Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-06-21
MANURE.

being disguised with their business on &C.
count Of short crops, low prices and sun.
dry other causes of discouragements, to
pluck up courage and turn over new leaf
Put on your studying caps and lay down
the axiom that manure is the basis of all
successful farming. Orrather rich soil,
which is the object and result of all manur-
ing. With this essential, the most sloven
ly farmer can make good crop-though
careful one will always have the best
and most remunerative crops.
Now successful manuring is not sys-
tenn which costs more than it will return
to the cdltivator of the soil, as too much
of the fertiizing has done for years past.
There is great deal of manure yearly
wasted on every farm in this county
much more we mink than is saved. The
rough materials out of which it is suppos-
ed all of the manure on the farm must be
made are in many, perhaps the majority
of cases, pretty well saved and rotted, or
partially rotted, but there is a vast guam
tity of the very richest and finest manure
allowed to 60 to waste about every farm
house, barn and stock yard in the course
of year. Not one-half of the manure is
saved which is made in the pig pen. but
is left exposed and allowed to waste away
with the rain. If the pig-yard was COW
cred with earth two or three inches in
depth, we'll Uttered with straw and care
fully cleaned out when we'll saturated which
should be once week, and fresh earth and
litter put in to undergo similar process,
a large quantity of the best manure could
be made in the course of year from this
source, which generally furnishes but a
few cart loads at most with two-thirds of
its most fertilizing substance washed out
and evaporated by rain and sun.
Those who keep sheep suffer the grea-
ter part Of their manure to be lost by in
attention, which might nearly all be saved
by similar process. The fowls kept a.
bout every farm are capable Of producing
several barrels of manure, stronger and
better than most of the purchased fertili-
zers. pound for pound. By providing
them with proper roosts under which a
layer of dry earth was constantly kept,
their droppings could all be saved in the
best condition. which would take the place
Of large portion of concentrated manures
purchased at high prices. In these days
where the invention of dry earth closets
has placed it in the power of every farmer
to utalize all the night soil of the family,
and in place Of poisoning the atmosphere,
turn it to profitable account, there is no
excuse for neglecting this source of add
ing to the manure heap, while at the. same
time providing for the health of the house
hold. There is no necessity to purchase
these patentinventions if brick or board
floor were placed in every privy and a
supply of dry earth or coal ashes kept in
box and sufficient quantity of this alb
sorbing material thrown in daily to absorb
and deodorize the liquid and solid excre-
ments, large quantity of the most fertilz-
ing matter, at present wasted, would be
saved for the crops yearly. In addition
to those elements which we have mention
ed, and which enter into the constituents
of all crops, there is a great deal of en-
riching material wasted down the sink of
every farmhouse, in the form of soapsuds
and other washings which contain grease
and other fertilizirg matter. The valua-
BILE manural qualities of all such Stops
could be saved by systematic effort, by
providing hogsheads to deposit them in,
from which they could be drawn on the
land, or what would be more convenient
cemented cistern, protected from rain
water, the floor of which should be cover
ed with earth. and sufficient quantity from
time to time thrown in-the dryer the
better-to absorb completely the liquid
contents.
1t is acknowledged by the foremost agri-
cultural chemists that dry earth for all the
purposes above indicated is the best as we'll
as the cheapest article that can be employ
ed by the farmer, while it insures sweet
ness, and cleanliness, it locks up and re-
tains until wanted for use, all those valua-
BILE constituents on the farm which enter
into the formation of crops. With a judi
cious arrangement which can be accom-
plished without much expense on every
farm, and good supply of dry earth which
can be had for the labor of blowing up
and narrowing piece of ground, and
hauling and storing it away under cover
in the summer, every farmer has it in his
power to save three or four times as much
fertilizing material annually as he does,
and at less expense in outlay of money.
than be has been in the habit of investing
in sundry mixtures called patent mauures.
The amount of manure which every farm
err might collect by we'll arranged system
and proper attention, on his own premises,
with the addition of light coat of lime
to his land, with proper cultivation would
bring every farm up to state of fertility
10 few years which it has never before
wn.-CecI Wing.
~Walnut stumps have become an
article of merchandise. and many of them
are very valuable. The. curly grain of
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