Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-21
SALT AS a MANURE.

G. D. asks us for advice as "a "the application Of
common Salt as Il manure for different crops -
&c., which we proceed to give to the best Of our
ability. Any good farmer who has used Salt MAJ
correct our notions by his own experience.
The be t mode Of applying Salt to any land not
recently aUd heavily lined, we believe to lie this
Set conveniently to water n halfhogshead, large
tub, or halt-barrel, that will hold liquor; put it in
two or three bricks standing on end thereon set a
basket containing Il bushel or more Of Salt now
dash pailful after p%ailful Of water on the salt I'M
Ill dissolved. Ut may be q little easier though
slower process to fill your tub two thirds full of
water and set your basket Of salt into it as afnre.
said Have Il cart load of unSlacked lime ready.
(Scrap or refuse lime, if fresh from the kiln and
unslacked, is rs valuable for this use as any
other, while usually very chcap) and pour this
dissolved salt on the lime until it will take up no
more, and you have now n perfect chemical com
pound Of the lime and salt-in other words. Il
chloride Of lime. This is Prof. Names mode OF
applying l~ime-whether original with him or not
is Of no consequence but it seems to us very ra'
ti0nRl and economical. With the urdinnr, New
York salt, an hours labor should safice tl prepare
II cart-lond of this chloride, which may DC suwed ON
the recently pluwed land anC narrowed in with
oats or any broadcast seed, or in preparation for
planting. We have not seen it tried as topdres-
sing for grass, but think it would do good even
there.
4 still better, though slower, mode Of applyinp
the chloride OF lime aforesaid is this If YOU have
Il piece Of swamp or bog land, orany SORT Of frog
pond, cut of the bushes, if such there be, give its
water an outlet ii necessary, and improve the dry
est part of the summer or fall To draw out uu1u
the nearest high, level spot as many loads of the
muck as you can find time iur-a Thousand would
not be too many, though the area o. y,ur farm he
but twenty acres. Estimate the solid contents nt
your muckheap, and apply one bLshcl of the salt
and lime mixture aforesaid to each cord of the
muck. 1t may or may not he wise to set up four
crutched sticks or posts, two eight and two ten feei
high, al the ;urncrs OF your pile. run poles across
and put the rudeSt puSsible roof of SLAMS ar refuse
bottrCs over head, leaving ample room for the air
to sweep over the pile, with chance for part of the
rain to drip through between the loose boards
We think 1t would pay to shovel the heap over
once in November and again in March but we are
not sure of this. Haul out as You pillow INLAND in
the Spring, and spread broadcast, taking care not
to spread to thin-iurty cords to the acre is little
enough, and there are acres that will thank YOU for
a hundred-and we will warrant tho land not to
forget the application Tor many n fruitful wear.
Salt may be profitable applied in it's natural state
or simply Dissolved as aforesaid and mixed linstead
of limel with enough muck or dry earth to absorb
It, on fields infested by worms, rs wet land recent
y taken out OF grass are apt to lie. We lost more
than hall OF what should have been our best mere
If corn this year by w%ire-worus, when five or six
bushels at salt, narrowed in as Aforesaid inst be-
fore planting, would have saved nearly AL of IT,
After lOusing half the stalks. we had the siok1y ".
looking residue well dUsed with raw salt, n hand
full to each hill applied quite near to the Young
corn and though the ends of the leaves were
thereby scOrched and killed as if exposed IN fire
yet the corn speedily recovered, while the worms
disappeared. We don't advise this mode of anuli.
catlon--there are ever so many hetter-but IL we
ever have another crop attacked by worms of any
sort we Shall take their opinions Of the virtues OF