The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-12-05
FARMER AND PLANTER.
SAVE THE MANURE.

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important subject of the saving an
| Judicious use of manure.
L have hesitated to write on the sul
lect because doubted whether coul
interest the average Texas farme,
when we come to think a bout It. Their
is quite large post q al an
hill lands that viii b, creativ benef,
ed by manure as well as horizonta
culture, besides gardens everywher
need it.
II is only question of time when
VIII be used even on the black lands.
would use it now. 1 remember YER,
well when in the rich Mississippi ant
Red river valleys the cotton seed wer,
thrown into the bayous, and allowed
TO accumulate at the gin houses INIT
In the summer they created a stencil
and malaria atmosphere that was very
offensive
Sometime in the torties several plap
tiers visited the hill country of east
LOUISIANA and became familiar will
this system of using cotton seed. and
began to manure with them on thei,
farms. 1t was soon found the lands
produced as well as when thew were
new. 1t became general in all that
country, and the crops, especially of
corn, were wonderfully increased. In
the older states it was a continual
study and labor to make and save all
the manure practicable. Now it is in
the hunds mainly of a set of IMPROVE
dent renters that care not how fast the
land wears out, and the consequence
is the country is going to ruin.
We used leaves and straw In the lots
and stalls for beds for the horses. and
when cleaned out was put on the land
In the burrows and covered for both
corn and cotton. have seen here in
Texas lots cleaned up with road scra-
pers, and the manure dragged out on
to the river banks, to wash off when
a little more labor would have put it
on the land adjoining the lots in such
a manner as to produce two or three
bales more cotton. / have witnessed
this more than once.
Any farmer or gardener who will ex-
pertinent little will find it paws to
save and use considerable amount of
it, and especially if put out in the fall
or early winter, and plowed under. In
gardens it may be spread over it. and
let the rains wash it in, or it NAV be
spaded under.
Cow and sheep lots, where they are
penned in the summer, may be sown
m turnips or oats for sheep and cattle
N the winter. Whenever farmer be-
yins to experiment with 1t he will
never give it up.
1 never rot my stable manure. IL
earned better many years age. You
'hould have plenty of stalls and keen
I dry until you clean out and haul on
% your land and put into the furrow
ma corn. Two good men with shovels |
viii haul and put out very fast from |
he wagon. When You have it covered |
III the fermentation, all the gases are
etained in the soil and go to produce |
our crop, and one load is worth more
han two rotted in the pen or manure
cap, where the sun, rain and heat |
vaporates and wash much of the ele-
nents of fertility away. In this drv
Innate the fall manuring, as a rule. is
be best Melons and Irish potatoes
equire well-rotted manure. Scrapinps
rom wood yards and where hogs have
cen cleaned is good for potatoes. The
lanure from the poultry should be put
p in barrels and carefully saved. and
very valuable in your garden. Save
II your ashes, all the bones you can
ct and burn them in a brush pile.
nough to make. them brittle. and
ound them up and mix with ashes
nd rusty iron from the blacksmith
Top, and put around your pear trees.
tier removing the dirt down to the
'ots three or four feet in diameter.
GU will find it better than cutting off
lc roots, or coat of bermuda grass
iat Will be your master the balance
your life.
You Eay dissolve the boness with
ude sulphnric acid, or lime and ashes
i'll soften them, but it Is a..sfow nro-
SIS. found the burning or scorch-
g the best and quickest. ,Iamaware !
at you lose considerable in the value
the bones by the FIRE. You will find {
a year or twothe little pear rootlets 4
Inging to the bones with great ,
nacity. All the ashes Except pine)
ould be carefully saved and used on r
rden, orchard aud, vineyards. I
1t Is well to have manure pen con- n
nient where all the sweepings and +
ash are,deposited and all soap suds
pm the wash tub In process of time =
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