The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-03
AGRICULTURAL.

In 81
With manure enough and labor
enough, no man knows what may be
the limits to the products and profits
of the cultivation of the earth, in the
garden or the field. We make most
manure in Winter. because then our
stock is confined, and all the drop
pings, with the litter and waste of
fodder, are readily accumulated.
Cows yarded every night. leave their
droppings and urine where they may
be used, to compost with muck, litter,
etc., to greater advantage, In Summer
than in Winter, because the tempera-
ture of the season keeps the compost
heaps in a more active fermentation.
Thus, the value of the manure made
in Summer from given number of
cows, or other animals, may be nearly
as great as in Winter, though if they
are pastured, they may be in the yard
less than half the time.
Swine used simply as pork produc-
ers or breeders. are oftentimes of
profit, but on three quarters of the
farms west of the Alleghanies, if the
value of the manure made by pigs
were left out of the calculation. they
would show a loss on the balance
sheet Of the farm. To employ them
as manure makers to the best advan-
tage, in connection with either pri-
vate or market gardens, give them a
covered yard, having a tight bottom,
and open on the South for the sun to
come in; give them also the free use
of their roofing powers, until they
are taken up to fatten; feed them
well, and supply them daily with sods,
weeds, peat; bog parings,, etc., and it
matters little how much you give
them, they will work up an incredible
amount and make better manure of
it than tie best exposed barn yard
manure you can make or buy. Every
gardener, and not less every farmer,
ought to begin the growing season
with half grown hogs, not with a lot
of little pigs. They should receive
as regular attention as the rows Of
vegetables or plants, for they are pre-
pairing the ray material with Which
to produce next years crop.
The accommodations in the hog-pen
should be leveled off, and mixed
somewhat by hand, but the hogs ordi-
narily do this themselves tolerably
we'll. If left thus wa~ter-soaked, and
trodden hard, the manure will be of
the rankest, strongest character
Imaginable and besides so tough and
stringy that it can only be gotten out
with great labor. 1t is best, therefore,
to take time some rainy day, about
once a month, to clear the pen out,
and lay the materials up in a compact
compost heap, well trodden, and if
| possible under cover. The action OF
the air will cause rapid and usually
complete fermentation, and once or
twice working over of the heap at
times, to check excessive heat
ing, will insure an abundance of fine
and excellent compost.
CUTTING CLOVER AND HAY.
] 1t is high time that clover was cut.
1t is ge. eral'y con eded hat the best
time to cut clover is when about one
half of it is in full bloom.
The best time to cut hay is when it
is passing from the flower to the seed.
The exact time, of course. cannot al
ways be attained, when many days are
required to secure the crop, but every
farmer should endeavor to come as
near as possible to the right sme.
7 he almost universal use of the now
ing machine, the horse rakes and forks
adds wonderfully t o the celebrity with
which hay is harvested. The early
cutting insures a much better after
growth. But by far the most impor-
tant thing is to have everything ready.
The omission TO do this often involves
a whole day delay. and a days delay
not unfrequently results in a heavy
! loss from bad weather.
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