Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-02-28
aaEitaltnraI Column.



-u-4s.szs "a bird in the hand is worth two
.s.. I'm the bush.,' is not always true-f0E
instance, If the bird in the bush have
Is .as a nest there. Acting upon the teach
ing Of the above proverb, cultivators
- have 20 a very large extent sold their
-. crops rather than feed them out on
the farm. Grain threshed and sold
r brinss the ready cash, and it IS fed
yrudginglv, If at all, to stock. There
NAV be times when the prices of cat
frsgz4 lie. sheep, and hogs are proportional
i-a " lower than the price of grain, SO
1-l- that there is apparently loss in con-
verting rye, oats, and corn, into beet,
pork, and mutton, but it may be dOub;-
ed whether there Will not always BE-
gain enough in the quality of the ma
.bs.s3 Iure from grain fed animals, to over
balance this apparent loss. Careful
" conducted experiments have prov
ed conclusively that the quality of ma
nure depends very greatly upon the
richness of the food consumed. An
-Ja illustration of this fact was cOmmu-
nicated to the New England Farmer,
by Hon. F. III. HolbroOk, to which
- we will call the attention of our read
ers. He says:
"How true is the remark of Mr..
Coke, late Earl of Leicester, that the
sfa value of farm yard manure is in pro-
portion to what it is made of. III
-. cattle e2t straw alone, the dung is
straw alone; the cattle arc straw, the
farm is straw, and the farmer is straw
they are all straw together. Not
long aso | had four cows come up to
the stable in the Fall which thought
might yield a good supply of milk
through the winter, if well fed.
also had four other animals, cows and
s,r heifers which were not expected to
sa give much milk until the following
season. The first four were tied in
the stable, side by side, and received
each, in addition to hay and stalks,
ed four quarts of corn ard oatmeal each
evening, through the winter. As VIC
expected, they gave good mess of
milk, and came out well in the spring.
The manure of those four COWS was
thrown out of a stable window under
the cattle shed, by itself. The other
four animals were tied in the same
stable, next to the first four, and re-
ceived only hay and corn fodder
Their manure was thrown out bv it.
self at the next stable window, and
under the same shed, so that the two
heaps lay side by side. The heap
that was made by the four cows that
1Lwefe daily messed with potatoes and
meal, kept hot and smoking all winter,
,st,s and was wholly free from frost. The
heap made by the other animals that
had only hay and stalks, showed no
j. signs of fermentation, and was some
what frozen. Observing this differ
ence from time to time, curiosity
prompted me in the 81 ring to apply
those two heaps of manure separate
ly. but in equal quantities, side by
side, on piece of ground. The SUI
periority of the corn crop where the
manure from the messed cattle was
applied, over that where the other
heap was spread, was quite apparent
and striking; and called my attention
sia more particularly than it was ever
' before directed to the Importance of
feeding out our best or richest pro-
ducts, If we would have the best kind
L. of manure for our lands, and large
crops for them"