The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-21
ESSAY ON GRASS CULTURE,
Add the Accumulation and Management
of Stable and BarnYard Manure,
&c., Before the Orange County
Alliance.
ANIMAL MANURE.
= No. 2.
by James Norwood

the grasses Inc animal manure,
which should be made under shelter;
one load under shelter is worth three
out of doors, to say nothing Of the
difference in comfort to the animal.
The increased value of the MANURE
will soon pay for the shelter. AS you
all know, the general custom is, where
it is made under shelter, to throw it
out of doors" often under the drip, and
allow it to remain there for months
ITO rot" This is all wrong. Never
disturb your manure in the stables and
pen unless to haul and put it into the
ground as speedily as possible, or to
compost. The rule is to haul two
days, then stop and scatter lit is in
piles; if scattered as it is hauled, it
will in two days lose much of its value
by evaporation from wind and sun)
and pillow in, being careful to attach
| og chains to d%ouble-trees to pull it in
the furrow, with hands behind the
pillow with forks to put in all fakes
left on the surface. Keep your ami
mails we'll Uttered and the manure
under them will not inconvenience or
injure them, but if thrown into heap
with heat and "fre fang" thereby
losing the ammonia and most valuable
gases by escape. If your stables get
too full for comfort, and !it is out Of
season for hauling out and putting
into the ground, compost with earth,
&c, to absorb all of the valuables that
otherwise would escape.
In order to do this, you must pro-
vide rails for pens to compost in.
Move your old fences; plow up the
fence rows, haul it and other good
earth and deposit before your stable
doors. If you cannot get rich earth,
take any you can get and that is most
accessible. Never wait until it is
needed, for then it will never be done.
In composing, be sure and use
plenty of earth, n layer of manure
and a thick layer of earth, to prevent
heat. You may add to this cotton
seed, kainet, common salt, &c. When
you go to use this, remove the rails
from around the pen and cut straight
through it. This compost should be
applied to your lucerne in January as
a payment for it's labor of the past
season. You will not be doing too
much to add to this six hundred
pounds of fine fertilizer per acre in
March, and harrow, then roll, and the
additional yield of lucerne will pay
you a high rate of interest.
All the material at hand, this COM
posting may be done at odd times.
Often you Ire run out Of your crop
for a few hours or half a day; give
this time to the compost heap. In
stead of allowing your hogs to u in
IN empty lot through the winter, pen
them and keep plenty of leaves under
them. Through summer have every
animal, except sheep-it would be very
injurious to them-brought up and
Penned under shelter at night. Run
shem around the pen and allow them
30 stand ten or fifteen minutes before
Being turned out in the morning.
ALSO SUITABLE TOOLS
Tor the perfect preparation of the land
must be provided, such as good plows,
e~ultivators, roller and harrow. No
farmer in red clay should be without
. roller; if he once uses it he will
never again be without it, to ~pulverize
and level his land and pack small
stones in seeding grass out of reach of
the mower.
The best harrow | ever saw for the
purpose of grass culture is the Carhart.
/ paid $27 for one fourteen years ago.;
they can now be had for $l7-maYbe
less, to "the oppressed" l would not
take SIT for mine, after fourteen years
Of labor, if it could not be replaced.
It is reversible, put together in four
sections, ten teeth to the section, hitch
to n end, and it is a straight touch,
doing beautiful work and cultivating
every part of the land, it is especially
desirable for narrowing in clover and
grass, in the spring in fall.sown grain.
Hitch to the other end and it reverses
stself and is a smoothing harrow, per-
forming the work of the Thomas"
and maybe doing more perfectly it's
work. It is to me indispensable in
narrowing after blowing in manure,
clover, peas, &C., anything you do not
want disturbed after being turned
under.
/ will venture the assertion that l
make and apply more animal manure
than any three farmers in Orange,
yet it is not sufficient for my crop,
and l have this spring used FIVE tons
OF commercial manures in connection.
I cannot hire labor to work crops not
MANFRED. I have paid the cash and
get this fertilizer at bottom prices. I
use bone manures and believe them a
permanent improver of our land. l
am steadily improving my land and
increasing its value. [ would recon
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