The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-09-26
crops without MANURE.

Crops without manure.
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Already We ARE spending f4,poo,ooo a
year Up foreign panures,- and to, haye 70 ip-
crease this expenditure win be counter
poise, to, any economy Of grass at home. y As
il to meet this anxiety, agricultural art is now
showing that the greater part Of this outlay
for foreign manures is needless. When. The
agricultural knowledge which Is now enrich
ing the fewhas extepdql to the apanysit will
be subject Of surprise and vekation'that we
should have thfoSnl awsy nijliensr Of money
and years Of dispptai9n with the Peruvian
and other governments on foreign manures,
which have been for the most part unheces-
sary. ha-f.''ssi oe -ast
Hbto the application of geological Rnd
chemical science that we owe the discovery
Of the waste1WsIhaEAlbesn paking erAs aq
illustration, take the case Of the Lois Weed
on husbandry, now at last exciting the atten
ton which it should have obtained dozen
years ago. At Lois Weldon an agriculturist
has for seventeen year. raised wheat crops
on the same soil--erops now amounting to
from SO to 40 bushels per acreMTvithOrt the
application of any manure at all. This gen
tlepgnI ths Rev. s. SMITH lundsFtsOd fks
Composition of'oHrelhy landslide great cs4
panse, of wheat land ylich~we haye as yet
hardly begin to develop II was clear to
him that the mineral elements requisite for
wheat production had never been, either DE-
veloped or husbanded as they might be- by
our traditional methods Of tiilage; and he
has proved, by a continued success of seven-
teen years, that he judged rightly. It is
enough to say here thathc has turned up an
Increasing depth to the air, and that by his
method half the soil is left fallow each year
alternately. Hq sow, hisI wheat in triple
rowswih tie spaeS tfa foSt betwccD tlicm,
ans isgss IN inteestpf tlSeefSev--the7stYb-
bfes Of each SESSION being ffe fallows Of the
next The pneqpqllGsdl qlppnIltySf ihs stray
thus airiyIgrown, and the excellence of the
grain il, bears, are undisputcd; and there
can be no question asto the productiveness,
when, in fact, the moiety Of each acre pro-
duces the quantity we have stated, on soil
which WAS ~ frst pfiqply fSfrsgs quality.
The economy of manure is even carried fur
Their. Light soils, unsuitable for wheat, are
MANFRED with clay merely, and thus raised
to wheat-bearing quality. Improvements
of kind like this open wide prospects of
economy and rfcrtiliy)atf opce} and should
raise our spirits more than any bad weather
should depress them; and when VIC see that
seventeen years may be- required TO teach us
how to use our own soil for the production
of our daily food, we may well question whc-
Their our occasional difficulties from untoNard
seasons are not evils wbich I'VE may expect to
outgrow. tIH}AN1
This improved lusbandry is a sufficient
answer to the apprehensions expressed by
some melancholy men who calculate the
number of years that the guano' aud other
special manures will hold ont, and conclude
that then we must starve. But there is an
other fact which has bearing on this. Our
free trade in corn has So lowered the price
OF gram, ipni ,eTriYs.ri II nryt~"tr"y, .i.".
not only are lcispcctAatibns Of eork-dealcrs
reduced to regularity, but the cultivation of
wheat is being brought within its natural
limits in England. Our farmers are more
and more dcvoting their least suitable wheat
lands to the growth of roots; so that there
may still bc all the stock; and consistently
all the manure that can possibly be wanted.
This is direct aud natural consequence OF
the free importation of grain, by which the
price. will always. be kept moderate. So, nj
least, the farmers in our wheat-growing dis
tricts say; and we have no doubt they are
qnitelri9ltI IItfgetltcf VIII fhk, We barn
to make such use Of our clay soils as is made
at Lois Weldon, while by commerce we
command the surplus of all the lands of the
globe, We may feel assured that in coming
gsaerisioiis thers will always be fpod anobgh
for man and beast-LoRdon Daily News,
! Aug. Is.