THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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FLAN FOR MAKING A MANURE CELLAR. 



Winter, with its storms and snows, necessarily 

 brings to the fanner a season of compafative relaxa^ 

 tion from his hardest toiL His crops being all gar- 

 nered and secured, the ground frozen against his 

 plow, and his most active labors almost brought to a 

 stand still, by causes far beyond his conti'ol, he is in 

 a measure compelled into leisure hours. 



During the past summer his manure heap has been 

 exposed to the wasting efi'ects of the rain and sun, 

 until Httle of its goodness remains ; and all his ferti- 

 lizing stock, which is to accumulate so rapidly during 

 the winter, will, unless something is done to prevent, 

 be in the same valueless condition when spring, with 

 its genial influences, comes aromiA It is for the 

 farmer to examine in his leisure hours, that we have 

 engi'aved the accompanying sketcL It illusti-atcs a 



and here the undermining operations were commenced. 

 During the leisure rainy days of fall, before the ground 

 had frozen, a pit was dug to the depth of ten feet, 

 and a substantial but rough wall was built up, form- 

 mg one of the four sides of the cellar. After this, 

 operations were extended beneath the floor, and the 

 digguig soon pai^sed the reach of frost. Here in the 

 stormiest days, when it was a pleasure than otherwise 

 to work, the excavation and walling up were c arried 

 on until, in a short time, the cellar was completed and 

 ready for use. Temporary stancheons were used to 

 support the bam during the process of excavation, 

 untu the walls were done. The pigs were then turned 

 down, and by their continual roofings and turnings 

 of the manure, which fell through a trap in the floor, 

 the whole mass was by spring in an excellent con- 

 dition. This plan saved aU the urine, as well as solid 

 matters, so that its value, compared with exposed 



PLAN OF A M.4.NURE CELLAR. 



very simple mode whereby a manure cellar may be 

 constructed beneath any barn, the whole expense, 

 probably, not exceeding the loss which falls to the 

 farmer in one winter, by the practice of exposing his 

 manure heap in the open barn yard.* Our engi'aving 

 shows an elevation of a barn, beneath which a cellar 

 has lately been excavated. 



The barn stands on a dead level. There was no 

 accommodating hill which required but the throwing 

 out of the earth on one side to form a convenient 

 cellar. Like too many a farmer's out buildings, it 

 had evidently been erected without the least thought 

 of convenience or economy of location. 



It will be noticed that on the left side the cellar 

 projects out beyond the buildingi At this end a 

 temporary shed was erected to carry off the rains, 



• The present annual loss to American farmers, by the practice 

 of exposing tlieir manures to the action of the weather, is estinaated 

 at twenty uiiUioae of dollars. 



manure, was as ten to one. Doors were hung on the 

 side of the bam where tlie cellar projected, which, 

 when closed, prevent the ram from entering. When 

 open, ample space is afforded to throw out the 

 manure, as seen in the sketch. The dotted lines show 

 the position of the doors when closed. 



This sketch is not presented as a model, to be fol- 

 lowed in building a barn. It is merely to exhibit 

 the manner in which a cellar was made, in one par- 

 ticular instance, the bam being already built; and it 

 may be useful to hundreds of others who could adopt 

 something of the kmd to great advantage. — People's 



Journal. 



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Great Yield. — A correspondent of the JS'eio Ha- 

 ven Palladium, at Roxbury, Litchfield county, say.<^ 

 that Dr. A, W. Fenn, of that town, has raised this 

 Eeaaon from one kemal of corn, sixteen ears, the pro- 

 duct from which was 4209 kemals. 



