The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-08

the manure heap, which is simply
chOpping il up into pieces and placing
the pieces in layers in the center of the COM
post Or. il preferred, the carcass can be
taken to some selected point and covered
with thick covering of earth, there to re-
main until il decays, in which case the
earth absorbs the gases to great degree, and
is afteTward mixed with ii as compost. II
the carcass is thus disposed of il should be
protected against dogs by covering OF rails
or boards to prevent the earth being
scratched away from il. In the course of
time the bones can be ground or pulverzed
at leisure and dissolved with sulphuric acid,
which renders them available for plant food
at once. Dead animals are sometimes more
valuable than when living. The French
farmers buy diIapidated horses. kin them
and use them for fertilizing purposes. The
English are very careful % use every pOr-
ton of them-entrails, meat and
bones. The Dutch have large
pots filed with boiling water and
lye, into which they throw flesh
and bone, letting it boil for few hours and
afterward pour, when cooled, into barrels.
In few weeks they find the bones partially
dissolved. The liquid is poured over the
manure heap, the undissolyed bone being
first pounded and mixed with the manure.
This is good method of preparation. put
the mass should be compOsted with earth,
as The I've is detrimental to the manure heap
on account Of its propensity TO liberate nitro
gen. The matter of the disposal OF carcasses
is not a difficult one. as any farmer can east
" summon sufficient ingenuity for his pur
pose. but the fault is that the farmer does
not preserve them for use at all, thus de-
priving himself Of valuable enriching mat
ter dead horse or COW is worth more
than ton of the best farmyard manur and
probably more valuable than two or three
tons of unprotected manure.
Durra, Dhurra, Rice Corn, Etc.
professor McBryde in American Agriculturistl
In June, 1880, l succeeded in procuring a
small quantity of the seed of the dhurTa or
so called rice corn" from Kansas, and on
the 10Th of that month planted it on stub
BILE land, from which crop of wheat had
Just been taken, without manure. The
duhrra received no fertilizers. The portion,
% acre, thickly drilled in rows 4 feet
apart, gave yield of 40 bushels per acre;
the other portion, OBS acre, planted in rows
feet apart and from u inches to Is inches
in the row, yield OF only 1853 bushels per
acre. The great difference in the two yields
is explained by the excessive tiller-
ing of the thinly planted portion
the plants formed more heads than
they we're able TO ripen. The stalks, of which
no account was taken, attained an average
height OF about eight feet. The grain was
bushel. As an abundance of rain fell, the
drought-resisting powers OF the plant were
not put to the proof. In 1881 piece of stub
BILE was thoroughly plowed and narrowed
Immediately after the removal of the wheat,
and planted the first week in July, a very
fertile portion, two and one half acres, IL
Indian corn, and very thin portion imme-
diately adjoining, two and 0ne-fifth acres, in
dhurra. No manures were used on the pre-
ctding wheat crop, but 400 pounds of the
same fertilizer was drilled in with both the
corn and the dhurra. The two por-
tons were planted on the same day, and
| their subsequent culture was the same.
That the fertilizer, in consequence of the
drought, seriously injured both crops was
SHOWN by six unfertilized rows of dhurTa,
the superiority OF which could be noticed az
considerable distance. When the long
midsummer drought set in the Indian corn
was in full tassel. from eight feet to nine
| feet high, and gave promise Of fine yield.
The dhurra was hardly half the height, bat
while the corn was twisting and burning up
| from the want Of rain and the terrible heat
{ scarcely wilted and continued fresh an
green. The drought dwarfed il, but cid
not interfere with the filling of the heads
which were almost as large as those of last
year, while the stalks were but little more
than half as high.