The Brookhaven leader., 1884-03-06
Barn.Yard Economy.

A dark stream, often of golden color,
always of golden value. flows to waste
from many an American barn yard.
This liquid fertility oft n enters the side
d tch of the farm lane. sometimes of the
highway, and cmpties into brook,
which removes it beyond tie reach OF
plants that would greatly profit by it.
Mice may gnaw hole into the granary
and daily abstract n small quaint ty OF
q ain, or skunks may reduce the profits
of the poultry yal Ids, hut these leaks are
small in con par,sOn with that from the
poorly constructed and ill-kept barn
yard. The most valuable part of man
ure is that which s very soluble. and
uni, IS it is etained by some absorbent.
or kept from the drcnching rains. 1t will
be quickly out of reach. Manure is a
manufactured product, and the success
of all farm operations in the older
States, depends upon the quantity and
quality of this product. Other things
being equal, the farmer who comes out
in the spring with the largest amount
of tie best quality of manure, will be
the one who finds farming pays the
best. A barn-yard, whether on a SIDE
Hill Vi OH u .cfcl, Win ali Illt 1t lItc
to fal upon the manure heap, should be
so arranged as to lose none of the drain
age. Side-hill barn-yards are common,
because the barns thus located furnish
convenient cellar. A barrier of earth
on the lower side of the yard can be
quickly thrown up with team and
road scrapcr, which will catch and hold
the drenchings of the yard above, and
the coarse, newly made manure will
absorb the liquid and be benefited by it.
It would be better to have the manure
made and kept under cover, always
well protected from Ia rs and melting
SHOWS. Only enough moisture should
lie present to keep it from fermenting
too rapidly An old farmer who let his
manure take care of itself, once kept
stme of his sheep under cover and wac
greatly surpr sed at the increased value
of the manure thus made. In fact, it
was so ''stiong" that when scattered as
thi, xiv as the leacHed dung of the yard.
it made distinct belt of better grain in
the field. The testimony was so much
in favor of the stall-made manure, that
this farmer is now keeping all his live
stock under cove, and the farm is yield
ing larger crops and growing richer
year by year. If it pays to stop any
leak in the granery, it is all the more
important to look we'll to the manure
that furnishes the food, that feeds the
plants, that grow the grain, that fills
the 81 ain bin. At this season the living
mills are all grinding the hay and grain
and weld ng the by-products of the
manure heap. Much may be saved in
spring work by letting this heap be as
small as outdoor yard feeding and the
winds and rains can make it, but such
saving is like that of the economic
spori sman who went out with the idea
Of using as little powder and lead as
possible. In farming, grow the largest
possible crops, even though it takes a
week or more of steady hard work to
get the rich, heavy, well-prcpared man
ure upon the fields. More than this,
enrich the land by throwing every
stream of fertility back upon the acres
which have yielded it. Watch the man
IRE heap as you would mine of gold
AMERICAN AgricuI.urtst.