The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-05-25
M'mhe Harttt,
MANURE.


MANURE.
We advise those farmers who feel like
being disguised with their Business on
account of short crops, low pr ces and sun.
dry other causes of disbursements, 10
pluck up courage and turr. over new leaf.
Put on your studying caps and lay down
the axiom that mann. re is the basis of all
successful farming. Or rather rich soil,
which is the object and result of all manur-
ing. With this essential, the most slovenly
farmer can mako good crop-though a
careful one will always have the best and
most remunerative crops.
Now successful manuring is not a sys-
to the cultivator of the soil, as too much
of the fertilizing has done for years past
There is a great deal of manure yearly
wasted on every farm ir. Cecil county
much more we think tb an is saved. The
rough materials out of which it is supposed
all Of the manure on the farm must be
made are in many, perhaps the majority of
cases pretty we'll s.ave6. and rotted, or par
TALLY rotted, but there is vast quantity of
the very richest and finest manure allowed
to 60 to waste. about every farm house,
barn and st oek yard in the course of
year. Not, one-haif of the manure is
saved WI .Ich is made in the pig pen, but is
left exl ,osed and flowed to waste away
with che 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 we elk, and fresh earth and
litter put in to und ergo a similar process,
large quantity of the best manure could be
made in the course-of yearfrom thissource,
which generally furnishes but few cart
loads at most with two-thirds Of its most fer
tilizing substance washed out and evapor-
ated by rain and sun.
Those WHO keep sheep suffer the greater
part of their manure to be lost by inatten-
ton, which might nearly all be saved by
similar process. The fowls kept about
every farm are capable of producing sew
eral barrels of manure, stronger and better
than most of the purchased fertilizers,
pound for pound. By providing them
with proper roosts under which layer Of
dry earth was constantly kept, their drop
pings could all be saved in the best condi-
ton, which would take the place of a
large portion of concentrated manures pur-
chased 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 it poisoning the atmosphere,
turn it to profitable account, there is no
excuse for neglecting this source of adding
to the manure heap, while at the same
time providing for the health of the house
hold. There is no necessity to purchase
these patent inventions, if brick Or board
floor were placed in every privy and supply
of dry earth OF coal ashes kept in box
and sufficient quantity of this absorbing
material thrown in daily to absorb and
deodorizc the liquid and solid excrements,
large quantity of the most fertilizing
matter, at present wasted, would be saved
for the crops yearly. In addition to those
elements which we have mentioned, and
which enter into the constituents of all
crops, there is great deal Of eDrichng
material wasted down the sink of every
farmhouse, in the form of soapsuds and
other washings which contain grease and
other fertilizing matter. The valuable
manural qualities of all such Stops could
be saved by systematic effort, by provid-
ing hogsheads to deposit them in, from
which they could be drawn on the land, or
what would be more convenient Il cement
ed cistern, protected from rain water, the
floor of which should be covered 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 formest agri-
cultural chemists that dry earth for all the
purposes above indicated is the best as well
as the cheapest article that can be employ
ed by the farmer, while it insures sweetness,
and cleanliness, it locks up and retains
uuLI WduIeu lOF USE, oil CuOSo faludoiO
constituents on the farm which enter
into the formation of crops. With 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 plow-
ing 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 he has been in the habit of
investing in sundry mixtures called patent
manures. The amount of manure which
every farmer might collect by a well
arranged system and proper attention, on
his own premises, with the addition of a
light coat of lime to his land, with proper
cultivation would bring every farm up to
state of fertility in a few years which it
has never before known.
Plaster, Ashes, &c.
There is no product of nature which can
be turned to better account by the farmer