Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

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should be u8arcompost if at all for whea
applied alone, it makes a cement. In CON-
post with peat, it is valuable.
The proper management Of lime is A deli
cate operation. Rightly used, it is valuable
in compost properly applied, DR.. J. never
knew 1t to fail OF doing good. 1t is to the
farmer the most valuable Of all the mineral
manures, because itcan always and in almost
all places be obtained. But this should not
be put in stable dung and animal manures !;
there it would ~decompose and weaken /; but
it should be used in compost.
A gentleman in Rhode Island wa. advised
to put one load Of night soil to six Of peat.
Thus mixed, the night soil remained un-
changed but upon putting a cask of fresh dry
Stacked lime to a cord, the night soil soon
lost its offensive smell, and the heap became
throughout most excellent manure and this
in a few days.
In much Of the peat there exist alum and
copperas /; here lime is a good top-drcssing
matters in the peat, a sulphate Of lime-thls
is plaster.
Nitrate of potash, or saltpetre, and nitrate
of soda, are good in many places and Tor
some crops. Squashes, pumpkins, melons,
| NC.s CONTAIN LHSfD anu tiilb 10 ttlC JGdHOil why
vines do 80 well where a barn has once stood.
These articles may be spread upon the sur
face of the soil in small quantities. Should
you put a small lump Or crystal Of nitre by a
hill Of corn, that spot will always be wet {;
and this might be a good way ofo applying it.
Iron 10 found in many trees and in grains.
Taken into the animal system in the grains,
the iron makes the real globnles Of blood.
rrt.z L~.S r..u,.a. E~ crrp y fhana that
are full Of ammonia-as the dung OF animals,
flesh, &c, An experiment Of bis own hal
shown that water in which carbonate Of am
monia had been dissolved, gave vigorous
growth to corn. Corn requires less lime
that wheat.
Bones are good for many s~oils--they arc
among the best manures, where the soil ia
wanting in phosphate Of lime, but where this
abounds, they are Of no value.
Gypsum is a valuable mineral manure in
the interior, but near the s~eacoast, the salt
spray is supposed to have the SAM action,
and render the plaster inert. in the interior
of France, it is found that 300 pounds of sail
are an valuable az one Tan Of plaster. Gypsum
acts uneaually upon the different soils in the
interior, and this 10 unfavorable to Lietig's
theory, that plaster acts principally by alb
, scgbing ammonia from the atmosphere.
Ashes are very good, generally, OF light
r soils and here leached ashes are as good az
any. He had supposed that repeated ashing
will exhaust the soil Of it's vegetable matters;
, and yet it has been proved that on Mr.. An,
thony's sandy lands, in Rhode Island, the
/ vegetable matters increase under the opera
lions Of ASKING and cropping.
t The value Of any manure is in direct pro.
portion to the nitrogen it contains-or thai
which makes ammonia. The best manures
or strongest, therefore are flesh, urine, dung
&c. Guano, the dung of sea-birds brough
from South America, il exceedingly power
full ; in small quantities it produces wonderful
. effects.
i Mr.. T~eschemacher read an account Of
wonderful discovery in Germany, of a mod
Of preparing seed so as to dispense with tn
use of all manures, and yet get most luxnrI
ant crops of every kind. We wait for more
lght.-New England Farmer.