Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-31
Reported for the vERNoSr FARMER.
EAST ST. JOHNSBURY FARMERS
CLUB.

subject OF discussion Friday evening, Jan.
23i 1.-THE best method OF making and APP
plying manure"
\. Il. Elovey: The manure business is
about all there is to farming. Ny plan is to
go to the muck bed and throw it mp into
large piles to dry. then draw two or
three loads each week to my hog yard, and
use il freely behind my cows in summer, and
from my twenty cows it will make 100 loads
of good manure. use it all for top dressing
moist land, put on Is loads to the acre, and
dress about six acres each year. Have 25
acres of moist land and dress il once in four
years. Our moist ground will not average to
cut Is hundred to the acre, but with top
dressing will cut from two to two and one
half tons. There is nothing we neglect so
much rs our moist land which Is our best
We should turn our dry land into pasture and
tend our moist land. On dry land | Ike ep
my manure near the surface. | top dress
when get ready; had rather do il the last
week in June and first of September.
would save all the Stops and suds from the
house by having pile of muck for il TO run
on to- and the prvy well cared for will top
dress one acre each year Hogs with good
! supply of muck and well tended will make
| a big pile of the very best manure. | used
sawdust for bedding my calves last winter,
and put the manure on n poor knoll for pota-
toes and got double the crop that did where
good manure was put Had my boys draw
out q few loads Of clear muck and spread on
grass, and il increased the hay one-third rs
much rs manure. | don't muck manure is
quite rs strong rs the clear manure.
$. IIuse: The most of us that begin life rs
did cannot have things Just rs they would
like TO have them ut all times. | would
keep my manure from the rains rs much rs
possible. Muck in its raw state wants man
uiacturing and by using one-half rs much
muck rs manure you see hut little difference
in the quality of your manure; hard wood
muck is much better than soft. would
cart out my manure twice II year In applying
it, ifmy farm was one-half grass land, would
use one.half my manure on that rs top dress
ing. On dry land would pillow deep, and
harrow in the manurc one inch would be
enough for mo. Do not believe land teaches
Manure on sandy land will not last rs long
|, but you can get heavier crops while it doe
last, therefore on such land would put on
light coat, and put it on often.
Mr.. Hovey: Give me good early cut hay
and plenty of meal and you may go to tn,
> d. with your muck. Put gravel on grass
land and il is better than muck. would rath
! er have good soil to cart into my hog yart
than muck, and never will cart any more o
\ 4 II,
it in deep, but clayey land pillow light anC
manure on the top. My light poor land pay
. as well ms any if well managed. Land doe
: not leach. Any thing that will kill the tur
0 on wet land will make the grass grow
would rather pay out $40 for meal than for
man to dig muck.
ID. Goodell; belieVe hard wood muck I
valuable. but soft wood muck is not O
1 any value except as an absorbent. Nue.
, made from leaves that have been accumu
q latng for thousands of years from our har
, wood hills must be valuable. Tho more yo
work muck over let the air to il, the bette
1t will bc | throw water on horse manure
- and it Is ten times more valuable than whe
G burnt
:. Owens Never carted hut little niue
a till one year ago last fall; drew m 30 load
in barnyard. draw ont my heaps from tn
V stable windows in the spring, but the var
: manure lays till fall. Drew out 90 loads th
G fall of nice manure, Use muck and leave
for my hogs TO work over, and throw in som
coarse horse manure once in while, an
get enough To manure one acre of corn in I'll
!, hill, Never have top dressed much of an!
= My land is very dry and pillow my mqnVr
u all i q, SMITH, Sec, Pro Tom,