1838] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



73 



Fourth Crop. * 



Caulirtowers-, htiads, . - - - 

 Celery, ilo. - - - - ■ 



■Scotch kale, do. - - - - • 

 •Ruta-baga, 3500 plants expressly ibr the 

 leaves. 



50 

 75 

 60 



Statement of the cost and keep of a cow, with 

 •an account ol' her produce: 



Dr. 



April 1836, Cash paid for cow, 



to Do. for hay, 



Dec. 1837, Do. corn- meal, 

 Do. pasture. 



April 1836, By 225, lbs. butter 23. per 



to pound, - - _ 



Dec. 1837. Calf sold for 



Milk Ibr house estimated 



at two quarts per day, 

 Cash received ibr milk sold 

 chiefly butter milk. 



S20,00 

 42,00 

 20,00 

 12,00 



|94,00 

 Cr. 



$56,25 

 12,00 



45,50 



147,25 



Deduct, 

 Gain on cow, 



$261,00 

 94,00 



S 167,03 



Statement of the cost and keep of two pigs : 

 Dr. 



Oct. 1837. Cash paid for two piijs, 

 Do. for corn meal, 



Dec; 1837. By 160 lbs. pork, 8 cents 



per pound 

 By seven pigs fit for table 



in three weeks 

 By one sow, value 



Deduct 



Gain on two pig5, 



S' 10.00 

 2,00 



§12,00 

 Or. 



812,00 



838,80 

 12,00 



$26,80 



Statement of the cost, keep and produce of 3 

 pair chickens. 



Dr. 



Sept. 1835, Cash paid f()r three pair 



to chickens, 



Dec. 1837. Do. for oats, corn etc. 



Sept. 1835, fiy 2500 eggs 12d. per do- 



lo zen 



Dec. 1837. By 143 fowls, 



Carried forward 



$ 2.50 

 57,25 



$58,75 



$26,62 

 71,50 



98,12 



* The whole of the fourth crop is at this time 

 growing in the open air, except the cauliflowerSj 

 which have been taken up, hom time to time. 

 Vol. VI— 10 



Brought over 

 On hand 16 do. 



Deduct 



Gain on chickens. 



98.12 

 b'OO 



B 106,12 

 59,72 



$46,37 



l''rom Joluison on Liquid Manure. 



ON THE USE AND VALUE OF LIQUID 

 MANURE. 



The absolutely fluid portion of the London 

 sewei-s consists, generally .speaking, of a mix- 

 ture of urine, soap-suds, street, and other wash- 

 ings, blood iioni the slaughter houses, &c. &c,, 

 an immense mass of liquid which is natural- 

 ly of the most ferliiizing description. Thus it 

 has been found by those who are most deeply con- 

 versant with the admirable system of irrigation, 

 or watering meadows, that the water taken from 

 a river below even a small town, is infinitely more 

 fertilizing, from its waters being mixed with the 

 town drainage, than when taken from the river 

 above the town, and consequently unmixed witii 

 the sewer waters. These matters can almost al- 

 ways be made available near large cities, and there 

 are one or two ca.<es with which 1 am acquainted, 

 as in the fields near Alussel burgh, which are tra- 

 versed by the Edinburgh town drain waters, in 

 which the use of the mass is productive of a 

 growth of grass of the most luxuriant description, 

 ensuring to the farmer four or five crops in each 

 year. And it must be remembered in the cases 

 which i have quoted from the practical observa- 

 tions of the talented irrigators of the south of 

 England, that the drainage, Avhich ihey have 

 found so useful, is not employed by them as it is- 

 sues li-oni the town sewers, but is, in fact, mixed 

 and diluted with all the waters of the river. Li- 

 quid manure has ever been gladly and zealously 

 employed by the most able cultivators of the earth 

 from very early periods, and is daily coming more 

 and more into use, even with the most sluggish and 

 indolent fiirmers. The knowledge of its value 

 too is not confined to one country, nor has it been 

 one of the many valuable modern products of ve- 

 getable chemist ry, Tlius we learn iiom Sir George 

 Staunton, ('Embassy to China,') that the Chinese 

 farmers ever preler night soil mixed with water; 

 and irrigation, which is, as usually practised, the 

 most diluted method ol applying liquid .manure, 

 was known to the Roman liuniersin Virgil's days. 

 Georgics, 1. iv. 106—9. 



It is hardly necessary to show that the urine, 

 the blood, the soap-suds, and other fluids of the 

 Lonilon drains, are well known fertilizers, since 

 every firmer is aware of the fact. He gladlysaves 

 all descriptions of urine for his dunghill — carefully 

 collects and carrle.?, even Ibr miles, the semi-fluid 

 refuse of the slaughter-houses, and readily gives a 

 considerable price Ibr even the soap-maker's waste, 

 since he is fully aware of the value of the small 

 quantity of alkaline matters yet remaining even 

 in that; and while I am writing this sentence, a 

 paragraph has been pointed out, to me in an ex- 

 cellently conducted paper, the 'Sussex Agricultural 

 Express,' which details the admirable fertilizing 

 re.=ulis of using, as a watering lor vegetables, a 

 very weak solution of soda (one pound in fourteen 

 gallons) and stated, a? u!5 instance, that the vege- 



