Home-made Fertilizers

A correspondent of one of oxu ex changos says : I had near iny back door, as there is noar the back door of so many farm houses, a low place into which ran the drainiugs froin the kitchen sink, and which had been further enriched by the eiuptyings ot' couutíess washtubs, the dropping of the poultry, and tho decay of the leaves that had lodged there and the weeds that grew there and partly concealed its hideousness during the sumiller. I suppose it had lain undisturbed for years beforo I canie on the farm, and last sumuier I threatened it often, and did not get a ohance to clear it out, as I had so iuany other jobs readymade to my hand when I canie there, that I could not take them all up. But I have now cleared it out thoroughly, and oarried it up to the top of the sand hill, where I hope it will helj) the growth of turnipa and corn fodder, for it must have acquired a considerable fertilizing power during those years ; and I rather it would help them ever so little than to lielp breed fevers, cholera, or the new disoase witb the long name, which the doctors say is certainly aggravated, if not produced, by just such nuisances as this. Not that I meau that there was any positive stench from it, but it could not help tainting the air although our noses ïmght not detect ït. But it seeins to me that the apple-blossoms (there are a few) have a new fragrance, and the water from the well a cooler, sweeter taste than it had before. Now I would not be so verv saucy as to insinúate that you have any suoh place around the door, but if you know of any man who has, just teil him how very unhealthy it is to have it remam there during hot weather, and offer him that you will cart it away and replace it with clean earth, and I think you will find it better than buying stable manure at six or eight dollars a cord, and cartiug it the samedistance, and you may get credit for doing a neighborly kmdness. If you do not, you may rouse his mind to the propriety of putting it on his own land, and save yourself the trouble oí attendmg mmthrough a fever it may be. I was helping a man raow s field, one year, and a part of it run up oe a sand hill, where the grass was scarcelj worth cutting. Suddenly we came upori a place where there waa grass much thicker and taller, so that it turned quite a Bwath. I asked the reason of such a difference, and was told that some 15 or 20 years before, the plaoe into which the sink drain emptied had been cleaned out, and the dirt spread on that spot. It had not been cleaned out agaiu in that time, although he carted oat the last shovelful of manure from lus barnyard every year, and carted in earth to increase the quant.ity, and I doubt if any h(j took out was us powerful or lasting in its effects as that in which the weeds grew knee-high every year, and which " wasted its sweetness" on the air around, and in the house. Another place is at the woodpile. The bottoni ot' that, or the earth, rotten wood or decayed sawdust, is well worth carting out every few years, if not every year. A shovelful in a hill of potatoes, or a half bushei in a hill of water melons or squasnes, wiu give a groater yield than the samo quantity of inanuro froin the barnyard, while if put upon or under graas land, it will be as lasting in its effects, if not as rapid, as ashes. It will do better, liko ashes, on dry land, which is laoking in decayed vegetable matter. "We must utilize all these things if we wish to keep the standard oí' our farms up.