New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-06


tangled compost preparation substitute for the
ordinary bsrnysrd manures. | do nothing OF the sort.
Let every farmer make a. much OF these he can,
and apply every tushei Of it promptly and carefully.
There is nothing better than bardyard mAnures,
far as they go; but they do not go far enough nor
can the farmer afford TO bring them from distance;
their bulk renders their transportation too expensive.
No farmer can afford 10 haul such manure thrte miles
by teams, II il were given 10 him. b. lc, aoh
| make all he can, cartDg in muck from the nearest
bog or mill pond TO double treble the quantity. And
where drawing muck 10 the yard and drawing back
10 the field would be heavy tax let him draw il out
each fell upon the nearest firm, dry land apply e
buhel Of lime sleked with strong salt water 70 each
load Of muck; let il stand till spring and then spread
il not too thiny on his lands. II sin more than re-
pay lie cost 10 say nothing Of the Improvement thus
effected in the healihfulness Of the neghborhood By
baniskiDg fevers, and its comfort By expeling mus
ketoes. Make all the manures YOU can. don't be-
lieve farmer was ever ruined BY OVERRIDING this
business But while they excellent, think still
| more are needed.
LIInIo. If mistake not, regards the application Of
needed minerals a. the chief end OF manuring and
| frst Of these mineral he considers Lime. / believe
this IL limestone county and that the use Of Lime
| il here 20 general that need not dwell upon it
Probably few farms i this county have yet been lined
90 strongly as they might be. Still II msy not be su
perfuous to say that lime, though an important ele
| nent in vegetation, is but one among many-that
you can line land till you do great and lasting in
Jury and that Of lime will not obgate but
il more likely to aggravate the absence OF other con
| stiuents Of the plants you wish TO produce.
| Plaster Of Paris or Gypsum is well known to be
composed in good part OF Lime but the phur which
il also contains is essential element OF vegetation
II has the power Of attracting and combining with
Ammonis so that the free use OF Plaster about eur
barns and hog.y ards prevents offensive odors by re
| tanning and fixing the Ammonia which would other
| wise eY of which Lime would expel. Hence
the SOW ures with Plaster is advisable, not
| merely v,.oast + the value Of the elements which
these will attract and retain from the atmosphere. OF
two farmers living side by side one OF whom pa'ers
| I;sl md tha ofh mt 10 "
ters will enrich his land at the expense of his
peehbors, which will grow poorer and poorer
through the loss Of Ammonia which would otherwise
| be obtained by it, but which is forced away by the
superior attraction Of the plsstered land. think
plasteripg will pay almost anywhere; but II your
neghbor plssiers, sou mast, or be impoverished.
| | DO not think so highly Of Guano as many who
have used it do though have realized good results
from its use. IL seems to me the Alcohol OF yegeta
ton less potent in itself than in stimulating the plants
| 10 exhaust the soil Of elements which II already
possessed. think Guano has been, or may be, 80
used as TO leave the soil far poorer than found IT,
Still il works admirably on most lands, 30 Tar az im
mediate results are c)ncerned and have now avery
large growth Of Tdrnips, where, but for Guano,
| should have had very small one But think tu-
ano too costly for general use except in cold wet
| summer when vegetation needs to be not only
strengthened but quickened. In ordinary times
former can make for sixiy dollars, a heap OF COM
post which will be worth more to him than tun OF
Gusno
You may have heard that our latest hobby about
the cities is Phosphate. Let me explain it,. Phos-
plate is combination OF Phosphorus and Lame.
Bones are composed mainly of Lime, but they also
cor tain Phos hofus and cannot be well formed with
out it, Every Of Corn or pint Of Milk must like
wise bave iis minute allotment of Phosphorus. Now
we around New ork have been feeding Cattle aud sell
ing Mix and Beef until we have eventually exhausted
the soil of Phosphorus Every OK or COW sold of to
the City hes taken away some Phosphorus, aud the
bones which contain IT, instead OF beng crushed ana
returned to the soil which produ ,ed them have been
| sold of TO England to enrich soils which have been
| producing Wheat for hundreds of years, and now
| WELD more than ever before, while our Wheaands
of fifty years ago have given out and would not yield
three bushels TO the acre. Thus our need of Phos-
| pbate is great and we are beginning 10 supply u.
Here the exhaustion is probably far less; but you
ought TO take care that bones iii some form should
be returned 20 the coil TO at least as great an extent
as they taken from it.
But think the most profitable foreign substance
TO be applied to such soils a. yours Is POTASH or
| course the most convenient form Of applying il IL
that of Wood Aches, where such can be bought; but
it is not possible to buy one bushel OF Ashes where
twenty could be applied with profit. | need not al
wise any good farmer to save carefully ana Apply Ju-
dciously all the Ashes he makes or can buy at any
price per bushe below that Of PotatOes-good farm
ers understanding this already. Nor need advise
bin to AM spend upon his fields every deposit
of even leached Ashes for these though nearly e1-
hausttd Of Potash contain other elements OF decided
value. As 10 Asheries, ! presume none are now
maintained in old and thrifty county as ths.lt
there be one, it should be abated rs nuisance But
che ap form though You have to send so far as
Philadelphia foI it; though presume you can Obtain
oil that will be required for the resent considerably
nearer If not at home. Potash Is extensively almost
universally used in manufactures, snd is mainly 30
used 10 produce certain chemical elects, leaving its
value TO the farmer scarcely impaired, while It's cost
is almost aBnbilated. The specIhc use OF Ps'ash is
10 dis olive silica sand so as TO render II food tor
plants mbny Of which need it to enable their stalks
TO maintain upright position. We say that
patch Of heat or Oats has fallen down because tue
4 -. =. h. fha ~ lf IA
lion was an iDsucit nj supply Of soluble silicaes TO
enable them 10 uphold their heavy burden. If silica
is present in sucieney Potash would keep tue grain
upright though it were to sttain stlil ranker
soils that would not richly repsy the application OF
liberal allowance Of Potash.
But all you recommend costs money says an
old.scbool farmer; how we TO pay for such e1-
teIsive improvements ?" answer:
Cut youT farm into halves, sell one OF them, and
use the proceeds TO drain. subsoi and fertize the
Itsidue. Ten acres thoroughly nIed, yield more;
and more surely than foiy acres haliierulILed ana
badly TILED. We all farm too much lAnd-every-
body admits H. vet almost every one persists III II
Farmers seem TO imagine thst they don own more
than six incbea OF the surface ana tsat TIE! W uS
into the property Of some one else II they 90 lower.
beg to issue them that they can go down two ieet
without epcIoeehipg on ti7 i.shts OF others Bat OF
what each retains, he s apt to plow ard to seed
too much. / believe eyCIy Scre worth powng should
lie 0IBised but / believe very much is Low cult
waited which never should be plOwed, except perhaps
orce in ten wears in order TO seed It with grass
sfre,b Let the farmer who al hold on to his hun
dred acres or more keep it nearly all in grass ani
wood: for timber though slow is very sure crop.
Tale M but few acres 81 once, cultivate il thor
oushly and lay it down TO grass frequently, keeping
your crops in constant rotation-that is the true
course-snd whenever you TIL at all, be sure to NJ
thoroughly. l cont believe the farmer who grows
les h twenty bushels Of to the acre averages
laborer's wages; arc sure no man habtusly grows
fity bushels 70 the arc, who does not make proh,