Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-11-20

most part of homogeneous nature occa-
sional differences there are, which your
own vigilance and acu.eness must detect
and accommodate by your practices, but
generally it is the same. Upon our lands
then ! am convinced tha, LINE is the first,
greatest, best of all improvers. Without it,
according to my experience, all other appli-
cations, if they do not fail of their immedi-
ate effects, so soon pass away-are SO evan
escent-tbat they scarcely repay in many
instances the expense and trouble of collect
ing, preparing and applying them. Hence,
in some measure, it is that we often see our
best managers and most thrifty farmers, year
after year, applying large quantities of rich
putrescent manures or other lertilizing sub
stances, to the same small spot of earth,
from which they no sooner take crop,
and this not always good one, than it is
again very nearly as poor as before any ma
nure was applied! Yet, we know that in
other regions where putrescent manures a.
lone are relied upon, manuring once in
seven years is considered sufficient With
out being preceded by lime, have found
these putrescent manures to fail of their ef-
fects, more especially on the grain crops.
There will generally be produced an abun-
dance, even rank growth, of stalk and
blade, but the power to elaborate the rich
juices thus supplied seems to be wanting,
and the grain fails both in quantity and qua
lily. Lime is, of itself, we know, directly
and eminen.ly fer.ilizing, an essential food
for plants but, as meliorator of the soil
and The basis which gives efficacy and per-
manency to most other improvers, and c.
specially to those drawn from the stables
and barn-yard, it is invaluable. ! do no.
mean TO advise the application Of lime in
conjunction with those other manuIes, but
| earnestly recommend its application to,
and incorporation with the soil, as preli-
minary step to the application Of other ma
present in sufficient quantity; and this is
the case in our county, believe, only on
our shelly lands upon the margins of our
oysler-bearing streams. BY very many OF
our citizens lime can be had from their In
dian shell-banks, near the margins Of the
rivers and creeks, at a very .rihing cost in
labor and fuel, and for such there is no
cheaper manure; but all can procure it for
very moderate price-say, or s cents
per bushel, ,-delivere within few miles
OF the land to which they may wish to ap-
| ply il, and at this rate no man who wishes TO
give permanen. fertility 10 his farm, should
hesitate to use it freely. Many questions
have been started and discussed, and vari-
Gus opinions have been formed as to the
proper quantities to be applied and the mode
Of its application. There is probably no
general rule which will hold good in all
cases on this subject, some special cir
cumslances existing, in many instances, to
modify or alter the applicability of every
such rule; and i! is satisfaction to know
that any error committed in this respect
unless it be by applying too small guam
li,y, will be corrected by the quiet operation
of ll.le time. But according to my ex-
perience, the best mode Of application is to
spread it Immediately upon the surface, and
there letitremain undislurbed as long as con
venien.ly may be-a year is better than any
shorter time. The quantity used should
no! be less than 100 bushels slaked lime pei
acre, and if there be much vegetable matter
or much mineral or vegetable acid in the
soil, 200 bushels or more may be used witt
safety and advantage. This ] cannot toe
earnestly recommend to each and every ont
of y ou, my fellow-countymen, who serious
Iy sets about enriching his lands, as ,h'
frs! great step in manuring and the founda
/ tombstone of certain success if you persever'
in your efforts. Next in importance is TIT
farm-yard, stables and compost heaps. IL
have abundan. supplies from these source
t should be the constant care, the unceaslnt
, effort Of every one who desires TO better hi
condition by the pleasant and heal.hful ant
, honorable employment, of cullivator of tn
, soil. Every species Of offa on the farm o
in reach, wheat straw: corn stalks, marsl
! grass Of any and every kind you have, leave
and mould from your wood lands-in shor,
, every species of vegetable matter in its crud
!. or partially decomposed condition, whicl
: your means will enable you TO collect
e should be converted by these, as they ma,
, be, into active manures. This operation
J should be going forward at all times, ii
summer as we'll as in winter. Let the oil
and wasteful and sovenly mode of maxim!
e summer cow-pens, to be removed al shor
intervals, and never Uttered, be abandoned
, and spacious, permanent enclosures, partial
: ly sheltered, be provided for your stock il
, summer as well as winter, where they arr
to be folded every night, with abundance o
= the crude materials have mentioned sup
piled them, and they will be manufacturing
=, wealth for you and abundance for them
5 selves while you are asleep. Let you
=, kitchen, your negro houses, your yards
: poultry houses and all other buildings ant
enclosures about your dw yelling, be vigilanl
e ly looked after and kept constantly cleans
: ed Of all refuse accumuIations which vii
, be daily collecting there, and the who'll
4, carefully removed and deposited with th
+ compost heap, established a. safe and con
9 verien, distance, or distributed through tn