The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-07-21

AouuootioH1 ol Hdit HStiCu1turHI I'M
provement, and yet it is heithe,
understood, NOR practieed III this
country We Can never afford Il
bny maitite at any price; until we
learn to harvest and apply tina,
which is eontintially going to wsste
arothd no., In saving mantire &c
IN everything else, we eshopld have
q aplace tor, IT, / propose q. plan
which; 1t pntsin practice tte pres,
eiit year,N will increase the amount
of ffianure beyond the expectation
of the most 'sanguiue observer.
Take Of any good lasting material,
four or six posts, (agfseable to size
OF PeDJ sufficiently large to be
Substantial, and set tlieffi, ON The
ground, and weather board lip all
round; as necessary---at fret about
three or four feet. Il would not
have them friofe than five feet high.
Use common refnse heart plank,
(sucb as can be picked up about
any saw mill that will make 1t
sufficiently close to retain the ma.
nure. If well made, they will last
sor years, and may be any size
say about elk by eight feet. Set
thern in the most convenient places
about the yard. d.,d see to ii, that
everything that will make man.
ure be deposited in them-ashes
stove -cleanings; bones, leaves, old
leather, chicken manure from
about the poultry yard and house,
as well as sweepings of leaves, and
chips from the wood yard, and
last but not least. the unmentiona-
bic contents taken oHt from the
bed rooms in the MOI ming, which
is the leaven that makes the whole
lump valuable. and in 4 few
months you have a mass of superi
er mafare. Try it, and my word
for 1t, If YOU distribute we'll and
cultivate, you will b We an alum.
pance of vegetables TO spare.
But this is not all. Yon must
have these recep,acles of boxes al.
3" in the garden. and deposit all
vegetable matter that, you find it
incouyenient to, work into the soil.
and by the addition of a load or
two of stable manure, in q few
months yon wi have inst what Won
need. to put III the trenches, In
sowing seed OF any kind. .a"
BY the use of. charcoal abont the
" wafer Closets" pig pens and poul.
try house, you retain the fertilizing
ga+es. prevent the tinpieasant
"dors, and accumulate a quantity
of the very, best maniire, which
may he used separately Or mixed
with other manure.
About your, barn iois Won NAV
save an incalculable amount of
manure, by having la"ge stables,
and using an abundance of leaves
and straw. by which you retain all
the manure which should be taken
Eom them dry, distributed and
plowed in deep. - -,....
1t is q great mistake. in nv opin.
ION, thai manure shonld lie In bnlk
for ln"nths until the rain, sun and
evaporation has exhausted all it's
strength, OF until IL is rotted.n
before distribution" When spread
on the, land In it's green state, anil
plowed under deep, all the fertil-
izing fases afe retained in the soil.
and 60 to the production of crops.
IF the distribution Is made III the
fall or winter, it is better and will
be good for more than one crop.
1t will be better generally to pen
cows, sheep and hogs where you
wish the manure deposited, and if
pehhed every night, will soon ell
rich q large plat of! ground Tie
use of leaves and straw, scattered
on these pens, pay welhfo the la
Dor bestowed. This plan would
have been good under the ol i sys-
tenn, but under the present we
shall find it necessary to adopt all
the improvements, and labor-say-
ing machinery, although It may
be, by doing 60. we will be stigma.
tized as "book farmers.n We can
not afford to cultiv&ts q large
breadth Of land. and the prejndiee
Of the negro rs very great against
telling the forest tree. He is very
mnch disposed TO listen to the
song" Woodmass, spare thas tree"
But / must not be tedious. I
wosjd nos be anderstood as oppos-
ing the purehase aud judieioas dis
tribution Of ~ tIlizers, bns with
the Railroad facilities we have
here, il is economy to look a. home