The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-06-12

SAVE YOUR MANURES.
People of this country don't appre-
ciate the real value of manures'
There is sufficient manure lost on
almost every average sized place 10
enrich many an acre of poor land II
properly utilized.
From the poultry yards, horse pens,
and cattle pens there is large surplus
of fine fertilizers lost every year, which
could be made available with little
ortro care and attention. Dead leaves
MIXED with muck can be made good
fertilizer. But of all manures, we
think cotton seed is the best. 1t IS
good for almost everything, and is so
rich in ammonia, that all kinds OF
vegetation luxuriates under It's rlclr
fertiizing properties. 1t is rulnouS III
most of our farmers to annually rob
the soil of this splendid fertilizer.
We have known the negroes to sell
their cotton seed for five or six cents
ner bushel and buy corn for 81 90 and
81 so per bushel. China and Japan
in some respects appreciate the real
value of fertilizers more than we do'
The government takes it in hand, and
the people are not allowed to dram
their lands, and impoverished them
of valuable fertilizers. Everything
is required to be saved and utilized.
Even SCOT has good fertilizing prop
critics while ashes abounds i'll the
richest food for plants-potash but
they are thrown aside and trodden
under foot.
An agriculturst says of SCOT:
Soot is valuable for the ammonia
which if contains, and also for its
nower of re-assOrbing ammonia. Inc
rreosote it contains is valuable as an
insect DESTROYER and as Il fertilizer OF
all Garden crops. If the soil is dry a
little common household salt may be
mixed with SCOT. Lime and SCOT should
never be mixed together; lime de-
atroys the ammonia. SCOT that has
hppn stepped in water for two or three
davs ia as good fertilizer as horse
ho0f parings for house pants, ana
increases the vividness of the bloom
of flowers in the open air. SCOT ana
salt in connection with compost-one
uuart of sa t to six quarts OF soot-is
IN excellent fertilizer for asparagus,
onions. cabbages, etc Two bushels OF
compost make Il heavy dressing 1ol
each square rod of ground, to be work
ed into the surface of the soil.
If we wish to rem waite our Old worn
out lands, and make them produce
anything, our farmers must husband
their facilities for utilizing manures
and make them at home instead o
depending on aduterated commercial
ferti izers which are for the most part
worthless. The American Cultivation
thus speaks of fertilizers:
Every farmer should rel y mainly
on upoIl his stock for manures. There
are many special fertilizers especially
along the Atlantic coast, from II
ginia to Texas. Every mile can 1ur'
niSh abundant sCOf Vi llSll anu so
weed for manurng adjacent fields
The early crops of vegetables raise
at the South for the Northern market
are forced with the manure OF the
seacoast No mineral manure Is more
abundant than mari, which Is founG
in the whole tide water section OF inc
Atlantic coast 1t underlies wide
belts at various depths, often very
near the surface. Fertilizers at the
present time are legion. These art
guano, phosphates, bone dust, ammo
mia, nitrate of soda, Il compost of mari
lime, cottonseed, stable manure ant
earth. etc. All large slaughter houses
make IA rich fertilizer, as well as
good feed for poultry and sheep. Chun
i the refuse Of menhaden. The oil Is
expressed and the residue used III a
green state as fertilizer. Marsh
muck has Il remarkable effect on ole
land, especially on light soil, and par
ticularlarly on garden land that ha,
been heavily cropped and manurec
for several years. 1t has the same
effect that is caused by blowing under
green crops.