Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-04-12
From the Farmers Cabinet.
POUDIsETTE.

TOT B. Wakeman, Esq, for the n, York
Farmers Club.
DE,K SiR-ln reply to your circular the
Ist inst, l send you the following practical
facts in relation TO concentrated manures, sub
ject which is now claiming very general atten.
tion. have selected these reports from dis
tlnt parts Of the country, that it may be seen
that their effects are alike beneficial in differ
ent suils, and in somewhat different climates.
The first statement is an extract from letter
written by Augustus Shrver, ESD. Of Carol
county, Nd, dated Nov. 22d, lSIi, to the editor
OF the American Farmer, and is as iolows:-
Il received the Poudrettc which you ordered
for me too late for me to apply II 10 my corn IN
the hill, which mode of appicu ion EN- salts
fed would be the most advantageous, there.
fore mixed it with an equal quantity Of ashes
anl little plaster, and when the corn was
cleverly up, applied about gill to each hill,
leaving twelve rows in the field To which gave
the same quantity OF ashes and plaster alone, as
has heretofore been my custom. The corn all
grew finely, and there was no perceptibIc dit
ference in that on which the Poudrette had beer
applied, until the month Of July, when we ex-
perenced very severe drought lasting about
SIX weeks, when the par, dressed with ashes
and plastcr alone suffered somewhat and fired
a little; but the balance, on which put the
Poudrette, held us own admirably, and did not
fire single blade, and looked fourlshing and
b,1. a, ~ %
esette, though so small quantity, increased
the yield at least ten Per cent. | am so well
pleased with this small experiment, that wi!
20 into it on large scale next season.
The mex, report is from Nr. F.oycd Howell,
residing in the county of Onondagn, II miles
south Of Syracuse, in this State, to whom Is
barrels, OF 7G bushels, were sent late in No
ycmber, ls43 upon which freight OF 81 81
per barrel ~as charged. which increased it.
cost to So e. barre on the farm. Inrepl!
TO inquiries answer is given, viz:
1--WE took FIVE acres of wheat stubble, whlcI
we supposed would ield, without any manure
from 35 to 40 bushels Of corn to the acre
ploughed and narrowed it once the fore part o
May-then marked it in rows sbout four fee
apart, but owing to the cold weather, did no
plant until about the 10th of the said month
when we dropped handul Of Poudrelte il
each hill or Ii barrels to the acres the
planted the corn upon it. After il came ~
and before the first hoelng, We put four barre
more upon about one hall of the field III
corn was hoed three times, and was ready
harvest little earlier than onr neighbars; b,
we could not perceive any material d,tlerenc
between that part of the field where the 10,
barrels were applied as top dressing, and It
part where it was applied only III the hr
There was no other manure used than the Po
dre,te, The average yield upon the five acr
was 81 bushels to the acTe-Gut from one ac
selected we gathered 90 bushels and ls pound
The freight on The 40 bushels sent by you II
year, will not exceed what was paid last yea
SO on 10 barreIs-owIng TO It's having be-
shipped near the close Of navigation"
From this it vii, be seen that. by the use
IS barrels, or - bushels of Poudrelte on t
five acres, The yield was increased from 80
40 bushels, to eighty bushels per acre, or oy
two hundred bushels on the field