The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-12
Farm, House and Garden.


enemy but his own.
Farm, House and Garden.
How to Save mad Keep Manure.
There is no question more frequent
ly or seriously considered by the farm
er than how he shall get, keep and
spend an adequate supply of manure;
nor is there anything about the farm
which is of greater Importance to its
successful management than the ma
nure heap. There are few farmers
nowleft who,pretend to ignore this feed
for the land; and few localities, even
in the newer Western States, where
manure is thought to be nuisance.
We have gradually come to the inevita-
BILE final end of our "virgin farms, and
have now either to save what is left
of their wonderful natural fertility, or
to restore them slowly and laborious-
~ to profitable condition. We have
reached the end of our tether, and are
obliged to confess that we have tres
passed over the line which bounds the
territory of the locust, or have i'm
proved the face of the country so much
that, the protecting timber being re
moved, the water supply is becoming
precarious, and springs, brooks, and riv-
ers no longer flow as they did hereto
fore. To some extent the tide of emil
grafton, which has flowed westward SO
many years is now eddying or even ebb-
ing, and the cheap, worn lands of the
East are finding purchasers, who under
take to bring them back to their former
condition.
At the same time Eastern farmers
are discovering more and more GER
tainly that they must increase their
crops, and make one acre produce as
much as two have heretofore done.
The only way in which either Of these
classes can succeed is by keeping suffi-
cient stock to manure their farms lib
orally; to feed those animals so skill
fully and we'll that they shall pay for
| their feed with a profit, and in addition
leave supply Of rich manure, with
which the soil can be kept in pro.
ductive state, and to save and use the
manure with such care that no particle
Of it be lost. 1t is not every farmer
who can procure all the manure he
needs; but very many can save what
they have with far greater economy
than they now do; and this, although
it may seem question secondary to
that of getting manure, is really OF
primary Importance for by using
what one has to better purpose he
opens way to increase his supply
We have found this to be the case II
our own experience, and by strict at
tention to saving and preserving every
particle of manure in it's best condition
, we have succeeded in SO enlarging Ou
supply Of fodder that the number O
stock that could be fed was largely in
creased each year, and very soon l
was necessary to 60 out and buy ami
mails to consume the surplus. To brjn
r farm into improved condition Their
], is no cheaper or more effective metho
than this.
). The ordinary management of manur
j in open barn-yards, where it is wasl
e ed by rains, dried by the SUMS scorcl
Q ing heat, and wasted by every win
! that blows, is the worst that is poss
BILE. In this way half or more of th
4 value of the manure is lost. By fgu
e ing up what it would cost to purchas
}, a quantity Of manure equal to what
{, thus lost, the costliness Of this con
= mon method would be discovered, an
the question how much could be a
s. fOrded to take care of the manure
!. would be settled. When properly Ii
:, tered, one cow or OK will make a te
- of manure every month, if the hqui
a as well as the solid portion is save
IS Ten head would thus make 12O tons,'
/. sixty-two-horse wagon loads, in yea
" | a DALI OIL uOIScS Will u1dhC 1o A4us
- manure as one COW, or twelve tons
- the year. A hundred sheep if yard'
a. every night and well Uttered, w
% make one hundred tons Of manure
"A the year, and ten pigs will work uI
OF wagon load in a month, if supple
=. with sufficient coarse material. II
4 stock of 1OO-acre farm, which shou
ed consist of at least ten cows, ten he
lie of steers, heifers, and calves, a pair
ut horses, 100 sheep, and ten pigs, wou
y, then make, in the aggregate, 3l6 to
81 Of manure every year, or sufficient
ad give twelve tons per acre every four
re year. If this were well cared for
OF would be, in effect, equal to double :
r. quantity of ordinary yard manu-
on- and if plenty of swamp muck could
i'd procured. at least six hundred tons
,r- the best manure could be made upOl
~ 1OO-acre farm. Ii this were the n
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