Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-11-19
Cheap Fertilizer.

The Ohio Farmer has among other good
things correspondent, Waldo" who
has been creating about much exotic
ment in agricultural circles with his
" bar as did Uncle Sammy Tilden in
political circles with his.
Waldo, in a very sound article, recon-
mended barrel to receive the contents Of
the privy, the chamber Stops and the
scrapings from the hen house. Some were
much disgusted with his nastiness, others
were shocked ut the waste of time on so
small matter. But Waldo" doSnt
" back worth cent, and he gives them
more of the same sort; and he is right.
II those who were so much disguised
Pcould put their premises ON exhibition,
they would come off with much credit if
they held no greater nuisance than
Waldos barrel. Still they wonder at the
mysterious dispensations of providence,
which chastens them with diphlheria and
typhoid fever:
The fact is, that an acre rof land can be
MANFRED more cheaply and with less labor
in this way than any other, and that the
waste substances of the farm will be less
offensive and less liable to do harm when
utilized in this way than rs usually man
aged. There are three of these that |
particularly refer to, and these are night
soil, chamber Stops and hen manure. On
nine farms out of ten a shallow vault under
| the privy receives the first, always giving
off offensive odors, and often in wet
weather draining into the we'll to poison
the family. The chamber slops are thrown
out on the garden. dooryard, here and
there, or are poured into the privy vault
to add to the denominations already accu-
INFLATED there The droppings from the
fowls accumulate during the year, and on
many farms for a series of years, and are
scattered and wasted by the fowls. Now
these are the materials which am perse-
cuted for saving, and yet it will not take a
days time in n whole year TO save them
and the privy, the dooryard and the hen
house will be better off because of it. All
that is necessary is to put a shallow box
under the prvy, and keep small amount
of dry earth in the privy, in box or bar
rel, if you have room for IT, and with n
paddle made from a shingle, or better, n
small tin scoop, throw a quart or so of the
dry earth in your box daily. Whenever
the box is full wheel it away to your
receptacle, which should be under cover
and ought to contain from fifty to one
hundred bushels of good mould from the
woods. Upon this mould the chamber
Stops are TO be poured. The hen manure |
would clean up once week and put in
old barrels and mix it with the night soil
and leaf mould, a week or two before it
was to be used. 1t will take ten minutes
4 month to save the night soil, about the
same for hen manure, and you will need
to empty the barrel" of chamber Stops
five or six times year, which will take
an hours time in all. A week or two
before using, you will want to shovel it
over perhaps twice. to mix thoroughly,
which will take an hour each time, and
you will have enough manure as good as
superphosphate, to manure five acres of
corn or potatoes in the hill, or to scatter
broadcast over as many acres of wheat,
all of which has not reduced the amonnl
of stable manure particle, and has not
cost you more than Il days work. The
soil round your house has not been con-
taminated, and you have never applied
the same amount of fertilizer so cheaply
or with so little "nastiness,' and the effect
of this fine concentrated manure will be
such that you will begin to save the drip
pings Of the manure pile, to wet your
compost with, after the chamber Stops are
exhausted, and also to handle and fine
you manure before hauling it to the
field; and when you have found out the
true value of these waste materials, your
conscience will trouble you So for the
hard things you have written, that you
will ask pardon for them of WALDO.