The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-08-01

| IN SupcfntChulnE inc Work, ana also III
working himself, am having a place
fixed here for making manure. | mean 10
| I'LL this trench up with good muck, and
thus save tho liquids which have hereto.
fore bceu lost, think Ivy proper manage.
mont, can get full double the ITuantity of
manure which others have got ON this
place. -, - r---t
DO yc? sid Grummet, saroosticaly.
"Ycs,' resumed the young man. cit is u
fact that the lquiamanurcs that can be savou
would fully equal the solids. both in bulk
and valuci and when combined with well
rotted muck, and some other articles which
shall take up and retain all the moro VIOLA.
tile parts, feel sure they will afford more
fcrtilzing powers and properties than the
solid manurcs can"
you don't say SO? Where dye iam
all thotY"
=" Partly from reading. aud PARTLY from
observation answered John, smiling at
his good ncighhor's open sarcasm.
-" | don't suppose it costs anything to do
all this ="
90, ycs-it win cost me considerable be-
fore ! set through
Naas Il should raythcr calkilatc
'twould ~ Ben Grummct spoke this very
slowly, and with q great deal of meaning;
anu wien Ut llU lOOkcV on u lcW llluultS
lcngor he went away.
swami" he cried, as he met Sawyer
shortly afterwards. John Woltonsa q reg
ular hi1utin. He's les about as nigh to
bein' crazy as a man can be
Ehg-crazy, Benz"
col don't mean rally upset like them
folks what has to be sent to the insane
asylum; but he's got his head full of all
sorts of NONSENSE. He's got his tic.up floor
all torn away, and trcnch dug there big
enough to hold more'n twenty cart loads of
dirt"
But what in natures he goin to do?"
Why he's goiu TO save the liquids, as
he calls en-! An he's goiu to put in some.
thin to take up the-the-rol. roluatdry
parts"
" Voluntary parts? WHATS them Ben -
"It was rol something. But | don't
know. rsposc he Just used the outlandsE
word SOS TO got me to ask him what he
mcant-and then he'd show off his larnin D..
But want so green.
al wonder if he thinks hcs a comm here
to larn us old farmers how to work said
Sawyer rather Indignantly.
al guess he thinks So returned Grum
met.
"Then guess he'll find out his mistake"
added the other. "Jes' you mark my
words, Ben: He'll be Hat on his back afore
two years is outl"
And these were not the only ones who
looked Tor the same thing. The idea of n
mans coming in there with any such new
tangled notions was absurd. Their fathers
and their fathers fathers, had worked on
that same ridge, aud they wanted nothing
better than what their honored progenitors
had mad before them.
Autumn came. and after John Walton had
moved over the twenty-acre field, getting
hardly hay enough TO pay for the labor, he
set men ut work digging trenches all over
it. Ho had two dug leng running up
and down the slopei and then he dug quite
II number running across these. They were
quite deep and broad, and into them ho
tumbled nearly all the stoneG that lie could
find III the fields.
a pooty expensive way Of gettin' rid o
stones and rocks, remarked Grummet.
It's better place for them than on the
surface, isn't it?" returned Walton with
smile.
"Mehbe. But what on airth are yo ,loin
il for?"
"Why am going to see if under
draining wont improve the land.
GHde1,-diuininq What's that? ?"
1t is simply drawing off the water from
the surface. This land is cold and wet;
but if can get the water to drain off
among these rocks, the sun may warm the
surface, and give me good piece of soil
here"
But it looked very foolish to Ben Grum-
met. lIo believed that what was the nature
of the soil couldn't be altered However
the young man made his renches--tumbled
in the rocks-lillcd in ON top with the loan
he had originally removed and then left
it to work for itself while. A month
later he plowed up two acres of it, and he
could see that the soil had changed wonder.
fully. After this was done he cut his way
to the muck swamp and went to hauing
out that article, which he deposited in va
rious places as he deemed proper.
"Thats GURUS contrivancc," said Sam
He and Ben Grummet had been
at work for Walton at hauling muck. lie
alluded to large vat back of tho house,
into which ran spout to the sink. This
vat was capable of holding several cart
loads of stun, and was already half full.
"Thats u compost vat exclaimed Wal |
ton, who had overhead the remark. "All |
the slops from the house-the soap suds |
and such stulf-which most pooplo.'wastc !
save by this means, and turn ito good |
account; and instead Of throwing away re-
fuse matter, put it in here aid let it rot |
and ferment, and make manureP
"But what's this charcQAkdusi for ?"
TT answers two purposes, though by |
only one Office. 1t takes up the ammonia |
and other volatile matter, thus holding |
them for fcrtiliZing agents, and at the same
time prevents the disagrecalle eilluvia |
which would otherwise arise from such a
large fermen!ing mass
" That al sounds very Pooty,' remarked |
Ben, after Walton had left them; but let Inc
ne jcs tell you, il don't pay! lie had bet
Ter let such fandanges alone if he ever ex-
pecis to make livin at farnin."
Before the ground frOze up Walton
threw out most Of the muck back of his tie
lp, which had become well saturated, and
illed the trench up anew.
The old settlers up on the ridge had get
Dut great many apple trees, and made
great deal of cider; but the fruit was mostly
Wild and of an inferior quality. When
spring came Walton went to come of his
and asked them to go with him,
lnd send for some good scions to engraft
lpon their apple trees. lie explained 10
hem just the plan he had formed for his
,wm orchard. lie had engaged compe-
ent man to come and do the work of graft
ng, and while they were about it, it would
,e cheaper to get gratis enough for the
whole neighborhood.
How much will it cost you p asked
sawyer.
"Why," returned Walton, am going