Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-10-20
IoH THE EsauIEER.


Tue utihty OF Mari has for a considerable
time been the topic OF conversation among
Farmers: and, like many oilier new subiqctS
IFS advantages Ct any have existed primeipilIs
| in the mind
Happily for the lowe part Of VIRGINIA son,e
genii nae" OF late, have mad the industry aud
enterprise 10 make a slight, and 40 wise ba
zardons experiment with Marl.
It's advantages almost exceed human belief
might safely say, human conceptions ! said
industry aud enterprise induccd then, To n,ak @
llie experiment. do not know that am an
thoi'>ed iiins To compliment them; as there are
othtr good reasons, to wit, the poverty at a. eir
lands, aud the immense increase of their lau,i
lies, TO C0inpc! them to make some new effort
in order 10 i've cOmtOrtaJiy...Ihe Success
OF their trad has far transcended their ex
pectdIlops. There was mari put on a sa,alI
SPOT of ground about the YEAR 1850 and no
more put OB the same farm from that time Ia
the present day. IL can now tie discovered nv
a Itne, where The mail was laid and where NOT
from the Insurance of the vegetation when
not in cultivation, and from the eAuberauce of
It's increase when cultivated.
There is d gentIeDnU, who tried The use nj
mari about three Yeas past, and from the eyi
dence of my own sight, his corn is remorkablv
small III all parts of his field, except those on
WHICH mari was spread. Those parts of the
held now have an unusually large oroyYih inf
corn for the season OF The year and have the
most thriving appearance possible. This gen
tleipan nov makes more iiIan treble the uu,,-
tity of wheat that he made before liza trie i ibe
effects of this manure. Lastly; another ceu.
tlemdD whom often visit and whose sysjem
OF farming is Familiarity known to me. fried The
ehects OF this enrichIus manure In 1916 The
land on which this mari was put was uncon,.
monty light, and The mari itself was mich i'm.
iermixtd viii, ,dHd. A part of his farm wa,
cOwpened, bGJ on thai part no mari was
spread, and TIE land itself was OF a much bet.
ter quality before II WIS convened than that
OH winch The mari was laid: also part of it
was thIckly spread with stable manure on
Which part 80 mari was put but this TOO was
considerably TlCiIeI than that which was MARI
ed. ~ the harvest of 1918, the wheat on this
poor, but married land was much better than
that, which, was tOleraby good, and also ma
nnied BY the cOwpeus, aud from the Stable
THIS fact comes within the evidence OF my own
sight 1t is almost superiuOUs 10 observe thai
this was not "a philosophical or metaphysical
experiment.; but one sufficiently accurate for
all the commons purposes at lIfe-one true e.
nougi, 10 induce persons VI 10 are now breath.
ing, but cannot be said TO be living, 10 make q
small experiment. negative, II not a positive
one: one day SwOIk at caTtiHg ~ the 800. Had
we not better Keep part of our hands in the
lower coHBtry, employed in this way tlie whole
| year; or III the months OF January Fcbruart .
| August, and December! B.; short lad theI
| better not keep their haHds at this profitable
employment, even in the months OF ApriI NAV
| June and Julyy But instead of Maxim tyyen
ty or Unity barrels OF corn less the first Ncst
| and increase their quantity yearly thr5edftc,
thirty or forty barrels, they lose bv Their
nsHa' method OF farming fifteen or twenty bar.
| reis per year. Aud what kind of a priucipIe Is
that wien pursued' il is this, that sooner than
siaiye one day, and have gallon OF good meal
| peTddy ,the balance of their days, they willagree
to live on pint OF very inferior meal, per dsy
alItheir lives. One man has said, that he used
= small portion OF mari but saw no material
| adys'iiAse in the growth Of his corn, the FIRST
| year: iu consequence Of which, he pat an i'm
mense quantity on the same, aud that a very
small portion of mis- field; and now that place
VIII produce nothing: therefore, he, like all
mari is injurious rather than beneficial 10 land
] too, 10y the same Kind of logic. eau prove
that, because niail Kills himself by eating
| therefore eating injurious rather than bene-
sicisi.
| lsi nor such tulc adlong ~, s eus TO use
! spariusiy agd NttA gtest ytt tdati8. those me-