The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-10 00:00:00

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I an, Mr, youn faltlfelly,
HENRY MOULT,.
FordMgt= Vicarage, August 26.

fitg,—The following obese hone and foots are roes.
rry as introductory to those by whir ins subsequent
hirer I would support my claim to the discovory of the
rue of the gnarl llabi,ity of the potato to the
disease whloh seems almost to threaten Its destruction,
sad of that whir I cent iently holier will, with God's
blessing. prove an effectual provontive.
The neresity has long been known of strengthening ,
the epidermis' of this stalk of any kind of urn by a due '
supply *ldler ; and thin nueseity has become mare
apparent with every torero in luxuriant» of growth.
llahile in most solia there is • oertain amount of
that important sonnituent of corn and gross, then. is
in few soils • sufficient supply to sustain the large
growth, reealtias from limo marring, especially if
thare be not in the manure rod a large amount of
doesesposed straw or hay. For few, if any, of tits
higher-prised masons contain either silos, or, at all
events, glisio rid to any appreciable quantity. The
earequatos of this is that at a certain pariod of the
growth of rope of the most promising luxuriano• the
stalk bermes weak, it sinks beneath the weight of the
rapper portion of the plant, and is generally then
atroked by mildew. Manufacturers of manure, there-
fore, Isar for some time past sought for some mode of
introdo Piliolo maid into their manures. That swab,
beware, has been fruitier. And nothing certain
=to have bees known on the subject until August,
bee, as I waa engaged in working out the If..
of the deport and utilisation of the entire refuse of •
hors, or village, or town, those very intractable sub-
=broken earthen ware and broken glass, presented
yes to my mind at the same instant with the
rosollestles of the foot, which in the sours, of many
year. had several times been hr ,O 411 t h. for., ins —t. am
ast whrover amount of oiler u- totei: net tot Oil
In or 00TD most derive iti ortAin fr,,oi 0411 00
of rilieious matter, eithar existing in, or intro-
diced into WI soil In which they grow. Tartlet with
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these ideas ocearred the feasibility through meson of
ear or sere other form or oombination of elle: of
ors Wag the uniform distribution of any requisite
additional amount of eilloio acid throughout • given
gertity of earth. On this the idea of the uniform
distributios of other martial subetanors soon followed.
TINON ideas I acted on, and at oar, while Inviting
urn to do the some, I °awninged OD • small seal. the
following coarse of experiment. :—Haeins in September
Irt prepared • certain quantity of glom and of phos-
phates, and mixed them with other sairetanoes—
salmis earth from elooste, slaughterhouse refit», sink.
water er, ha. I applied the =ours so mrafactored
in the following manner :—I sowed in that month WO
orrof wheat, and in the months of Oztober and
eorer I transplanted the plants which sprung from
them lato a pima of ground, the fall measure -of which
wag 140 r urn frt. Tie plants were 12 boohoo ran
in tho driii sad from six to nine inches in the line.
With *soh 'put in los.of manure; this was more,indeed,
thea WOO midair I should bore observe that, though
wheat, like Ur cabbage, is somewhat improved by
zaiMag, this pert of the propos adopted on this
mad which wield appear to 10, el:wooly feasible
on a large rale, is by no means a matter of nsoossety ;
for, is • osighbooring garden, I at the latter end of
Namarr drilled some wheat is the ordinary way,
applyies te it Is this drill lees than half the amount of
sorra mad in **foram oar; and although the blade
did not appose until December 29, the plants in the
moor of air following were mash stronger end nearly
doable the height of any la the hundreds of acres in
re neighbouring °oriel&
Th• 500 plants is my own gudeo,even before January ,
1, rowed • very extraordinary growtb, Wining out to 1
Si. anent of 10 or 19 strode They afterwards so
Shed the ground as to rod some to suppose that the
arras bad hoes too think. Some of them had 40 stelae.
When is blossom their Wight was generally 71t., and
the shake stout and strong in proportion. Try pro-
dried wham thrashed sad cleaned • pock and • half of
yolk which would give eight quarters and • half to the
am.; sad the strew, shier weighed 501 b., was at tin
rats of four tons per sere. Of the amount of miles
Introduced into the rearre whir prodooed such an
offset I now say nothing, but the result to the sine and
✓ink of th• straw was mitred by everyone who looked
at it. I ought here to observe that I have often grown
wheat in my garden before, but never any so do* as
Ur.
By UN side of this mop, In six orate feet of ground,
briar wider is • pip* with open Joints for the parpoes
of solphrigatioo by the sink-water of my boar, I sowed
in January last lye grab» of oats. The plaints from
these grew to the height of 7f1., having stalks more like
SSW than Wow. One of those plants had 56 stalk.;
and from tin ears were rubbed out half a pint of mod,
weighing, though gathered too early and therefore
pinched, four rinses. Three of them produor a little
sots than half • pint, weighing six ounoes. Ono was
fruitless through fellint.
la the month of Marsh • labourer residing in one of
pr mar villages mat me 80 per of • kind of which I
blow sot the name. They bear a coloured blossom and
boI brews, bat are nary swan. Although peas do net
'mom offal, I determined because of the ammonia and
wootalned in the manor, to try it with them;
at ar"te stretched out this small quantity into two rows, '
1111. each in length, and I applied to Clem about 211..
weight of the MMUS. The produr was a 'irk mil •
had of per, most of them larger than horse beaus.
Twenty-four of them, whin lint taken from the pod,
weighed Los. The utmost extra of the ground they
...uplod wee 60 square feet.
With the use of ths same macre sod in about the
mos proportion one pint of the old userrowlat pus, in
gwg rows of 15 feat and two rows of 18 far each, KG.
1.6.1-4•0 one pair five peaks and the other ea pocks
d freetil Pd.
dersils may to many of your naders prove
wassargrisg sod tedious. They are, however, very
importsat,
._both as showing th• poor and officer of •
e,ssard whisk may be procused from any hoose, villsge,
og korai
its applicability both on •
dna Kay Lk sod OM
witrtlizooptios of tub•irligatba on
a large soak to grata and villa But that importance
when I show, as I propose in my
so
will =lag Xeltir how by the several experiments
oat
lan &MAW I haw boo helped on to the darn', of
shoi whiek Ih=will prove &a elfsidolll Provontin
of tits petite
I an. Sig, yours Wilda,.
FULNRY NOM&
FOrdiagOOM Tiling% Aug. 30.

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