Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-02-11
A9ritnlntrol.
Composing.


condition to be absorbed by plah's, -
explained in another part Of this number
is an i'm mportant one. It will undoubt-
edly be made to avail much in the prep-
aration of city refuse. to be transferred
as portable manures to the country-n
thing most desirable. if properly done
and at reasonable prces, for both the
CITY and the country.
But it is still more desirable for tbs
farmer in bis home operations. Swamp
muck, is probably the best deoderiser
in the world. that is so cheap, and al
most everywhere SO easily obtained. in
any quantity desired. We call it q
deoderizer because it absorbs from the
air and from all substances coming in
contract with it whatever is foul and Of
feDsive. E"ery farmer must have notic-
ed that his stalls, pig pens. barn ysr1.
necessary, sink &C., &C., have no offen-
sive odor, if plenty tf swamp muck be
applied. This not only absorb> the foul
gasses, but it holds the salts of alkalies
and the phosphates, when mixed with
it, as in urine, sink washings, nigh soil,
ofal and garbage of any kind.
All these substances contain the very
essence of fertilization. but some portions
of their fertilizing properties are isole
to be washed away in the form OF soluble
salts, and others to evaporate in the form
of ammonia, and of other gasses, which
are offensive to the premises. if they es-
cape, but are Of some value to the field
if retained No unfrendly odor can ar.
rise from the farmstead. without warm
ing the holder that he is suffering loss
some dimunition to the value ofhis ma.
nure, be the escaping matter what it
may. and very consider able if it be large
ly ammonia. Now the object of mixing
swamp muck with these substances is
two-fold, first. to fold the soluble salts
from being wasted ANY,, and second, to
prevent the formation aid escape of gas
ses, especially ammonia.
While the city vender of manure does
the composing, it is we'll, so far as the
refuse of the city is concerned. 1t re-
turns to the country and to the felds.
what was taken from them. 1t thus
keeps up the fertility and increases it. so
that the older a country is, the richer
the soil, if all parties manage wisely
But is the farmer aware, that so far as
the garbage Of the farm is concerned, he
is doing the very same thing, which the
manure vender would do for him, when
he mixes swamp muck with the substan-
ces we have named, and doing it at a
cheaper rate: He is offering base for
the retention Of the fertilizing properties
something that will divide them. diff
fuse them through larger mass, and re-
tain them till the growing time Of plants.
II, for inst ance. you were to put q
quantity of swamp muck. at some out
of-sight place, near your house, say
ten tons, then from time to time
throw on it, or rather bury in it the slops
from the chambers, the stronger soap
suds from the wash room, the dead rab-
bits-we do not mean such as we have
here in New York-any ofal that the
swine would not dispose of to advantage,
in short whatever filth about the premis-
es is to be disposed of, the cleanings Of
tie sink among the rest, you would have
by the end ofa year ten or twelve tons,
and perhaps more--that would depend
upon how much you add from time to
iime-of very good manure, quite as
&C cd as much that is offered for sale.
In the original heap of muck would 10
plenty of carbon together with a little
ammonia and very little alkaline and
phosphate matter. In what you add
from day to day there would be great
deal of alkali, as potash and soda, also
good supply of the phosphates. and of
the ammonia making materials. Be-
tween the muck and the added substan.
ces, you would have all the wants of the
soil. and all in condition to be appro.
priated by plants.
Where the nature of the ground will
permit it is we'll to let the washings of
the sink run into an excavation, first fill
ed with mack. In this way alone. it
would be easy to make twenty-five to
fifty tons Of manure. in vet state, equal
TO at least ten to wenty tons in a tolerably
dry condition, not as good to be sure, as
L eruVldn OutHO, out INC WnOle worth
more than one ton Of the best guano
ever imported, and all at a trihing ex-
pense.
We do not discourage the purchase of
in all cases That the filth of
the city should be made to iertilize the
fields is very desirable; and if this is to
be done, manures must become more and
more a matter Of sale and purchase
But we wonder that farmers are not more
ready to hus s5and their oA resources, so
easy is it, so comparatively y inexpensive,
to save whatever is already on the farm.
and to put it in condition to meet the
wants Of the crops. Our rule would be
to use up the home fertilizers first, and
then to buy more, if we could not get
big crops without. The growing of small
crops will not long te, and we doubt
whether it is now, a very profitable busi-
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