The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-11-06
FARMER AND PLANTER.
SAVE THE MANURE.

IA @rucics without something on IL
important subject of the saving an
= 1udicious use Of manure.
d have hesitated to write on the sui
% 1ect because doubted whether I coul
g interest the average Texas farme,
;" When we come to think about Il. ther
Is Is quite large post O Ak an
MI! lands that will be greatly benefi,
= 60 by manure as well as horizonta
!. culture. besides gardens everywher
I ~ IS only question of time when |
! Will De used even on the black lands,
would use it now. I remember yer,
well when in the rich Mississippi ant
he'd river valleys the cotton seed wer,
thrown into the bayous, and allowed
TO accumulate at the gin houses unit
IN the summer they created a stencil
, ana malarial atmosphere that was very
offensive. -
Sometime in the forties several plan
ters visited the hill country Of east
Louisiana and became familiar with
TINS system of using cotton seed, and
began to manure with them on their
farms. 1t was soon found the lands
produced as well as when they were
new. 1t became general in all that
country, and the crops, especially of
corn. were wonderfully increased. In
the older states it was continual
study and labor to make and save all
the manure practicable. Now it is in
| the hands mainly of 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. l have seen here in
Iexas lots cleaned up with road scra-
pers, ana the manure dragged out on
70 tine river banks, to wash off. when
little more labor would have mt IL
on the land adjoining the lots in such
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 |
u, 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 thew are
penned in the summer, NAV be sown
In turnlps or oats for sheep and cattle
in the winter. Whenever a farmer be-
gins to experiment with it he will
never give it up.
l never rot my stable manure. +
learned better many years age. You
should have plenty of stalls and keep
t dry until you clean out and haul on
20 your land and put into the furrow
Ind corn. Two good men with shovels
VIII haul and put out very fast from
he wagon. When you have it covered
vi 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
and wash much Of the ele-
1ents OF fertility away. In this dry
Innate the fall manuring, as rule, is
ne best Melons and Irish potatoes
equire well-rotted manure. Scrapings
'om 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
4 your ashes, all the bones you can
et and burn them in brush pile. 2
,ough to make them brittle, and =
ound them up and mix with ashes
i'd rusty iron from the blacksmith
Top, and put around your pear trees, q
ter removing the dirt down to the o
ots three or four feet in diameter. al
gu will find it better than cutting off D
e roots, or coat of Bermuda grass
at will be your master the balance "
your life. I'll
You may dissolve the bones with IL
ude sulphuric acid, or lime and ashes
III soften them, but it is slow pro-
S. I found the burning or scorch- sb
3 the best and quickest. am aware. ia
at you lose considerable in the value It
the bones by the fire. You will find no
year or two the little pear rootlets su
nginR to the bones with great sb
aacity. All the ashes Except pine) sill
ould be carefully saved and used on .
rden, orchard and vineyards. =.
t is well to have q manure pen con-
lient where all the sweepings and az az
.sh are deposited and all soap suds IN
IN the wash tub. In process of time err
4 viii have some fine manure. lo'
have seem in Texas peach trees WI
y much improved on black land I'M
ere cotton died in spots las was en-
'posed) from too much alkali by the :
'lication of strong ashes from a nu
h-place near by. would have the
iteted to use them myself, but the nu
provement was very marked. the