The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-11-27
Aou:vilM Wer;aioaal
Manure. Dx'ninS.

IN entering upon an examination OF
what is perhaps the most important
matter with which we have had to deal,
We shall carefully avoid all ideas OF
prejudice and partially.
Farm-yard manure have for many
centuries been the prop and ma!n-stay
Of Our agricultural operations, and no
science was necessary to teach lis that
it owed its virtue to its happy combina-
ton of physical and chemical constit-
uents.
The requisite quantity to constitute
complete restitution can, however, be
only attained by literally putting back
the whole of the crops and living things
which have derived direct and indirect
~sustenance from the soil; and hence,
even if such an idea were not absurd,
it would be impracticable, since the
grains, seeds, cattle, poultry, milk,
butter and wool are all sent to market
and go to feed the teeming populations
of the towns.
Such manureS as we are able to
gather up and about our farms from
all sources, may consequently be
considered as the mere excess taken
from the soil by the crops gathered ill.,,
and would certainly not suffice of
themselves to stay the already marked
impoverishment and eventual eXhaus-
ton which must naturally be the effect
of such a comprehensive cause.
We may, therefore, consider the en-
ploymcnt Of chemical and artificial fer
tiiizing matters, as not n whit less
necessary in places where an abun-
dance of ot1al appears to exist, than it
is in other circumstances where there
is very little or none at all, and the
liberal employment, .judicious selection
and economical purpose of manufacture
of sound manuIial materials is the
fundamental condition Of successful
high farming.
We have very frequently observed
that in the minds of some farmers
producers Of large quantities of stable
otfal-the prevailing idea is that the
solid portions are those really valuable,
and that the liquid may be neglected
and abandoned. Our great object here
is to impress upon such men as these
the utter fallacy Of their opinions, and
the necessary for their immediate re-
form, and to persuade them that they
are continually making serious losses
by the waste of this precious fertilizer.
We suggest the adoption of a good
system of drainage in every stable, the
flooring of which should be upon a
slight incline to allow the liquid to pass
off with facility, by means of under
grounds pipes made, if possible, from
good refractory clay. The urine should
be conducted to tanks Or reservoirs, oil
a similar nature to those already re-
commended in q previous chapter, and
be kept well covered over. Those
tanks should be connected with a pump
by means of which the liquid could
frequently be made to saturats the
forming heaps of manure, thereby serv-
ing to steady and regulate the ferlnen-
tation or process of combustion going
on within. |,
If due weight is attached to these
points, they will produce the double
advantage of increasing the quantity
nf ammonia contained in the ultimate
manure, and of decreasing the risk of
communicating the wells or spring made
use of by the cattle, if not by the popu-
lation of the neighberhood.
The solid portions of the saturated
should be allowed to remain un-
der the cattle as long as is consistent
with health and convenience, and when
up should be carefully mixed
and deposited lin uniform layer upon
heap, are being taken to break up
and disseminate all lu:npy portions be-
fore the application of the liquid by .
means of the pumping process above
described. The very highest possible
will be obtained if, from the
commencement of each heap, the habit
IS contracted of regularly adding to
each layer, as it is put OH, a certain
evenly distributed quantity of some
artificial manure, the nature of which
will be dictated, and vary according to
wants of the soil and contemplated
rreps.-From Wyatt's "Modern High
Farming. i
The st. Landry Democrat thinks the
'eason there is so much indifference on
he part of the Young men of the pres