Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-06-21
A GRICU L T u r E,
HIGH MANURING .

Will high mapuring pay2 This 10 g question !
which In the practice OF farming 10 becoming :
q very important one and Ito decision will in
volvs another important question, viz whether !
farming like other kinds of business will give ,,
profitable employment for increased amounts
OF capital, or whether this amount Is in a meas-
| ure hxed and cannot be exceeded with q pros.
poet OF tair interest for the principal 30 in
| vested
| Or to put the question In more open and
easily -undsrstood form. Can a farmer who has
bis farm entirely or partially paid, Obtaia e
better interest by investing HIS earnings in ar
t1cial manures, than he can from 10 'ernment
or other popular losns2
eau now point out farmers who are in al
dtion to all the barnyard ma nure which they
can manrfActure) using from one thousand to
fifteen hundred pounds OF bone dust per acre
and to one in particular who in addition to a
liberal coat of barnyard manure (such as would
have satiafed most of u.s. gave his wheat n
top dressing OF twelve huudred and seventy |
five pouads OF home mad. super phosphate per |
acre.
Some of his old fashioned neghbors shake
i their heads and say cit won't pay" "can't do II
q long" &c.&c.;pbut he has been carrying on in
= the same place for several years and eau raise
~ crops which surprise those who know what WAS
takeu off the land before he came into posses
sion of it, and yet he says he does lot think
that b. has reached the amount which will
!. give the best interest for the capital invested
W His axiom is tina, b. eau afford 10 buy his
farm over again, and with PHI uspha.o a. $50
~ ton put on at the rate of twslve to thirteen
nc hundred pounds per acre his old fashioned
| neighbors seem TO think he will not be long
IS rs bringing about the above expenditure.
Is But what plays the mischief with US olu-
M fashioned folks is that he has figures for all he
' as does land Figures won't lie" fashionable
90 lady to the contrary notwi thsanding, and eau
- II I Nuhtara II all DlaiQ DlaCk and
white
TN He eau show that the above top dressing, put
an Oh at a cost $40 per acre will Increase his
, y crops as follows:
. Corn, 20 bushels at VI 90 S2u.OI
w. 0a!s, 20 bushels at so 10 VI
a - Mheatl5 bushels at ] 30 * b'
~, Hay, | ton AT $l5 100
ie" $G7.6l
!, Aad that in addition TO the above incrense
rto he Will, after moving twice. be able to s'otl
n, the field at least one third heavier than b
',ha fore itreceived the phospna'e.
In addition t. the above, by increasing M
hay he iocreasts his ability TO winner och
H. ca.lle aud iatteH others o. grain, aud thus
H. continually ia this ratio increasing his STOCK
~ arm yard manure, which, although vAluaO
u" have not couuted 10 the ABOVE cslcula iol
-. Hu aud are both satisfied that the capit'
d, -, thus Invested pays him III least tw euy fSe pr
: a. cent. and lasts for seven or eight years, and
q. ID the end OF that time leaves him an iLoFeas'
To- value in farm-yard manure iullV equal to the
,nth mount of the investment,
~ The truth Is, we look upon capital invest
, ~. In this way AZ being SO much ehargeaole
80 the lsud, aHd no. rs capital invested in bu
Wv ~, iless in Urde, 10 increase future profits.
anl. this respect las in many Others, )he Engli
ana agrcuIursts are far ahead ofus; II rsnler
.nsss Englaad will uten expend one-ha.f the ii
cL a cost Of the land during the hrst year oi /
w.r lease.
snta Our American farmer will at once ask NV
70 nj don't ho buy p Ny answer is that he form;
-, a. exception to the rule that all men are {
hoa, ycraed by self Inter est, and he fluids 1t INT
pona 10 his in crest invest hi money in apply
viii MANURE to lanh not his own THAI to have
.aJ moBey inves ed in tho lnod "a owner ! the la
,n,or belongs to some of the nubiiy who rem H.
an good meu upol the long lease system sndgl
dity 10 iii.n'. .-t,iS ~,
nov owning aud carrying en- good farms "
go nave money invested Ia mortgages III fJur ,
ha rs &c per cent, whel they III 4ht a5 well hAvt
g., Invested ia their oSl farm "a much bet
neral ""N"h ~ W 'nem -. -,
Gap. ~ euJ" tu1 uo Nv ooI'.o ~ I. ,o,'
,t,,r, uuder crop on wnlcs III two years have
49, 49, two THOUSAND pounds OF hone dust aud
eI hundred pOun Is OF phosphate per rcre,
- next year expsG- to RAISE crop, and can
- that no investment ever pad INC butter,--G
- n Al town Telegraph.