Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-27
How One Farmer Makes and
Saves Manure.

Mr.. Amasa Scott, of Craftsbury, is the
man who has the honor of having made the
largest quantity of butter in year from
"native COWS, of anybody on record. lie
claims to have reached this result on good
summer pasture, with dried grass in the
winter BY dried grass, he means hay made
by cutting his meadows before the stalk OF
the grass appears. This is early cutting
with vengeance, but by repeated cutting
and high manuring, Mr.. Scott gets greater
weight of hay per acre than his neighbors,
and, as he claims. of double the feeding
value for making either milk or beef. Mr..
Scott, like Mr.. Cheever, of Massachusetts, is
a small farmer" tilling but about twenty
acres, but these small farmers are not to be
despised when they achieve such large re-
suits. Their ground are all the experiment
stations we have, as yet, and they seem to
be well worked and rich in instruction for
the rest of us.
Besides being skilful as dairyman, and
As a fattener of bullocks to profit, Mr.. Scott
is manure maker, such as every farmer
ought to be, In local paper he has lately
given an account of his manure making, as
follows:
81 have large shed all closed up, but with
gate to 20 ont and n and shove window oppO-
site so in summer it can send current of air
through which keeps the cows comfortable In
the night ! shut the window in winter, which
makes it comfortable for them when let out to
drink the good running water in the shed that
Goes not freeze In spring, after getting out my
manure, ! cart in dry muck or scurf from spruce
ridge have, and cover the shed floor abOnt one
foot deep for the cows 10 lie upon. Every morn
inc taka IN flA axuifh as fff,a f.rI
The urine turns the scuri dark color; so you can
| take that up with the fork and pile it all up
| together in one pile at the end of the shed; and
that is attended 10 every morning as regularly AS
| clean out the stable in winter. In that way |
double the manure in summer. Then when get
out the manure in the fall, fill up again with
scurf, and where throw out from the stable ]
make the scuri about one and half feet deep
The stable noOr is made water-tight. ! cut up
straw and brakes In II straw cutter, 10 litter the
cows in the stall to keep them clean To milk, and
litter the lower floor 10 take up the urine then
| hoe back the manure morning, noon, evening
and at nine o'clock, before 90 10 bed, and slt
| litter under the COWS every time, In the morning
| fork the manure urine and straw together, and
| throw II out ON 10 the muck in the shed. All the
urine that drains down the muck underneath
takes up; so in the spring, the muck underneath
| is saturated full and Is just rs strong as the rest
of the pile This management doubles yea trebles,
| the quantity and quality of manure. The com
| mon talk from my boyhood has been, a load of
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manure. Why is that? Because the hog is fed
| on richer food, and the bedding, urine, and solid
| manure is all mixed up together by the hog.
| Now II n COW is kept fat by feeding ON hay cut
from the 10th to the 10Th OF June, and peck OF
| potatoes per day In addition to twenty pounds OF
| hay, you have just rs rich a manure as the hog
| makes, If treated rs above described
"a number OF years ago MANFRED a piece OF
| ground for corn with hog manure. | came short
one load and filled that out with a load from the
| cows; and the result was you could see no differ
| cnee In the corn spread load of hog manure
on my meadow for top-dressing after moving
| in June, aud then took load OF barn manure
and spread II side by side, and in six weeks from
the time spread It on cut little over two tons
| per acre, and the two loads were equal one lust
AS good as the other That manure changed the
grass from less than one ton per acre 10 over tive
tons of nice hay, In six weeks. 1t happened 10 be
showery after putting it on, and was a nice grow
ing time. The manure ! am making this winter
will be spread on the ground next spring, cult.
waited in, stocked down with one and one-fourtl
bushels OF seed per acre and rolled; the 10Th OF
July II il Is a good growing time, will cut two
tons OF hay per acre; the last part of August
will cut two tons more; this have done time anC
again. In short, the manure this spring cominl
grows and puts back into the barn two crops o
nice hay, and comes back into the tub, in butter
next winter AS nice as summer butter Thus th
treatment doubles and trebles the product, tn,
product does the same on making the beef an,
butter, and the manure Is doubled and treble,
that goes back for another crop TO the land mex
spring That carries around the annual circle.