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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



ther-broom, stubble, in fact, every thing- belong- 

 ing to the vegetable kingdom, and a great many 

 other things lying about farms which are often 

 allowed to go to waste. Even the ground itself 

 may be converted into the best manureor compost. 



2. In the combination or alliance of fecun- 

 dating substances, the use of which, when se- 

 parated, would not and could not produce the 

 desired effect. 



3. In the production of a very considerable 

 quantity of factious water, which, when com- 

 bined with other ingredients, forming lees, fur- 

 nishes the farmer with a fertilizing liquid, the 

 commixture of which in either vegetable or mi- 

 neral substances, gives a manure of the richest 

 kind. 



4. In the production of a quantity of nitrate 

 of lime and caustic potash ; of ammonia and 

 saltpetre — four substances which modern che- 

 mistry has found to contain the most fecundating 

 properties possible. 



N. B. — Nitrate of lime and caustic potash 

 are formed by the mixture of ingredients com- 

 posing the lees, as chemical analysis will easily 

 demonstrate. Ammonia and saltpetre are pro- 

 duced by the lees combined with hydrogen and 

 azote thrown off by the high fermentation of 

 the mass. The existence of the first is made 

 known to the senses by the strong smell of am- 

 monia when the heap is opened. 



From all this it is clear that my method em- 

 ployed on farms, offers the following advantages : 



1. That those who have straw will be able 

 to change the same into manure immediately 

 after the crop is housed, or at any required time. 

 Those who have not straw may use any green 

 or dry substance instead ; and that those who 

 have neither straw nor the substance above 

 mentioned, may change the very soil itself into 

 a very good earth manure, and in any spot they 

 may choose. 



2. That a farmer can make with the greatest 

 ease, in a few days, earth manure, or compost, 

 which will answer all the purposes of animal 

 manure, and excel in their fecundating properties 

 all other ordinary composts, which by other 

 means can be had hardly in one year, more fre- 

 quently only in three years. That this earth 

 manure may be used in the spring to quicken 

 the growth of seed that has suffered from the 

 rigors of the winter; to manure wheat previous- 

 ly sown without manure; it. will be a great be- 

 nefit in planting Indian corn ; for top dressing 

 of artificial and other meadows; it is of the 

 greatest use in gardens, mulberry and other fruit 

 trees, keeping at once the ground moist and 

 producing rapid vegetation. 



3. That the farmer will have the advantage 

 of being able to make his manure heaps when, 

 where, and as he pleases ; he will be able to 

 open them when they are in heat without losing 

 any of the fecundating moisture. 



4. By means of the lees, which this method 

 will inform him how to make, it will be easy for 

 him to give to his farm-yard manure more invi- 

 gorating properties, and he may increase its bulk 

 at pleasure. Farm-yard manure, in fact, should 

 be used only as the leaven to make the different 

 heaps required. 



5. By the great quantity of moisture entering 

 into the materials, the weight of such of them 

 as are dry, will be increased fourfold ; that of the 

 others is more than doubled. 



6. This method enables the farmer to control 

 entirely his manure heaps ; that is to say, he 

 will be able to make them in all their parts 

 equally good and fertilizing. The lees, which 

 distribute the saline and soluble particles in a 

 regular and uniform manner, will produce an 

 even crop throughout the field. 



7. By the high degree of heat to which in 

 that course of making it attains, the germinating 

 power of all weeds found in the materials thus 

 submitted lo decomposition will be utterly de- 

 stroyed. Hence manure made after this method 

 never re-produces weeds. 



8. The farmer will also be able to graduate 

 his manure. He may have it of any degree of 

 strength he wishes. This will enable him to 

 forward the growth of plants in a manner hither- 

 to unknown. 



9. By means of manure thus graduated at 

 will, market gardeners will have their produce 

 much earlier in the market than heretofore. — 

 They will be able also lo heat their hot-beds 

 anew by means of the lees without disturbing 

 the frames. 



10. In fine, the lees by which the manure is 

 made, are prepared cold and without any pre- 

 vious chemical preparation ; the majority of the 

 ingredients may be found at hand on almost 

 every farm, and cost nothing ; and water, which 

 is the basis of the system, is of no more expense. 

 All here concur to render the method truly eco- 

 nomical. Such are the principal grounds on 

 which the system is recommended. 



My method rests solely upon facts which are 

 the results of numerous experiments. I have 

 explained it in simple terms, without making 

 use of any technical expressions ; it is as easy 

 to understand as to put in practice. Thus 

 clearly and simply detailed, I present it to the 

 public, having proved, by repeated public expe- 

 riments in presence of enlightened farmers, that 

 all I have said is true, and that the advantages 

 to be derived from its adoption are real, and not 

 visionary. 



To conclude — as this method is my properly, 

 secured to me by patent, I hereby give notice, 

 that the pamphlets of my "Method," are all 

 signed in my own hand-writing, and sealed, and 

 can be obtained only of myself or my agents, 

 authorized for this purpose, and that every me- 



