Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-10
How | Make Manure.

have a large shed all closed up. but
gate to 90 out and in, and a shove wlhuow
opposite, SO in summer it can be open' anu
that sends current of air through, when
keeps the COWS comfortable in the night
and | shut the window in winter, tnat
makes it comfortable for them. when let
out to drink with good running water ID
the shed that does not freeze. then BACK
into the barn again. In spring after get
ting out my manure, cart in dry muck
or seurf from spruce ridge l have, and
cover the shed all over about one Ioot
d, ED for the cows 10 lie upon; every
morning take up the manure with SIX
tine fork, and the urine turns the scuri
dark color; so you can take that up Win
the fork and pile it all up together IN one
pile at the end of the shed; and that Is at
tended to every morning as regularly as
clean out the stable in winter; in that way
[ double the manure in summer. linen
when l get ont the manure In the lsll' 1
fill up again with scurf, and where l throw
out from the stable, make the scuri ABOUT
one and half foot deep; then the stable
floor is made water tight. l cut up straw
and brakes in straw cutter, to litter the
COWS in the stall to keep them clean to
milk. and litter the lower floor to take up
the urine; then hoe back the manure morn
ing, noon, evening and 9 o'clock, before L
90 to bed, and sift litter under the cows
every time hoe back the manure; then IN
the morning | fork the manure urine ana
straw together, then throw out on TO thls
in the shed, then all the urine that drains
down the muck underneath takes 1t up; SO
in the spring, the muck underneath IS sat
urated full, and is Just as strong as the rest
of the pile; this management doubles, yea
trebles the quantity and quality OF manure
The common talk from my boyhood ha'
been, a load of hog manure is worth two
or three loads of cattle manure. why l.
that? Because the hog is fed on richer
food, and the bedding, urine, and sole
manure is all mixed up by the hog: Now
if a COW is kept fat, by feeding on hay Gu
from the 10th to the goth of June. and ;
peck of potatoes per day in addition II
twenty pounds of hay, you nave just
rich a manure as the hog makes, if treate'
as above described.
A number of years ago | MANFRED
piece of ground for corn with hog manure
| [ come short one load and filled that on
with a load from the cows; and the resu
was YOU could see no difference in tn
corn; and again. spread load OF no
manure on my meadow for top dressin
after moving in June, and then took loa
of barn manure and spread it side by sid'
and in six weeks from the time L sprea
it on, | moved the grass. | cut Il lit
over two tons per acre, and the two loa(
equal one just as good as the other, ar
the other Just as good as one. That mi
nure changed the grass from less than or
ton per acre to over two tons OF nice ha
| in six weeks. 1t happened to be shower
G after putting it on, and was nice grown
time. The manure am making tn
: winter will be spread on the ground ne
4 spring, cultivated in, stocked down WI
' one and one forth bushels seed per &C
and rolled; the 18th of July fit is go'
e growing time, will cut two tons OF HI
Y per acre; the last part of August, L W
b cut two tons more; this | have done tn
1t and again. In short the manure tt
:. spring coming, grows and puts back in
+ the barn two crops of nice hay, and com
It back into the tub. in butter, next winter
o nice as summer butter; so this treatme
d doubles and trebles the product, the pl
duct does the same on making the b.
( and butter, and the manure is doubled a
t. trebled that goes back for another crop
Vt the land next spring, that carries .arou
ls the annual circle.
,e A. SCOTT