The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-09-25
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The Farm and Garden.

Hints for ihe ScdSOR.-Betwecn the sum.
mer and the fall harvest is an interval favor
able to general and permanent Improvements
on the farm.
The gathering Of materials for composing
and Increasing the manure, is among the
most important. Abundance of these from
the swamp, from the borders OF the wood.
land where leaves have drifted for years,
from all hedges which you are about to
clear up, or wherever you can get them
most economically, should be scattered about
the barn yard, and portion ofthcm packed
away in the harm, where they can be found
for bedding in winter.
Ii is not of very much consequences what
they are, anything that will absorb the urine
and retain it for the next years crops. This
is the farmers suano, and he should save
il. Fifteen dollars worth of labor, and ap-
piled to saving and preparing the urine of
the farm, is worth more than any ton of
guauo ever brought around Cape Horn
Brakes moved in the pasture. salt hay,
leaves, dry muck, road scripinGs, mold
from old hedges, almost anything will an
swer the purpose of an Absorbent.
Wheat straw, olt straw, rye straw, pea
vines, salt hay, if of tolerable quality and
even the poor hay cut in pastures. after the
meadow hayins is over, half brakes and
weeds are too good to be used for this pur-
pose. These should DO run through the
hay cutter AL frd to animals, when stock
Of all kin!s and meats for the markets are
as high Us at present. Put on the corn meal
and make these help TO the growing and
iatening Of stock or If you have root crops
rs most farmers in our country ought to
have to limited extent, there being Of u
suceulent, juicy nature, will help to a con.
sumption Of the straw and inferior hay; and
the farmer is not true co his own interest
who does not make his straw AMI coarse hay
tell (ayorably towards the feeding Of stock
for although these are not sufficiently nOur-
ishing when given alone, yet US material
for filling up with more nutricious food,
they are worth too much to be thrown un'
der foot. They should be turned into ma.
nure for the next years crop, not by being
thrown out Us bedding. but by being passed
through the digestive canal Of animals.
If you dry swamp muck for an absorbent
in winter. remember what we said in for.
mer number about feeding il from hurtiul
acids, by exposure'to sun and nlins. and by
occasionally turning over with the plow.-
II should not lie in high piles. All the sun
and air il gets makes il the better. II is
better therefore to dump ita single load in u
plase than to put il into large heaps; and
IL the loads are drOppod along in u line, one
after another, il is no great trouble to turn
it over now and then with the plough
Farm ensineering-what Is it? Not a con-
triyanoo u get rid OF work, but an aPplica-
ton OF common sense to make every stroke
OF labor tell to the bess advantage; as, for
instance, it is much easier to turn over a
hundred tons oiswamp muck with plou ,h
II hid IN a long line, than to fork il over II
laid IN large pile. If you have moro OF
this muck than you care Tor in tho yard and
the stable. look into one Of our hack num-
bsrs and see how, by the addition OF little