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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
From the American Farmer. 
Very important to farmers. 
.A new edition improved and greatly enlarged^ of 
the Bovimet Manure Method, secured by United 
States letters patent. 
Agrjcolturists, although you have lavora- 
bly received the first edition of my method, and 
though, as it appears from numerous testimo- 
nials in the agricultural papers, it has given sat- 
isfactory results, I have nevertheless seen that 
the first edition was too incomplete, and that from 
the numerous questions which have been ad- 
dressed to me by subscribers, I have, like them, 
felt the want of a commentary upon the instruc- 
tions, and clear and precise explanations upon 
various points of the application of the sy.stem, 
so that it may be better comppehended and more 
easily put into practice. 
I have written a new work which is more 
complete, and which, I hope, will meet with 
their approbation. 
It does not become me to judge of the merits of 
this new edition; nevertheless, I think that I 
can give the assurance that, in this work, the 
system is .so improved, and its application ren- 
dered so easy, that the least intelligent farmer, if 
faithfully conforming to the prescriptions and 
instructions therein contain^, cannot fail of 
success in his operations. 
This work resting upon facts and practical 
results, which are conscientiously reported, is 
nresented to you with confidence. Try and 
judge. 
The work is divided into two parts. The 
first contains the method in all its simplicity. 
The second contains explanations and analyt- 
ical developments of the system ; instructions 
upon its application; some new processes ; so- 
lution of manure questions of high importance; 
and lastly, supplementary articles consequent 
upon the system. 
To give you an idea of the new edition, I 
will cite part of its contents. The first part of 
the method contains — 
1st. Two difierent processes, by means of 
which any one can cause, in a few days, the de- 
composition of all straw and green or dry vege- 
tables, and their conversion into a rich, unctu- 
ous and durable manure. 
2nd. Two processes, one by high fermenta- 
tion, and the other by moderated fermentation, 
by means of which any one can reduce all kinds 
of turfy or swampy matter into a rich vegetable 
compost or mold. 
3rd. A process, without fermentation, to re- 
duce all kinds ot swampy matter, pond mud, 
slime from rivers or the sea shore, street mud, 
black earth from the woods, &c., into a superior 
mineral compost. 
4th. Two processes for preparing compost 
with earth. 
5th. The means to augment and ameliorate 
manure heaps. 
6th. The means to prepare “purin,” a feitiliz- 
ing liquid for irrigation. 
7th. The employment of dregs or lees, resi- 
dues of manufactories. 
8th. A process for reviving the heat under 
garden beds, without changing the litter. 
These various operations are represented by 
nine designs, each occupying its respective 
place in the work. 
Second Part — First Section. 
1st. Vegetables compared with animal ma- 
nure. 
2d. Four principal advantages of the Bom- 
mer manure over that of cattle. 
3d. A dissertation upon fermentation, the 
gravest question upon the subject ot manure. 
4th. Opinion of authors upon the question, 
“Should manures be fermented or not?” 
5th. My opinion upon the question, 
fith. Appropriation of my manure to differ- 
ent earths. 
7tb. Appropriation of my manure to various 
plants, 
8tb. Solution of the problem put by Payen, 
fbe celebyat^d chemist. He says “that the art 
6>f Hiaourcs in the avoidance of the too 
great solubility of materials which decompose 
too easily, and to render soluble those which de- 
compose with too much difficulty.” 
9th. The nourishment of plants, and of what 
they are composed. 
lOlh. Vegetable metempsychosis, or trans- 
mutation of a dead into a living vegetable. 
11th, Economy — how to cause it. 
Second Section. 
1st. Four different qualities of saturated wa- 
ter. 
2d. The disposal of the place of operations in 
difierent ways. 
3d, Ley ingredients; means of procuring them 
without expense; their fertilizing value. 
4th; Retrenchment of three ingredients which 
are not absolutely necessary in the ley. 
5th. Employment of ground bones, horn shav- 
ings, saw Qust, ground charcoal, blood and oth- 
er residues of butcheries and salting establish- 
ments. 
6th. Table for reduction or augmentation of 
the ley Ingredients, .so as to appropriate the ma- 
nure to the soil and plants. 
7ih. Variations ot the quantity of the ley in- 
gredients, according to the size of the heap. 
8th. The least and greatest quantity of matc- 
1 ials which can be employed in the fabrication 
of Bomrner manure. 
9th. Virtue of the ley — what it is. 
10th. A simple process to render manure as 
short as you wish. 
11th. How to reduce leaves to manure. 
12th. Reasons why the heap ought to be cov- 
ered with straw' or hay, and not with solid or 
compost materials. 
Section Third. 
1st. Proportion to observe in the mixtures of 
turfy or swampy materials with vegetables, and 
why. 
The most favorable season for the prepa- 
ration of composts after this method. 
3d. Is it advantageous to use composts in a 
fresh state? 
4tli. Regulations to observe in the manufac- 
ture of composts. 
5th. European composts compared, or mould 
compared with mine. 
6th. Poudrette compared with my composts. 
