The Portland daily press., 1869-06-28
DAILY PRESS.
q MD.
Monday Morning, Juue 28, 1869.
Republican, Nominations.
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FOR GOVERNOR tf
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN
on RDTTNCUTNK
FOR GOyERyo
Liquid Manure
OF BRUNSWICK.

| liquid manure, especiaiiy upon fields where
they grow grass and green forage for solline
milch cows. Soiling is but little practiced by
our farmers, and yet liquid manure is an ex-
cellent fertilizer for grass lands and all kinds
of crops. The farmers of the Old World api
| ply such manure to the land by means of wa
ter or force pumps The Canada Farmer
| says that the liquid is not merely such as can
be saved in the DRAWINGS of the urine from
the stables and the farm yards, but much of
is obtained by dissolving the solid excrements
of animals in tanks constructed for the pur-
pose. The Chinese cultivators would run a
mile with pailful of this liquid before they
| would waste it, SO economical they are in re-
lation to every thing that will fertilize their
fields. No people under heaven are more
saving of manure than the Celestials. Well
they may be; for If they were not, how could
so many millions Of human beings have lived
so mauy centuries ON the same soil?
The Canadian Farmer saws that the peo-
pie of that section of the country have not
| yet experienced the benefits to be derived
| from this mode of using manure, which
would be peculiarly applicable in their hot,
! dry summers. Our farmers, too, would find
great benefit from its use. But instead of
| preparing and spreading such fertilizer on
their fields, they let heaps of manure remain
out of doors until the rains have washed
| them and the liquids have run upon lands or
into gullies where it is wasted or at least,
where 1t does but little, if any good at all
Our farmers will yet learn the Importance Of
saving and also making liquid manures. They
must come to it, for their fields of grass are
crying out for it, or some other fertilizers.
! No doubt many of them have seen how
strong and luxuriant the grass grows where
the liquid which the rain has made on their
outdoor manure heaps, happens to run, if
perchance it happens to take such a course
and not run entirely to waste as it too often
does. A vast amount of wealth is thrown
away every year in the shape of liquid man
ures which are forever lost.
The truth is, our farmers are far behind the
cuitiyators of the old countries, and this
stern chase IS always hard one. We shall
come up to the work at some future day, but
when that viii be is more than we know.
Our farmers have made some progress in the
right direction. In riding over the country,
we occasionally see barn with cellar un-
der it. A few years ago such a thing was
scarcely heard of. These barn-cellars are
highly necessary and some pay all they cost
and good interest ON the investment. At
this moment it occurs to US that we once read
an old English play in which the sons of two
farmers were introduced as rivals to each
other. And If we mistake not, girl was in
the case. Their fathers farms were contigu-
Gus to each other, but one was on more
elevated ground than the other. These
rustic fellows fellows were eontending
for the mastery in Dragging and this too,
while the girl whom the both loved was with
in hearing distance.
One remarked with swelling pride and
pompous air: "My fathers farm is ON higher
ground than your fathers" The other fellow,
not wishing to lhean,t ,tdawn---ssnaaialls--in
presence Of the fair maiden-and scratching
MS head for an answer, at last replied, Il
know it, but then my fathers land gets the
aoash of yours and we have the best grass.'
that maiden-if she wished to wed a young
farmer and was wise, must have preferred the
son of him whose land received the "wash''
faom his neighbors farm, for he showed good
sense and practical knowledge in his answer.
Heaps ofmanure, much dried up, are liable
To become fire-fanged, and thus lose much Of
their value. Such heaps too often contain a
large admixture Of vegetable matter, such as
straw, corn-stocks, &c, which, becoming
dried in the summer, resist the decomposiug
powers in the small amount of excrementi-
tious matter incorporated, so that when the
farmer is ready to cart it to his field and use
the finds the undecomposed vegetable mat
ter prevents the incorporation of the manure
with the SOIL The consequence is, his
grounds are enc umbered by these hard yeee
table materials, which last long while before
they win be decomposed and mingled with
the soil SO as to be Of any account as fertil-
izers. a v er
| Tbs Canada Farmer, speaking of tanks,
says: m H r safqs slii ll 80
In Belgium these manure tanks are usually
constructed by bricklayers, at a price propof-
Toned to their capacity-the larger thew are
tne less price IN proportion, the usual size of
tank or clstern, being a capacity to hold
3S,OO0 gallons. In Switzerland they make
square holes in the ground, and line the sides
with brick set in clay mortar. Where the
SOIL is tenacious clay, and there is no danger
OF the liquid manure percolating out at the
sides or bottom, it is only necessary to con-
struct the tank in such way as will keep
the sides from falling IN, either from the eff
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animals near it. Where the soil is porous, it
becomes necessary to make the bottom of
stone flags, with the joints cut square, set on
pudding OF strong clay. The wall is then to
be built from and on this bottom, and hy-
draulic cement used instead Of common NOR
tar. = >sc. 4rrff eff ia stH a-cIfl
From the above our cultivators win see
how economical the farmers of the old coun-
tries are in making and saving manure. The
farmers Of Maine would do well to follow
their example.
And one word before closing in relation to
"haying.7 flour farmers have fertilized their
grass fields with liquid or other manures to
such an extent as to give them an abundant
crop, we say to them not to let the grass
stand too long before 1t is cut. Watch it, and
as soon as the blossoms come out, NOW it and
not let it 60 to seed, become ripe and turn in
to woody fibre before it is cut. If you do,
you will suffer much loss. And after you
have moved it, don't dry the life out of 1t in
a hot sun, but "cure it." A little sun in dry
weather-es especially when the grass is cut in
a dry state-is enough to prepare it for The
barn. We like to see hay look green, hut not
damp, when it is slowed away for winters
use. "Make hay while the sun shinesn is an
old and true maxim, but that gives no license
to burn 1t up in sunshine
AGRIcoLA.
WOMEN AND THE LEARNED PRoFEssIoNs.--
In London, England, they have what is called
"Dialceticsl Society" Among the members
there are lords and ladies' At recent meet
ing Miss Wallington, among other things
said: sThere were q large number of women
not fitted for domestic life. Moreover there
arenot men enough in the United Kingdom,
to marry them all, SO that clearly many osn-
not get married, whether they like itor not.
She repelled the argument that competition
would he taking the bread out OF mems
mouths by the rejoinder that their daughters
would be less of burden upon them. M
We are sorry to hear such repors of the
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