1911. 
85 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HANDLING THE POULTRY MANURE. 
J. R. G., Mercliantville, N. J. —We are 
putting our place out in fruit trees; apples 
and peaches, and as we accumulate quite a 
to some one else at a little profit, and 
third, that they may sell them themselves 
to some one in a failing condition who 
desires to have a lot of worthless securities 
lot of manure we wish to know how to in b * s . box that he may give as an excuse 
handle it to best advantage. We have a for bis failui ' e - There may be other rea^ 
small house in which we place the drop¬ 
pings from the droppings boards in our 
chicken houses. This house is full. If 
sons than these, but these I think are the 
principal ones for such action.” 
‘‘The business in defaulted bonds and 
necessary or profitable we can build an- W01 ‘thless securities is certainly not of a 
high order, but as Ipng as these things are 
around there will always be some one to 
trade in them. The following cases occur 
to me: The dealers take a chance on 
being able to pick a flaw in an old fore¬ 
closure, or reorganization, with little to 
lose, and much to gain if successful. Some- 
other, but we have been advised that we 
can. as we accumulate it, mix these drop¬ 
pings with barnyard or stable manure in 
one large compost out of doors, exposed to 
the weather. Is this . advisable or would 
it pay us to build another store house and 
save droppings until Spring, or can they 
be broadcast throughout the Winter, or times, if they can get together enough 
throughout the year as we accumulate secuii ties to make it an object, smart 
them? Again, we have large quantities of counsel can be ^ired on a contingent fee 
broken straw which we sweep up from to “ ako £be try ' ‘ H °P° springs eternal, 
the scratching floors of the pens each 10 e£c ” a PP lb?s to defaulted securities. We 
days; this has more or less droppings, but saw ^ r ‘ Dawson make a campaign on Bay 
the straw is not rotting. What would we ^tate Gas, and who can tell who else might 
best do with this? Dare we use it in our not make a cam P ai S n 011 something else 
pigpens? We are afraid of lice getting on so “® day? 
our pigs. We can get lots of straw, so Secondly, the business of furnishing 
that we do not need it in our pigpens. ^ cti1;ioas assets to parties who have failed 
So you see we have four different kinds iu business aud bave uo plausible show of 
of manure to take care of, droppings- assets is ’ 1 have uo doubt ’ catered t0 by 
boards, stable or barnyard, pigpen, and these dealers ’ aud 1 imagine there is a 
scratching floor. We do not need much fiaod deal moie of this than people realize, 
of our manure for farming, as we do very and £n so £ai ’ as £bis * s dishonest, the 
little; we wish to fertilize our trees and dealers are really not necessarily tespon- 
let them have lots to “eat.” sible, because they may have a chance to 
. . turn over their defaulted securities at a 
/\NS. 1 he poultry manure question small profit, without knowing what use is 
is discussed in “The Business Hen.” to be made of them, in 30 years’ experi 
There are two chief things to avoid in ence in Wal1 stl ‘ eet I never heard of a case 
handling this manure-mixing if with f a “ y b t roker , iu defaulted security at- 
.. ... tempting to palm them otf dishonestly, aud 
lime or wood ashes, or permitting it to i imagine such cases are rare. Some of the 
become moist and warm. In either other brokers iu these things are a good 
event you will lose ammonia. In the deal liko nigbt bawks > and I would fight 
case above mentioned we should build * hy * th t e “’ They are tbe scavensers o£ 
another house or shed for the manure. “if these bonds get into the hands of 
Use an abundance of plaster, road dust dishonest parties it is probable that they 
or “floats” under the perches, and dry wlu attem Pt to work them off on ignorant 
out the manure. Then if kept under and TTT'lu* people ’ f , but 1 aiu in ’ 
. u i • ... , . formed that there is another purpose in 
tne. shed it will be hard and dry in the purchase of these bonds. The buyer 
Spring. It will pay to crush it fine pays very little for them. I have known 
before using. On a farm where plant cascs wh ere large blocks have sold in the 
food is greatly needed we advise mix- aucti ° n roo ‘ n £or $5 and and tbese can 
. . , . sometimes be turned in to the purchaser of 
ing t ns crushed manure with cheitll- a defunct corporation who will take them 
cals as advised in “The Business Hen.” for some reason only known to themselves. 
In any event, if it is saved at all we is fl uite possible that in the case of a 
should keep it dry and crush before f ailroad that bas been ^organized and 
~ , . later sold to another road, the latter would 
using. Some poultrymen scatter the b e willing to pay a small price for an old 
manure as fast as made over grass issue of bonds to clear up the records. I 
land. There is probably some loss of know a case of the officers of a State who 
ammonia from this plan, but it means issued bonds unauthorized by the Legis- 
.• , , , , . lature aud which the State afterwards re- 
o y f time. We should not mix pudiated. It seems to me that it would 
the hen manure with other kinds in be good business for the present State 
an open yard. It would be better to officers, if they could retire the whole issue 
mix with cow manure than with horse, at a very uoniiual figure, to do so. it 
• ,■ • , , , , , would be a cheap way of disposing of the 
since the former is colder and the hen ma tter.” 
manure would act somewhat like kind- —-- 
ling to start fermentation. Where one 
can make a compost of muck, old sods 
or other refuse, the hen manure is 
good to quicken the chemical actions 
which are needed to make the plant 
food available. We would not use the 
straw from the henhouses to bed the 
hogs. Use it around the trees as a 
mulch, being careful not to leave it 
close up to the stems during Winter, 
so the mice will not nest under it and 
gnaw the trees. 
USES FOR DEFAULTED BONDS. 
Some of our readers have received circu¬ 
lars much like the following, and have 
wondered what is done with these old, de¬ 
faulted securities : 
“1 will buy old, repudiated or defaulted 
bonds, also defunct or inactive railroad 
and other securities. Bonds wiped out by 
reorganization, also good but unsaleable 
securities in estates bought. Send me a 
memorandum of what you hold in this line 
with dates of certificates. Save safe de¬ 
posit charges on non-dividend payers. 
Wanted :—Old Railroad Stocks and Bonds 
Old Canal Company Bonds. 
Defaulted Township and State 
Bonds. 
Old Non-dividend Railroad Stocks, 
and other American Securities 
„ over 10 years old. 
Not Wanted : 
Gold and Silver Mining stocks, 
Oil Company stocks.” 
We have asked several bankers and brok¬ 
ers about this and some of their replies are 
given below : 
“I have always understood that the par¬ 
ties who are picking up old repudiated and 
defaulted bonds are doing so for three dif¬ 
ferent reasons. First, that they may find 
something which on investigation may. 
prove to have some value, which the. par¬ 
ties selling them da not understand; sec¬ 
ond, that they may be able to sell them 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
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