104 TALKS ON MANURES. 



" The land where I grow mangels gets about this dose every year 



" I would say that my up-land meadows have been mown twice 

 each year for a great many years. 



" I have been using refuse salt from Syracuse, on my mangels, 

 at the rate of about six bushels per acre, applied broadcast in two 

 applications. My hen-manure is pulverized, and sifted through a 

 common coal sieve. The fine I use for dusting the mangels after 

 they have been singled out, and the lumps, if any, are used to 

 warm up the red peppers. 



" I have sometimes mixed my hen-manure with dry muck, in 

 the proportion of one bushel of hen-manure to 10 of muck, and 

 received a profit from it too big to tell of, on corn, and on mangels. 



" I have sprinkled the refuse salt on my cow-stable floors some- 

 times, but where all tho liquid is saved, I think we have salt enough 

 for most crops. 



" I have abandoned the use of plaster on my pastures for the 

 reason that milk produced on green-clover is not so good as that 

 produced on the grasses proper. I use all the wood ashes I can get, 

 on my mangels as a duster, andx consider their value greater than 

 the burners do who sell them to me for 15 cts. a bushel. I have 

 never used much lime, and have not received the expected benefits 

 from its use so far. But wood ashes agree with my land as well 

 as manure docs. The last question you ask, but one, is this: 

 ' What is the usual plan of managing manure in the dairy districts ? ' 

 The usual method is to cut holes in the sides of the stable, about 

 every ten feet along the whole length of the barn behind the cows, 

 and pitch the manure out through these holes, under the eaves of 

 the barn, where it remains until too much in the way, when it is 

 drawn out and commonly applied to grass land in lumps as big as 

 your head. This practice is getting out of fashion a little now, but 

 nearly one-half of all the cow-manure made in Herkimer Co. is 

 lost, wasted. 



" Your last question, ' What improvement would you suggest,' 

 I answer by saying it is of no use to make any to these men, it 

 would be wasted like their manure. 



u The market value of manure in this county is 50 cts. per big 

 load, or about one dollar per cord." 



" That is a capital letter," said the Deacon. " It is right to the 

 point, and no nonsense about it." 



"He must make a good deal of manure," said the Doctor, 

 " to be able to use 40 loads to the acre en his meadows and 



