Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-05-17
! Irasburgh Farmers Club.
SUBJECT Manufacture and APP
plication Of Mdnuyes.

lure satisfactorily, but am ignorant of
he way to manufacture it. consid-
er cows and hogs the most profitable
animals farmer can keep. The hog
pen should be near the horse barn, so
the horse manure can be thrown into
it, and the hogs will make it finer, rich
er and much better fitted for a fertil-
ger. | know a man in Franklin Co.
who makes about 100 loads of manure
in cellar under his hog house. A
judicious manufacture and application
of manure shows a good result always.
and as an instance in illustration, /
knew a man who had on his farm one
barn 26 by SO, and one day his bro
Their who owned a farm of equal size
adjoining, came to see him, and on in
quiry found he was in the woods get
ting out timber for another barn
The brother ridiculed the idea, saying !
the present barn could not be filled |
with produce, but barn was built of |
the same size as the first, and soon
the produce more than filled them, and
he continued to build until he had ten
times the capacity of his first barn,
and now he meditates building a barn
$50 feet long with capacious cellar.
He has not room enough for his crops
one fall he did not cut six acres of
rowen because he had no place to put
it; he bought his brothers farm for
$4,000 and sold the whole Cor $4,000,
then paid 5000 more to get it back.
In the success OF this man we see the
benefit of fertilizers. Another farm
six years ago kept so cows; it now
keeps 50 caws, 4 oxen, 4 horses, and
young heifers enough to fill the place
of COWS that fail. All this increase
is not so much the result of applying
manure in particular way as apply
| ing a large quantity, and | wish to
know how to manufacture fertilizers.
A. Tenney said that hogs kept upon
a heap of horse manure prevent its
too rapid fermentation and preserve
its good properties. To preserve and
save manure is equivalent to its man.
ufactQre. | have seen watts that were
made to save liquid manure. The
first one | ever saw was made OF stone
; to receive all the drainage from the
; stable and yard. This liquid was
pumped out into a holder in which ii
was carried to the highest land and
thrown about. | have seen other watts
made by digging large holes in tho
ground and cementing the sides like {
ciotern; sometimes abSorbentS like
{ leaves, muck, &c, We're thrown in t.
I absorb the liquid. The waste wateI
It from the sink &pd wash room shoG!'
d be turned upon a pile of Ihuck or 9th
q er abSOrbents, and We should save ma
! nure in very many ways, and our small
farms can soon be brought into a goot
{ state of fertility.
ei f. Z. Church: Have some land tina
is over1owS and is enriched from THIS an
d uual irrigation, and the grass fror
that part when fed to stock made ma
: nure to enrich the tiilage. | knoy
- there is constant waste and negiec
II of fertilizers, in the liquid that run
n away from the barn, III ashes leache
s and unleached, in chip dirt that acct
10 mulateS where we CUT W our winter
wood. We should consider how t
save manure instead of how to mar
ufacture it.
d. Z. E. Jameson said if an article pc,
0. seSsed fertilizjpg properties, yet wa
. not adapted to give immediate food t
q. plants, the process by which we Owe
10 come its inertness may be called
al manufacture. Scientific men say niue
I'd which has for centuries laid under W;
n. ter may contain acids. minerals or r,
l. sinous matter that renders it unfit &c
plant food, by exposing it to rains ali
Il frost or by the admixture of lime, as
III es or plaster, its quality is so change
ne that it is valuable manure. Then tt
err bones that lay around our premise
w have fertiiizing elements in such CO.
dition as to be Of no value but by di
solving them in sulphuric acid-o
gitriol-they become the most potter
and efficient manure. When we |
artificial means hasten decompCssitic
10 in things too sluggish, or retard it
-. such manures as throw off the mo-
offensive odors, or use absorbents
IL retain liquids, it is manufacture
e. and upon the extent that we do th
he depends the size of our manure hear
n. and the fertility of our farms. Som
ot OF the secret methods of making con
posts which have been sold are onI
> the addition of salt and gypsum [
= our ordinary farm yard manure; thes
Y ingredients and the handling of til
r. manure, by which it is made fine
70 makes it more valuable. 1t is cbea
49, er to hire man to fork over manu-
" than to keep hogs to root it, but whel
" dairymen must keep hogs to consun
I'D the whey or sour milk, they shout
ee furnish abundant absorbents. Tive
~ ty cows will give, say, 80 pals of mil
day; two pals will hold the butte
made from it, the rest is fed to hos
and should saturate a load of sa
dust, leaves or muck every dav durin
perhaps 200 days. Such quantit
\ of manure would pay for making.
j. N. Mead said that hogs woul
work whether in a yard or pen. an
if VIC could direct their work so
would be profit to us it would |
clear gain. With a proper chanc
they would work a large quantity q
coarse material as fine as mud.
E. z. Church said that it was no
sihle to manufacture manure bv nm
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