Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-02
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8 MANURE MAXIM
Thereais nothing hazarde ed in assertipg that
among all departments; duties and labors Of t
Ehasbaadrg herAis;none iu which the; plan.
Eters sand Farmers Of the South h;are so.dmiss as
Fin the preparation Of mannress HERS
Of the earth are. more industrious -inr IN no
lother country probably do they perform 50
much smanual ;laborinthe cour ursesof thesyear. !;
||The farm work done in the Northern States,
Indeed IN all grain and grass growing coan. atl
tries. bears no comparison to the amount-o y
labor bestowed On our cotton and dscorn plant
Eations But all the South with here and
there an excepted instance, very ElittleSor
none; e;of this labor is given to storing up ma
nufes sand composts. Why 50 Because:
we have been accustomed to plant on freshly
Ecleared land, and mot accustomed to those;
methods Of procedure by which, in Older
and more experienced States the barrenness
Of fields is prevented, and those which have:
Ebeen permitted to become Barren restored
to:fettility: ever happens in like: cases,
Ignorance occasions distrust our ability to
accomplish anything valuable, and I'M our "
despair, we make little or no effort: II may
fbe better to migrate to Texas, Kansas OF. Ar. II
kansas, plant fresh lands, breathe bad air,
drink kbad water, mingle with a rudeand de-
PRAYED population and meet anaearl death
tinza paroxysm of Sbii biillious fever, than remain
at home IN health and comfort, and sncoun.
tterthe trouble Of fertilizing our.own fields;
hut that iis:not my way of thinking -
IF the farmers Of New. En gland Pennsyf;
vaaia and New jersey had, as we have; rea-
|:dy access to the woods, the thousands of
leaves which lie at convenient distances,
would every yearbe composted into frstrate
manure for corn and &$pthersy crop Why
would they do what We neglect O. Only be:
cause they know by Experience that the
thing is quite practicable and that it pays
better than any; y;other work. This We.of the
South do not behave because We have never
made Trial Of it, an the Ignorance Of our in
9eterate habits, we, regard the fertilization
Eiof our old fields . matter Of .ffmpossib ility
land SO in in the hands offmen who SO think
and act It is. :ssss's I ~ ~ I,
Having made e beginninsg + intend, du-
ring the current year TO prepare. stercorary,
Or receptacle for fmanurssi perhapsmorethan
one, fromfwhichI hope TO carry out. annual.
Els, many tons zof such composted matter as
EaiHtFebl the; crops sIshase heretofore made
lon the same fields Should such ansimproye3
:nusnnt o,ffour plantations be rssoluteI under:
taken and generally carried put; il is scarce
(lys possible estosestimate the augmented wealth
Of The. country. Thousands Of plantations IN
in the oldercounties Of Georgia asswell Gas in
the carolinas, and Virginia eansbe pufchas.
ed from three to ten dollars an acre; but
Hands of the same geolooial formation in the
Northern aud Eastern States, under an at
smosphere farless propitious to crops, readily
sell for; from forty to- eighty dollars and
much were, iin.the the vicinity Of market
towns. = 4 6 = z s. n, ~
r ,Onsthe lower side of4he lots on which my
Hive stock are fed, I purpose to excavate a
nit.in tb1a3 ground some four. or FIVE eject deep,
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