Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-08-15
AuItIcELIC tlAL-
Results of Hauaring

Results Of Kau1ring
The leading objects for manuring
! Is TO improve the quantity and quail
| Itv. A plant Is not a boaconstrictor
| that takes in a mass of food AT once
and then sleeps in inactivity ill its
glut has disappeared, or the nature Of
the season changed. Manure il food
TO the plant, and its regular supply is
rs important TO the vegetable As to an
animal. It's activitY IL favorable
weather, is as constant as heat and
light, upon which it very much de-
pends. And the simple process bv
which Mr.. Smith Of Lois Weldon rails
es wheat on a clay soil without man
ure. but by frequent cultivation, shows
distinctly the propricty and effect OF
= gradual supply Of the elements of
growth.
Yet IN the face of all this it often
is the practice to manure heavily for
corn; which can be fed better than
any other field crop by cultivation,
and in this fashion supply the expect
ed demand OF future croDs for man
ure, one, two, three or four wears in
advance. Paying in advance implies
ample funds, bat manuring so long
inadvance wasets exceedingly the fund
or store Of manure, however much or
little. 1t is a Spsndlthritt system, re
minding one Of tho fast young man
who squanders in the dreams Of antici-
patton what he truly never realizes
"A prodigality unwarrantcd by the
facts. Not only are future crops
cheated in advance, but the quality
Of heavily manured plants is often
Injured by being forced to rank.
coarse, dlspTop. li0naie and esueci-
ally ine!ible, unvholesome growth
Such Is frequent result incident to
the gorge and sta-ve system Of ma
huring.
have not now time to notice it
further, but l have not a doubt that
the loss Of much of the turnip crop
in England, and the clGb foot and
hand fingers disease in cabbage and
turEips with Us is due to gorging with
rank and unsuitable manure, and
every cultivator must perceive in the
fact that plants which owe their excel
lency TO cultivation rather than for
cling, are always superior in quality TO
such as are forced with manure that
deterioration in quality is probablv
much Of it due to injudicious modes Of
feeding, as to quality on quautitF, or
both. An object Of manaiing is To
secure the most healthy and vigorus
growth; but when rank, coarse growth
supercedes healthy vigor it leeds to
deterioration Of quality, which in re-
ducing its real value for economic
purposes sometimes more than counter
balances the g enter size or mere gross
produce. There is too much haste to
get rich" BY striving after size, which
relatively always indicates cOarseness,
and often leads towards aud results in
useless or odius forms Of monstrositY;
and this by manuring future crops in
abunda nee, or several in the lump.
and tn ereby declaring the later ones
of a sufficient supply Of food or mat
ter Of growth, of the very means by
which alone they can become either
profitable or satisfactory.
Adapting means to ends, or doing
the right thing at the right time, is
the best guaranty of success in any
business, and instead Of dressing only
one crop in a course of three to six, [
should perfer to manure the same crop
of wheat particularly; as corn is
more accessible to cultivation-twice
during its growth. Fall wheat, be-
sides Tnanuring on the surface lightly
after the wheat IS covered at seeding,
might again elightly MANFRED just
before narrowing, as soon as the
ground is dry enough in the spring
Cats might be manured at sowing
time, and narrowed, when high G.
noxgh, in the same manner. Ia this
way soil would be loosed, abraded
and turned; manure divided and bro
ken down, and the crop twice fed TO
the full extent Of its absortive capac.
ity, with truer economy and the best
reasons for improved quality as we'll
ag augmented quantity Of produce;