Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-12-16
agrirultural.
MANURE.

MAN u RE.
Manure is the foundation of agricultural
prosperity-and agriculture of national pros
perity. -
Every plant obtains portion of it's sup
port from the soil, and therefore exhausts
the soil of certain constituents on which it
grows-and hence every crop diminishes
the fertility of the soil when the plant is
removed from the field: A succession of
crops, raised and removed from field,
must soon deprive the soil of certain parts
which are essential to their growth, and
they must languish, unless an equivalent in
manure is given.
cheney of his manure, let him haul mari,
clay, and leached ashes on to his sandy land,
and underdrain his wet land But, after
all, these are but helps; the barn-yard must
be his reliance. Here is the farmers tfea-
sure. Leaves, straw, hay, muck-anythin
animal, vegetable, or mineral, may be add
ed with profit. Effort must be used to ac-
cumulate manure, care to preserve, and a
liberal hand to spend it.
The manure from twenty-five head of cat
tie, # properly taken care Of, will increase
the yield of corn, on eight acres of land,
from twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre.
The cultivation of the corn crop fits the
manure for crop of wheat, so that the same
manure adds two hundred bushels Of corn
the first year, and adds as much, in proper
ton, to the wheat crop the second year
After the wheat crop, the ground is then in
fine condition for crop of clover Each
head of cattle, with proper care in raising
it, will produce four cords of manure during
the season of foddering, and every cord of
manure is worth two dollars.
Without manure, no part of the world
can continue fertile under the exhausting
process of cultivation. If the father, with
out returning an equivalent to the soil, OBJ
tains large crops, he will entail barren
soil on his children.
Farmers, then, should save all their ma
nure, and the liquid is more valuable than
the solid. There is nitrogen enough in a
pint of urine to make pound of wheat
To allow it to 60 to waste is as wasteful as
to throw away wheat by the pound. Stables
and barn-yards should be so constructed
that the liquid manure may run into a bowl
shaped reservoir, and that kept supplied
with straw, bones, muck, or other absorb
ents that will detain it, and its gases.
The manure from the stable should be
thrown into heaps, and sheltered from the
rain and snow, to prevent it from heating,
and by opening the heap, or otherwise, it
should be kept from burning
All the weeds should be pulled up before
they go to seed, and put into the barn-yard
for the cattle to manufacture into manure,
for every farmer should know that it ex-
hausts the soil as much to manure crop of
weeds as it does crop of grain:
In the spring every place containing ma
nure should be cleared for the benefit of the
field, and for the beauty of the farm.
But judgment is required even in the use
of good thing to apply the same
quantity and quality of manure to all crops,
is as injudicious as to give the same quanti-
t. and quality of food to all animals.
Broad leaved. succulent plants, as corn,
beets, turnips, cabbage, and the like, are
gross-feeders, and admit Of abundant ma
nure. But small grain, as wheat, rye, and
barley, may be so heavily MANFRED as to
run to straw, at the expense Of the grain.
The first crop after manuring, then,
should be gross feeder, as corn or oats,
and these fit the soil and manure for a crop
of wheat the next season.
Manure should be applied to the fields as
soon after ''breaking up as possible. that
it may become thoroughly mixed with the
soil. fit lies long on the top of the ground,
it bakes into chunks, unmixed with the soil
yields no nodrishment to the plants, and,
by absorbing the moisture, increases the
drought and Injuries the crop.-Ohio Farm
er.