The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Mow ana yvnen 20 ApnLy Menure

How and When 10 Apply Manure.
Progressive farmers, with other old
fashioned practices, have many of them
thrown over the custom of their grand
fathers of blowing in one-half of the
manure pile and placing the other half
in the drill. Modern experience seems
to indicate that the most economical as
well as effective method of applying
manure is spreading it where it will be
intermixed with the soil every time the
crop growing thereon is cultivated.
Continuous stirring produces chemical
action which not only lightens and pull
verizes the earth, but assists in rendering
the manure available food for the grow
ing plants.
A very common practice which now
takes the place of the old method of
blowing under manure, is applying the
manure on ground already plowed
and working it in with a harrow.
These conditions secure, it is argued,
n thorough mixture of the manure
throughout the surface soil where it
not only lies in waiting within easy
access of the roots of the crop to come,
but furnishes nourishment in the best
possible condition, 1. G., finely divided
condition.
To thoroughly incorporate manure
with the soil by means of a harrow,
much veXation and labor is avoided by
having the manure in n manageable tofm
to begin with. Long manure under any
circumstances is inconvenient to handle,
and is being gradually done away. with
in many barnyards. Farms Boosting OF
n fodder cutter, cut the litter also. so
that the manure which is not fine from
having been piled and thoroughly de-
composed is so from the employment OF
short litter.
A great change has not only come to
pass in the manner of applying fertil-
izers, but in the season of apply ing them.
A question occupying much time in the
debates before farmers clubs, and dis
cussed elsewhere when farmers meet, is
the one relating to the relative merits of
hauling and spreading manure during
the winter months and deferring the
operation until spring.
Advocates for spreading manure dur
ing fall and winter advance, among
other reasons. for this practice, the fol-
lowing: There is more time, and at
this season the field and sward land is
dry and hard and the teams in good con-
dition. More ground can be gone over
with green manure than after fermenta-
tion has taken place and the manure is
of better quality, us that which is fer
mented has lost some of its ammoniacal
salts. The action of frosts and rains
Will ueCOmpOSe anu pulNcTlhe Ill6 Hit
nure, mixing it with the earth and pre-
pairing it for tender plants. The soil
will dry several days earlier in the spring
than without the fall application of ma
nure, and consequently an earlier season
is the result. Finally, vegetation is
much better prepared to withstand II
drought than when the manure is ap-
piled in the spring"
Opponents to this practice aver tina
fI.,r E,
monia, and quote the experiments of
Lawes and Gilbert with their own to
prove that much of the nitrogen in fer
tilizers applied in the tall is wasted.
While it is we'll to consult the opin-
ions of others and learn from their eX-
perience, the practical lessons yearly
presented to ones own farm should be
closely studied. Here it is, after ALL
that tilleEs of the soil ascertain by closely
observing the results of the different
methods, and by experiments of their
own, what method is best adapted for
their particular soil and the special crops
under cor sideration.-NeW York World.
Household Hints.
Gum camphor is n speedy remedy to
clear the house of cockroaches.
To prevent milk rapidly souring put
in n very small portion Of bicarbonate
of soda.
When there is danger of staining the
hands from preparing fruit and vegeta-
bles, rub them with fresh lard.
Branches Of the elderbrush, hung in
the dining room of house, will clear
the room of flies. There is IN odor which
the insects detest.
A little salt sprinkled in starch while
it is boiling tends to prevent it from
sticking; it is likewise good to stir it
with clean spermaceti candle.
Cora is said to be sweeter if boiled
with the inner husks on; strip the husks
back, pick off the silk, then put the
husks back again over the ear of corn
and boil it.
Handsome screens and mantel lambre-
auins are made by FASTING colored pic
lures. autumn leaves, or other designs
upon II background of black cambria,
finishing the whole with n coat of good
varnish.
To take out fruit stains, rub the part
on each side with yellow soap; then tic
up piece of pearl ash in the cloth and
soak we'll in hot water, or boil; after
ward expose the stained parts to the
sun and air until removed.
To remove the lids of tin cans, place &
shovelful of live Goals on the top, which
will speedily unsolder them; they caI
then be removed by the aid of an ole
case-knife; care must be taken or the
side seam will also open.
To take out tea stains, put the linen il
a kettle of cold water; rub the stain!
well with common CASTLE soap; put tn,
kettle on the side of the stove, to let til,
water get gradually warm; wash i
thoroughly in warm soapsuds; then rul
the stain again with soap, and boil /; thei
rinse.