Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-09-11

--no intelligent farmer there, thinks OF SOW
ing or drilling in crop of wheat, without
adding heavy dressing Of highly concen-
trated nitrogenous manures. Why does
this practice prevail there? Simply, because
experience has proven, tha, the wheat plant.
like all other seed bearing plants, require
such nutrl!ive food as will enable it 10 form
It's grains. Hence it is, that the farmers and
whea! growers Of England, on an average,
get more than two bushels of wheat for
every one grown OIL the same quantity OF
land BY those of our country: in fact, make
one acre produce more than two of ours.
Now as this superiority in product is the
result OF superiority in attention to the pre-
paration, and in the feeding of The land, i. is
time that we should improve our practice.
Is any proof of the truth of what we havs
advanced wanting? We think not. All
efforts to increase the quantity of the wheat
crop in our own country, by the appica-
ilon OF Guano, bone-dus.. and all other high
ly concentrated nutritive manures, have
proved in their results, eminen,ly success
ful. Nearly all such experiments of our
S"&o' P''oHB "HCo' Slo"Cies upOU SOOU tdnUy
have turned out their 20, 25, 80, 35, and in
some instances, their 40 and SO bushels of
good wheat 10 the acre. These were no.
the results of accident, but are the well de-
fined verification, Of that great agricultural
truth-tha, no plant can be made to bear It's
fruit in lulness and perfection, unless il be
provided with appropriate food, to enable i,
to perform its functions vigorously and et
fectively.
The half starved plant, may Struggle on ia
a slckly state; striving its best to overcome
the surrounding difficulty of meagre fare
but all its noble exerlions must, from the
very nature of things, resul! in diminished
product, as it is inconsistent with the laws
of We egelablelife, that modification, can be the
offspring of any plant, whose whole exist
ence has been through denial Of all the
elements which are essential to preserve lis
vitality in integrity and vigor.
Quantities and kinds of fmanurc.-Those
who possess the facilities and means of pro-
curing Guano, will consult their in.eres, bv
manuring with it. 200 lbs. mixed with l
bushel Of plaster, will answer for an acre.
Those who may have stable and barn
yard manure half, or fully ro,ted down, BY
mixing bushels Of sal. and S bushels of
ashes, with every 5 or 6 loads of the manure.
will have for each acre they may set in
wheat, compound that will no, fail to pro-
duce good crop, and place the land in such
condition as to bear being seeded in grass
or clover.
! Ten loads Of coarse barn-yard manure.
yoI hn. .ho(s Of Oh, y
aad of plaster, will answer equally we'll
for an acre Of land.
| Ten bushels Of bone dust, the same ousu
tity of ashes, and 9 bushels of salt, per acre,
will answer. So also, will 10 bushels of
bone dust and all equal quantity Of rich
mould; or bushels of bone-dusl, 5 bush.
els of ashes, and 2 bushels of salt,
Whenever the bone-dust may be used a.
basis, the materials should be formed in.
to pie, and permitted to remain until fer
men,alion commences, which can be ascer-
tanned by lhrusting stick into the pie,-so
soon as the bones become heated, and emit
all ammonacal smell, is the time when thew
should be applied. When about to be used,
the pie should be broken down, and mixed
with bushel of plaster for whatever guam
tity Of the mass which may be intended for
an acre:
Those who may have q compost formed
of marsh, river, creek, ditch mud. ashes or
mari, canno. do better than to apply 10 loads
on each acre of land intended for wheat,
whether in grass or not. This mixture, if
would be greatly improved, by having 2
bushels of salt added to every agreeable ap-
porlionment.
la composing either Of the described
muds, if ashes were used, we would add
from 16 TO 20 bushels TO every 10 loads
if mari were used, SO or 100 bushels may
be mixed with that quantity of mud.
Ten loads Of such mud as we have desig-
mated, and 100 lbs. Of the Nitrate of Potash,
or 100 lbs. OF the Nitrate Soda, will form
most powerful and effective manure for =
acre III whest.
All the foregoing manures, except
whose bases are bone-dus., to be pIq
in those whose bases are bone.dusi
narrowed in !; what We mean by
double hotse one, we'll filled.
Ten loads of woods 2Oj
of charcoal, saturated with 100 Cd
Urine, mixed we'll together, will ma
acre in wheat, just as effectively as
2 or 300 lbs of Guano, with this in
The former---it would be more durableJ
say this entertaining at the some time the
most exalted opinion of the virtues Of guano.
bushels Of bone dust, S bushels of ashes.
gallons OF fish oil, and bushels of finely
pulverized Charcoal, mixed together, would
form most admirable compost for an acre
in wheat.
Preparation Of the Ssed,-Make a soa5z
Of common Salt, sufficiently strong to bear
an egg soak your seed wheat therein fo;
II or "a hours, strain off the brine, place
Il h.x., e :.