Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-27
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Farm, Garden, Kitchen and Shop.

farmers CbUB.--Club met in district
No. A, according to adjournment Cues
ton proposed--To what extent is it practl-
cable for us to use Commercial Fertilizers
T. b, HM-I have had some experience
inplaster, but very little with other COM
mercisl fertilizers; think plaster would pay
us well to use on our grass land if we could
get it freighted to us at fair or nominal
rate. The club at Newport get it delivered
to them at Sl3 per ton. II we could get it
delivered at Barton Landing for $3.50 per
ton, by the car load, think it would pay
us to use more than we do. / think if all
transportation lines were to freight our fer
tilizers at very small profit they would
not be the losers by it, as they would have
double the amount to freight, and much
larger amount of produce forreturn freight.
On new broke ground-for potatatoes or
corn-I think it increases my crop fully
one-third where / use it with new manure;
can see but little difference in my crop than
where / use old rotted manure without the
plaster / sowed some on messy knobs, on
newly cleared land, four years ago, and it
brought the clover in stout, and / saved it
for seed two years. Last fall pulled the
stumps and plowed the same field, and
found the soil much better, to all appear
ance, where ] used the plaster, than it was
where | used none. Ny land is what we
would call moist hill land-similar to Mr.
Woolleys old farm where he says he near
ly doubled his hay crop by using plaster.
WIN. .IamesOH-I cannot say much on
this subject as / have had very little expe-
rience in these commercial or special fer
tilizers.
The attendance being small and not ex-
perienced in commercial fertilizers, the
club here proposed to take up another ques-
ton.
Vim Jameson opened in debate the i'm
portance of saving and manufacturing our
own fertilizers. / think we are too negli-
gent in not having suitable absorbents
enough to save all our liquid manures which,
by most writer's, is considered nearly equal
to the more solid portions. use muck to
take up the urine or'juices Of my manure
and find it makes the best of manure think
my farm produces nearly double now that
it did when ] went on to it. If had the
means, / think | could make it produce
nearly double what it does now think if
should pay out One-half the money the
commercial fertilizers cost for salt, lime
and ashes, and expend the other half in
vegetable matter, | could make a compost
that would last longer and pay better thar
most commercial fertilizers though / think
plaster of itself is manure; anything tha
will make crops grow | consider a manure
or fertilizer; think many farmers lose {
large percentage of their manure by no
having suitable barns and yards for thei
stock; think it bad policy to throw manur,
out Of windows to be leached all winter anC
spring by caves running on to it and wash
ing it where it is not needed.
Mr.. jameson did not care to have hi
remarks published, but | think them wor
thy adjudication as can attest to the i'm
prOyement of his farm while others in hi
vicinity have run down-SEC'Y.
H. p Church, am aware that we d
not take near the pains we should in savin;
manure. / know / do not from one grea
reason that my barns are not rightly CON
structed. | want and mean to have barr
with cellar under it for the purpose o
saving and housing all my manure; thin
it wastes very much laying about the var
and barns, teaching and washing ava
where it is not needed. | thought of usin
barrel Of superphosphate this year but a
1t turned out with many that used it abou
here last year think | shall let it alone.
Hjl. Kidder-I think salt is the best O
manures, rightly applied, by compostin
it with muck or other substances such 1
leaf-mould or sods and dirt ploughed O
the road sides and put into heaps and worl
ed over by shoveling it so as to compost ii
think lime or ashes good for compostin
with muck or other vegetable matter fC
manure; think it would pay better tina
commercial fertilizers
E. b. Hiii-As took up some time
speaking of plaster as a fertilizer will NJ
take much time in speaking of home mar
utactured manure, though | think we d
not take pains enough to save what W
might. Some have their barns locate
near brook that washes away all thi
teaches from the manure and is who'll
lost, which is poor economy; others let
lay in the yard or in heaps at the window
and doors through the summer, to leach an
evapOrate in the sun and rains, whereof
they lose one-half the value of their M
nure. Some keep their hogs all summe
and perhaps the whole year without
much as straw for bed much less goo
pile of dry muck for them to work in al
There is no farmer but can, with lit
trouble, supply his hogs with somethir
they can be working into manure. If |
has no muck handy he can NOW brake
briars, or weeds of some kind to supp
them with decent nest. While we a
feeding our hogs with milk or whey
summer they make great quantity of uril
which if properly absorbed with muck
something else will make large amour
of the best of manure. Some have the
pens located bad-higher than their hou
or milk room mine is lower, so that a
the suds and slops of the house are run
stone drain to the hog yard in which
kept plenty of muck; my milk is run
troughs to the pen.
u. II. Webster-I think we could maj
much more manure than we do if we we
to take a little more pains to locate Of
buildings right and in the right places, al
put in muck and other absorbents to sa
all the liquid portions of our manure; thin
manure much better kept under cover u
til it is carted to the field where it is to
used; think our yards should be dishil
instead of oval, or slanting, as many al
BY having them dishing we could save
the liquid portions of our manure by usil
absorbents fsOme kind, which would az
very much 10 the benefit of our farms.
After consultation in regard to the sho
ness Of the evenings, bad travelling, al