Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-06-06
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The following communication, from the Germ


vegetable and animal compost
There are probably but few of the cultivated grains
that possess higher claims upon the attention OF lar.
mers engaged in stock raising than mlllet 1t would
be extremely difficult. indeed, to assign satisfactory
reason for the general neglect it has experienced at
the hands of our agrculturasts, and equally difficult
is it for to conceive why when all other avail
able resources tasked 10 the uttermost, little
should be said in its favor and more vigorous eff
forts put forth to its more general introduction
Met requires for its successful cultivation, sell
replete with formulating remains of vegetable and
animal organisms, and so constituted, chemically and
mechanically as to due and equally gradu-
ated humidity Extreme wet extreme dryness
acts detrimentaly upon the development of this CROP
and TO perhaps greater degree than upon any other
Light sandy soil, in which there is a mixture OF
clayey matter, and which has been well MANFRED un-
der previous cropping. will almost invariably produce
good mille The proper time for sowing the seed is
about the time Indian receives the first hoeing;
or f the season be forward, little before that Pc
riod.
The soil should be carefully prepared by thorough
blowing and narrowing, and. If very light, by the
application of the roller 1t should then receive the
seed from common seed.sower, which burrows,
drops the seed covers and rolls the soil all at one
! operation The rows may be graduated as 20 dis
tapce by the character and condition OF the soil 1T
very fertile, they may be fifteen inches apart; If
not so rich twenty or twenty Jour inches should be
allowed between the Broadcastng is prac-
tice, thou gh destitute of its peculiar merits has
nevertheless gone mostly into disuse of late 1t re
qures much larger quantity of seed, does not in
the uniformity of appearance and produce,
and acts much less favorably upon the character of
soil.
We find the following relative to Millet in the
same paper:
After many years experience in the culture Of
Millet, we have to the conclusion that the first
week in June, with us, is the best time TO sow 1t
hay or seed. If sown much sooner the weeds will
get the start of IT, it will not grow hut little till the
weather gets warm.
MUD.-There many farmers who scarcely seem
to be aware of tie value of the which can be
obtained from the marg ns of many rivers and creeks
In most cases this heavy black deposit IS the richest
part of vegetable soil and be used as manure
to great advantage. In country in the world
does this valuable material abound in such quantity
as in America, and in none is it so lit lie used. And
in no country is il generally distributed or easily
obtanable No one has an excuse for owning
poor or barren farm when pond or river mud IS with
in hauling distance. The following remarks from an
agricuturast contain some useful directions on the
subject:
pond mud is valuable feriser. When you
have leisure, cart out quantity of it, and mix 1t
with your compost put it in your catte-yards and
hog pens to he mixed with tie solid excrement and
absorb the liquid few cords of this will be of
great value to your fields. Mixed with lime and
ashes it makes an excellent top dressing for lands in
grass Potatoes MANFRED with it, in the hl also do
we'll and so also do most garden vegetables par-
cular the artichoke tomato, beet carrot, etc. For
this purpose, however, it requires TO be thoroughly de-
composed, and its efficiency smuIant is increas-
ed by slight admixture of gypsum"
Fighting With Money.
| remarkable feature in the consequences of the
late war is the accuracy with which its cost TO all
narties has been counted up and the very generally
manifested tendency to bring all its losses or advan-
tages under the very comprehensive head of pounds,
shilIings and ence Much, of course, has been said
of our brave army of patriotism, and of courage
but is very evident that great deal more has been
thoght of the pecuniary sacrifices which these noble
traits have invole9. People have been thrilled or
shocked by stories of the Redan and MaIakoh, but
they have been much more amazed by the array OF
fgures-those ghosts of departed sums-Whlch rise
so terribly before the eyes OF the tax payer, hlng
him with more real dread than sight OF Napoleon's
J spectral review would have done. Even during the
} war; we were told very frequently how much every
shot from cost, and this was repeated as re
garded the entire equi pment and pay oil the armies
! until it required no very great effort OF Imagination
to picture the combatans as pelting each other with
money-the beaten man 10 be the one whose chest
was first exhausted
And such is indeed the real characteristic of mo.
dern military struggles From being game of fs-
tcuffs, war is gradually changing to something like
bluff or poker, where he who has the most money
: who can show the most nerve and impudence in man
euvres and in diplomacy is sure 10 win In older
time nations fought on capital of nerve, enthusiasm
and courage: but the moiern banker system is graz
ually evoutonizng society and its system of fight
e ing In the early ages, merceparIes were only ar
occasional sIde-piece now every soldier Is regarded
q by government as such, and the tendency of the ag
d is to increase the feeling Napoleon who was TIT
. last great conqueror which the world will ever wit
:, ness was also the last who successfully employed
on grand scale, feeling and enthusiasm as substi
tute for pay. At present America, Hungary, ant
e Poland are perhaps the only civilized countries II
f which the bourgeoiSie, the moneyed citizens contIu
ue to regard war with something OF the old spirit
e but it is manifest that even IN these the aggressive
}. principle is greatly on the wane.
k I he inference to be drawn from this is simply
that our whole social system is far rapidly thai
l. is generally IMAGINED, becoming averse to war
y Should the present state of peace continue for tel
years longer and should, during that time, the cvi
zed world, including Russia, progress with railroad
and exchanges as they doing, war will b
an impossibiity The world has yet many Ion
strife before it, but they Will be battles with the ele
y ments and with nature--the battle of science,
which man is sure to win. Therefore we contem
t. plate with sncereipeasure heprncipe whichireduce
at be matter of gold, yet in the long
l. humanity, we shall find that it forms the goIde
is chain, like that OF Homer, which links the world
e, war with the heaven of prosperity and peace.
Re Philadelphia Bulletin.
lie REVENUE FROM A RAILRoAD.-The Pennsy lvani
at Railroad Company has just paid to the city of Phi
D. adelphia two hundred thousand dollars, the amour
J. of the four per cent. dividend due the city II
I'd five millions of stock which it holds in the compan
,e The Ledger says;
"This stock was obtained by the issue of six pr
cent bonds, and of course leaves clear profit 10 II
ic city on the last semi annual payment of fifty thousan