Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-12-10

amount VI uIy Ocuullg u VIII take
to keep the place so that anybody
can walk about there without rub
Der boots. lie will find that long
or chopped straw, in vastly greater
quantity than he has ever found
necessary to keep his cattle dry,
will now leave them ahoat. In the
cellar the manure will exist in the
form of soft musn, and twill keep
him busy to draw in the loan,
much, or sand required to reduce
things to a comfortable state of So
hdity and keep his pigs from drown
ing.
Yet it will pay TO do all this
to prepare beforehand the sawdust
spent tan, muck or sand for the
stable floor, and the necessary loan
Tor the cellar, in orde: to take up
and retain all this mass of fertiiz-
ing fluid. In fact we cannot afford
not to do it, and he who does it for
the first time will receive a revela-
ton of the quantity of good manure
that may thus be accumulated in a
season from a stock OF cattle, that
will astonish him, and make him
think that perhaps EARNING can be
made to pay
An unccmented cellar with a SAN
dy bottom, under cattle stable,
wi not save much urine, unless
very literally supplied with absor-
bent material. If the droppiags
are received in the cellar upon "a
raised platform, it will soon become
apparent that tie fluids nearly all
90 through and soak into the ground,
whea- only the usual quantity Of
Leddlng is used il the stable This
is point which many overlook, and
II is we'll worthy the attention OF
those who have barn cellars OF this
kind. In our judgment it will al
ways pay to cement manure eel
lar, unless It's bottom consists OIL
very heavy clay Or hard-pan. Ever
then the walls. for a loot AID halt
upward from the bottom, ought tC
be made watcr-iight.
1t may be Il pie ang thought 10.
those vino have old-lasIioned tie
ups which have been used many
years, that the liquids that have
gone thrcu, r. sir floors for so Ions
a time al -. r. sarily lost. !
the glou- 5 Jsorbent, most o
These liquids have soaked into ii
and i'll their pass &c downward
have lett their ferIiIty-thcir l.
ash, phosphoric asd aud nitr9oy"-
IN combination with the upper lay
, ,ss OF soil. We have lately had al
opportunity to see this matter very
thoroughly tested, Among our no
very near nelghbOrs is legal gen
tieman who lately came into The
possession OF his fathers farm, anC
has quite a notion OF being farme
with all the modern improvements
lie mas built him new barn, witt
cemcn;ed cellar, and all his tertll
izlng material is now thoroughly
saved. The old burn, with ii.
shecp-pens and tic-up directly OF
the ground, has hsen torn down
and, at our suggestion, he has has
the SCI beneath excavated, anC
spread upon his moving, Thar
from under the old sheep-pens wa,
taken out only last tall, and conse-
quenlly its effect is yet TO be not
cd. But the earth from beneath the
old tle-up was spread i'll the sprIng,
several hundred loads having been
drawn, and the dirt removed 10 the
depth OF nearly or quite six feet. 1t
was our belief that this earth was
tEDroughly impregnated with phos-
xiiofic aud potasslc salts, and We
M 10 doubt that there were some
pus compounds there also, Tor
ne wire aware that earth from be-
neath.old stables had often been
lixiviased for The sxtrac'l IL OF nilre.
Still, we srpF7scy tina. really the
greater portion Csdalc ammonia had
escaped. The hires nan, who was
put to this ''too.Isn job, as he call
cd 1t, was however soon converted
to a believer in the manuriai value
of this soil oy discovering distinct
odor OF hartshorn i'll land this con-
tinued even to the bottom OF the
excavation. lie colorng matter
had not penetrated much below
three feet The cXcayatcd has prov
TO be equal to the best stable ma
nule for top dressing grass ground.
Ihe luxu,iant ana dark green
growth OF the meadow which it was
spread is quite remarkable, and
and strange 10 say no difference Is
perceptiUle in HE effect Of The bot
iom layer from that OF the top one
How many OF our readers have
manure mine like this ?-kural
New Yorker,
why We Have the Heart Dis.
ease.