Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1876-03-16
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The pulling question. Ii cannot be
jouJN. bat must some how be collected.
Mr. Jones short OF dressing. tried TO buy
Two loads OF Mr.. Ames. who replied that he
had been compelled 10 send for ton Of qua
no-unable to purchase. Jones remarked
10 Ames on the slovenliuess around his
house. and offered to clean it all up for what
manure he could find there. He was told
10 go ahead but to do il faithfully.
He went home, got his team and man,
and worked hard two days, hauled the
stones TO the wall. neatly piled all the old
lumber threw all the old rubbish into a
heap 10 bee burned, and to Ames amaze
mcnt, and shame, took home mixture OF
chip manure. black. Stop, saturated soil, re
fuse ashes, twentv-seYen loads. Has an
old building been removed under which is
found from an inch to a foot of best ma
nure: Are the door yard and wood house
>craped clean: On almost every farm is
black, alder growing, musquito- hatching.
ague breeding, snakey .muskratty nuisance,
muck scamp. The richness of the upper
soils for thousands of years has been run
ming here; but ii is wet. heavy and sour.
Throw out a quantity. and after a few
months weeds will grow rank upon it.
Muck may be prepared in three ways.
/. With ashes. bushels to one cord Of
muck well mixed.
,. With lime, one cask unslacked to a
cord. forked over occasionally till all is
Stacked and well mixed.
,. With manures from barns. hogs,
sinks and drains.
II ashes can be had for twenty cents a
bu>hel. aud lime for one dollar a cask, it
takes but one dollar cash TO secure cord
OF good dressing.
Two cords of Muck should be mixed with
one cord OF horse manure. One cord OF
Muck with one cord of cor manure faith
fully mixed-the muck not taken directly
from the swamp. but after being thrown
out to the air few months.
The poultry should be made to roost over
4 smooth floor, or ground, and their drop
pings seraped into Dbl. every week, when
a bushel is collected. mix with three bush
els OF muck.
Treat night soil in the same wav. and
these two mahures will be superb for corn.
cucumbers, pumpkins, squashes and toma-
toes. aud by careful attention a great pile
can be formed in one year. In the hog-pen
put foot of muck, arrange spout, and
into it pour all the sink water. wash.
ing suds and Stops, and as soon as it is
well worked and wet. which will be in
week or two, throw it out, replace with
more. With two hogs, all the waste water. |
a large pen. and the muck not more than a
foot deep, cord Of good manure NAV be
made every two weeks-all summer. as
much perhaps as is now made on the farm.
A hundred cords of dry muck should be
kept (under cover if possible) all the time
and close by the stable, and every morning
and night half bushel should be put be-
hind each COW and OK, and bushel under
and behind each horse. Clean out the
whole morning and night. In this way all
the water Of the barn is saved
Every night in summer tie up all the cat |
out once day.
Before using. shovel this manure over
twice, and by watching its effects on crops
it will be found to be far ahead of clear co,e |
manure on account of saving all the water. |
All the ammonia is in this way saved. and |
fire fanging prevented. A monstrous |
quantity of manure by this process will be |
made.
The sheep house, is another avenue. |
Spread inches OF fine dry muck evenly !
over the bottom, and strew litter. In two
weeks, do the same, and repeat all winter |
The singing unhealthy smell by the muck |
will be entirely absorbed, and instead OF |
tough strips, and junks which must often |
be cut up with an axe, it will come out in |
spring. fine mellow and intensely strong be.
sides ten times the usual amount.
One more method remains Hollow the
barn-yard so that the centre shall be four
feet deeper than the outsides. In the mid
die dig hole, and Set the largest hogshead
SO that its top shall be just level with the
ground, tamping the dirt tight around,
leaving no hole in the bottom. Five feet
above the hogshead on a simple frame, set
q cheap pump with pipe to reach nearly to
the bottom. Cover the hogshead with
boards and straw. then upon it and for fif-
teen or twenty feet around pile muck two
feet deep. From day to day throw upon /,
this heap all the manure dropped. Rain
will soon ill the hogshead with strong ma
pure water. which every week should be f,
jumped. and thrown over the whole. In
hree weeks put on another foot of muck,
md so on till winter. Then take of your {
Jump. draw your pipe and you hAve dfty q