New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-04
AGRICULTURAL NTELIlCEgCE.
fHE COsr OF FERrILIzIgG.

1HE COST OF fEkTlLIZING.
The price Of Peruvian gusno has hsen 3nos /. v.s
6p introduced and extensively used b this coun.ry
from about as to about 90 9 tun, and ses As
farmers cry out, What stsn We dove can't s0Ora
to use -
That settles the question. No farmer should DO
what be cannot afford TO do. Bot We should Ike =
uquue whether he can afford 10 do wtbou. srnethng
70 fertlize bic land, no matter what the cost
we are aware that the price of gusno has rison a.
mos' beyond the reach Of al but those living nesr
VINO oenve large profits by rcing specific crops
W ieeo 'nose who are VII ing whether able 10. 10
psy n'sn prices for their daily supply Of vege.abIe
feod.
We are aware, too, that Outrageous fr,,s. h.v.
been prsctced upon farmers BY the adulsr..on q; VI.
nous kinds Of stuf-stuff il is-soid 10 f.r mar, =.
gusno, tuperphoephstes poudr,tte bone du.. or .oms
other name for concentration Of fertility to be M
racul, usy insiiu, into barren soil by homeopathic
dcses Of quackery and knayery's specific.
We are aware thst avoiding all the tribe Of swn.
d .rr, and getting an honest penny's worth fer b,
money, the owner OF poor coil must expend 70
siderable .um of money for fertilizers Of y 10
kind, or ese be viii fail to gsts remuuerstive crop
from any coil that has been long TILED in all the Alan
tic States and any advice upon the subject = shat
he shall use is important.
Upon all wo,n-out, sandy or losmy soil, the csk-
vAtor aft I'd TO No gusno at e7O tun, q the
rate Of 200 pounds per acre. well worked INFO the col
with small grain if with that grain be viii sow Glove.
seed, that the growth Of that viii take up ~ tha
the grain does not Of the fetlziog powers Of the gnapo
and in it, turn for rich dressing Of to
the land renovstrg il 30 as TO produce other grain
root crops without further application Of expensive
fertilizers.
Upon many crops the farmer can afford TO Use gusn,
at go % well as be could or eight years ago u
$50 the un; because there is more than tina, ioesse
in the value Of the products obtained DOW and thea
And upon all crops that will not pay wthou. artificial
fertilization, ard will pay with be can afford TO
guapo at the present high price, If he canno. get any
thing chesper; and that, in many Instances, he cen
do. For special purposes, suPerphosphates, II hon
esty prepared preferable to guane, q. the same
cost per up; and as general thing they do no. cost
near as much.
Pou6rette is deodoized humsn exorement, ard IT, Of
course, powerful fertl zer and where required f,r
givrg vegetation rapid, early start s preferable to
any other article ever used The article sold under The
above name not always the Article above described.
Instead of being deOdorized excrement, is odorsed
swamp muck and q cart-losd IL of the sane value 10
the farmer that CARLOAD Of muck woud be II dug
out Of bis own swamp and eighty 0dorized With
shovelful of stuff from bis osn privy.
1t is charged that vast quantities Of sugsrhous,
scum spoiled feb, dried blood, yellow earth aud otse'
worthless stuff are cold at two three cents pound 10
farmers under the name Of gusno, superphosphs o.,
or some other name every year in this city, and that
s ono reason Why farmers are afraid 70 venture pur
Al. H. kbar aafaU
Perhaps the least sdulterated and most valuable
compared with its cost concentrated fertilizer that
fsiner living near nsvigable water can buy New
jersey greenland mail. There 10 no mistake in tho
valuable resuts everywhere obtained from toe uss Of
this article. Lime salt, potash inter plaster can a.
way be obtained pure and no farmer can afford 70 90
without them because he can convert them into gold
at double their rst cost by sjudicous application Of
them to bis sod
Lime, sacked with water satuist with sea salt,
will enable farmer to reduce the most obdursse sob
stances of the compost heap or swamp muck TO fine
ly commru'ed powder; and plaster, or charcoal, or
swamp muck, reduced " powder by lime and sa'
will enable farmer to prevent tue escape Of ammonia
or other volatile substance from bis msnurs-hil. or
other pats Of his premises where the escapog gases
not only unpleasant, but noxious 70 the health Of
the family.
The application of inter to grass and pot.sh to
woody plants he's shown that boh, in their place, ere
Of aim oct il conoeivsble value to farmers.
Few would hesitate to buy pound Of Gasbers sal.
for sick horse, yet nearly al would think was
throwing money away to buy such dose for q sick
soil; yet many barren spot might be cured BY such
simple means.
Most men know that suphunc soid Toll Of virioD
L. 10 I'd
do not know that 1t is most valuable fertilizer Let
them buy csrboy Of it, and dilute it With four or i've
times ito weight Of water, In an cid kettle or large
earhen jar, and throw rto il every bone about theirs
own premises or that they pick up abroad, and
when ei.solved a. the bones will be apply the m1:urs
of bones and acid to their crops in small quantities.
and zee If they don't find that they have 60. cheap
fertilizer. See if supbure scd will destroy the grow
ing plants when thus sppisd
Flint Of ALL however before the farmer goes abroad
to buy fertilizers for his crops he should look fora
mine Of them at home. If he carefully e1sm.aes bic
SOIL if losmy csyey one, from ten to twenty inches
below the surface be will find something al most -
valuable a. gusno island, and Is full of fertilizers ~
a superphoephste msbufsctory; or barelDg shop OF
swamp-muck (poudrette)i or bagsiDg room ofyelIov
earth and hens bones and feathers f. prepared guAno
1, is tolersbly well-founded theory Of sone cuvs-
tors Of the earth that al that needed 70 keep up an
eternal fertility Of rich soil is deep tlsge and nne
pslvenzaton, and rotation Of crops, portion o. WHOM
are to be tu ed green; and ii is consended
course is far more profitable than one that requires
the puIshs.s of any foreign or concentrated isr.sr
OF cOurse il s understood that the principal crops are
to be Consumed by domestic sniaal' on the farm and
that The ,aes of animal products must always equal the
sale of grain products and that all the fertii1ng prop
-. 50 oo,.umed produce must be husbsnced and