Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-03-13
HOW TO MAKE MANURE.

First. Haul rotton wood pile litter
or course mouid-best dry-into your
stables until it covers tho floor three
or four lnchcs deep enough to make a
warm bed for the horses.-This will
absorb the uring, and tho liquor por-
tion Of the dung, which would other
wise sink into the ground, or fly into
the air ;-and mako threo times as
much manure as you usually get from
your horses.
Second. Haul load or two OF
wood, pile litter, or mould to your hen
house, and SCATTER it over the floor an
inch Or two according to the numbcr
Of the chickens you have. When
lhcro is enough of it, rako it up in
one corner in heap and begin again.
Here you have Il manure equal to gu
ano, in fact, guano itself
I Third. Have pen three feet deep,
put into it wood-pilo litter foot, or
two feet deep and on this empty
your urinals every morning, your
soap-spds every wash day, and all the
sweepings from the house aud yard.
If it begins to smell, throw on more
woodpiIe litter, or coal dust. This is
i:rr.~r:.:e mauurc:-I have tried it
often. Whom well managed, it helps
TO purify tho air around the dwelling.
Fourth. Litter your lots with
leaves Or straw, if not all over, at
least at the lower corner, to catch the
oczing from above; scatter several
Iouds of woodpilo litter, or mould, or
even earth on the leaves, which will,
help to- absorb the liquid manure
which will otherwise he wasted. A
great deal of manure can be mcde in
this way, if your stock are we'll man
aged. If your manure be drawn up
into, sharp, heaps, and covered with a
litter earth, it will be leachcd by the
ratns. fut this manure irIo your
,, olton or turnip. bills, Or where yop
please.
Naka If you want your lands to
; ''-tast or Improve, adopt somo iudicious
rotation of. crops. Do not plant IN
succession The same land in the same
Greg thiee- 6x oftener.-TAis is done
in no country Were agriculture flou,-
shes, or laad'is improvod-No land,
however riap, can stand such course
long-it ssVst'bo eYhaNsted. Hero
$Ehcre lands are cheap, ana will pro
Nbly be for some tinN, 8e should
res them once in three or fodcyears,
ndst'them gfow as muensrass-and
weeds as is possible, Thisxwhen
turned us5 Ter, wil1s an othor smede
of manhrifg 8. The, !weods. will bring
; up IMMORAL Salts frdh.t tho subsoil, tc
be mingled bgssho ploasxith tho sol
above; tho. ACIDS Of tDSVegctable'
will act upon tHs-earlh and form new
compounds; tho decaying litter will
; act mechanically making the soil mor'
loose and easier to. work-it. will alb.
, sorb moisture from the air, and dripl
3 in the cews--it will darken the Boi
< and thus make It warner--it will alb
J. -sorb more water, and thus, make i
Q Stand. droughs better, and for. the sam
reason, it will wash less. In o wor,
D assisted by the application OF anima
= and mineral rnanures, it. will make al
most any soil rich. Aow, reade,
go to work. Il have.sbowvn- you hoy
Q any Industrious raan,- who has a i1ofn
K be can call hia.oWn, may # he will ad,
i economy to industry, live in. c6pfor,
d P.$Msshodist; zsierasa,s. -sThs Aethsai.
says sEug g.ish. Methodism.. at, Ieas
81 has revealed little literary acIigity,
,e not little intSl1eStual resourcs, sine
!" the edaysof Clarke; and .sV atson.l
, wasa mattet u: remark, in a secnls
paper, at ore Of .ths, late sessions {
% the, ,WsslsYsp Conference, that Ame
It leahF ~ cthedisn haa, iDsthis rsspec
attained, superiority over the parer
d church." '.'5%