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Into practice the new Idea that the
manure should be as carefully pre
served from unnecessary loss, as
should any other farm product, after
ho has for twenty years stored the
farmyard manure under the eaves upon
the slope which forms one border of
the running brook.
Experiments made by various Gov
ernment experiment stations show that
the construction of sheds or covered
yards for the protection of manure Is
well worth, while. The manure from
the horse and cattle stables and the
sheep and calf pens should be spread
KILLING FEVER TICKS.
To stamp out Texas cattle fever.
This Is the hope of the Department of
'Agriculture. Tho Department has been
■working on the problem for some
time, and It has almost been proved
to tho satisfaction of officials that the
tick which causes the fever can be
eradicated from a pasture simply by
keeping cattle out of that pasture. The
tick is not a herbivorous insect, and
It will dlo out If tho pasture is kept
free of cattle. It is believed that If
one pasture on a farm Is always kept
free of cattle over, what might be
termed the life period of the tick, It
will furnish perfectly safe pasturage
for uninfected animate in caae fever
breaks out In the rest of the herd.
Cl course, the Department of Agri
culture hss no right to go Into a State
and cnforco the free pasturage policy,
Forth* cufofallj
The Manure ViU
'Where la the wise farmer who would
■ell to his neighbor a load of his finest
com or a load of some green crop for
a dollar bill. Yet there are thousands
of agriculturists all -over the country
who'are doing practically this very
thing when they dispose of their barn
yard manure for $1 a load. Others
are wasting the most valuable constitu
ents of the manure they save. The
manure produced on the farm la Its
most valuable asset
There are In the United States, In
round numbers, 17,000,000 horses, 61y
000,000 cattle. 47,000,000 hogs and 45 r
000,000 sheep. Experiments have
and the matter cannot be, or at least Is
not, always dealt, with satisfactorily
by Stato offldals. But In cases where
the Department Is officially Invited to
come Into a State and take charge of
cleaning It up, it la quite ready to do
so. Tentative arrangements hava al
ready been made for this work with
the authorities In some States, and It
ia believed that it will be quite pos
sible to stamp out the fever and al-
lc w the free interstate transportation
Ttffi WASTE OF BAENYABD MANURE.
out evenly over these yards, covered
with coarse Utter, and the whole kept
firmly packed by allowing animals to
ran over It, thus preventing Injurious
fermentation.
To Save All the Fertility.
A more elaborate and expensive
style of covered yard, a plan for which
Is furnished by the Department of
Ainrlcultnre, provides not only for the
required protection of both animals
and- manure, but alio affords an ex
cellent grain chamber where feed can
be sthred for coigreniont use. Under
the aide roofs Is alio afforded a chance
for the staging of small tools and a
great variety of articles that are con
tinually tn the way when lying about
the farft buildings. It also provides
spletadld protection to animals when
boused at night during too summer,
tola roof protecting tobm from heavy
showers In toe night and affording
good chance for exercise in toe win
ter, as all toe aldee, except (hat
toward the aonth, can be protected
against cold winds through tempo
rary boarding.
Many stables are so situated that
by addlhg a cheap lean-to, a manure
"pit" ' la easily produced. The out
side boarding of toe lean-to abonld
be, for a part of toe way at least, put
horizontally apd hung In the form of
flat doors, so that toe manure can be
easily loaded on a wagon standing on
the outside of-too building.
A great number of farmers who have
adopted manure sheds and covered
Rattlesnake Den.
We were lumbering tn central Penn
sylvania during toe summer of 1870,
onr portable steam min standing In
a piece of woodland, near a small
stream'and within a short half mile
of d rocky ledger known as “Battle-
snake Den."
Daring the hot days, rattlers were
constantly met, and "Harry," who
drove the dally stage through toe “Nar
rows,’' had won quite a local reputa
tion from having killed more than a
score since toe melting of the enow*.
The pretty young wife of onr en
gineer had charge of too boarding
bouse, and after toe noon meal was
served, the dishes cleared away and
toe house pot in order, aha was ac
customed to bring her.sewlng.lnto toe
■hade near our Planer, which was toe
cleanest and coolest part of toe mill,
and alt for an hour or two before com
mencing toe preparation of toe sup
per.
She was a sweet, attractive sight
that hot afternoon of which I speak,
her beautiful arms and neck rival
ling toe whiteness of her simple frock,
toe only female in our camp of rough,
brawny men, but one whom any of
us would have defended from all harm
at any risk.
