The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-12-05
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MANURE WITHOUT MONEY.

MANURE WITHOUTMONEY.
How Southern Farmers can Make their
Fertilizers mt Home.
It seems impossible in these t;mes of
scarcity that we shall have anything
without money. It is certainly true that
re get nothing valuable without effort.
five were more impressed that time and
effort are both money, we might avail
ourselves ss farmero of more abundant
resources. Whilst it may be :rue, there
fore, that re may not be able, literally,
to get manure for our farms without
money, it is true that we can get it in
large measure without the direct expen-
diture of currency. 1t is further true
that we can get it by the use Of time and
effort, at snch aeasoDa as these resources
may not avail us as much income in any
other way as money.
The main manurul resources OF every
farm should be the bernyard. As winter
approaches feel that cannot do better
on this line than to urge again tie stab.
ling of all stock; the profit will be found
more than enough to cover expenses ir
the better condition OF the stock and tbs
saving of feed to keep them the accunu-
lntion of manure will therefore be clear
profit, and, indeed, MAY be said to be
"1napure without money"
This may be very much increased by
the addition of matter, otherwise practi-
cally yalueless, in the shape of straw
leaves and any kind Of waste that will
make good absorbent. By the incor-
poration of such waste, the waste itself is
made valuable and the character of the
manure is improved, IS it is prevented
from deterioration by heating. In the
use of help and teams at such times as
they are not needed on the farms in the
manipulation of matter thatis considered
worthless we can accumulate a great deal
of fertilizipg matter that will make more
s'manure without money"
Again, it has been generally supposed
that the value of barnyard manure de-
pends upon the animal altogether, and
that the droppings from horses were
necessarily more valuable than the drop
pings from COWS. Now it is believed that
it depends as much, and possibly more,
upon the character OF the food furnished.
Horses have generally ueceiyed richer
ration than cattle, and ne we're in this
way led to believe that horses could fur
nish us the better grade ofmanure. The
experiments in feeding cattle upon cotton
seed meal and cotton seed hulls has de-
monstrated the very great cheapneSs of a
very valuable manure. Upon good
authority tits asserted that the manure
made in COW barn from feeding one
ton Of cotton seed meal is worth as much
as the meal before feeding. If this is
true we can again have .'mauure without
money" literally, as, at the end of the
process, we have as much as we started
with, and the beef, milk and butter
besides. Our farms need such economic
methods ofmaking values withoutexpen'
ditures, income without cost and profits
without losses.
To neglect these resources and others
that are easily available on thefarms and
look to highly concentrated fertilizer in
the markets to recover our lands and
make our crops is hurtfully extravagant.
It brings with it no vegetable matter or
humus-nature's way of making soil; it
gives It's help to the immediate yield and
it ia gone with the money that brought
1t. Barnyard manure comes to stay, and
stay with profit. have seen its helpful
effect on lot for fen successive years.
Its cost was nominal; its yield yas abun-
dant. In very short time the fields on
the farms will be relieved of their crops.
Our usual plan has been to open the
fences and give the run oftbe land to all
Kinds of stock. A different plan will
give us "more manure without money"
If the remnant left in the fields after
gathering the crop-stalks, stubbs, grass
and weeds-was allowed taremain on the
land and become incorporated with the
soil We would accord partially, at least,
with natures plan of fertility aud gather
a better income than by having the fields
6rst cleaned and then worked into mud
during the inclement days of winter.
At the risk of being charged with fre-
quent repetition, I want to insist upon
small grain, grass and peas as bountiful
source of fertilization not only without
cost, but accompanied wish actual profit.
The season for making manure, as |
have indicated, is now we'll upon US.
Economy successfully practiced begins
in time; every opportunity missed carries
with it corresponding waste, and every
waste must affect, hurtfully, every inter-
est which its prudent use could help.
For the coming season let us lay we'll
our plans to make manure without
money."-W. j. Northern in Southern
Cultivator.
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