The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-08
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
CARELESS HANDLING OF
HOMEMADE FERTILIZER.
How 1t May Be Made Rich and Coz
centrated-UsIng Salt for Pot.
toes - horticultural Notes
aud Household Helps.
Home Made Fertilizer.

Having read OF the wonderful re-
suits from the use OF chemical ferti-
lizers, it is no wonder that farmers
are 80 careless of the home made pro-
duct when they should use all posi-
BILE care in saving the same from
waste. Experiments OF many kinds
have fully convinced me that it is fol-
ly to allow stable manure to be ex-
posed to the elements OF the weather
without proper protection from drench-
ing rains which will wash out valu-
able plant foods which are important
as a whole. The following plan is
the one | have found best, to make
rich concentrated. home made ferti-
lizer: Feed rich food. consisting of
mixed hay, bran. oats, linseed and
cotton seed meal, with a small allow
ance of corn meal, with oat straw as
bedding, and absorbents for the
liquids plaster. coal ashes aud pine
sawdust and the small part of tobacco
stems. The covered stable manure is
each day sprinkled with ground alum
salt and phosphate plaster. with the
addition OF one barrel of horse-hoof
parings mixed with the pile each
week. well sailed before mixing.
The manure made from this rich
feeding would heat to a dangerous ex-
tent under the covered yard in which
1t Is kept but the heat is controlled
by using salt in h good large dose; q
little salt would increase the heat to q
dangerous extent; this salt is used al
80 to act on the phosphate plaster to
make soluble the per cent OF phos-
phoric acid it contains. This concen-
trated. home made fertilizer is extra
rich in nitrogen, phosphoric acid,
potash, sulphate OF lime magnesia,
chloride OF sodium, and a complete
saving of ammonia by the use OF plaster
and phosphate plaster, which is q
waste product made up of sulphate Of
lime, phosphoric acid and sulphuric
acid, and the best ammonia trap in
existence. The tobacco stems are ex-
ira rich IN potash. This concen-
trated homemade fertilizer is kept
from all rains until ready for use, and
would increase the production OF any
crop with proper cultivation. In the
manufacture of home made ferti-
lizers, farmers should endeavor to add
materials which contain some valuable
chemical properties Earth taken
from cultivated fields and mixed with
ordinary stable or barn-yard manure,
Is useless waste Of time and labor.
Leaves from the woods with the ad-
dition OF the mold of the woods,
would make valuable addition, but
II used in large quantity, but one ele-
ment OF fertility would be added, and
1t would not make a com
plete manure; but if limo and
salt were added to the compost OF
leaves and mold, they would
improve it, and add some further ele-
ments of fertility; but no lime, except
sulphate, should be used in any fer
menting stable manure This compost
would be rich if kept some time, turned
over several times and kept under
cover. 1t would contain large per
cent of nitrate OF potash-containing
nitrogen and potash-and with The
purchase, of a limited amount of South
Carolina floats, to be added to the
leavce and mold would make COM
plete manure The salt would help tC
mako soluble the phosphoric acid con.
tanned IN the S. c. floats The use Of
liquid manure in composing with
earth and other rubbish. is frequently
q loss of time, labor and the value o.
same, unless you can use a certain
amount OF plaster Of some other chem
ical, to hold the ammonia of the liquid
portion. and then be sure to keep
under cover to prevent the very loss
, which the chemicals were used for
1t will have its full stength and be o
} the best quality when ready for use
and improve greatly with age.
} A valuable, homemade. concen
; trated fertilizer could be made on ev
cry farm, says the Practical Farmer
} with little care and attention, will
the addition of dry earth, ashes ant
| plaster, added to a homemade eartl
closet and the handling Of same woult
8 prove less offensive than any othe
fertilizer on the farm. The time i
coming, and not far distant whel
this waste of the farm will add con
siderable fertility to the land, and ais
TO the health Of the public.