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urge upon the farmers, large and small, the necessity of having 

 barn cellars ; especially would we urge this upon those about 

 to build. 



Job Ranger, Chairman. 



Statement of B. F. Hamilton. 



My manner of making compost manure is as follows : My 

 cellar is one hundred feet long and forty-two feet wide. I 

 commence by laying loam to the depth of about two feet on 

 the bottom of the cellar, directly under the stable where the 

 cattle and horse stand. When a sufficient quantity of manure 

 and urine has dropped from the cattle to receive another layer 

 of loam, I apply it, and continue in this manner until I turn my 

 cattle out to pasture. I then have it all shovelled over and 

 mixed together as much as possible, and let it remain until I 

 want to apply it to mowing lots and fields where I intend to 

 plant the next season, as I have a year's stock on hand. The 

 part of the cellar where I keep my hogs I manage in the same 

 way, except that they work it over free of charge, and make a 

 large amount of the best kind of manure for the farm. I have 

 increased my crop of hay very much, and enriched my ploughed 

 fields, by applying manure in the above manner. I do not be- 

 lieve there is a good farmer who would not have a cellar under 

 his barn if he were sensible of the benefit it would be to him. 

 I make three hundred and fifty loads yearly of the best kinds 

 of manure. My barn is so constructed that I can drive directly 

 through the whole length of the stable on the north side, and 

 drop the loam through the scuttle down into the cellar just 

 where I want to use it. I have a scuttle in the centre floor, 

 where I drop the loam or muck for my hogs. It is thus but 

 very little labor to furnish loam to mix with the manure, and 

 also for my hogs to work over, as they are always very glad to 

 get fresh loam, and are sure to put it to the best possible use. 



