Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-04-25
AGRICULTUlRAL.
HIGH MANURlNsG.


Win high mauuring pay This is
question which 10 tbs practices Of farm
ing Is becoming very imPartant ons
and its decision will involve another i'm
portsnt question, viz: whether farming
like other kinds Of bnsiDess, will give
profitable sDploymen for increased
amounts Of capital, or whether tbs
amount is in measure fixed and cannon
be exceeded with a prospect OF iair
interest for the principal so invested.
Or 10 nut The question in more open
and easilg-under stood form. Can
farmer who has bis farm entirely or
nartiallv paid for, obtain better in
tsrest BY investing his esrDirgsi IN art'n
cial mannres, than be can from Govern
ment or other popular loans
I can. now point out farmers who are
fin addition to all the barnyard manure
which they can MANUFACTURED using from
onethousand to fifteen hundred pounds
of bone dust per acre, and to one IN par
tioular who in addition to liberal coat
Of barnyard manure (such as wovld have
satisfied most Of Us gave his wheat
top. dreseiDg Of ncelUe hund' et17ld seven'
ty-1iye pounds Of 10 nsenaade $ PerPhosf'hGte
per acre.
Some Of his old-fa. .hioned neighbors
shake their heads and say s'it won't
pay,n .scan't do it long," &c. &c.; but
be has been carrying it on in the same
place for several years, and can raise
crops which surprise those who know
what was taken eff the land before he
came in possession Of it, and yet ne says
he does not thiuk that he haa reached
the amount which will give the best in
terest for the capital invested.
His axiom is that he cAn afford to buy
his farm over again, and with phosphate
at S65 per ton put on at the rate CT twelve
to thirteen hundred pounds per acre, bis
old-fashionsd neighbors seem to think
he will not be long bringing about the
above expenditure.
I3utwhat plays the mischief with us
old fashioned folks is that be has figures
Cor all be does, and figures won't lie"
q fashionable lady to the contrary not
uitbstanding, } and can show US do1bters
It all in black and white.
He can show that the above top-dI ess-
ing, put on at a cost $40 per acre, will
increase his crops as follows
Cor. 80 bus. at S1o0 $4,000
Oats. 20 bus. at so 1000
wheat IS bus. at so. 22.S0
hay, ton n els 1909
s67.so
And that in addition 10 the above in
crease, be will, after moving twice, be
able to stock the field OF least oEe-third
heavier than before il received the phos-
phate.
To addition TO the above, by incress-
ing his hay crop be increases his ability
10 winter stock-cattle. and fatten others
on grain, and thus is continually in this
ratio increasing his stock of fanny ard
manure, which although valuable, have
not counted in the above calculation.
He and are both satisfied thas the
capital thus invested pays him at least
twenty-five per ceat, and lasts for seven
or eight years, and at the end of that
time leaves him an increased value in
farm-yard manure fully equal to the
amount Of the investment.
The truth il, we look upon capital
invested in this way as being so much
chargeable to the land, and net as cap
ital invested in business in order to
increase future profits. In this respect
fas in many others,) the English sgri-
cuIturists are far ahead Of US; renter
in England will often expend one-half
the first cost of the land during the first
year of his lease Our American far
mer will at once. ak "Why don'l be
buy I" My answer is that he forms no
exception to the rule that all men are
governed by self-interest. and her finds
it more to his interest 10 invest his nor
ey in applying manure to land not bis
own th an to have his money invested
in the land as owner the land belongs
to some of the nobility who rent It to
good men upon the IoDg-Iease system
and give themselves no farther trouble
about it.
know farmers who will read tits ar
ticls owning and carrying on good farms
who have money invested in mortgages
at four and five per cent, when they
might as well have il invested in their
own farms to much greater advantage
to themselves.
To show that 1 do not confine myself
to theory olone, will state that l have
land now under a crop on which in two
years 1 have put two thousand pounds of
bone dust and Eve hundred pounds Of
phosphate per acre, and next year ex-
pect to raise crop, and can say that
no investment ever paid me better
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