The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-07
Manure! Manure!

1t always happens that the best far
mers use the most manure. 1t does
not happen that the richest land has
the best FARMERS. Poor farmers make
rich land poor; good farmers make
poor land rich. They do it with ma
nure-manure in clover, in guano, in
bone duet, IN cotton seed, In leaves and
vegetable refuse, IN animal matter, but
most OF all 10 compost and stable ma
nure.
Our best farmers do this. And
these are always the successful farm
ers-not necessarily educated farmers,
but educated In their calling.
The point here is that manure is the
main thiDg-it is the all; the rest is
mere aid and outside. Manure is
grain, or to be changed into grain. 1t
is the only thing that will make grain,
whether it is in the original fertility
of the soil, or in what is given it.
However large the original quantity
may be, every crop takes from it, and
1t Will become exhausted If not kept
up, and that can only be done by add
ing to it.
And yet We are not doing it, or but
partially, In a very sloYenly manner.
who saves all his manure-the Juice
especially? Very few indeed; not one
In. twenty throughout the country;
not one in fifty; not one In hundred.
This is our farming, The substance
of grains is permitted to run away. A
great part goes into the air. Much is
thrown on the land and so applied
that but little good is realized.
This is our manuring. Will it not
be seen that we do not lay half enough
stress upon this main subject?
Not only make, but save manure;
get all we can; get from the atmos-
phere. This is great free source,
open to all. Here we can do much.
We have the grasses and grains to aid
us-the grasses espeoially-and as we
have seen, clover pre- eminently. This
is one of the recent and most hopeful
signs of the times; to get the strength
| of the atmosphere through clover.
Peas are perhaps next; corn is good.
Any plant that Is thrifty and large
| leaved will do.
We must have manure, and we must
have it plentifully In order to succeed
| we'll; the more, the better we succeed.
| When hrst used-say to pay debt, or
where means are moderate-apply to
the top soil, either as a surface dress
ing, or to be narrowed or cultivated in.
This will give all the strength pretty
mucb, and at once. In year or two,
| AfterWard, as means improve, deepen
with more manure, that all kinds of
| grain and fruits may be raised, aud
rotation established.
But manure! Let this be constant
| ly and forever the motto. Save all.
Every particle is so much grain, or
grass, or cherries, or peaches. or grapes.
By sowing your manure you are aid
ing the fertility already in the soil
letting loose that which is locked up
IN the rocks-the sands, clays, etc
But much land is too rich" You
mean it grows too mnch straw, and the
straw will lodge, Then use salt and
lime. Apply half bushel of salt,
| broadcast. to the acre. This will cost
little, and is readily done and will
stifen your straw. It will also round
and perfect the berry. Lime will also
have a good effect. The puffy condi-
ton of the straw shows that you want
a corrective-something as a set-off to
the excess of vegetable matter. You
will admit that your crops are not too
heavy, providing you can get sound
berry, and straw to stay up. The
larger the yield In such cases the bet
ter. A soil can not be too rich. There
may be too much manure, or all ma
nure, then it is not soil. A soil is
ground, and the richest ground is but
balanced soil, all the ingredients in
proportion and acting, not in any ex-
cess, or others lacking, as may be the
case with gOur soil.
Use the manure. Barnyard ma
nure contains all the necessary ingre
dients. The original soil may not.
especially for some grains. This must
be corrected, as we have said, and as
we have said, manure of some kind
must do i'll Lime is q general cor
rector; SO Is salt. We repeat, use
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