Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — Judicious Management of Stable Manure. [ARTICLE]

Judicious Management of Stable Manure.

; When stable manure is exposed to the 1 | influences of sunshine, rain, snow and : I drying winds, a large portion of the vol- : i atile elements will be removed so that ; | they will be the same as lost to the pro- 1 i prietor. lienee, all surface water should j |be turned away from , the barnyard. I ! Every outbuilding should be provided 1 ! with*.eave troughs to-catchthe-water ! ! that would find its way into the -manure j heap. To prevent loss by leaching it is | well to throw over an exposed heap of ! excrement a covering of straw' or old hay. | If the form is conical nearly all the water ! will run,off the sides and but little per- ■ colate through. It is miserably'slack an i wasteful to haul out manures into j j fields iu the" autumn or winter and allow ; j them to remain without any protection, ! j A good farmer writes: '• lmring the ; past two years more excrement has been | produced at the farm than we could conj veniently use upon our fields and in rel moving it from the cellar we have protected it in the manner described. One [heap has thus been covered for two ; years and its valuable qualities have not ; only been preserved* but by the processes j of Spontaneous decomposition the prod- | gets are now ready for immediate as- | similation by plants and the soil applied |is nearly as valuable as the material j which it has covered and protected. ! Three years ago some heaps of manure | were carted upon a meadow in winter and owing to flowage frdm the lake it was deemed best not to disturb them until the meadow was thoroughly drained. Several of them spread last season gave most extraordinary returns in grassland the two remaining heaps have been opened this season and foqnd in perfect condition.” —Y. T. Herald —A man who had just sunk a pipe, into the soil at Dedfiam. .Mass . the other day pumped up five living fishes fr6m_:a depth of thirty feet