The Republican journal., 1881-07-28
Written for the Republican Journal.
On Manures and Manure Cellars,

A manure cellar if properly used will
pay for itself every three years-often-
times every year. Every barn and sta
ble should have one. There needs to be
a mania in the manure business. 1t is
the one important question for all farm
erS. Manure needs shelter. 1t needs
absorbents. 1t needs manipulation,
working over. Hogs are the best manure
workers. The muck deposits, everywhere
so accessible, should be utilized. Dry
muck in abundance in and about the sta
bes, used with liberal hand will double
the manurlal resources and make of the
farm. THIS will double the crops except
hay, and this it will surely and rapidly
Increase. Plaster is another necessary
stable accompaniment 1t is Il great alb
sorbent and deod0riZer Plaster is
special manure for clover; lime for wheat;
ashes tol potatoes and orchards; salt for
r1bbaseS ana asparagus, and beneficial
generally to all crops in small quantities.
y mixture of all three forms Il cheap,
special manure fol all lands and all crops
low much these simple. cheap, but eff
ttctlye manureS are neglected. Wood
ashes that may be bought in our villages
and cities, and often of improvident peo-
pie through the country side, for twelve
lo fifteen cents per buShel are worth two
tu four times this price as Il fertilizer
Plaster ut the mills, ground to a powder.
costs hut twenty cents PEE! 100 lbs. Lime
ou an average about one dollar per cask.
SALT leluoe from fish or pork barrels, OF
salt mills, "a very moderate price per
naVs twenty-five cents per bushel. Fish
,yld fish refuse sua very cheap and can be
bought reasonably at various points along
our shores. This composted with six or
sight times It's bulk Of muck in LAYERS
llms Il powerful and stimulating manure
tor any crop. and contains ammonia in
urge amount.
There is no doubt that our stable MAJ
uure left III yards, thrown out under
The caves II the stables, 01' unprotected in
open air loses one half and the best half
of its value: While the equally valuable
Wlne is lost entirely. our system-the
I'D one of handling (o. rather not hand
ugl manures is radically wrong. Hence
SAIL Ice seen the value, efficacy. and econ
nul Oi bITn collars, where manure is not
uulN sheltered, but where the urine is re-
eeNed and absorbed and saved, and
AGrre the working crew OF hogs manipu-
.l.r il and pack it So that no fire flnging
0r other intense chemical action DESTROYS
t, best constituent parts. The tie-up
,A"uil have Il trench behind the stock in
Hhich the urine is caught and in which
diled mdck eat straw, dried earth, saw
,HSt ar other absorbent is daily supplied
md tally removed, takes it up and ena-
oles 1t to be mixed and Incorporated with
The more solid eXcremcnt before being
frccipltatetl to the cellar beneath
No better OF more profitable outlay can
bc made III utility and usefulness. in econ
olny and farm Improvement than the con
tructon Of good manure cellar. \ side
aiIl or slope found convenient on nearly
rFtry farm is favorable for their constrllc-
tlpn. II on level land the barn or stable
uJ, he raised and one built beneath,
.rdging up with inclined slopes to the
doors. Tie cellar should open to the
nuth. he wei protected on The other
tHrtr iocs. ana have good height.
J. ". LANG.