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XEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



A CABT FOR DISTRIBUTING LIQUID MAITURE. 



For the New England Farmer. 



LIQUID MANURE. 



Mr. Editor : — In answer to your Chicopee cor- 

 respondent, in last week's Farmer, I can assure 



very limited knowledge of practical agriculture, he 

 never could for a moment have doubted the ])racti- 

 cability of such plain, simple, every-day operations 

 as that to which he alludes. For his better infor- 

 mation, however, on the subject of distributing 



aini that I generally find but little difficulty in j liquid manure, and that of other farmers of the old 

 making rational, thinking, practical farmers in this school who read your interesting and valuable pa- 

 juarter of the country believe in the doctrine that P^^^- I herewith send you a representation of Cros- 

 .he fertilizing properties of barn manure are often *'"'''* J^k^i-id Manure Cart, in common use in Brit- 

 very much deteriorated, if not entirely destroved, ' tain, and many paits of this country, which you may 

 by exposure but for a few davs to the" influence ofjP"bl'«h if you please, as it may have a better ten- 

 the intense heat and drying Avinds of this climate, ^ency to dispell doubt on the subject than anything 



when thinly spread in the common way as a top- 

 dressing for grass lands ; and that I have often 

 seen cow manure, in particular, so much reduced in 

 weight from exposure, that it was fit for fuel, and 

 have repeatedly seen poor people in some parts of 

 Europe using it for that purpose, in less than a 

 week after it had been spread out to dry. Now if 

 there can be any great amount of fertilizing matter 

 remaining in it by the time it can be used as a sub- 

 stitute for wood, I should like your Chicopee far- 

 mer to inform me where it may be found. That 

 the benefits to be derived to grass from top-dress- 

 ing, with soHd manures of any kind, depend entire- 

 ly on the quantity of rain that may chance to fall 

 unexpectedly after the dressing has been put on, is 

 a fact established beyond a doubt, and is admitted 



1 have time to add at present, being busy in plant- 

 ing operations. At a more convenient season, you 

 may hear from me again concerning this matter. 

 This distribution cart is made of boiler plate iron, 

 and holds two hundred and fifty gallons. It is pro- 

 vided with a perforated partition, which adds to the 

 strength, and prevents a sudden surge in passing 

 over uneven ground. The improved spread board 

 is ada])tecl to watering broad-cast, either level or 

 unlevel lands ; and by a simple, mechanical contri- 

 vance, the liquid is regulated to spread equally on 

 the surface, and has an apparatus for watering 

 two rows of turnips, any required width. The iron 

 rod is attached to the shaft, and fitted to a brass 

 lever valve, and with this rod, the driver without 

 stopping his horse, can instantly increase or de- 



by every inteUigent farmer in this part of the coun- crease the liquid, as required to manure the land, 

 try. And some of these thinking, practical farmers The pump is fitted into a grooved recess at the end 

 round these parts make from five to seven thousand , of the cart, and may easily be put in or taken out. 

 dollars a year from the produce of their farms, af-l^"}' length of hose may be added to suit conve- 

 ter paying all necessary expenses; and to keep "ience. This pump does not choke, even when 

 probabilities always in view when one writes— as he 'the liquid is nearly as thick as puddle, which is a 

 says— I would again inform him that with proper 'tatter of considerable importance, although I have 

 apparatus, and a fair field within a reasonable dis- l^ot time at present to give a full description of this 

 tance of the tank, I will undertake to manure effect- i.^^n^^erful machine; but the plate will explain for 

 ually — for one dressing — from six to eight acres of |itse|f. T. C. 



grass land in a day, and not consider myself over- 

 tasked, although I have seen nearly sixty summers. 

 If your Chicopee farmer had had faith as a grain of 

 mustard seed in modern improvements, and but a 



Beverly, West Beach, May, 1856. 



Remarks. — Our attentive correspondent we trust 

 will excuse us for presenting the reader with an en- 



