The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker.

  • Bowker, Pierpont F.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The Indian vegetable family instructer: : containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States. / By Pierpont F. Bowker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vegetation has been carried into tlie swamp. Here it is, in a soured, stagnant state. Sweet vegetation refuses to grow there. A few long rooted weeds and wild grapes grow to some extent. Tlie manuflicturc and transportation of this acid and stagnant matter to barren soils, from which much of it has come, will eventually make it valu- able. Manures and amendments prepared in this way, by a compact of the articles, and by a lye, will not deteriorate, or lose their strength, like cattle manure, when exposed to the weather. In manuring a field with manure so exposed to the weather, and wliich becomes so unequal in its parts, makes quite a difference with the cro]). Manure made in the way I have described, would be calcu- lated to make the crop alike in all parts of the field. This may be called its first advantage. 2d. The governing principle of which I have spo- ken, that exists in the vegetable kingdom, is found here, also, to predominate, in making vegetable manure. The lye keeps them from souring and moulding, &;c., and in a proper state to nourish the plant. 3d. If a farmer wishes to obviate the w'eeds from his fields, and the f()ul trash, he can do so. If he chooses to ferment all his barnyard manure, he can. All the lye he makes in the manner described, and it should have strength enough in general to be pretty sensitive to the human parts, will but make the manure the better. The ferment of the heap, by this lye, will destroy the seed, or germs of weeds. If he wishes, he can augment his manure from the barnyard, by putting in turf, bogs, muck, leaves from the woodlands, weeds of all kinds, rasp- berry, and brier bush.