The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-10-06
HOlne.Made Manures.

feet fertilizer, possessing all the ingrcdi-
cnts OF plant fertilization. and is therefore
the model or standard The obicc. should
be to increase its quantity by ali possible
means without changing its constituents.
or impairing it's value. Every farmer
knows OF what raw material il is compos-
ed and he has but to multiply these in
order to reach the quantity desired. But
experience teaches that the utmost excr-
tions will not produce a sufficient auan.
tity for any farmer. What then? This
compels resort to other combinations, or
to commercial fertilizers. for which rea.
son wc reproduce the subjoined formula
for compositing from the report of Com.
missioner James for 1879 These comb.
nations have oecn we'll tested, Old are
considered reliable, but as they will
| speak for themselves, we return to the
homemade manure, so often referred to
as the compost heap Every thrifty
farmer is supposed to havel horses, cows
and hogs, if not sheep and goats,
and that with reasonable care ho
has provided them with tho stables,
stalls or shelters and open lots. These
should be so arranged that the water
from heavy rains should not sweep
through them TO bear off the manurial
contents, nor to "pond up" around or
| above the materials in process Of dccom.
position. Too much water is about as
Injurious as too little, for the heaps must
he neither wet nor dry, but be kept in a
moist state. There should be shelters
convenient to the open lots aud stalls to
keep the manure under, and convenient
water to sprinkle them when too dry.
The heaps should he exclaimed at least
every week to ascertain their con.
dition, and generally be forked over
about two weeks, or as often as they seem
heated, to considerable degree, and be
sprinkled with plaster during the process
to prevent the escape of ammonia. If
plaster is not convenient, dry earth will
answer, used abundantly from the rich
fence or other deposits of surface soil.
When heating ceases, the organized ma
terials are decon,posed, and, no longer in
danger from fermentation, may be scat
tered, thoroughly dried and thrown into
bulk under good shelter, where it will
keep for any desired length of time. AS
these. heaps constitute the farmers
bank" upon which he draws for abun-
dant crops, and consequent prosperity and
Happiness in his household, they should
be considered Of the very first impor-
tancc. If thus appreciated, he will be
anxious to make them as large aud valu-
able as possible, and in doing this he
may busy himself the year round, or
may devote to all the spare time ho has
from other work. To begin the work of
their creation, there should be no waste
from his stalls and stables. All straw
led to the animals should be cut, and
each stall should have the waste straw
from the feed trough, and rs much as is
fn , IoI -, .,
the animal, and be we'll sprinkled with
the richest perfectly dry top soil that can
be had. More straw and more
dry earth should be added as often as the
wet dissgreeable condition of the stall
suggests. Once in each week clean out
the stalls and start anew, piliuy the con-
tents removed under the sL ! cr before
alluded to. Meantime cover tho open
lots with straw of any kind, leaves, trash
OF twigs, cut briars, green or dead weeds,
grass and all other available vegetation,
sprinkle lime upon it, and let tho animals
especially the hogs, be roofing and tear.
ing it to pieces. Have one spot lower
than the rest, where the bulk may be
formed for wetting and lining, and every
few days rake up aud pile the scattered
and dry materials on the spot, dragging
out as It decays and introducing new
materials. M t
If there be peat or muck in the neigh
borhood, they will be excellent materials
for the rapid increase of this open lot
compost, which when thoroughly decom-
posed, should also be sheltered from leach,
ing rains. This process may continue
throughout the year, and if the farmer
OWNS half n dozen COWS, two or three
horses and q dozen hogs he will be sur
prised at the quantity Of good compost he
can make with their aid. We have not
mentioned his poultry house, which
should turn him out O dozen barrels of
good guano he can use without fear upon
the garden, nor the kitchen window siops
and wash day soap.suds, which should
invariably be utilized about his grape
vines and fruit trees No farmer who
neglects these things has right to muir
muir against poor soil and bad crops. t
DIRECTIONS AND FORMULA FOR coMpos-
TING.
II the stable manure and cotton seed
have beer preserved under shelter use
the following:
Formula No. |,
Stable m2nure!..............pO .pOunda. $50
Cotton seed (green). Observation-Disclosures. $50
Superphosphate.. Observation-Disclosures. 700
Making 4 ton off,. 1000
DIRECTIONS FOR COMPOSING.
Spread under shelter layer of stable
manure four inchca thick on this