New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-08-06
WHOLE NUMBER 81.
Making and Handling Manure.

Making and Handling Manure.
Or all the fertilizers yet invented,
says the Cincinnati Commercial, none
equals the well-handled barn-yard ma
nure. The quality of this article is byno
means uniform, owing to the different
ways of managing it. To prevent the
immense wastes made by exposure to
sun and rain some farmers have adyO-
Gated keeping it under cover. The
simple fact that manure has been kept
under cover is no argument in its IA
vor. The most worthless lot of ma
nure we ever saw was made under
cover. It was the result of stabling
two horses and two cows one year.
The manure had been wheeled from
stables to this shed. One side of it
was open to the west, and here the ma
nure that had been packed by wheel
ing in, and had been kept wet by the
rains for about two feet from the edge,
was excellent. All the rest was fire.
fanged and light, and worthless as SO
much chaif. Since that year differ
ent method has been pursued. The
litter has been kept level and packed
tight by arranging the stable and barn.
yard SO the drainage of the yard runs
into the manure shed or pit, and hav-
ing sheep tramp over it and keep it
solid. One load of manure from this
covered manure pit is considered worth
three made in the open yard. There
is no teaching nor. odor arising from
this shed until the mass is broken into
when hauled to the fields. --.'.5
IT the virtue of barnyard manure is
to be estimated by theintensity of odors,
this surely is u prime article.
We can see little to commend in the
practice Of storing manure in the base
ment OF stables, but much to con-
denim. There is, however, one desir-
able feature in this method. It does
not freeze, and can be hauled afield
when the ground is frozen, and men
and teams cannot be otherwise en-
ployed. 1t is method, however, that
cannot be adopted, because few have
barns suitable. 3 Hs
The waste in barnyards generally is
totbe deplored. When the litter and
stable cleanings are piled in little
mound at the door or window of tho
stable we have an excellent device for
destroying the value Of manure. The
center of the pile is the highest, heats
first, and the draft carries of the gases
perfectly. In . little while the center is
tire-fanged, and destruction is COM
plete.
The neatness of even BARNARD
may be secured, and it pays here as
we'll as on other parts OF the farm. Ii
at q place convenient for receiving the
manure from the stables an open pen
be built for storing manure, it may
be kept from scattering and making =
mess and mud over every foot of the
yard. The manure should be kept
lowest in the middle, and well
tramped. If the drainage of the roof
be occasionally turned on this, all the
better. This mass can be loaded more
easily into wagons and will be found
Of greater bulk and strength than If
allowed to scatter over the yard, ex-
posed to sun and rains. just at this
time when the ground is settling 20
manure can be moved to the fields,
fortunate is the provident farmer who
has turned his manure pile twice, and
now has it fine and reduced in bulk. 1t
is in condition to be at once appropriate
ted as plant food, and can be taken tn
the field with half the labor required
had it not been fOrked over. 1t can be
spread evenly on the wheat or meadow
lands, while the crude manure is
thrown off in chunks or fCrkfuls, to
smother plants and be nuisance on
the meadow or wheat field. There is a
class of farmers who have mania for
making manure. Another class look
on it as a necessary evil, and think
themselves fortunate to have stable
and barn-lot on q hillside or water
course, that will carry off the nuis-
ance. Making manure for the sake
of manure is little like paying
dollar or two per cord for it and haul
ing it several miles to the farm. In
general farming this will not pay. 1t
may do for the gardner or vegetable
grower, who can take two or three
crops q season from the soil, and sell
them at q convenient, paying market.
But few OF us are near such q market.
and it is folly for the producer Of corn,
wheat, oats and hay to conclude that
because the market gardener can pay
such q price for manures they must be
equal value to all. The general
farmer can best keep up his soil by TO
tations, and clover and hops, better
and at far less expense than BY buying
or making manure to haul to his fields.
The labor is immense. and hundred
cords of manure moved annually, win
not treat all parts Of o hundred-acre
farm once in ten years; whereas by
clover and hops, or cnttle, every third
or fourth year the entire farm may be
we'll fertilized. Our conclusion, then,
is, that keeping stock for the sake of
making manure is improbable. Its,
however. profitable to save all the ma
nure that can be made from the ami
mails needed to cultivate and consume
the corn and fodder raised on the
farm. In the matter OF. manure, as in
all other things produced, let none 20
to waste but keep all in good shape
Cincinnati Commercial. 50 .za@s
The insatiate Montenegrlns have Al
ready grown dissatisfied with their lib
eral share of the plumber of the late
war and are hankering for more Tur-
key. Last year she suffered exceeding
" from drouth; nearly one-third Of
her crops were destroyed by beetles
and marmots, SO that the seed has been
deficient, and field-labor is inadequate
in consequence of the excess Of holi-
days about one hundred year-and
the widespread drunkenness Of the
common people, involving great waste
fitness. Grain, which is the chief art;-