New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-27

J's tablet Is also q very cheap and profitable ma
nure for most grass lsnds-in fact about the
chespest in the average that can be had. How
comes it. then. to make so sorry figure in Mr..
JOB nsons table We answer, This N ~ have &C.
Cured 10 either Of several wsys-ss for instance:
l. Because the proper quantity was Mt ap-
piled.
3 Because is was hot applied 81 tSe proper
time
3. Or not in the proper msnner. Or.
4. Because the elements of production supplied
to the 'oi by the application of Plaster were rot
those Of which that particular lot was deficient
1t mus. suffice for the present that we dgelt
on this latter presumption. Ons farmer buys
whatever he hsppens to fancy-Lime, Plaster,
Phosphate, Gusno, Ground B1ne,, or S,lt-snd
applies il 10 his land, because other farmers have
used this with benefit; yet he derives no percept
ible advantage therefrcm. Forsh.ish he jumps
to the conclusion that Lime, Plaster, or Whist
ever it was, lie 3 humbug, end that high farming
is Quackery; when in truth II is his system only
that lie d futiity, and he that is quack. He has
sppisd bis Lime or Plaster, or something else,
Ingredient thus supplied, and was suffering for
the want of something else. Phere may be TWEEN
Is fields within mile ef him which would have
amply rewarded the application of that which he
has budy and stupidity thrown away This,
you may say. is his own affair; but not if he a.
t.m1ts to inoculate others with his stupidity and
especially il he is enabled to do so through the
columns of State Agriculture Report.
We viii not here insist tba. the Analysis of
Soils has yet been brought to such perfection ia
this country that a farmer esd tell exactly what
fertilizer be may apply to his land With most
profit by admitting it 20 any analysis he can now
obtain II that is not now feasible, we trust it
soon may be. But this, however We do say with
confidence, if the Hst BY analysis is not yet avail
able, each farmer must make bis OSn experiments
ard be guided By these alone. Lst him Guy small
quantities each Of Lime Plaster, Guanc, Bone
dust Pbosphs,e, Poudfette, &c, and try them
eide BY side keeping care al .ccOun "a Of the guam
tity aid cost of each application, and noting It's
effect, not on the fret crop alone, but on several
succeeding crops as well. Let him learn Of
other. at what time aud to what extent either OF
these fertilizers has been most successfully ap-
piled and follow the approved methods; but le'
him rest satisfied with no )n.luslons bat hisogn.
He who proceeds in this way will doubtless as
certain that fertilizer which is simply thro IN
away OIL bis clay meadow richly re yards sppica-
ton to hisgraveIy upland pasture, and that which
adds ten bushels per acre to bis corn crop on
sandy loan. will not give him one extra bu'hel Of
carrots on BIZ. reclaimed bog. In short, he will
find that, IA the doctor wno went blindfold to MS
medicine chest aud handed out Arsenic or ASA.
lntida by guess 10 pa!e'ts suffering with con
sumption or collie, az chance might determine,
would be likely to kill as many as he cured so
the kindred applications of fertilizers to soils is
eminently irational, unscie nsifc, AID likely to
prove in the majority of cases Improbable.