The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-07-01
Management Of Manure.


. clean barnyard at least once a year.
The better practice is to clean every
particle of manure in the spring and
again in the fall, and apply it to the
crops. Manure is equivalent to money,
and on land where q crop is growing it
is paying good returns for its invest
ment. 1t Is true, manure as made in
the barnyard is not in the best condi-
| tion for immediate use; but except to
prevent the spread of weed-seeds, it is
better on the land or in it than in the
barnyard. II noxious weed-seeds
abound in the manure, thorough fer
mentation is needed to DESTROY them.
Ordinarily, however, keeping the ma
nure in piles few dsys will start weed
seeds, so that simply moving the ma
nure will destroy them. This will also
make the manure much more soluble
and effective, and fully repay the addi-
tional expense. Piling up manure in
the barnyard before hauling out pays in
the economy it makes in loading it on
wagons. II put in heaps, twice as
many loads can be got out per day than
If it is scattered around the yard; and
this, in time when men and teams are
hurried to do the spring blowing. is an
item of moment. Besides this, farmers
will clean the barnyards much more
perfectly where the manure has been
rtirst piled up. They cannot afford to
keep team waiting while the load for
the wagon is being scraped up with the
hoe. Hence the scrapings, which are
always the richest part Of the manure
heap, are left and Invariably wasted.
ter of manure in deciding how and
where to use it. The very coarsest
should be used first as q mulch, spread
over the surface of the ground to be
plowed for corn and turned under in
April or May. The spring rains and
melting SHOWS will carry down among
the grass roots the soluble elements Of
fertility, and before the plow can be got
in the field the upspringing grass will
show the good effect of the top-dress-
ing. Then turning the whole under,
not deeply, the manure and the grass
roots will ferment together, and each
will help the other. always try to
have q grass or clover-sod as a prepara-
ton for planted crops. Such land will.
yield . crop even without manure; but
as rule it pays better to manure pref
ty good land for an extra crop than to
haul manure on to very poor land to
bring it up to the average. The large
crop Is reasonably sure to show y
profit. The average or poor crop is
always grown at loss. l know tits
quite common to haul manure on an
unseeded stubble for planting; but the
practice is not to be commended. If
land is bare it does not want hoed
crop, but some kind of grain with
which it can be seeded again as quickly
rs possible. II manure is diverted to
such land to keep it longer under the
plow, other portions of the farm are
ished. heard once of q farmer who
boasted that one field had been in corn
more than twenty years. He had drawn
to that field nearly all the manure
made on the farm. Its fertility has
been maintained; but it was bad farm
ing, nevertheless. In estimating suc-
cess or failure. the farm must be taken
as q whole.
The coarse manures should generally
be applied to the heavy clays, especially
If vegetable matter is lacking. Their
fermentation in the soil disintegrates it,
and promotes fertility. Usually clay
soil has abundance of plant food, but
not in available shape for crops. Hence
something to bring out what is in the
soil is needed. Concentrated and min
eral manures are best adapted to cold
and mucky lands. Here there is plenty
of vegetable mold, but il is not active.
Green mauures are best adapted to
sandy or gravelly soils. Here vegeta-
BILE matter is always deficient. Some
sands and gravels are lacking in other
respects, also, and in such cases the
land is worth little for farm uses. On
the other hand q sand, or better still a
gravel that has plenty of lime, potash
and phosphates, is the very best land
to work because it is always dry, warm
and quick; and if it has a somewhat
heavier subsoil, it has the ability to en-
dure an unfxvorable season better than
any other. The best test of sand OIL
gravel soil as to fertility is to observe
the clover catch and.growth. fa farm
er can get good clover catch every
year on sand or gravel, he has the
means in his own hand of making it as
rich as he wants it.-Wn. j. Fo0ler, in
Examiner and Chronicle.