Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-07-02
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drive COW, had settled, seven yea.s he
fore, on eight acres. from which the owne
had been driven by thnning deeply in deb
I at the grog shop. The -drupkard's acre
had Of course become starved and desolatt
the fences we're half down, there was n
gardenj and the hovel, in which his unhap
py family was once snugIy housed ap
peared ready to take its departure ou til
wings OF the wind. Every fruit-tree haC
died. ln this squalid condition the newl,
arrived German took possession, with the
privilege OF purchasing for 5000 Iii:
whole capital was three dollars. lie bo
gan with four pigs which he paid for IN
work. The manure from these was daily
empled into an empty butter frkin, which
also served as family water closet, and
the whole was converted into liquid ma
nure, which was supplied to cabbases and
onions a gentleman who lived near, and
who noted the progress of this industrious
man, assured me that even in the exhausted
sou where the crops were planted the
growth was almost Incredible On turpips
ana ruta bagAs the effect was equally great.
Long before winter set 10, this hero had
bought COW, for while his own crops were
growing he had earned money by working
around the neighborhood He readily OBJ.
tanned CT edit at the store, for he was soon
discovered TO be deserving When away
at work, his wife piled the hoe, aud acted
as mistress of the aforesaid butter.tub,
While the children pulled weeds - His cab
bages and roots exceeded any in the town
ship they discharged his little store bills,
aud Kept his COW dnriDg the winter, while
the living COW aud the dead pigs kept the
entire family, for they lived about as close
to the wind as possib!e.
The mans passion was for liquid manure.
| If he had done SO much with tab, he was
comparatively rich with COW. Then he
sunk hogsbead in the ground, conducted
the wash of the Kitchen into it, aud there
also emptied the droppiugs from the cow
1t was water closet for her as well as for
tho family. 1t is true that few of us
would fancy such a smelling bottle at the
kitchen door; but it never became nui-
sance, 70? be kept it innoxious by frequent
applications of plaster, which improved as
well as purified the whole contents. II
was laborous to transport TO his crops, but
a wheelbarrow came the second year 10 les.
sen the labor. There happened, by Gle
merest accident, to be quarter Of an acre
Of raspberres surviving on the place. He
dug oil round these to the depth OF eight
cen inches, trimmed them up, kept out the
weeds, and gave them enormous quantities
of liquid manure. The yield was most ex.
traordinary, for the second year, of his 10,
cation there he sold $S4 worth Of fruit.
This encouraged him to plant more, until
at the end of four years he had made
enough, from his raspberries alone, not on.
ly to pay for his eight acres, but to accu-
mnlate multitude Of comforts around
bim. In all this application Of liquid ma
nure bis wife had aided him very much.
1t was natural for me to feel great in
terest in q case like this, so / called re,
peatedly to see the grounds. and converse
with the German owner. As it was seven
years from his begianing when | first be,
came acquainted with him, his little farm
bore no esemblauce to its condition when
he took possession. There were signs of
thrift all over it,, His fences were new
and clear Of hedgerows; his house had
been completely renovated; he had built
a large barn and cattle. sheds, while his
garden was immeasurably better than mine
Every thing was in condition exceeding
all that l had seen elsewhere. His two
girls had grown, up into handsome young
women and had been for years at school;
All this time he had continued to enlarge
his means of manufacturing and applying
liquid manure as upon its use be placed his
main dependence He had sunk large
brick csie erh in his barh,yard, into which
all the liquor from six cows and two hor.
ses was conducted, as we'll as the wash
from the pig pen aud the barn.yard. A
line pump iu the cistern enabled him to
keep his manure heap constantly saturated.
the heap being always under cover, aud to
fill hogshead mounted on wheels. from
which he discharged the contents over bis
ground. The tub and underground hogs
head with which he commenced were of
course obsolete. If it be possible to build
monument out of liq1id manure, here
was one or this farm of eight acres. Its
owner developed another peculiarity--
had nc desire to buy more land. 3ra iA
l was so impressed by the example of
the thriving German referred to, that
resolved 20 initiate him. He had given
me rich lesson in the art of manufactur.
log mannrcs ehenp!y, though / thought it
did not 60 far enough. Yet made an i'm
mediate beginning by building .tahk in the
barn-yard, into. which the wash from sta.
BILE. pig'peD, and yard was conducted
This was pumped up ard distributed over
the top OF the msuure heap under the
shed. once or twice weekly A huge com
post heap was made of leaves; each laye
ha;s III ,I.<.l Al