The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-09-25
T1e 9sarllt ard Garde1t.
High Manuring.

High Manurlng.
VIII high manuring pay? This is a
question which in the practice of farming
is becoming very important one, and its
decision will involve another important
question, viz: whether farming, like other
kinds of business, will give profitable en-
ployment for increased amounts of capital,
or whether this amount is in measure
fixed and cannot be exceeded with pros
pect of fair interest for the principal so
invested.
Or to put the question in more open
and easily understood form: Can far
mcr who has his farm entirely or partially
paid for, obtain better interest by invest
ing his earnings in artificial manures, than
he can from Government Or other popular
loans?
can now point out farmers who are
lin addition to all the barnyard manure
which they can MANUFACTURED using from
one thousand to fifteen hundred pounds OF
bone dust per acre, and to one in particu-
lar who in addition to liberal coat OF
banyard manure (such as would have sat
isfed most of u.s. gave his wheat top
dressing of twelve hundred and seventy
five pounds of homemade superphosphate,
per acre.
Some of his old-fashioued neighbors
shake their heads and say ''it won't pay"
scan't do it long," &c. &C.; but he has
been carrying on in the same place for
several years, and can raise crops which
surprise those who know what was taken
off the land before he came into possession
of it, and yet he says he does not think
that he has reached the amount which will
give the best interest for the capital in
vested.
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 of twelve
to thirteen hundred pounds per acre, his
old fashioned neighbors seem to think he
will not be long bringing about the above
expenditure.
But what plays the mischief with lis old
fashioned folks, is, he has figures for all he
does, land "fgures won't lie,' fashiona-
Bile lady to the contrary Notwithstanding
and can show us doubtcrs it all In black
and white
He can show that the above top.drcss-
ing, put on at cost of $40 per acre, will
increase his crops as follows:
Corn, 90 bus. at Sl.00, $4,000
Oats, 20 bus. at so, 1000
Wheat, Is bus ut so, 22.O0
Hay, ton at $500, 1900
SG7.5O.
And that in addition to the above H.
crease, he will, after moving twice, be
able to stock the field at least one-third
heavier than before it received the phos-
phatc.
In addition to the above, by increasing
his hay crop he increases his ability to
winter stock cattle and fattcn others on
grain, ard thus is continually in this ratio
increasing his stock of farm-yard manure,
which, although valuable, l have not count
ed in the above calculation.
He and l are both satisfied that the capi-
tai thus invested pays him at least twenty
five per cent. and lasts for seven or eight
wears, and at the end of that leaves him
an increased value i'll farm-yard manure
fully equal to the amount of the invest
ment.
The truth is, we look upon capital in
vested in this way as being so much
chargeabe to the land, and not as capital
invested in business in order to increase
future profits. In this respect (and in
many others) the English agriculturists
are far ahead of us. Arenter in England
will often expcnd onc-half the first cost Of
the land during the first year of his lease.
Our American farmer will at once ask
"Why don't he, buy 2" My answer is that
he forms no exception to the rule that all
men are governed by selfinterest, and lie
finds it more to his interest to invest his
money in applying manure to land not his
own than to have his money invested in
the land rs owner: (: the land belongs to
some of the nobility who rent it to good
men upon the long-lease system and give
themselves no farther trouble about it.
I know of farmers who will read this
article owning and carrying on good farms
who have money invested in mortgages at
four and five per cent, when they might as
we'll have it invested in their own farms to
a much greater advantage to themselves.
TO show that do not confinc myself to
theory alone, l will state that have land
now under crop on which in two years l
have put two thousand pounds of bone
dust and five hundred pounds Of phosphate
per acre, and next year expect to raise a
crop, and can say that no investment ever
paid me bctter.-Cor. Germanto,cn Telc-
graph.
THE A1LANrnUs.-Thcrc is p great hue
and cry throughout the West just now
against the Ailanthus; but q writer in the
Cincinnati IimcS thus defends it t.Thc