The morning news., 1899-12-04
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

Making Compost in the FurrOws-A
One-Acre Garden-Bnd Roads and
Their Cost-FIorfda Orange Gull
ture Reviving-The Farmer and
Farm Life.
Where a farmer has god shelter and
plenty Of materials for making compost,
there is no danger Of his lack ng something
to do during the bad weather Of WIN er. A
thrifty, pushing farmer who determining
TO secure he very highest success possible
and conducts his work on business prin-
cipes realizes that he must have few
idle days as any merchant, banker or
manufacturer. 50 he provides suitable
work for its appropriate season, or to suit
the weather, and he does not permit work
that can be done indoors to encroach upon
time that should be devoted to outs de
work. When he has the necessary shel er,
which it Is economy 70 have, he viii allot
the work Of compost-making to The time
of freezing, rainy weather in December or
January. Some winters We have good
deal of this kind OF weather, and then
again we have very dttle of it, AS an aver
age thing the winters of our latitude do
not afford more than 20 or 80 days all to-
gether when. all outdoor work is barred,
and the Southern farmer when not engag-
cd in ploughing and manuring can employ
himself in cleaning up, in ditching, fence
making and improving his farm buildings,
when the Northern farmer must of neces-
sity be altogether idle.
Where a farmer has a good supply OF
cotton seed for fertilizing purposes and
fair quantity of stable manure of good
quality free from stalks and trash it can
very proftably be worked up into compost
according TO the usual formula,
But as a general rule we have found ii a
far more economical plan TO compost all
the bulky materials about the farm right
in the furIows whe ii is wanted for man
ure. The lard should be furrowed in due
time in November or December, and from
time to time all the animal and vegetab
matter that can he gathered together
about the farm should be hauled cut ami
deposited in these burrows. 1t should lie
spread evenly along in the furrows and
whatever of mineral fertilizer that is de-
signed to be used should be sprinkl over
this animal and vegeta bic mater.
Two hundred pourds of acid phosphate
mixed with 100 pounds of kainit thus ap-
pied in the furrow with the stable ma
nure or lot scrapings win make a very
fair manuring for our ordinary staple
crops A great many farmers are deferred
from putting in manure in the winter from
the erroneous opinion that there is consid-
cradle waste Of the fertilizng elements of
the manure. But there is little or no vase,
so little even on sandy land that 1t Is not
TO be reckoned. BY taking advantage of all
the good weather that occurs in DecemNee
and January a great deal of money-making
work can be done in the winter that Of
tener than not is not made use of.
Nowadays 1t is only the farmer that is
far away from a cotton oil mill that uses
the cotton seed for manure, and conse-
quently there is not much seed used in
making compost as there once was. Cot
ton seed meal decomposes more rapidly
than the whole seed, so there is no actual
need for its being in the soil so long in
advance of planting as it is for the seed,
but on good loamy soil there Is no waste
II It is put in the ground as early as jan
uary. The burrows should not be deep,
but shallow and broad, and when the com
post is put in the burrows 1t should be
covered by a furrow run on each side of
the manure furrow. 1t will greatly eXpe-
dite the work of spring to have as much
land as possible thus rldged up and as
much of il as possible manured.