Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-03-07
How shall Farmers get Manure 7

promised IN previous number to say a lew
words on this all-impOrtsnt subject, and will
now attempt to redssw my promise yet have
not the vanity 10 suppose that can throw
much, II any light upon this question, What
have to say will be more the results obtained,
or rather the methods by which | have sue
ceded IN renoyating worn-oOt farm, than any
fine spun theories.
10 the fret place then, lot ms stats cspcisely
the condition of the farm upon which live,
when h,st took it. There was not "a acre Of
the farm tina. would produce over $40 lbs OF
hay in year, ard do not think that there
was an acre that clever would catch upon. III
is a sandy loan, easy OF cultivation, and had
been repeatedly cropped with oorn and rye, until
| it did not pay TO plant and SOW them. Tbs
being the oonditien OF the coil, you may well
believe that the question " How shall farmers
get manure" or how shall get it? was an
Importan. one TO me, To add TO my embarras-
ments, | Was about as poor as the land upon
which was about TO 90 to work. THIS was in
1850. had one horse, one csw, and pig
that was my s0ck IN ihe barn. In the house
was rich in the possession OF 4 vile and little
ones Two Of our boys We have contributed To
tho defence OF our bleeding country. BY great
effort we have succeeded In keeping the wolf
from our door but the u. 5. assessor has made
a lodsmsnt with us, much against our will. and
will DO satisfied with nothing short of levying
so income tax upon our poor farm.
What needed then WAS experience, and to
obtain thi, commenced reading the sgrlcul,ur-
al papers and books, aud from Them gained many
valuable lessons. Ono was, that what land |
cultivated should 90 made better, and 10 that |
stlll adhere. In a conversation held with a sue
cessiu and intelligent old farmer, no said tina, q
" good way to Improve my land would be TO
plough in thousand LOADS Of turf to the
acre. But. said /, whsrs shall | get it ?
" Well, said he, " the easiest way to get 1t is
to raise /, right on th, v,ry land to which you
apply it," Upou this thought awhile, and
concluded to try the silsets Of clay and muck on
! my land and II with these COuld manage to
, procsre the needed supply Of turf | drew load
| after load Of both OF thess materials. Compost
ed, carefully oil the manure on the farm, in toe
Z proportion of two loads Of muck to one of ma.
nurs. Took out my stable floors and filled q
the depth of fifteen or eighteen inches with
. muck. leaf mould, or loan, adding thus SON,
twenty-five households to tho amount. Oit
b aour barrels were filled with muck, and tn,
/. chamber vessels emptled upon it, until the mucl
4 was saturated. Tbis called urate. The solid
from the priVy we're composlsd with muck, snC
\ this was NJ poudrette. This last composing
\ was done once or twice week, SO as TOO keel
|. down the stencil.
Il My bare, in the meantime, had become to,
/, small TO accommodate the increased amount 0
n crops, aud 80 determined to build new one
:. with cellar under It and trench behind VII
!. cattle to save and compost both the liquid an,
10 ,olld pofIons Of the manure, as recommends,
! by Ex-Governor Holbrook Of Vermont. But IN,
sheet is full and will leave the rest Of m,
!, story till another week.-Mrs. NJ. Cars, Ii
l. Boston Cuiiiraior.