Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-06-16

night soil was collected and emptied nightly
| eud hauled out to the farms aud put into
| large basins made with road earth q single
horse load OF coal ashes from The city was put
| above O double horse load of manure as a
deodoriser. After the basins we're full they
| stood so q month then the road earth FORM
ing the sides, was cut up fine and thrown on
top, and the whole turned over and mixed
and in fortnight more it was applied to the
land. and made early and heavy crops
| Another compost was made with the roots Of
perennial weeds gathered off the field after
being plowed and narrowed, aud cleanings Of
bitches mixed with stone lime the shaking
of the lime burned the whole into mould,
and after being turned and well mixed, it was
hauled out and spread upon the lands and
produced good crops. Sometimes q heap
would have three hundred cart loads. Ano.
ther compost was made with road earth, lime
and bark, turned and well mixed twice,
and Bever used until year old; it made
good crops.
have used nearly all the modern fertilsers
with success, and think oil of them valuable
any one who uses them once will do so again.
| think that too much credit cannot be be-
slowed upon the efforts of their manufac-
turers.
have seen good effects produced on fruit
trees by burying dead animals at their roots
| once made q border for grapery and paved
the bottom with cdttlehedds, fresh from the
slaughter. houses; they we're laid as close as
they could lie, and compost put over them
twenty inches thick, and | seldom ever saw
vines grow so thrifty and yield such good
| fruit.
Liquid Mdnures are the essence OF the solid
manures generally speaking; they give more
immediate effect to plants and are we'll suited
for pot culture, and | think that they are
| better for woody plants than solid manures,
as they can only be taken up by them in that
form they incorporate at once with the soil.
Fruit trees, goosebe-ries, currants and rasp-
berries, are particularly benefited by them,
but they should be applied Immediately after
rains during hot weather, or be very weak
think that they do most good if applied in
winter or spring. The liquid of the barnyard
is perhaps the best. Soapsuds appear to be
of a burning nature, as it hardens the soil
very much in hot weather. That made from
guano appears to be most useful in killing
the worms in hower-pots. The water of O
muddy pond or ditch, with the mud well
stirred up among it, is one Of the very best
manures | ever applied to berbaceous plants
growing in the open ground. think that a
| liquid manure made Of the ashes Of fresh peat
would be an excellent thing for many kinds
of pot plants. Bones are considered good
! food for graperes and drainage for their
borders, and when ground fine make an ex.
cellent draining for fowey-beds. have seen
beds for asparagus dug deep, and oyster.shells
put in the bottom six inches thick, but never
could see that the crop was any better thar
in beds made the usual way.
Now, gentlemen, with oil that has been
said, the subject is hardly begun. You will
have observed that | have not remained long
in the garden and hardly touched on po
culture. | have done so on purpose tina
others of you may dwell upon those depart
ments.