Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-20

each bed received the same number of
sets.
On the 2lst of September, the potatoes
were taken up, when the product of each
row was according to the annexed table:
No. MANFRED with Lime one BUSH, Welded $50
9 Stable manure, 3bushels, 1872
3 Soot one peck, 1872
4 " Salt, two quarts, 1913
Saltlime, gypsum and peat, POI
Salt and wood ashes, 2l7
Salt and soap, 24O
The extraordinary effects of Salt, when
combined with SCOT, are strikingly singu-
lar; which may be attributed to the prop
erty of saline substance, by which they
| attract moisture from the atmosphere,
which had greater influence on the soot,
than on any other manures; as SCOT, from
its acid and dry nature, may be supposed
to require greater proportion of waller
to dilute it, than those substances which
contain water already. When salt was
applied either by itself or in combination,
the roots we're free from that scabbiness,
which oftentimes affects potatoes.
LEACHED AsHEs.-There is scarcely
an article used for substantially improving
the soil. for which more decisive testimony
can be found, than can be adduced in favor
Of leached ashes, as manure. They
possess highly beneficial effect, partic-
ularly when applied to lands deficient in
calcareous matter, as lime and mari. They
serve to free light lands of sorrel, and in
swampy soils they effectuaIly destroy
rushes and other aquatic weeds. The
small quantity of alkaline salt and gyp-
sum which they contain, also, renders
them much superior to common calcare-
Gus matter, as top dressing, for every
kind Of grass. Lime is placed in consid-
cradle quantities at the bottom of the watts
or teaches in all asheries, to facilitate the
labor of working, and is thrown out with
the ashes. This, taken in connection with
the fact that large proportion of aka
line matter must remain in all ashes after
teaching, accounts for the benefit they
render to wet, your soils, by neutraizlng
such acid, and promoting the decomposl
ton Of vegetable matter, which in such
E earth always proceeds slow y, while a
the same time they prevent adhesion ir
the soil, and enable the roots of plants t
seek their sustenence freely.
, One Of the most successful farmers II
Newly ork, Mr.. Stimson, of Galway
! whose soil is very poor, being 81 per cent
of pure slick, and only per cent. of th
carbonate Of lime, for the ten years pre-
vious to 1882, raised annually 500, bush
! els of corn, averaging over 100 bushel
to the acre. He allowed five loads Q
barn-yard manure and three of leacheC
ashes 10 the acre, and this was aIWay
! spread upon the surface, after ploughin!
- for the first crop, and either narrowed o
ploughed in with very light plough
:. He deems leached ashes most vaIuabI
y manure, and much to be preferred to tina
. which is unleached, which he consider
as having al first tendency to force tn
- land, but in the end 10 impoverish it
Next to leached ashes, he considers lin
y the best material for land
In no part of the United States ha
agriculture and horticulture reached
- greater degree of perfection than in som
e parts of Long Island; and this conversio
~ '. of sandy plains into the most fertile {
- soils, is by those who are acquainted wit
- the history of that region, attributed mair
- ly to leached ashes, purchased at New
!; York and the various landings on til
IL North River.
~ ~ The neat mode of application appear
~ to be, to mix it with the surface Of th
~ earth, where it will be slightly covere
" y by the operations of sowing and plantin!
" " A Pennsylvania farmer says he puts
p small handful of unleached ashes I'M
" each hill of corn at the time of plantin!
4. and thinks this a better method than
." put on the hill after the corn has come u,
n Another writer afirms from his ow
n experience, that bushel of ashes is wort
Y, as much 10 the farmer as bushel of corr
: and advises his brethren to apply the
re ashes to their corn or grass land, in pre-
s. erence to selling it at ten or twelve cen
n per bushel. .... =. ..--. -
of CHLORIDE OF LINEN. Dubec hs
to discovered that muriate of lime, (chloric
id of lime dissolved,) is very active m,
ur nure or vegetable stimulant He dissols,
to about 21 pounds Of The dry chloride
at about 10 gallons of water, and with til
he solution. waters the plants at distant int
y,lvals. Potatoes were planted on the LIST,