American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-01-11
The farmers Department,
How to Save Manure.

How to Save Manure.
have a drain from my necessary
which goes into hole four feet over
at top in the clay outside. When
this hole is in part full from the vault,
| conduct the waste water from the
house roof during rainy weather into
it, and also all the wash from the
house, except soap suds, which is
thrown directly on the strawberry
beds and on grape vines. This liq-
uid munure is always ready for dis
tribution to growing crops and the
grass plat in the season, and to the
asparagus bed, pie plants, and garden
generally, in winter and early spring.
My COW is kept tied in the stable.
At this time / give her bed Of fall
en- leaves two and three times aday and
clean out the well mixed manure as
often. When leaves are gone, l sub
stitute turner's shayiugs from hard
wood-by no means half as rich in
nitrogen, alkalis and the phosphates
as leaves, but asgood as straw, tho
not as soon soluble.
POTATOES.
supposed to be failure during the
drouth, have since proved a very large
and heavy crop. A Cayuga county
farmer, who planted Peaoh-blows for
his own use, now has 100 bushels
over, which ne offers at % cents a
bushel. Our farmers say Peach-blows
never did half as well before, and all
the other sorts are OF monstrous size.
But farmers prefer keeping them to
present sales at live and SIX shilllngs
bushol,
BUTTER.
1t IS al enigma to our domestic
economists how butter at so high a
puce, when none Is shipped Lest.
The supply was never greater, and
the demand has senslbiy decreased,
owing to the greater economy IN Its
use and the inability OF the poor any
longer to indulge IN SO expensive
luxury. But the "debasement OF the
currency IS the patriotic as well as
the. chronic excuse Tor all prices.
now TO FATIEN noes ON HALE The
USUAL QUANTITY OF coRN.
a reliable g ntleman III NaterTlile
Oneida county, has two spring pigs
narrowed IN early May. lie ied them
nothing during the summer but the
sour milk oil one COW, the sWiii OF his
.malI tamiy, and the grass and weeds
from his garden pn the ist OF sept
they were long, ank and weasel
shaped. lie then bought twelve
bushels OF old corn, hod 1t hnely
ground, ana ied It 10 them IN nasty
pudulhg' thtec umes DAY, AL they
would eat up clean, and always warm,
Ihe sour mix anu sWlll was the on
Iy change OF food gwen them. On
the LIST Of December they were killed
and weighed, when dressed, COG lbs,
The cost OF the corn was 90, OF 3O
cents a bushcl' ...
Low otten 90 we near farmer say,
1t Is more prohtaDle to sell the corn
crop to the dlstlIIers than to iatten
hogS with It, such men also sell
tleT shoats TO the distilIers, thus sell
ing oil the bone anu muscle OF the
larm, the mario" OF the soil, at the
very tlm3 Wheh the taCtening pre-
cess would give then tat pork and
the best OF manure : While the hog
they fattcn Tor their own use arc ted
green soft corn IN the most wasteiul
manner no WONDER Ii oon pay.
nave seen mah-call nm not a
larmer-throW bushel OF cars OF
corn INTO a cold, ralleu pen, with the
mud m ana e%crements to their knees.
when asked II 1t was not waateiuI,
he replied; Ihey VIII root out and
eat every erneL And the eXer-
clse, reJQIned =" VII keep them in
WORKING order to their dying day.
Such food is not more than half di-
gested, and the animal IS continually
hungry Tor more. But the hog that
IS ted warm, cooked food, lies down