7th. Means considerably fo augment the ma- 
nures of a farm. 
8th. Immense advantages of the employment 
of human excrements and animal dejections. 
9th. Efiect of watering with “purin” or ma- 
nure liquor, urionus, puirified water, compared 
to that of my mineral or earth composts. 
10th. Liquid manures compared with my 
composts. 
11th. Enumeration of 24 principal advanta- 
ges of this method. 
Section Four — Supplementary Articles. 
1st. Analyses of earths; simple measures to 
detect the nature of earths without the aid of 
chemistry. 
2 I. Aclvantage resulting from this analysis. 
3d. Interest which every one has in knowing 
the nature of his lands. 
4th. Means to detect marl. 
5th. Division of manures; mode in use com- 
pared with that which I propose. 
7th. This method is already in use on a great 
many farms; results which have been obtained 
from it. 
The matter of the new edition occupies about 
100 pages; it will be hence.'brth furnished to 
subscribers instead of the abridged method, 
which contained but 20 pages. Iffie price of 
the patent right is definitely fixed as follows: 
Farm with garden, not over 2tl acres, $ 6 
“ “ “ 100 “ 10 
“ “ “ 200 “ 16 
“ “ “ 300 “ 18 
“ “ “ 400 “ 20 
Over 400 acres in any one farm, 25 
The method cannot be taken for only a por- 
tion of a farm, and every subscriber is required 
to declare the whole extent of his arable land. 
By the necessary documents recorded in the 
Patent Office, the right for the Southern and 
Western States is held by Abbett <f. Co., of Bal- 
timore, and for the Northern and Eastern Slates, 
viz: New England, New York, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania and Delaware, by Geo. B.mrner, 
of New York, who keeps his office at 75 Green- 
wich street. Farmers living in the Northern 
States w'ho desire to buy the true method are in- 
vited to send to mj' office or my agent. The 
only agents established by me, and who are au- 
thorized to sell my patented method, are Messr.''. 
Eli Bariut, at VVestville, Connecticut, general 
agent for the New England States, and H. D. 
Robinson at New Brunswick, New Jersey, prin- 
cipal agent for the State of New Jersey. 
All agents hereafter appointed will be an- 
nounced in the newspapers ot the respective 
counties and Slates. Principal agents who may 
appoint sub-agents are bound to give notice to 
the agricultural public through the pre.ss. — 
Whenever this announcement is not made, the 
farmer should be on his guard not to be duped 
by counterle iters, (who have already arrived.) 
and who will not tail to ofier them false metli- 
ods for their good money. 
To facilitate the circulation of my method, a 
register is opened with each postmaster, where 
farmers, wffio have the intention to buy it, can 
subscribe. These postmasters will address 
every month a list of subscribers to my office, 
or to my principal agents in the respective 
States. The postmasters will receive, in the 
course of the next month, instructions lor their 
guidance under ihe circumstances. 
Every subscriber wffio, having paid the price, 
should not receive the method in due lime, will 
please notify me of the delay, (at 75 Greenwich 
street, N. Y.,) when it will be immediately at- 
tended to. 
Farmers, take notice that Mr. Heermance, of 
Kinderhook, is not my agent. 
In order to urevent the frauds and to counter- 
act the manoeuvres of some rapacious indivi- 
duals, always ready to invade the rights of oth- 
ers, I will serve them up to the agricultural pub- 
lic as they present themselves; and in this, I 
count upon the support of the press, who are 
also interested in denouncing to the public those 
who meditate injustice to them. 
Finally, it should be known that all copies 
of the method for the northern and eastern 
States are signed and sealed by myself, and 
those ot the southern and western Stales by 
Abbett & Co.; that any method embodying our 
instructions, which should be circulated under 
any other name, will be considered as false and 
counterfeit, and that those who make use of it 
will be prosecuted according to law. 
Those who desire to buy the right for a State, 
or for one or two counties within my limits, 
can address me at my office, or my principal 
agents in the difierent States. 
All editors of newspapers who have more 
than 400 farmer subscribers, by inserting the 
present article entire, and accompanying it by a 
small editorial anicle, shall have a right with a 
copy of the method, to its fullest extent, with 
the privilege of ceding the right to any of his 
friends, if he should not himself be a farmer. — 
To be entitled to the above privilege, he will 
address to my office the journal which contains 
the insertion in question, and the method will be 
immediately forwarded. If the editor intend to 
cede his method to another person, he should in- 
form me, post paid, and send me the name and 
residence of the person to whom he wishes to 
cede it. Geo. Bommer. 
The starch factory in Mercer manufactured 
about 140,000 pounds of an excellent quality 
last winter, grinding about 16,000 bushels of po- 
tatoes. We learn that they have made arrange- 
ments to grind 24,000 bushels of potatoes the 
coming winter, which will produce more than 
240,000 pounds of starch. They sell the com- 
modity in Boston for about $4 per hundred. 
This starch is used by the New England manu- 
facturers for bleaching, in preference to that im- 
ported from Poland . — Stockbndge Visitor. 
