The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-14
Manuring Land.


A writer in the New Epgland Far
mer who seems to be wide awake and
well informed, and who doss. not at
tempt to say anything unless he has
something worth saying, discourses
as follows in. regard to the right way
of applying manure to land: 0ai sy
lam surprised to see, as l do in 60
ing over the country, how many of our
old farmers are holding on to the old
mode ofapplying manure by dumping
il from carts or wagons on the fields
In small heaps, where it lies some
times for two or three weeks, and
then send boy or a hired man to
spread it on the land, when the con-
sequence is that on the spots were
the heaps were laid the grain will
lodge and spoil, while on the outskirts
it will be so poor that il will need
drum and fife to get it together. aa,
The last mode of applying manure
used to be the exclusive mode in this
section of the country, but ten years
experience and observation of diff
ferent mode has brought farmers
around, aud / do not know of an In
dividual in my section, who does not
now apply it on my plain.
NY rule of applying manure is sim
ply this: After the field has been
plowed and dragged down, the manure
is loaded On wagons and taken direct
to the field and spread on the land
right from the wagons. In blowing,
each land is laid off about t8enty-one
feet wide. By driving the wagon in
the middle of the land, it can easily
be spread from furroW to furroW, and
the men being on the wagon can at
once see when they get it all even.
With 8 lew hand | always 60 out my
self with one load and see that he
starts right; after which there Is gen.
orally no further trouble.
After the manure is applied to the
whole field we put on the gang plow.
And here allow me to say, that of all
the implements | have ever used for
putting manure on the land in its
proper place, according to my idea,
this suits me the best. It has a wood
en- frame with three small pIoWs at
tached 1t has handles like pillow;
also two wheels, one on each end, and
car be lowered or raised by mears Of
bolts and screws, and gagged to run
one, two three or four inches deep.
1t puts the manure under as effeetual-
Iy as pillow. l generally set it to run
about two inches deep, which is about
my idea Of the proper depth to cover
manure.
Now for the effects. A little exper-
iment Just comes to my mind: 1 pur-
chased from a neighbor about forty
loads of MAMIE aud applied it to one
portion of field, the whole OF which
was to be saved to rye; the other
portion of the field had no manure.
In other respects the treatment Of the
whole field required the same amount
of rye for seed. The manure cost me
fifty cents per load When the crop
vas harvested and sold, the MANFRED
part paid me - 80 per load, over the
unmanured, the first year; the second
year it made 50 90 per load more. and
the third year 81 80; making So 90 per
load, besides effecting a permanent
Improvement in the land.
In. all my experiments L find that
two loads applied on or near the sur
face, after plowing-which last is nv
models worth and will give as much
benefit as at least three loads Moved
under, especially if it is an DID sod,
When / have a clover sod and very
coarse manure, do sometimes. for
corn or potatoes, pillow it under but
not very deep. Then by blowing a
little deeper the next spring it brings
the manure just IN the place where it
is needed for the wheat, barley or oat
crop.