Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-06-16
FARMERS department.
Progressive Gardeners Society.

| OONCbUslON OF DlSCUSelON OF mANURkS.
[oaicnl Report-For the Germantown Telegraph
WALTER ELDER. AS this subject lies at
the root of all good culture, you should have
it fully discussed every member should state
the result OF his practice and observation, and
bring oil the virtues of the different fertilizing
materials to light, will contribute my mite
with some data. We should cultivate en-
larged views look over the garden fence
upon the farm, and consider the value OF its
products. My own soul was once so small as
to bury my brains 10 q flower pot, and to
think that garden with few glass struc-
lures was the universe but now l see what
q big place the world is. 1t i, generally con.
ceded by cultivators, and barnyard manure is
the best manure for common use and as it
is the droppings of several species OF animals,
together with straw, think it better than
that Of any one species, when applied to
clayey soils aud heavy loans in its long fresh
state. 1t warns them, renders them more
porous and allows the roots Of rapid growing
plants to enter them more freely. Indian
corn, potatoes, melons, squashes, &C., seem
to do best upon heavy soils with fresh barn
yard manure but for sandy and light soils it
is best when we'll rotted, and in that state has
a more immediate effect on crops in general.
For potting plants it should be almost q
mould, and be mixed many months with the
soil before being used. Ligneous manures
think must be most beneficial to trees and
other woody plants, although seldom ever ap-
piled to them. Leaf mould is almost inds-
pensGble in pot culture, and the mould at the
bottom Of the wood pile is better wood ashes
leached, are used extensively upon sandy
soils, produce good crops and solidfy such
soils waste charcoal is valuable in pot culture
but too expensive for general use sawdust is
! Ill ri fal m ms arnund tho ritv 0f
Edinburg, Scotland, by bedding cows and
horses with it. Tan-bark is also converted
into manures by composing it with other ma
terials, and nurserymen grow the harder
rhododendrons and azaleas in beds outdoors,
made up with two thirds of decayed tan.bark
and one third garden loan. Salt as manure
hasteus vegetation, and gives earlier matu-
, ration to plants than any other kind Of
manure. | have used night soil fresh from
the wells of this city, upon acres and for
onions, beeis, radishes, turnips and carrots,
have never found anything to equal it for
early and heavy crops. Poudrette has a
similar effect, but these matters make cab
!, bage "clubfooted." and do not suit potatoes.
The low meadows around Edinburg, into
which the sewers of the city empty, yield the
greatest crops of grass to be found they are
} divided into lots of three and four acres by
bitches which lead the liquid manure around
them and are flooded with it at pleasure !;
they are let yearly at auction to dairymen.
The grass is fit to cut by the time that
grasses elsewhere beg gin to grow in the spring ;
They give seven cuttings knee high, and so
heavy that the scytbe can hardly carry the
swath through. The market gaIdners OF
Leith surpass all their contemporaries more
/ inland in the production Of early and fine
, vegetables by the use Of sea'weed they gather
} of the beach after high tide or Storm
, Upon the fat meadows Of Long. Island Sound
r between Harlem and Thoggs Neck, the grass
! after being flooded by "spring tide" grows
| up at wonderful rate and asparagus OF the
D fnest quality springs up spontaneously oil
r over these. Country people empty the brine
I of their meat and fish barrels in spring upor
r their asparagus beds, which is the only ma
i nure they get, and they yield plentiful crops
| have used both salt, lime aud urine aIount
: the base of peach and plum trees for the cut
i worm, which always kept them oil and !nvigo
rated the trees.
o Calcaeous JIanues. think that lime i
D, best when mixed with other materials. Th
E, farmers in the sandy districts Of New-Jerse.
q who use mari largely, think it best when mix
r, ed with lime or barnyard manure. Plaster Q
D. Paris is best for sandy soils, and benefits al
e kinds Of crops grown upon them i: is tn
best thing for clover ever used. Road.eart
y. is best when composted with other materials
D. after lying in heap and being frequentl
10 turned in year. The same is true OF Goa
,r ashes, street sweepings are also best afte
d lying in heap twelve months and turne
a over twice. l have heard it often asserte
b. that the ashes of the peat used in Ireland o
IS fuel and called turf, contains more fertllizln
- matter than any other thing six times il
D. bulk A relative fifteen miles from LondoI
le derry, informed me that the ashes OF tn
g 'peat" was the best thing be ever used ic
his veneries, peach and nectarine houses, an
10 also for his wall trees. He exchanged stabl
manure for it among the people. Now, "
o. all know how valuable peat is in pot cultuI
ID and the older the better so we may well pr
So sumo that there must be virtue in the asht
Of also. An English friend Of mine from WI
SO shire, used to tell me that straw was used fC
a. fire to cook with, and the farmers thel
~ manured their lands with burned turf, (sod
ly they had turf plows that turned up the IN
ly and made it into rolls three yards long
iy was put into large heaps into q mould 1t WI
nd spread upon the lands and produced goo
v, crops. The moorland farmers in Scotland .
ny the same thing, and they think that dou6
the quantity OF grass grows where the ash'
of the heather falls, when they burn 1t upc
We their pastures in spring.
10. once top-dressed lawn with grains
,s' JoHY TAYLoR's brewery at Albany, n. 4
4 and il produced wonderful effect upon Il
ne grass. At the same place manured an &C
ii with hops from the brewery that had lam
We large heap and was we'll termented th'
Sa sowed parsnps upon it the leaves oil ov
ny grew Ave feet high. The late JESSE BuEL al
Do. JAMES WILSON, as we'll as other cultivators
Sr note, came TO view them, and said they nev
ny saw anything like them. A path adJoiniI
,a' na was manured with yeast from the brewer
,ss and yielded very heavy crop OF carrots.
he will now tell how have seen manur
son composted in Edinburg, wher was lad.
= A man had large yard back OF the cast
her with canal through it, divided into tnr
the compartments by sluces, the sides were stoI
YER walled and flag bottomed alongside the va
were slaughter. houses, tanneries and curr
shops the offal and washings OF these plat
Irty were thrown into the canal and mixed vi
sns, stable manure hauled from the city, and al
lch- lying fortnight, being flooded oil that tin
hat the liquid was let off into another compa
4; ment, and the manure thrown out into he
for well mixed, aud after becoming we'll ferme
ed 1t was made into heaps yard high, o
say as long and broad as was engaged for
was always bespoke before it was made
as and sold by the square yard. The gr
quantity OF tan-berk among it neutrallzed
had a l. a %E