The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-25
Management of Yard Manure.

Is manure in the heap better for be-
ing covered by a roof? Will it pay to
build open sheds to put it under, boards
costing $25 per thousand Will it pay
to use super-sulphate of soda at $18 or
plaster at S15 per ton to fix the ammo
mia on ? Is there any other substance
that can be used to advantage and not
too costly Pc. Thompson, Jefferson
County, ~. Y.
Answer: It is, of course, a great
damage to manure to drench and leach
it with excess of water, and then to dry
it out to a snuffy consistence by expo
sure to hot sun and it is especially bad
to allow these processes to succeed
each other repeatedly. If building
sheds were the only or the most easy
mode of avoiding this damage it would
undoubtedly be in order to put them
up. But there is a more excellent way,
and it is doubtless better to spend
money in preparing a good bottom for
the manure heaps than to lay it out in
roofing. The dung-yard should have,
first, bottom nearly impenetrable to
water. If the soil is a clay or clay
loan that Is sufficient, but if gravelly
or coarse sandy, it should be clayed, or
or be fioored with flags or paving stones
cemented with clay. Second, the floor
should be made dishing, so that all the
rain-water falling upon it shall remain,
and, third, the ground should incline
away from it so that rain falling outside
shall not flow in. Fourth, it is good to
have water-tight pit, or better, COW
cred cistern near the center, which will
hold all the water that may drain from
the manure. Fifth, it is we'll to have q
stone wall laid in cement, some four or
five feet high, Enclosing a rectangle of
SO much space as the heaps require,
with passage at either end for teams
In this yard the manure can be laid
to final depth of six or eight feet if
needful the rain, however copious. can
carry nothing away. All kinds and
quantities of rough vegetable matter,
muck, straw, weeds, saw-dust, ETC., NAV
be interstratified for compost hot
horse manure and cold hog manure or
cow-dung may be intermixed, or hot
horse and bullock durg may be diluted
with an inch or two of loan for every
foot of dung. The contents of the cis-
tern should be frequently pumped up
(twice each week. and applied to all the
surface in quantity sufficient to main
tain a uniform moistness, but not
enough to keep the mass saturated. II
the DRAWINGS be not enough, water
should be supplied in proper quantity.
The surface shauld be kept level and
moderately compact. Finally, when
the manure has accumulated to the full
depth, or the supply ceases, the surface
is covered with a few inches of loamv
or mucky earth, which is perfect pro-
lection against loss by evaporation.
Under this cover, the uniform and we'll
noistened but not wet mass will fer
ment enough to break up the fiber of
the litter, destroy seeds, and yield a
perfect manure. ANY addition of Cyp-
sum or sulphate of soda will not be
needed to fix ammonia, for with this
treatment there will be no loss worth
mention. If some hundred weight of
gypsum and also of fine Charleston or
Navassa phosphate rock and of German
potash salts or wood ashes be uniformly
intermixed, "A the manure accumulates,
it will be so much the richer and more
valuable for these additions.
Before commencing to carry the
manure into such a yard, a well-trodden
layer of straw, coarse grass, flax, or
similar vegetable matter, or of peat.
swamp tussOcks and the like, two feet in
depth, may be put in as q foundation.
The dung liquor will convert it into ex-
cellent manure. If manure that is
made under cover or bought for use is
to be heaped for a mild fermentation,
or to be kept against the time Of its
use, it may be thrown up in windrow-
like heaps four feet, and as broad at the
base, and be simply covered with any
road scrapings, or any fine soil which.
made into a mud with water, harlens on
drying to a crust which viii shed rain.
Calcareous mud is of this quality. and
a little lime mixed with loan will give
the proper material - Tribune.
No CORPSE can travel on the Pennsyl-
vania railway, unless it has ticket, and
q physicians certificate as to what dis
ease it died Of We should have thought
it might be able to travel as a dead |
head, but such is not the case. This is |
another argument for cremation.
AMONG the presents received by a /
bride in New York recently was q poll |
cy of insurance on her husbands life /
for $40, 900.
IT is one of the curiosities of natural /
history that a horse enjoys his food /
most when be hasn't bit in his mouth.