The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-06-21
HOW no SAVE MANURE ar HOME.
Messrs. Editors Banner Of the South and
Planters Journal:

Nessrs. Editors Banner Of the South and
Planters Journal:
There is nc work that pays me so
we'll as making manure on my own
plantation. 1 make it business, and
attend to it as we'll as | do TO chopping
out my cotton, and am at it all tic time,
and it pays me we'll.
Seeing the Dickson Fertilizer Com
pany of Augusta has offered premiums
equal to thousand dollars in cash, for
upland crops made on home made ma
nurc, 1t may be some young farmer will
care to know good plan for saving and
using all the elements of manure that go
to waste on his own land, and I will
give my plan, with the remark that be
will do we'll to follow it till he finds
plan that is better. Homemade man.
ure is the best of all kinds, and the
average cost Of it need not be over one
dollar per ton, ten tors being more than
equal to one ton of the best guano sold.
/ do consider, however, the Dickson
Company has done we'll to put premi.
um to encourage this branch Of economy
on the plantations, for the more one
makes a. home, the more he will find he
needs, and will buy. Nine tenths of our
people don't know what rich land will
DO, and when they find it out all sorts Of
mauures will be properly appreciated
But to my plan.
have an old mule and dump cart,
and hire an old darkey every year, whose
only labor is to haul manure and stuff
to make it. never stop him to send
to town for the mail, nor to chop cotton,
nor to pick cotton even. Every day
that old man man hauls with his mule.
and if eve- have spare hand from
the crop send him to help in the same
business Lcavers and pine straw TO I'll
my stalls and put under my COW she'd,
and the same mixed with rich dirt from
the woods to cover all my lot a foot or
two feet deep, sweepiuss from the yard.
garbage from the garden, and drop
pings from stock outside the 10. and in
the highways to put on the compost
heap; now aud then barrel Of lime or
plaster from town to use in composing.
All these the cart gathers in from day TO
day. Ny st4bles are cleaned out aud
relittered as often as the stalls get
little foul, and all the cleanings go under
the manure shed to rot down thoroughly,
and row and thep peek Of plaster
thrown over it to save the ammonia
Or, if the manure SIZED IS full, then |
haul to convenient spot in the field
where it is to be used, and there make
into neat heap and coeer we'll with
earth. If it is very damp and strong,
some dry earth mixed in with the pile
occasionally prevents evaporation aud
FIRE iansing.
Ny horse lot Or barn yard is cleaned
out but once year, the litter being put
in gradually, so that each layer becomes
well tramped. All my cattle and hogs
are turncd il here every night. and oc-
casioually little corn throwl to the
hogs Oh the litter, to set them rootiDg
and turning it over, which makes it all
the better. In the winter | can usually
haul out as mueh as 200 to 300 cart
loads from this lot alone but in doing
this all my teams and hands help, as it
;s tho biooest lob of the kind in the
year. Any time after corn is gathered
/ begin to haul ou, and bank up man
ures in the Geid in convenient piles and
cover over With diYt.
Ny comp"s; heap is made altogether
from about the house and garden and
wood pile. All the roited chips, cinders,
ashes. yard sweepinss aud garbage 60 on
this pile, with sometimes little lime TO
decompo>e it thoroughly, and strong
soap suds IRON the wash pot poured on.
This makes the finest aud richest Of all
manure heaps; and while it costs least
OF all, being built up almost entirely BY
house servants in cleaning about the
yard aad sardan, it will often prove
equal to one third its weight in Peru
Wan guano.
The hog pee, when I am fattening my
hogs, is source of the best Of all man.
ures. Ny old carter throws in a load Of
litter every day or two, filing the pen
loot deep by the time the hogs are
killed, and | aad this the most durable
in It's effects Of all the manures have
ever used.
do no, know how many tons of oil
soris Of manure get every year. |
think, with sl The hauling bsOk and
forth, l get three cart loads on an aver
age every day, avoilsble for use, count
Ing. Of course, all the help put on the
hauling in the winter aud spring. This
would slge nine handred cart loads,
equal certainly to three handred tons,
and worth. at my calsalafion, 1890 at
least. And all this is, Ak I may safely
say. the yield from one man end his curt,
win only such aOip as | can throw in
conveniently. use nlynHnnse liberal
IL ss 90, sometimes putting 200 cart
loads 20 an acre. often 100. sad when
onee puch liberal dressing is plnwed
h. tha, land will be rich for several
gssrs and gorks easy, aud does not bake