Some of the men were rolling up
toe loge on the skid, some sawing them
Into boards, others carrying the boards
to tho yard, while my partner, Manuel
Mots, was personally tending to toe
more skillful work at the planer, in
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annually would be $27, by each head of
cattle 919, by each hog $12 and by
each sheep $1 .The fertilising value
of all the manure produced would,
therefore, be for horses, $459,000,000;
cattle, $1,159,000; hogs, $564,000,000;
and sheep, $90,000,000; or ■ total of
$2,272,000,000. .
These estimates are based on the
value! usually assigned to phosphoric
sold, potash and nitrogen-In commer
cial fertilizers, and ara possibly some
what too high from a practical stand
point On too other hand, no account
Is here taken of toe value of manure
for Improving the mechanical eondl-
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Indian sacred cattle, and it has been
found that they wero Immune to too
Texns fever. Apparently there Is an
oil In the skin that is repugnant to too
tick. At any rate they will not. har
bor the parasite. The half-bloods end
even animals containing but One-elx-
teenth part Indian blood have been
found Immune, and they make Just as
goodibeed cattle as can be found.
•There ara vary stringent law*
against toe Importation of foreign
stock into tola country without toor-
ouch. examination and auarantlne;
therefore It Is risky to Import (took
from so far away as India without
especial provisions for Its examination.
Mr.'A. S. Borden of Pierce, Tex., haa
arranged, however, with the Agricul
tural Department to .make a large Im
portation of toe Immune Indian cat
tle, and haa already left for British
India to pick them out The Depart
ment of Agriculture will send a spe
cial veterinary after him, and toe hist
shipment of about 100 head will be
tlon and drainage of soils which Is
almost as important" a consideration
as its direct fertilizing value. It is
generally conceded, that,at least one-
third of the value of manure Is lost by
present wasteful management or a
total loss to toe country of over
$750,000,000. ' , ; ’
Return Full Value to the Soil.
If a farmer desires to maintain the
productiveness of hts land, It Is es
sential that the amount of potash,
phosphoric sold and nitrogen removed
through the selling of meat, milk,
grain, hay, fruits, vegetables, etc.,
should he restored through an Intel
ligent conservation of the barnyarfi
manure.
It eeema to be a hard matter to In
duce toe average farmer to abandon
the time-honored 1 practice of piling
A CONVENIENT COVERED BARNYARD.
front of which and ftclnr It, May sat.
I was Just then acting as engineer
and fireman, And at I happened to
look In their direction, to my horror^
saw an Immense rattler, colled within
a foot or less of May’s back, his body
swaying to and fro, and Ms angry eyes
shining like sparka of fire. I was lit
erally paralyzed with terror, for
though but twenty feet away, H seemed
as It toe blow would be struck be
fore,I could take even toe first step.
Mots must have seen toe snake at toe
asms moment, for I heard his voles
clear and sharp above toe roar of all
toa machinery, "May, there’s a rattle
snake that wilt strike If you more; sit
perfectly stilt" As he spoke ho
yards have obtained unsatisfactory re
sults, but toe Department of Agricul
ture believes that tola la probably dus
to toe fact that these structures hava
generally been loosely put together,
allowing a free circulation of air,
which has dried out-the manure. On
tots account barn cellars, so coihmon
in New England, poetess decided ad
vantages as receptacles for manors.
The f —’—
common . practice of allowing
■wine to "work over” toe manure in
these oellars la a -wise one, since It
mixes toe manure and keeps It well
packed and moiat In fact. If toesa
cellars are provided with Impervious
bottoms to bold' toe liquid manure,
this systam of storage Is probably toe
most perfect practiced.
Manure the Best Fertilizer.
Barnyard manure la toe most ef
fective meant at toe disposal of toa
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- -average farmer to permanently Im
prove his soil. No other fertiliser .pos
sesses to so great a degree the power ,
of restoring, worn ont soils to prodao-
RYE GROWN ON WELL MANURED LAND. TYWCAl CROP WHERE MANURE IS WASTED.
examined before they are (hipped, and manure In the open air, exposing It t
thou quarantined on one of toe small leaching by rains and fermentation h
islands off toe gulf coast till it is da- hot midsummer suns, and adopt n
terralned that there It no danger of Uooal scientific methods. He also hes
their bringing Into this country some tales to Incur toe necessary expens
strange j bovine affliction even worse of building suitable receptacles tor to
perhaps than Texas fever. storage of manure, frequently assun
After toe animals hava been toot- lng that tola expense Is greater toa
oushly proven, they will be Introduced it really la Manure Is considered
among the Texas herds, and It ia hoped waste and It is hard for him to pu
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