The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-04
100
9bf FARM.
AN ESSAY

On Hc accumulation, Prep9t'dft@n
aad IPpHcotion q tie S'oeh,
Yard and .>table Naygnrc, Dcllr-
eyca bef0re tie y. r. 1qric"H"-
raj .I5~iety IN U,d"esdoy, Ut.
14H 1874.
The first thing to be considered
is. good shelter from weather, and
rack for feeding. Manure made
under shelter, by actual experiment
is worth more than double that out
Of doors. Cattle will require less
feed and keep in better order, ana
the better the condition OF the am
NAL the richer the manure. By
cutting and stacking IN Sept.
and October all corn to be followed
BY small grain, the stalks ~restacked
when the corn is pulled off, they
NAV be hauled to the cattle pen as
needed, furnishing food forthe cat
tie as well as an abundance Of litter
for manure. They will eat much
of it, being cut and cured with the
Juices in it, the residue making
fine litter. To first January feed
shucks, wheatstraw, ETC., III racks;
much of the straw they wont eat;
that use for bedding or litter. Al
ter first January, throw what stalks
you may not have needed for litter
in the cut yard, with all brlars cut
in clearing fields for crop, with
leaves and such other material as
may be had; to be run over, tramped
by wagon, cattle ETC., for litter the
coming Spring and Summer. For
rest assured when crop time arrives,
you will find no time to accumulate
litter. First April, you may com
mence hauling out your shed ma
nure for corn. You will have a
large quantv of coarse, half rotten,
unfermented manure. Fer hoed
crops it should be used IN a fresh
condition as possible and all the
grasses which are set free IN fer
mentation, are combined and firm
Iy held in the soil.
| would open the corn beds with
two horse pillow, using the coarse
manure in drill, putting Il hoe full
of dirt over it where the corn is to
be dropped; it secures its coming
up; the whole to be thoroughly coy-
cred; this manure will furnish food
for the plant through the season;
in the fall, cut and stack corn as
before: run a two horse pillow bar
each side of the corn roots, then
under corn row throwing out the
whole mass, of roots, and well
rotted manure; pillow across the
beds, then harrow, and you
have your land prepared for seed
ing, and your manure about equal
ly distributed.
AS soon as your pens are cleaned
out IN April, commenced littering
(not too much at a time) with the
half rotted material in the yard;
have all stock Except Sheep pen
ned under shelter at night through
Summer. run them around the pen
at day light, again at sunrise. before
turning out and YOU VIII be
amazed at the quantity of manure
dropped by them managed in this
way.
In the absence OF sufficient veg
etable matter for litter, use dry
earth, there is nothing better, using
leaves, pine straw or some such
material for bedding. Should your
pens become two full Tor comfort.
throw the manure out, being care
ful to mix sufficient earth to alb
sorb all gasses. By September, it
Is well rotted, and ready for using
broad cast for grain or grass, OF
composing with earth for top
dressing grass through the winter.
ALI animal manure should be care
fully protected against sun and rain,
and never applied to the surface,
unless first mixed with earth and
thoroughly decomposed. After ap-
plying raw manure 1t should be
plowed under as speedily as posi-
BILE to prevent evaporation. | make
yearly, between two and three hun
dred four horse loads of manure by
this management.
JAS. NORWOOD.
49,