Qi>> Compost and liquid Manur & — v " nes on cultivated Ia}id. Vol. VII. 



mud. - I even some por- 



tion of clay, will prove qut s sen ec-able 

 as if the whole mass were animal manure, 

 applied in a raw and unrn::. - S 



" farmers maintain, that the pro- 

 portion of animal manure requisite to im- 

 pregnate a large mass in compost, is much 

 less 1 I have alio - can be al- 



ways favourably cone in a well constructed 

 barn-yard. The bottom of a barn-yarc 

 always to be kept well covered with loam or 

 mud. or other matters to absorb the liquids 

 of the yard. But it may often be done to 

 advantage, where the manure on a field de- 

 signed to be cui: . reasonably carried 

 out and mixed with mould obtained from the 

 headlands to form the heap, which being 

 turned over and worked up once or 

 will then be fit for c - 



- another matter to which I invite 

 the attention of farmers ; that is, the saving 

 of liquid manures. In the best districts on 



utinent of Europe, the liquid parts 

 manure are considered in every respect equal 

 to the solid. There, provision is made for 

 saving and compounding them with the 

 great: in stone and water-proof} 



-.formed under their cow-houses. In 

 our daii - - roecially, where large 

 herds of cows are kept, a great amount of 

 I - manure misrht be secured by vaults, 

 formed under the stalls, with spouts leading 

 into them. With a view to the same object 

 likewise, the cattle, instead of lying in the 

 yards at night, should be always tied in 

 stalls. If the barn is properly ventilated, 

 and the stalls littered, they will lay i - 

 fortably and securely as in the yards : and 

 the savin? of manure would much more 

 oar for anv extra trouble which it 

 might be supposed to involve. These are 

 homely subjects, but as important as they 

 are homelv. Doubling our manures, is quad- 

 2 our crops; and whoever will look 

 .Lsdain upon a manure heap, is indiffer- 

 ent to some of the most wonderful opera- 

 tions of the economy of nature : and to the 

 most remarkable and instructive lessons of 

 philosophy. — L - a per. 



Le •■>••■ - — ther up leaves and put them 

 into your hog-yards: also decayed vegetable 

 substances of every kind. Anything that 

 make manure, is worth preserving. 

 Look around ycur premises and see how 

 much you can save in this way. Are there 

 no old heaps of ashes, or refuse matter of 

 any kind, encumbering your door-yards ! no 

 - of rich mould to be converted into 

 comoosL, to help the crops of the coming 

 year? 



Stores on (. ultivated Land. 



It is an error to suppose that stones should 

 rely removed from land which is un- 

 der cultivation. The stones which would be 

 in the way of the scythe while mowing, of 

 course should be removed, but all the smaller 



s should remain: and if wholly or par- 

 tially embedded in the soil, they preserve 

 the moisture during a drought, and thus 

 serve materially to increase the crop. The 

 following article from the Gentleman's Mag- 

 azine, published in 1773. is to that point : 



•• It has been long known to experienced 

 farmers, that taking away very small stones 

 and flints, is detrimental to ploughed lands 

 in general : but more particularly so to thin 

 light lands, and all lands of a binding nature. 

 It was. however, never imagined that the 

 damage could be so great, as it is now found 

 to be. since unusual quantities of flints and 

 other stones have been repeatedly gathered 

 for the use of turnpike and other roads. In 

 :' Sterenage, in Hertfordshire, 

 there is a field known by the name of Chalk- 

 dell field, containing about 200 acres: the 

 land in this field was formerly equal, if not 

 r, to most lands in that county: but 

 lying convenient for the surveyors of the 

 roads, they have picked it so often, and strip- 

 ped it of the flint and small stones to such a 

 degree, that it is now inferior to lands that 

 were formerly reckoned not much over half 

 its value, acre for acre. 



"Nor is it Chalkdell field alone that has 

 mater: - red in that county by the 



above mentioned practice; several thousand 

 - :rdering on the turnpike roads from 

 Wellwyn to Baldock, have been so much 

 impoverished, that the loss to the inherit- 

 ance forever, must be computed at a great 

 many thousand pounds. What puts it be- 

 yond a doubt that the prodigious impoverish- 

 ment of the land is owing to no other cause 

 but picking and carrying away th° stones, 

 is. that those lands have generally been most 

 impoverished, which have been most often 

 picked: nay, I know a field, part of which 



- eked, and the other part ploughed up 

 before they had time to pick it. where the 

 part that was picked, lost seven or eight 

 parts in ten, of two succeeding crops : and 

 though the whole field was manured and 

 managed in all respects alike, yet the impo- 

 verishment was visible where the stones had 

 been picked off, and extended not an inch 

 farther: an incontestable proof of the benefit 

 of the stones." — Exchange paper. 



Arrange your house in order due, 

 Your garden, gates, and fences too; 

 Neglect 's offensive, and what's worse. 

 It helps to make an empty purse. 



