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Manures. — Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VII. 



that he said in a speech in Congress, "he 

 would go a mile out of his way to kick a 

 sheep!" A Lancaster County Farmer. 



Pequea, January 23d, 1843. 



Manures. 



" Many a mirkle make a muckle." 



Scrape up the droppings from your cows 

 in your avenues and door-yards. Get toge- 

 ther the rotten chips and bark from the wood 

 yard. Collect the rich soil which accumulates 

 in the holes and coiners around the house, the 

 barn, the hog-pen, and all out-buildings. If 

 these materials are not wanted for immediate 

 use, make them into a compost heap. 



Have some expedient, also, for saving 

 from the unfavourable action of rains and 

 sun, what your cows drop in the barn-yard 

 during the summer nights. Covering the 

 brttom of the yard with loam or muck, will 

 preserve the greater part of the liquid secre- 

 tions; but the solids will lose much of their 

 worth, if not daily covered with the soil or 

 muck. Where the barn is airy and has a 

 cellar under it, we recommend keeping the 

 cows in the barn every night of the year. 

 They suffer no discomfort, and we know of 

 no other way in which so much and so good 

 manure can be obtained from them. 



Also, have materials at the side of the 

 ho£-yard constantly, so that something may 

 be thrown in every two or three days for the 

 swine to work upon. Throw in not loo 

 freely, however; there is a limit beyond 

 which it is not profitable to fill up the yard. 

 For it is not true, that every thing which 

 finds its way within the four walls that con- 

 fine the pigs, is immediately converted into 

 good manure. We believe that two, or two 

 and a half cords is as much as one hog will 

 ordinarily manufacture loell in the spuce of 

 twelve months. By occasionally putting in 

 lime, ashes or stable manure, the quantity 

 may be rendered somewhat more than this. 

 But while we caution farmers against re- 

 ducing the quality too much, we earnestly 

 call upon them to be careful to furnish the 

 swine with enough of the raw material. 



You have been so often told that manure — 

 manure — manure is the one thing needful 

 for successful farming, that it seems almost 

 an insult to say it again — and yet it is so 

 true and so important, that we do say it. 

 We tell you to collect and save and make 

 manure — manure — manure. We would 

 write this word over the doors of your hog- 

 pens, your barns, your privies; near your 

 ash-holes, sink holes, and every other spot 

 where the article can be manufactured. 

 We would send you to the road-side, to the 

 woods, to the sides of stone walls, to peat 



meadows and muck holes, for collecting 

 matter to be converted into this essential 

 article. We would send you now, as soon 

 as the planting season is over, and would 

 have you collect as much as possible. It 

 were well to have years' supply always on 

 hand in heaps. Thus placed, it would be 

 constantly improving; and if thrown over 

 once or twice in a year, the fermentations 

 and decompositions it would undergo, would 

 greatly enhance its fertilizing properties, 

 even before it was handed over to the cat- 

 tle and swine. Make manure ; little by lit- 

 tle, from day to day, will swell to a large 

 pile in twelve months. — N. E. Farmer. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



A3SIEEICAN HERB-BOOli. 



Philadelphia, Second Month, 1843. 



Henry Colman, President of the Monroe counts 

 Agricultural Society, will please accept our thanks for 

 his recent Address, at its Annual Cattle Show and 

 Fair, in Rochester, N. Y., on " The improvement of 

 Agriculture, as an Art and a Profession." 



We have read this Address with great pleasure, and 

 were particularly gratified in noticing the many valu- 

 able truths inculcated within the narrow limits, neces- 

 sarily prescribed to such a performance. Its length, 

 however, precludes it from a place in our columns, or 

 we should be much pleased in throwing it before J 

 readers, especially as we do not know that it is any 

 where to be obtained in this city. Its particularly racy 

 character— its common sense, business-like statements 

 and suggestions, recommend it to the attentive perusal 

 of every farmer and farmer's son, who may have the 

 opportunity. 



Standing in the position we do, it is in the course 

 of our every day observation, to notice the opera- 

 tions of the various Agricultural Societies of our 

 own, and other countries— the Addresses delivered be- 

 fore them, and the innumerable agencies that are 

 everywhere at work, to give additional strength and 

 stability to the vantage ground, which it would seem 

 as if nature designed, the fanner should occupy. Winn 

 men of the first character in the country, place their 

 shoulder to the wheel, and make it a common object 

 to accelerate the forward march of a calling, upon the 

 productiveness of which, a thousand millions of men 

 depend for their daily subsistence, we scarcely need be 

 reminded of the nobleness of the effort, nor of the in- 

 calculable importance of its success. If Pennsylvania, 

 instead of the two or three millions who now tread 

 her soil, may be made equally well, to support live or 

 six times that number — a population equal to that of 

 the whole United States— who does not perceive thai 

 it must only be by the judicious application of an art, 

 disciplined by experience, and of an industry, which, 

 while it never wearies, is always made productive? 

 We may scarcely calculate the extent to which our i 

 mother earth may be persuaded to yield her increase. '• 

 What she has once done, she will do again, and even 



