The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21
VALUE OF COVERED MANURE.

When rough sheds have been built to
cover the manure heap, the crops fertil-
lied by this pile have been increased in
productiveness sufficient to pay for the
shed covering the first year Lord
Kincaid, Scotch land owner and far
mer, makes the following statements in
regard to the advantages of the plan:
Four acres of good soil were meas
ured, two of them were manured with
ordinary barn yard manure, and two
with ap equal quantity from the covered
shed. The whole was planted with po-
tatoes. The products of each acre were
as follows:
Potatoes treated with barn yard ma
nure-,
One acre produced 272 bushels.
One acre produced 292 bushels.
Potatoes manured from the covered
sheds
One acre produced 442 bushels
One acre produced All bushels.
The next year the land was sown with
wheat, when the crop was as follows:
Wheat on land treated with barn yard
manure
One acre produced 4S bushels, IS lbs.
of 81 pounds per bushel
Wheat on land manurej from covered
sheds
One acre produced 55 bushels, lbs.
Of 81 pounds per bushel
One acre produced 81 bushels, AZ lbs.
of 81 pounds per bushel.
The straw also yielded one third more
upon the land fertilized with the manure
from the covered sheds, than upon that
to which the ordinary manure was ap-
piled.
VALUR OF BLooDED SToCK-When
we talk of the great possibilities ofstock
raising in the country, some persons are
always ready with bit of skepticism.
They can't see for the life of them where
we find q market for these fine cattle
and blooded hogs and imported horses
when everybody gets to work at it.
Take one item of shorthorns. There
never was such a market for these ami
mails as now. Last year there were
comparatively few purchased in this
State; this year there has been a large
pumber bought, and next year the num-
Der viii be still greater As conse-
quence of this increased demand the
pricee are better. The time is not far
distant In the future when beefsteak will
be higher than it is now. However un-
palatable this news may be to those who
buy ali of that article at seemingly high
prices now, it is not so distasteful as
viii be the poor beef they now eat, after
they have once become accustomed to
the steak that comes from these Short
horns. We do not fear to predict that
the time is coming when nothing less
than Shorthorn beef will satisfy the
market demands. Besides the English
markets are beginning to draw on us
Aleedy. -Lipe Stock Journal
k1ASIoFOR R6OoS0MfCAG f1OtSEW1fE rs.
in buying dress goods, avoid the
himsy limitations now SO much in vogue,
giving the preference to good delaine,
gingham, or even calico. Rusty black
goods. Of any material except silk, can
be restored with slight cost and little
trouble. Collect all the old black worst.
ed material you have, and put them into
about two pailfulls of boiling suds in
which has been dissolved two spoonfuIs
of the extract of logwood, same of cop
peras; boil the goods five minutes, stirr-
ing ell the time; drain and rinse out ali
the dye, then dip In a pail of water in
which an ounce of gum Arabic has been
dissolved Iron when half dry, on the
wrong side. Faded drab or slate colors
can be restored by saving the grounds
aad slops of the tea pot until you have
. paitfnl; boil In clear water, and finish
same ss black. The bark of the beech
tree and the red buds of the sunach
each color . fine drab; set with copperas,
and neither will fade. They color cot
toa ns veil as wooden. Butternut shells
q hexk restore browns without any set
ting. The bark gives the darkest color.