Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-05-06
From the Montgomery Atseticah Cotton Planter"
tfarl-Its Yaiuc and me Quantity 10 be Applied

From the Montgomery .At.eficah Cotton Planter
Nfari--Its vaiuc and tht a6nntIty 90 bs Appiicd.
We received 1ettef sofiie THE since from d 3 &
subscriber Of Camden, Wilcox county, requesting
us to state through the pages of the Cotton Planter
the best mode of using she'll mari, and the usual
quantities applied on clay and sandy land AS this
is one of the leading objects of this journal, Will
afford us great pleasure to furnish friend D Kf
and such others may desireit, the necessary in<
formation this very interesting subject
MARI is q mixture of earths containing large
amount of mild lime 1t is clayey or argillaceous
when it has the mechanical characters and touch OF
clay,-sandy when silicious, and calcareous when
almost entirely composed of mild lime il is also
shelly when full Of fossil shells lhe richest sbe
kinds are best, as they contain bone earth The
value of mari is precisely as the amount of lime
they contain. Marles seldom contain more than 70
Der cent of carbonate of lime associated with sands
or clay'' The following analysis by Springel gives
the composition Of two kinds of mari. shell AID
clayey mari:
Shell Mari. Clayey Mari.
Quartz Sand and Selesia.. .5.6.... 5S.4
Alumna,. :...... 80. ....V. .....o
Oxides of Iron,.... .......4 2.... ........6.!
Oxides of Magnesa, -. Trace .O.3
Carbonate of Lime, IS .5.... 1872
Carbonate of Magnesia, LES. ....3.S
Sulphate of Iron, ......s. ..s.s...st
ro!asn snad anG %itS SGsa ssI;es com, ..oo5 lie
Common Salt, -. ....... 0 03 $1,000. Trace.
GYPSUM. .0O6.............2.1
Phos. Lime, (bone earth, .23.....s.......0.5'
Nitrate Lime, .... ...... O oil 1...............
Organic Matter 80. .... .O6 6.............
100 100
am almost confident that | have seen she'll mari
in Eastern Alabama, in Russell county, on Big
Uchee creek, as rich the specimen here analysed
The proper mode OF applying mari is to haul it
out fall fallow, deposting it in small heaps of
from five to eight bushels at equal distances every
way, and allow it to remain during the winter. that
it may crumble down and pulverzc at the rate say
of five to six tons per acre. We have it
shelly, and the shells of such consistence, to
der it necessary to burn it previous to using 1t at al
There is no manure valuable on poor, sandy
land than marles as is plainly indicated in their
composition.
Marling is comparatively new business in Ala
bama, and indeed in any portion of the cotton
States: but the day is rapidly approaching when it
will become business of unlimited extent,--and
why so! The cotton States, especially Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida abound in any quantity of
the best of marles, and when it becomes generally
known and well understood, that an application Of
FIVE to six tons of mari, will make any and every
acre of the exhausted homestead worth one hundred
dollars, and each and every such acre, after paying
all expense for labor and sustaining its proportion Of
sustanence to the family of those working it, and
then pay better premium than one hundred dolI
lars vested in any other way, planters will cease
their westward march, and shall see them in
vesting their capital in mari banks secured by the
strongest and best of bonds,-graded bitches and
horizontal rows.