Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-04-26
Waste of Manure.

Cor. New England Farmer.
A good deal of manure is wasted
on most of our farms. On some farms
more than One-half of the value of
all the manure made is wasted and
lost before it is applied to the soil.
Those same men who are allowing
one half of their barn manure to be
wasted every year, eXpend their
money purchase commercial fertili-
zers in order to increase the produc-
ton Of their fields. This may seem
to be a remarkable statement, but it
is none the less true, and it is true in
regard to more farmers than is gener-
ally supposed. This waste is occas-
Toned principally by neglect to save
the liquid portions of the manure
made by the farm stock. Compare
lively few farmers attempt to save
the liquid manure. Those who have
barn cellars, and throw their manure
into the cellar under their cattle, save
the most of the liquid portions which
run through the floor and are absorb
ed by the solid manure. Only a
small proportion of the farmers, how
ever, have, barn cellars, and those
who don't have them, generally al
low the liquid manure to run through
the stable floor into the ground, there
foreman of no use whatever to them.
When the liquid has been allowed to
thus run through the floor and ac-
cumulate in the soil below for many
years, it will well repay the farmer
to remove the earth to several feet in
depth, and apply it to the land. The
excavation may then be refilled with
dry muck or dry loan, and in few
years again removed. This is one
way in which portion of the liquid
may be saved, but there are other
ways of saving it which are prefera-
BILE.
THE VALUE OF LIQUID MANURE.
Few farmers realize the value there
is in the liquid eXcrement of Their
cattle. The value of the liquid ex-
crement made by stock of cattle is
nearly, if not quite equal to that O
the solid excrement. A ton of urine
collected at a barn was found by
analysis, to contain III pounds of nj
trOgen, which at only twenty cents
per pound would be worth $3.50; ter
pounds of phOsphoric acid which a
ten cents per pound, would be worth
$1.00; and nearly sixteen pounds O
potash which at five cents.per pound
would be worth 80 cents, making {
total of $3.50 as the value of a ton 0
urine. Let this amount be mingled
with a cord of dry muck and allowed
to ferment, and the farmer would
have cord of good manure. A COW
in one year, passes about four tons o
urine, which, il mingled with fou
cords Of dry muck, would afford fou
cords of good dressing for the soil.
In regard to the value Of liquid ex
crement, the Boston Journal o
Chemistry says: elbow strangely
we overlook the value of the liquid
excrement of our animals. A Gov
under ordinary feeding, furnishes il
a year, 10000 pounds of solid cXcre
ment and about 5000 pounds of liquid
The comparative money value of tn
two is but slightly in favor of tn
solid. The statement has been veri
fed as truth over and over again
The urine of the herbivorous ami
mails holds nearly all the secretion
of the body which are capable of pro
ducing the rich heterogeneous com
pounds so essential as forcing or Leaf
forming agents in the growth O
plants. The solid holds the phos
phoric acid, the lime and magnesi
which go to seed principally, but il
liquid, holding nitrogen, potash an
soda, is needed in forming the stalk
and leaves. The two forms of plan
nutTiment should never be separated
or allowed to be wasted by neglect
The farmer who saves all the URN
of the animals doubles his manuria
resources every year" He, then, VIII
allows his liquid eXcrement to b
wasted, wastes half his manurial II
sources, and it will require a larg