The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1850-10-16
.4GRICUL TUR.2L.
Lcached A shes rs a Manure.

Lcached Ashes rs a Manure.
The value OF leached ashes on dry sole, and
IN dry seasons, as manure Tor gram anu
grass lands, has been concluslvely shown, IN
this and other countries, by carefully conduct.
I'd experiments. Yet. 40 il SCENE useful and
necessary TO keep before the people T" such
facts az are not fully understood and consider.
ed, We give some observations drawn from ex'
perimeots heretofore published, for fear that
this subject. in the hurry Of The season, might
otherwise be neglected and forgotten.
The German asriculiuris,, Albert, OF Rosz'
Ian, gives q cifcums,anial account Of al ex.
pertinent commenced 10 1927, and continued
for five years. A dry, sandy soil, which had
lain in grass for eight years, was dressed with
leschsd ashes. a, the rate Of sixty SIX bushels
per acre. The sod Was ffs, carefully turned
under, then the ashes hauled On and spread,
and covered with plough about tSo inches
deep; remaining IN this condition si1 or seven
weeks i, was again plOus he'd three inches deep,
so ss TO bring up the ashe., and sosed to buck
wheat. A portion Of the fis d, 10 which no
ashes we're applied, vas treased IN the same
manner, so thu, the difference nigh, be no
Iced.
The cos. Of the application was SO % per
acre. The increased product Of the fist car
was a, the rate Of five and half bushels Of
buck shea,, With four hundred and seventy
pounds Of straw, estimated at 81 90. The
increased product Of the second year, when
sown with rye, was six bushels per acre, with
six hundred pounds Of straw, estimated at 50
%. The increased produc, of the third year,
when in oats, was ten aud hall bushels, With
FIVE hundred AID fly pounds Of straw, eslim
ated at So 624. The fourth year the incress
ed product, ~hen ia pasiufage, was estimated
a; 50 per acre. The fifth year /, vas again
so~n 10 rye. and the increased product was
four and hslf bushels, with four hundred and
seventy pounds Of sraw, es,imated at 81 Of
per acre. The value Of the increased product
10 $40; and We have no reason 10 suppose their
etfe: It's were exhausted ~hen the experiments
we're coucud, d. The estimates ~ere made
by Mr. Wagner, the translator, from the pr.
ces paid at the tine IN this country, a. also
aha, was the cost Of the ashes aud labor.
Uuleachrd ashes produce a more powerful
eject and hence less quantity is required.
10 The Albany Cultiva,or for 1912, the resul.
Of an experiment Is given, en- an old meadow,
moved nearly half q century of clay soil,
stocked with all kinds OF grass. whero strong
ashes were applied, a, the rate Of thirty two
bushels per acre, producing an increased pro.
duct Of nearly onc.fourth Of a ton, While the
same quantity Of air slaked lime produced no
beneficial re.uli; and thirty two bushels of
clear. dry COW dung increased the product on
y one hundred and four pounds, aud the same
quantity Ct horse manure but sixteen pounds
per acre.
Ia The first Of these experiments four thou
sand four hundred and ,~euly.t~o pounds OF
sached ashes we're applied, producing, in five
years, an increase Of four thousand three
hundred and forty one pounds Of grain and
straw, besides pas'urage equivalent to a, less!
a ton Of hay. la the second, about one ton
OF ashes increase the product, in one year,
ope fourth that amour, of hay and 10 fsvora.
/ bio seasons We came, doub, but that lis effect
would Continue al the same rate for four yeafs
longer. So Tie acllon oil ashes must be chem
zeal IN l,s nature, giving a capacity TO appro.
pirate other fertilizers, which 1t docs perhaps.
by lmpa,,ing TO the soil iis potash, which dis
solves the silica or lln, Of the soil, producing
silica,e Ct potash, which according TO Llcbig,
is required by all pIan's Of the grass kind, 10
large Quantities.
% we, ground i, should he borne in mind
lha, ashes produce no effect; and III vet sea.
sons, the beaef, i. much less than in dry
Rural Aew Yorkr.
From the Charlottesville AJrocatc.
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