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SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 



The following table of the comparative value of manures, deduced from 

 analyses made by Payen and Boussingault, will show the remarkable com- 

 parative value of the pea as a manuring crop, and it will be found other- 

 wise useful for i-eference : 



TABLE No. i. 



Kinds of Manure. 



Farm jard dung 



Dung water 



VVIieat straw , 



liyo Btraw 



Oat straw 



Barley straw , 



Wheat chaff. 



Pea straw 



Millet straw 



Buckwheat straw 



Dried potato tops 



Witli'd I'ves of beet-root 



Do. of potatoes 



Do. of carrots 



Do. of heather 



Do. of oak 



Do. of poplar 



Do. of beech 



Clover roots 



Burned seaweed 



Oyster shells 



Sea shells 



Sea side marl 



Solid cowduiig 



Urine of cows 



Solid horse-dung 



Horse urine 



Pig dung , 



Sheep dung 



Pigeon dung 



Guano 



Do 



Fresh bones , 



Feathers , 



Woolen rags 



Horn shavings 



Coal soot 



Wood soot 



Picardv allies 



Nitrogen in | Quality 

 \W) of matter, according 

 I state. 



D.y. Wet. I 



0-41 

 0-06 

 0-24 

 0-i7 

 0-28 

 0-23 

 0-8.'-. 

 1-79 

 0-78 

 0-48 

 0-37 

 O-hO 

 O-S.'i 

 0-8.J 

 1-74 

 1-18 

 0-54 

 1-18 

 1-61 

 0-38 

 0-39 

 0-0.5 

 O-.Tl 

 0-32 

 0-44 

 0-5.5 

 2-61 

 0-63 

 1-11 

 8-30 

 5-00 

 13-95 

 5-31 

 Glll5-34 



78 14-36 



1-3 



1-1 

 0-65 



Dry.i 



Too 



230 



117 



150 



97 



80 



66 



78 



90 



00 



20 



3 



26 



117 



194 



113 



641 



172 



1.53 



462 



323 



807 



903 

 1039 



809 

 8i 

 67 

 36 



Wet. 

 100 

 2 



60 



42-; 



70 



57-; 

 212-; 

 447-; 

 195 

 120 



92-; 

 125 

 137-; 

 212-; 

 425 

 293 

 134 

 294 

 402-; 



95 



80 



13 

 1-28 



80 

 110 



137-; 



652-; 



1,57-5 



277 

 2075 

 1247 

 3487 

 1326 

 3835 

 4495 

 3;590 



337 



287 



162-5 



Egnivnlent 

 according 

 to statf. 



Dry. 



ToT 



1-27 



6.50 



975 



542 



7.50 



207 



100 



203 



361 



453 



43 



85 



66 



103 



125 



167 



102 



110 



488 



488 



3750 



377 



84 



51 



88 



15i 



58 



65 



2H 



■ill 



12^ 



11 

 95 



1-22 

 149 

 275 



lOU 



68 

 167 

 •235 

 143 

 174 



47 



22 



51 



S3 

 108 



80 



73 



47 



23 



34 



74 



34 



25 

 105 

 125 

 769 



78 

 125 



91 



73 



15J 



63 



36 

 5 



80 



28 i 

 ^ 1 



• 2 



Remarks. 



Average of Bechelbronn. 

 Washed by the rain. 

 Fresh of Alsace, 1838. 

 Of Alsace. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



Of mangel-wurzel. 

 VVitl'.ered top and leares. 



Dried in the air. 

 Leaves fallen in autamn. 



do. 



do. 

 Dried in the air. 



Dried sea shells of Dunkirk 



The horse drank but little, the 

 [urine waa thick 



Of Bechelbronn. 

 Imp. into Eng. in its ord. state 

 Imp. into France, do. 

 As sold by the meltera 



It will be seen that pea straw is worth, as a manure, from 5 to 9 times 

 as much as the straws of the small grains — is better than clover roots, and 

 actually equals farm-yard dung ! 



Rye, oats and barley send tip a good growth of straw, in many parts 

 of this zone, even where the product of grain is small ; and, sown in the 

 fall, they afford sweet green pasturage, during the entire winter, in the 

 more southern latitudes. This is a very important and a very favorable 

 consideration in an economical sy.stem of sheep husbandry. All winter 

 green feed (roots) in the Northern States mu.st be cultivated, harvested, 

 protected from the frosts of winter in cellars, and daily fed out — which ne- 

 cessarily renders it expensive. Where winter field crops can be depaa- 

 tui'ed on the ground, it saves the greatest proportion of this expense ; and, 

 though winter giecn feed is not indispensable to sheep, it promotes their 

 liealth, early maturity, and is especially valuable to breeding-ewes. AH 

 the crops above named, too, can be profitably made use of as green 

 manure. 



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