Year: 1877

Mapes on Manure.

 The proportions of salt and lime, oi which I make mixture, is one bushel of salt to three bushels of slacked iime' This mixture put in a cistern, hogs head or barrel, and keep 1t fiiled wltn water placing the cistern m the ground, on one side where l make heap of manure. In former years when l carried on quite a large farming business, and kept five horses, and other stock, built a manure shed adjoining my horse stable, of the same length as the stable. The floor of the stable was slightly inclined to the rear, aud all of the urine would run to the hack part. Here l left an opening into the manure shed, and made a water tight floor, descending from both sides to the centre. In the centre, and under this floor placed tight trough emptyiug into the cistern. Upon this floor the manure was thrown every day from the stables. The liquid in the cis- tern was pumped over the manure two or three times week, and all the surplus which was not absorbed by the manure, run back into the cistern. When the water was exhausted, an additional quantity was supplied. By this method, all the animal excrements, both solid and liquid, were preserved.

 The effect of this mode of procedure is to preserve the whole of the manure without exposure to the sun or the rains, and thus evaporation and washing away are both prevented, and, consequently, a large saving of the most valuable parts of the manure. The direct effect of this salt and lime mixture upon the manure is to hasten decomposition, while all the properties of the manure are preserved. to destroy the germinating power of foul seeds, which usually are such terror to the farmer, and to reduce the whole mass, coarse or fine, to such a condition as will enable the workingmen to handle and use it as they would ground gypsum, or any other fine fertilizer. Whenever the mass becomes warm, and likely to lire fang" set the pumps to work. and qul- etus will be placed on it at once. have generally kept in the stable barrel Of ground gypsum, which l have sprinkled around the stalls two or three times 8 week, which prevents the rising of the carbonate of ammonia from the decom- posing excrements, in the stable, which IS so destructive to the eyes and lungs of lorses. By this process, an almost un- limited amount of the very best manure may be made on the farm in year. And the beauty of the operation is, that you know of what it is composed, and ton for ton is worth more than any arti- fcial fertilizer which you can buy at from $50 to $70 per ton,-L y. MaDes.

 Econs my of Green Manuriug.

 The economy and desirability of green crop manuring over all other methods, excepting irrigation, is evident from the low cost and availability to all from the large quantity of nitrogen and valuable chemicals obtained at lower cost than by any other manure; from the superior cultivation the land receives during this process, and finally because the poorest land can be redeemed in one year by the ability to blow under three crops in a single season, or by planting rye, buck wheat and corn, thus supplying all the minerals demanded by any crop. The best practical illustration of the value of green maturing is furnished by some of the finest farming lands in New York state, that are producing more now than they did twenty-five years ago, and yet have been treated with clover only dur ing the past seventy-fve-years, furnished excellent crops in the rotation of wheat oats, corn, barley and grass. The best method of handling clover for green Inanuring is to sow the seed early and mow or blow under about the middle of June; if mown, let it remain spread over the ground. as mulch and top dressing, and second crop will mature sufficiently by the last of August to mow again and blow under in September. Clover and its roots average a washed weight of two and one-quarter pounds to the square foot, or forty-nine tons per acre. Rye and corn will furnish two crops in .one. season by blowing the rye under when in the milk, then sowing one and one- half bushels of corn per acre, cutting it and permitting it to remain as top-dressing during the winter. The great value of rye as green manure consists in the fact that it's component parts are nearly the same as stable manure, ton for ton, except slight diff fering in phosphoric acid Rye will grow where no other crop can rye and buckwheat do we'll together, and cutting the buckwheat when in blossom will furnish second crop. Oats and barley are valuable as green manures, barley being richer than any grain or grass in potash or phesphoric acid. Oats will yield the greatest weight in straw and grain if cut in the milk. Green manures gather daily supplies of moisture, espe- uially if on the surface, feeding the organic world with nourishing food or blood, which can not be obtained from ordinary manure when plowed under The latter often remains worthless from dry-rot or heat produced from lack oi moisture needed to bring out its value Another decided advantage possessed by green manures is the large amount Ol water the contain for supplying the growing plants through drought, while other manures only consume the water in the soil.-Maine Fdmer

 Settling Coffee.

 This can be done without anything being put into your coffee to settle it. It only wants to be known how to handle jl. Put your ground coffee into the coffee>pot, and add cold water sufficient fer use, if but few cups are wanted,