The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-06-20

80 st& &@MAaNs M& @@A@N - NNskMy I
chemical; End The fart hat soils and ma
nures do mutually affect ihe groxing
plant. u proved By the circumstance. thai
The 6nI plants which grew derived their
salts fr0m The earih.
Boz this chemical action Of col does
not brlOng 20 the present discussion.
We can unders and what msnHFrs are.
without deciding how lhey act. Weesn
lheoTize and guess about the hnw Of their
action, when We have learned Ehai hey
are. That is chiefly what die farmer
wants 10 know. lie wants 20 know what
manure Is, and wh.lis likely 20 acI ss ma
nure. To these points Ne shall con6ne
our present remarks. Pointing oul the
greai principles, applicable IN all manures.
the nature Of soils. and the manner in
which they affect measures, must be leil
for another essay. The vegetable or ma
nure part Of soil alone. Is nov 10 be con-
sidered. Consider now, reader. the great
results 10 ~hich our analysis has led Us:
that slow, Wondering IRE gives vs. the
same products Is are formed by decay;
that this Is only Glow. Wondering Ere,
and that mould. is product. 10 the nalu-
raj manure Of plants. Il follows. that
whatever substance produces mould. that
is. water, carbon, and salts. may be used
instead Of this natural manure. Among
the salts found in mould, some ere yo-
latile. aud are easily dissolved by wa
ter. Oilers are fixed, that il. not eva
porsiing easily or no, II all, and are quite
insoluble in water. Now The FIRST or
volatile and soluble. first act when in
manure. They arc quick, and are quick.
" done. The fixed and insolubie act
slower, they last longer. The yol.iile
act ia the early stages Of growth. the
fixed in the later periods. The great
difference in the action Of manures, de.
ponds almost entirely upon The salts
which they contain. These are the most
important and essential. IL is not so much
the vegetable mould Of manure which you
want. as the salts which il con'ains. This
is well settled principle. Land which has
g., undergone the SHINING process, old. worn
out, and run out land, still contains very
large portion Of vegetable mater; The coal
or carbon Of mould without its salts
| Give This wornouil land salts, and you may,
; by these alone, bring il bark mol only
TO It's virgin freshness, bat you may even
by salts alone make il fairer and richer
than il was before man ever cultivated il.
Too much stress baa been all along
laid upon the kipd &c coil. Go nov 10
&" Flob," in West Cambridge. no better
fums or farmers look The world through.
Ask sny Of these prscucal men, whether
the sandy spd grsveIly soil Of Old CAM
bridge Comm"n. or even Of Seekonk
Plain, can be made 10 bear as oh crops
as their land' They will tell you yea. u
your land u hold manure. muck II well.
and il will be az good. Now, this hold
ing Of manure belongs to the subject Of
s"Il.. and throwing tina, out Of considera.
tiup, IL 10 found that even lands Inch do
not hold manure, which have brtn worn
out aud exhausted BY cropping, hold yet
great deal of insOluble coal Of mould.
They want salts, aud something which
~lll make this inert. dead vegetable mat.
, ter OF the snii, artvp. The mould 10 az
tive in proportion a. il IL more or less
, dissolved by wa,er. NJ .uld CONSISTS qftwo
parts; one IS DISSOLVED d, though OILY in q
sligh, degree. by water; the other 10 no.
dissolved by water. Some substances.
however. do render mould very easily
dissolved by water. Hence. ifyou reflect
9 moment on these facts. il will be seen
that mould itself. being valuable IN pro-
portion to the ease With which water die
solves il. TIA whatever substance so en-
ables nould to dissolve, may be added Ia
il. and thus increase ils value. Now the
things which do This a;e the alkalIes. SOC
,da, potash, and ammonia. These princl.
piles being vel seuled. we may eater on
The consideration of each different ma
nure. They will be valuable IN proper
tion to the quanti,y and Kind al salts.
each contains. added 10 The power they
may have by producing. by their decay.
isubslancts which make their mould solu-
BILE. Now III s last property, that lie, the
properly Of producing substance y h'ch
makes mould soluble, depends wholly up.
on The nitrogen OF the msnore. THIS NJ.
tropen. IN the process nf decav. becomes
volatile alk ali OF ammonia. The word aIn
mona. will occur so often 10 the present
t,scussion, that We should endesvor to fix
snme definite idea To u. You need not.
reader, be arqusrnt d Nth Ill chemical
properties. ! suppose every man who vii
be likely to read these remarks. has smell
ed ammonia. Il has been slrrady said.
that i, gives the peculiar punRen. smell
TO the common smelling bottle.
| THE 10 vol tile ammonia. II is al.
ways turned when animal or vegetable
botes decay.
J.! lthas been already said. and is now re-
peaed in order thatu may never be tor
g"isn, that ammonia is Ermed bv The un'
ion Of hydrogen aud nitrogen. Hydrogen
and nitrogen. two ATS. nitrogen ioim'ns
= four iIihs Of the sic we breathe. LEI that u
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