52 BOARD or AGRICULTURE. 



orated, and their owners impoverished by neglecting to keep 

 np the supply of manure which is within their own reach, 

 and keeping down the bushes and shrubs, both in the fields 

 and pastures, than from all other causes. Let us look for a 

 moment at the successful farmer, for we, I am happy to say, 

 have more or less in eyery toM^n among us, that class of men 

 whose keen eye and muscular arm, (as the political orator 

 terms it, when addressing that class of men on great and mo- 

 mentous issues of the times — and these are thick and often 

 when their bread and butter are at stake), not only secures 

 all the muck along the creeks and bogs, the mouldy grass in 

 the swales and by the road-side, and the liquid manure run- 

 ning under the stables, but sows broadcast over his fields not 

 only the materials already named, but all kinds of refuse ac- 

 cumulating around and about his buildings, and with the 

 plowshare covers them deep in the soil to moulder and return 

 to their first state and enrich the soil for future crops. 



Every farmer should rely mainly upon his stock for manure. 

 Cattle and horses should be stalled or yarded by night upon 

 the refuse hay, straw, forest leaves, and fine dried loam or 

 muck. Sheep and hogs should be kept on every farm. Accre- 

 tions to the manure pile may be made from various sources, 

 including all decaying vegetable and animal matter, waste and 

 wash from the kitchen, muck from the swamps, and leaves 

 from the forest. That there are a great many special fertili- 

 zers in the different sections of our State, and in ample amount 

 for a continual supply of all the yearly drain upon the resour- 

 ces of our fiirms, we have no good reason to doubt. The 

 coast line from Kittery in the county of York, to Eastport 

 in Washington county, including all the inlets, bays and estu- 

 aries, has an aggregate extent of hundreds of miles, and every 

 mile abounds with and can furnish stores of fish, sea-weed and 

 mussel-bed, for the manuring of all the fields along the coast 

 of our State ; lime is also plenty and cheap in the tide-water 

 region. 



Now, gentlemen, I do not wish to be understood, that after 

 taking all the pains and care possible to save all the mass of 



