The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-12-13

made except in large diaries, and the
good housewife must continue to he
patient while the larger globulcs are
uverchurncd in the effort to ret the
smaIlcr ones to come" o. the butter in
the small lgobulcd milk will be left in the
bIttermiIk if the process of c%hurning il
stopped, when the first breaking appears,
under the belief that is all. The diff
Guilty will not occur where the cows OF Il
yard are OF n uniform milking quality
fdjmc,'s HOmc NtyUol,
ON tracing agricultural history down
to the earliest times, we find that the
material most extensively employed for
maintaining and increasing the fertility
Of the soil has been the mixture Of urine
mails with the various kinds Of straw
used ~ litter, known IA farm yard
manure, or shortly m dung" In II
speech ut an agricultural meeting held
AZ Iiolkham, in Lancashire, Lord Frs
kjns, in referring to farm yard manure,
sand 4" if we only consider the subject OF
mannfeT, we snail perceive one Of the
most striking %bolntleH anu beneilts OF
the divine wisdom WIN which we are
blessed in Il thousand WAYS without
knowing 1t. This very substance-the
refuse Of everything had it been useless,
must nave accumulated IN heaps IN
tolerahly noisomc and perpetually pest.
'e'''Ia' h"I u - every man interest 10
remove tl'sc otherwise increasing noun
'Aih' OF nun, ana ny hecomPosihB Them
~ certain ways, concealed III a great
measure rom our SiRht, " gives increase
v" our hc'as ana aoh' 10 the means OF
'hhnstfy anu lne fewariSoI the hnsphhn'
man Inc SIuhy OF soch II SUBJECT as
nuhS ~ ny no means repuitlVc. ~
ILLUSTRATES III a most nca"IlI"' manner
,'' halnraI Wlaptloh "i means 10 ems
" showr lhal nature WIZ KNOW no waste.
"h"' the animal "ofld IhIowS on ns
useless, ana III some Gases M POISONOUS
way n' Sl'oWn 10 constlt".c the very
" u ~ vegetable ne me nunG OF AM,
mas CONSISTS oi Il,at part OF ,heIr lood
"hlcn goes thfonHh the lhtcstlnal canal
without beinS asNIm'latrh the nrln'
containing tha' Io'tl"h Wh'ch mas under
gone as'lnh'atloh, M ~ again cX-
're,ed ~ consequence OF Ihc changes
"hlch are gong on IN lhe ISSUES
81 tho animal Urine may ne defned
rs u somewhat diIu'e solution OF certain
'hilS NIhose OF potash anu soih primer
phI'y? AM organic substances known to
'h"hlisls M urea, uric, ana hlppurlc
ACIDS, etc., which latter are Tor the most
PhrC rlch III mat important constituent
vt AL general mcaSures-nltrogen. II a
small quantity OF urine he ~evapornted
do"n 10 perfect dryness, ana the residue
"bla'hed heated To redncSs IN the mir tor
a icw minutes, the organic matters above
referred To VIII have burned away, and
the m~combnS,ible ash remaining will
represent the salts or mineral portion OF
the urine. Human urine beng rich in
nitrogen md ~phoHphorlc acld, a necessary
constituent OF Il Eood general manure,
mas II m'ich higher agricultural! ;alue
man any other KIND OF urine The nj
'r"renonS OF hltrogen'contaInlng organic
maI'crs OF urine are very prone to the
decomposition ana sooh undergo iermen'
'a'ich or Putreiac,'on, when their nitro
gen Is almost wholly converted INTO that
most 'a''iap'e YET expensive iriehd oil the
"th'et -- ammonia Freshly excreted
urine contains no ammonia, bnt on
.'Nnu'nS eSPoseh " MT Tor snort Time,
fermentation commences win the result
'nu'caVt"' Inc reany 'ermenlaplilty OF
URINE exercises Il most pehefc'a' influence
on the contents OF the h"ng-neap. When
placed IN the so'I, or exposed to climatic
influences, ordinary clean straw decom'
poses only very slowly, ana II 1t were
n''d as manure. 1t would he some con
siderable time before It's different constit-
uentS would he wholly available as plant
food.
IL IL in Fastening the decomposition
of litter that purifying urine is 40 valu.
able in the heap. The urine acts on the
straw as II ferment, and soon converts its
constituents from an, agriculturally
speaking, inactive state into soluble food
Tor plants. From this il is obvious that
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