then ,nlanurad row with ma
nure which had never heated, putting the same
ouantity by measure. The stable from which |
took the litter was one which we did not use
except when we had company, or some such
tune, and was 30 situated that every heavy rain
| the water would run in, but not in quantities
! sufficient, | don't think, TO wash any of the
strength away. / put of this manure an equal
quantity with the other Ithen thought as was
experimenting would Try some other manures
and test their relative strengths, to see which
was the best, &C. had heard it said that 1t
was not good to mix lime with stable manure,
that the lime expelled the ammonia. had also
heard it said that ashes possessed pretty much
the same qualities as lime, and so thought II
lime would expcl the ammonia, ashes would also;
So mixed ashes and stable manure half and
half for one row. then manured one row with
ashes put on about bushel of mould on
each row; the rows about thirty yards long,
then manured q row with hen-pen manure.
One; with mould from under n house. One
with mould dug up in smoke house. One
with mould out Of the back Of all old chimney
and one with muck from ditch. n al! | had
nine different varieties, and now reader which OF
the nine do you think beat. They were all ten.
ded alike and tended WELL But owing to my
failure in slips, they not set out until har-
vest; it rained too hard to cut wheat on that
day, so wo turned in and set out tho potatoes.
The way failed will here state: | had heard
of people in Orange cutting their potatoes and
putting only piece in hill and making good
potatoes. [ thought would try it, thinking by
having fewer slips in hill to have better pota.
toes you know. But cut mine too small or
something; there did scarcely one in twenty
come up. But as luck would have it, one OF
my neighbors had a bouniiful plenty Of slips,
and as he got done planting he gave me his bed,
With good drawing which was on harvest day
set out nv entire patch These rows were
not suffered to be touched until fall, when they
were dug, and the potatoes of each row put in
its own row. then weighed them accurately.
The row mauured with dirt from under an old
house. beat all the others. The potatoes wero
| fine. This manure came from under an old
house which had lately BEEN torn down and re-
moved. The manure came out OF the sink from
which dirt had been taken to form the hearth.
There were likewise some holes about the hearth
during the old houses sojourn 80 that it is proba.
| be that there were ashes mixed with the mass.
The next best was hen-pen manure; it is proba-
bic that the hcn.pen manure was not pure but
contained u mixture of dirt. The next best was
tho ashes and stable manure mixed. The next
best was ashes. The next best was manure dug
up in smoke house. This row, though, did
not have fair chance with the others.-Ibis
dirt would have been salt enough no doubt for
any purpose for which it could have been de-
sired but in addition TO this put in more salt
for twelve hills, the effect Of which was that it
killed every one of these ten or twelve rs dead
as poker, SO that row did not have fair chance
with the others. This dirt was composed OF
ashos which were formed in smoking the mest
and dirt dug up which had caught the dripping
| of the meat, &c. This row would probably
have been as good as any had, had it no. been
| that used more salt on those ten or twelve hills.
The next beat was the stable manure which had
never heated-Thc next best muck. The next,
dirt from an old chimney; from what had learnt
by reading this row did not turn out us well rs
| expected, had tenth row manured with
much muck, which was little tho best row |
had there was about four times the quantity
used as of the other manures. Last of all WAS
the row nIanured with tho fre-fangcd manure
every row had beat it. likewise weighed q
row which had not manured, only rs broad
casted it. l put on the patch eleven loads, if |
mistake not, which | broad casted The land
was broken deep too, being sub-soilcd. Well,
could not see that this ire-fanged manure
helped the cause one bit. There was q slight
quantity in this row more than my stcelyards
would draw at one time, but being so little, l
wise Of the row not manured. a small quantity
more than the steel yards would draw at one
time, but being so little, would not weigh
that, but thought of the two, the row with no
manure was rather tho best So if my expert
ment was correct instead OF losing from fifty 10
sixty per cent. by fire-fanging, it loses ono hun
dred exactly. by this small experiment, was
wonderfully struck at seeing the powerful
effects of manure. So say, farmers double
your products by using this fertilizer. The
fire.fanged had none effect; the row right
beside it, manured with unheated manure, near
ly doubled it; that from the back of m old
chimney increased the product thirty-three and
third per cent. Ashes nearly doubled. Ashes,
and ashes and stable manure mixed, were
nearly equal, being but half pound difference
in the rows which was in favor Of the ashes and
stable manure. The manure from under house
increased the yield about an hundred and fifty
per cent, i. O., over doubled but did not treble.
Hen.pen about doubled. Smoke-house increas-
ed the product eighty three per cent. Muck
about fifty per cent. Much muck, four or five
times the usual quantity, one hundred and fifty
per cent. Some of these potatoes set out late
as they were, weighed as much as three pounds.
So, farmers, avail yourselves of the power of
manure, make all you can. Do not suller your
stable manure to heat; if you do, in my opinion
it is not then worth carting in the feld.-My
manure which fre-fangcd had thrown up in n
large pile to heat and destroy the oats that were
in it, to keep them from being troublesome in
the crop, thinking alao by so doing to improve
the manure, having learned that fermenting sta
bic manure helped it. Let it heat not ut all
My plan for working stable manure, were | to