The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-27
For the Farmers.

fish farmer and author of a prize essay on
"The Manuring of Grass Lands" which is
published in the Journal of the Royal Agri
cultural Society, states as the result of twenty
years experience in the improvement of grass
land in Yorkshire, Cheshire and Lancashire,
that bones are superior to any other manure
for that purpose. He says it is waste Of
money and manure to apply bones to wet
land and mentions an instance of a farm of
which he was sixteen years tenant, which SO
long since as 1890 had been abundantly dress
ed with bones coarsely broken with hammers
Portions of the MANFRED land were dry, and
these produced excellent pasture while in wet
parts the heritage was of the coarsest and most
worthless kind. In drilling the wet portions,
the bones were found almost as sound as when
first applied to the soil but scarcely had drain
age been applied for year, when the coarser
heritage began.to give way to better de-
scription of grass, and in. the second year af
ter drainage, the coarse grass entirely disap-
peared. -e. 49,.
Captain De Holenworth, a landed proprie-
tor of Cheshire applied $1,000 worth OF bones
70 his land in three years, and raised its an
nual value from seven to fifteen dollars an
acre. Mr.. Dixon says that in wide range of
country near the city of Chester, the land is
now maintaining from 80 to so per cent.
more stock than it was forty years ago. On
the better description of strong soils, from IL
to Is cwt. of bones per acre has been found
quite as heavy dressing as can be safely APP
piled, as several fatalities have occurred
among cattle feeding Oh land newly and heavi-
~ bone-dusted. The change in the quality
Of the pasture from very poor grass, to full
bite OF the richest heritage, mostly of the clo-
yer or trifolium class of plants, having caused
the cattle to become hoven. In the district
around Huntsfordynear Chester, there is not
more than one-6fth OF the land in tillage, 1t
being dairy district. Bones have been ex-
tensively used here with the best results. He
mentions a farm of 100 acres, the tenant at
the time he wrote had occupied it for ten
years. The first year of his tenancy he ap-
piled 1900 dollars worth of bones to the pas
ture land, at the rate of Is oWt. per acre.
Tho stock previously kept consisted Of twenty
dairy cows, and three Or four horses and colts.
After the whole of the pasture had been bone
busted, the farm supported thirty-fve dairy
and eight feeding cows, with sixteen head of
young stock, besides five horses and three
colts, and one-fourth of the farm was IN till
lage. &-5 sa .z
Similar results have been produced on eve-
~ ldfQ Wuere ZONES nave pe5u JuQlClOualy
applied. The impoverished state of the old
meadows, and of the grass land generally,
throughout the United States, is a sufficient
proof that they want manure of some kind,
and this at time when large quantities Of
bones and other fertilizers are suesled to 80
t. wasis hst tie grass ana ' ody gwen H. az
the United States m1sh. be as much increass
ed by the proper culture Of the soil and liz
application of special manures, a. ~ ,,a ~ nSr
the national debt in three years. This 81 ~
mate may be somewhat exaggerated, but 1t
is certain that if all the bones ashes, liquid,
manure, &C., that are lost annually, were
collected, properly prepared, and applied to
the soil, it is astonishing what great results
would be produced. lid.
Neither the Smiths nor the Joneses have
succeeded in constructing genealogical table;
but the Hoyts, who are the next family in the
point of number, are all traceable to New Eng
land-and it is proposed by the Hoyts Of
Stamford. Conn.,, that social gathering of the
tribe from all quarters Of tbs globe shall be
held at that place, on the Goth and 21st Of
June next. A circular is published, signed by
divines. lawyers, physicians, merchants farm
ers and editors, all of whom are known by the
name of Hoyt, inviting members of the family
to this meeting.