The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-21

the manure, as somewhat high, but our
friend was practical farmer, and he said
that load of sheep manure made un-
der cover, as such manure was generally
made, was worth one dollar, and that he
knew that one hundred sheep would
make that amount of manure If fed and
Uttered as he had allowed. Hence we
had the following result:
Paid originally for sheep. so
Cost OF pasture. ......"............ Oh 90
Cost OF winter keeping. Z33 w
Cost Oh care OF ~ w
Total cost Of sheep for one year........."S573 90
Value OF sheep and manure. ............... 460 w
COST OF looneeces Oh W oo
These tw0-year Odds were estimated to
produce seven pounds each of washed
wool. That was the average he found
they would shear; generally the feeces
would go over that, if bred from good
fine wool rams and ewes thoroughbred.
The produce would therefore be seven
hundred pounds of wool, the productiof
of which would cost the wool-grower at
a fraction less than fourteen cents per
pound, or to give it exact it would be
thirteen cents and five-sevenths. So that
wool sold at thirty cents would fully
yield one hundred per cent. on its cost,
not counting the value of the increase of
the sheep or the manure left on the land.
He had been satisfied that the better
the sheep the better they paid for some
time, but these facts which were taken
from his own experience, had satisfied him
that those who kept thoroughbred sheep
had great advantage over those who
kept sheep whose feeces were not of the
first quality. He had kept sheep at first
whose fleece only yielded four pounds on
an average. They consumed just as
much, and they made about the same
amount of manure. But his one hundred
sheep only yielded him four hundred
pounds of wool, and according to his
figures the wool then cost him at the rate
of twenty-four cents per pound to raise
it; hence his profit, with wool at thirty
cents, would only be twenty-five per cent.
instead of over enc hund red.
VALUE OF CHARCOAL DUsT.-In an.
swer to an inquiring farmer of Grant
County, Wisconsin, the intelligent agri-
cultural editor of the Christian Union
says, that pulverized charcoal is not only
in many cases positive fertilizing value
peCulldT I'd llSelI. ne dSSeTtS UulS COuu-
IDENTIFY both from experience and Observa-
ton, though it is contrary to the opinion
of some well-known chemists.
But the value of charcoal as an absorb
ent is generally improved by the addi-
ton of plaster, and in certain conditions
of soil the manurial effect also is in
creased by combining them.
Another article that is both excellent
us an absorbent and very useful as ma
nure is dried peat. When these three
ingredients are combined with any good
dust, etc., the effect cannot fail to be
good, and is often very surprising. Night
soil or urine from the stalls, when
blended with these, if in the right pro.
portion, will always increase the yield
and improve the land.
One great advantage of these absorb.
ents is that they impart to concentrated
and volatile manures more lasting eff
feet. This subject offers to farmers a
very important field for further investi
CATION, and they will find that expert
ments in this direction will pay we'll fol
the time and trouble.