The Cecil Whig., 1855-12-15

that the premium for the heaviest crop o
wheat grown in New Castle County De-. ha.
been awarded to Col. u. B. Gluzcr. He at
tributes the yield 10 the use of Mapes' Super.
phosphate of Lime.
WILMINGTON, Oct lOth, 1855.
To MAJOR JouN JONES, Chairman of tn,
Committee on Wheat Crops, of the New Cas-
tie County Agriculture eSociety.--Sir:-In ap.
plying for the premium offered for the best
yiel,! Of wheat on not less than 20 acres, y
herewith haAd you The following certificate
Of my then Fuicmcn, as one Of the vouchers
for having prodnced II bushels per acre on
one Of the fields Of my farm in st. Georges
Hundred, in this County, viz:
This is TO certify that harvested, stacked,
thieshed and measured the Wheat grown on
Il. Is. Glazier $ farm this year, and there was
eight hundred and twenty bushels grown ON
twenty acres.
Signed, F.B. STEVENS.
p. S. The lands on stock ground sown
with Phosphate Of lime, believe yielded
double that which was spread with barn
yard manure
ODESSA, Sept 2S, 1855. F.B.S.
| 1he four previous crops of the first named
field was AS follows lst. Corn with about ~
o, 50 bushels soda waste sown per acre. ID
Wheat seeded down in clover 3D. Mown for
hay, 4th, Clover ali frozen out and paSturcl
very close until late in September, 1851,
when it was poorly plowcd owing to the en-
trelne dry weather After narrowing. a top
dressing of about 300 pounds of Mapes' PhoS-
plate of lime was sown broadcast, and seven
pecks Of Mediterranean wheat per acre put in
with drill. After the wheat WAS well up in
November, it was rolled and last spring again
sown in clover Of which it is nov bearing i,
luXuriant crop. Another field Of stock
ground was Sown very late, q part of which
was well manurcd, and another part of the
same field top-drcsscd with Mapcs' Phos.
phate and have no doubt there were from
II to 10 bushels per acre more wheat Oil the
phoSrha,ed part than on the othcr. Mcssrs
Geo. W. kal sncr, Thomas j. Ford and Others
whose attention was called to this xrcrimcnt
fully concurrcd with Mr.. Stevens as to the diff
ference. iSce postscript to- his ccrtiiicate.) =
Although the straw was very thick standing
on an average full four feet in height, with
some heads six inches in length, there was
not over two OF three percilcs square of il
down, and that not so bad as to prevent Its
being readily cut with the machine. My
first use of Mapcs' phosphate was in the Fall
Of 1888 when | purchased two tons of Mes
Sis Pcnnock of Wilmington, for 500, which
was put upon part of wheat field sown
after oats for which had no manure 1t
was put ON in three different modes. viz
plowcd under, narrowed in after plowiug and
SoWn broad cast late after the wheat was up
The latter produced the best wheat and all
done much better than the mRnurcd ground
The following fall an! spring The superiority
OF the grass ON that part OF The field was per
cpptbic for long distance. The success of
these experiments indI &C | me to use seve,a
tons on every kind Of crop raised, and | am
fully satisfied that have received a return
Of double the cost of the outlay the first sea-
son Of its application. Last spring planted
a field in corn which had been six successive
years under cultivation. four of which was of
that crop. | was told I should get nothing
but stalks and rotten corn. | applied about
table spoonful or one ounce ofMapeS' Phos-
phac to each hill. aad there now stands in
the shock u sounder and larger crop by 20
per cent, than has been grown on that G,lh
for the past twenty-five years. From my
own experience and general know ledge of the
nature Of the soil in this country, have no
doubt that the use Of from one to 800 pounds
per acre, of Mares' Phosphate of lime, sown
broadcast prior to the first Of April next eth
CT on wheat or grass Will produce double its
first cost on the following OF present crop
without takn" into consideration It's effects
for years to come.
Very Respectfully, L. B GLAZiER
p. 5. As an exhibition or display Of this
crop was never expected OF inenicd no cX-
ira care was taken in its cultivation or har-
vesting. II was injured by scab or scalI one
hot rainy day something over week pre-
"'9 ~ IT,, '''' '.o'"7' I'u '',r "tS eS
g f,, ~! y. G,'-i',o' i"u'
Lah :" cm 'I" " ;,t ",.;r.n !e. 1'.r 'h!',
't ;'.oa.. ~, "'Hi 'aN'''e' uio
INV '''''>"'e '''' y " n VI e'e"''" n
wur.~, avn noo 80
NJ HEAL Nd 'c'' l. iooo'
laIy ol n. I. I. Agricultural SOCIETY,". .-Dear