Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-07-18

\ correspondent Of one Of our exchanges
SAYS | nad near nv back door. as there i
near the back door of 30 many farm houses.
4 low place into which ran tie drainings
from the kitchen sink. and which had been
further enriched by the emptyings of count
less wash-tubs, the droppings of the poultry
and the decay Of the leaves that lodged there
and the weeds that grew there and which
partly concealed its hideousness Gcring the
summer. | suppose that it had lain undis-
turbed for years before came on the farm.
and last summer | threatened it often and
did not get chance to clear it out. as had
so many other jobs ready-made to my hand
when | came here that | could not take
them all up. But have now cleared it out
thoroughly and carried it up to the top Of
the sand-hill, where hope it will help the
growth of turnips and corn fodder. for it
must have acquired considerable fertiliz-
ing power in all those wears: and had ratL-
er it would help them ever so little than to
help to breed feyers, cholera, or the new dis
ease with the hong name, which the doctors
say Is certainly aggravated, if not produced.
by just such nuisances as this. Not that
mean that there was any positive stencil
from it, but it could not help but taint the
air, although our noses might not detect it.
But it seems TO me that the apple-blossoms
(there are a few have new fragrance. and
the water from the well cooler. sweeter
taste than it had before. Now would not
be 50 very saucy as to insinuate that YOU
have any such filthy place around your door.
but il You know Of any man who has. iust
tell how unhealthy it is to have it remain
there during the hot weather. and offer him
that you will cart it away and replace it
with clean earth. and think YOU will find it
better than buying stable manure at six or
eight dollars a cord. and carting it the same
distance, and YOU may get credit for doing n
neighborly kindness. If YOU do not, YOU
may rouse his mind to the propriety of put
ting it out on his own land and save your-
self the trouble Of attending to him through
fever, it may be. | was helping a man
NOW 4 field one year, and a part Of it run
up on sand-hill, where the grass was
scarcely worth the trouble of cutting. Sud-
denly We came upon place where there
was grass much thicker and taller, so that it
tnrned quite swarth. | asked the reason
of such difference, and was told that some
fifteen or twenty years before the place into
which the sink drain emptied had been
cleaned out and the dirt spread on that spot.
And it had not been cleared out again in
that time, though he carted out the last
shovelful of manure from his barn yard
every year, and carted in earth to increase
the quantity, and doubt if any that he
took out was as powerful or lasting in its
effects as that in which the weeds grew knee
high every year, and which 50 wasted its
sweetness" on the air around, and in the
house. Another place is at the woodpile.
The bottom of that, or the earth, rotten
wood and decayed sawdust is well worth
carting out every few years, if not every
year. A shovelful in a hill of potatoes, or a
half bushel in hill of watermelons or
squashes, will give greater yield than the
same quantity of manure from the barn yard
while if put upon or under grass land, it will
be as lasting in its effects, if not as rapid, as
ashes. 1t will do better, like ashes. on dry
land, which is lacking in decayed vegetable
matter. Wemust utilize all these things il
we wish to keep the standard Of our farms
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