The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1859-03-16
AG RICULTU RAJ.


sutile ~ tnc o'u otti ioIS- WoIii ldiii'
Of New England. Ia The discussions
before tie Maine State Board Of AZ
riculturc. which met at the seat OF Go
vernincnt in January. many Of til.
delegates bore striking and uniform
testimony to the value OF both tiles,
practices, especially upon lands tha,
had been cropped hard. One Of the
members mentioned field Of fifteen
acres, "badly bound ont" which was
plowed three inches deeper than ever
before, and after an application Of :
bushels OF plaster Of paris, produced
yield Of 600 bushe Of oats. This
is forty bushels to the acre. Another
reported yield Of 50 bushels shclled
corn per acre-56 lbs to the bushel,
from a field similarly treated.
Results very like these could be OBJ
tanned from many old fields in our
State, which now grow nothing but
sedge and bricrs, if deeply plowed,
and the application Of plaster were
substituted by generous quantity Of
barn-yard manure, or compost Of
which the base should lie stable dung
and scrapings from the woods.
We have our minds eye now upon
en- old field, twelve miles from Louis
vile, which was treated in this man
ner three years ago. and gave a yield
OF corn in return that much more than
paid expenses. Without Iurher pre-
paration it was seeded to grass. sown
upon the corn stubble, and will this
coming season be more than fair pas
turc or meadow, for one Or the other
OF which it is designed. The corn, in
this experiment, was manfred in the
hill.
Our farmers complain Of the great
labor and heavy cost Of such expert
ments. But such complaints are with
ont reason. Every farmer who keeps
merely two or three horses, four or five
cattle, q half dozen sheep. and dozen
hogs, ii he will only litter his stalls.
pens, and barn yard, with the cLeap
litter afforded by the woods a short
distance from his dwelling house, in
quantities enough to furnish his ami
mails Uncomfortable bedding. he can
have every year by planting time III
the spring. q mountain OF compost
such an we have described, that will
perfectly astonish his own eyes.
So much for the cost Of that part Of
he experiment. 1t really costs no (
hing. for i will pay for itself ia the
increased comfort supplied to his stock.
md the diminished quantity Of food
necessary to carry them through the
winter. AZ for the labor and expense
4 hauling ont, that is not very for
nidable, when you post up and look
he thing right in the face.
In the instance to which we have re.
erred, after the field was checked of
or the seed, two horse wagon and
hrec men MANFRED four acres per day
giving to each hill large shovel
al Of the compost. The actual ex-
ensc 10 this case was probably twoI !
ollars per day, but in any case would
OF be over four dollars, or one dollar
or acre. Without the manure, the !
ID field might possibly have yielded
; bushes to the acre; with it, ityicld-
1 about 40 bushels. Differcnce-15l
uslcls, which, at only 33j cents per
nshel, is 50. All this is clear gain. J
y the cost Of hauling out and apply :
q the manure is fully repaid BY the
Dndition in which the crop left the s
round for grass.--Lou. Courier. n
hIcKING.- saw mare that used to