Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1867-08-02
Mr.. III. II. Doolittle. OF Oaks Cor

Mr.. IL. II. Doohttle, OF Oaks Cor.
ners, n. Y, gives his experience, the
past season, In manure experiments.
His place consisted Of thirteen acres.
Five acres were occupied with oats for
fodder, peas, swectcorn and potatoes.
The remaining eight acres were plan
ted TO corn. Two acres in the center
were devoted 10 oxpc, iments; five
rows. of thirty-twc rods in length. con
tanning onc.Rflh Of an acre, were oc-
cnpied with such experiments.
First-Fivcrows were planted with
out manure or top-dressing; yield
three bushels very doubtful good corn,
and three bushels very poor corn
Cost per acre, Just as much blowing.
cnltivating, and harvesting as good
crop. Yield per acre, Is bushels good
and Is bushels poor corn. This is. OF
course, the standard tor comparison
in what follows.
Socond-Fiye rows, Immediately af
ter the cora was covered, were top
dressed with mixture of one peek of
salt and one peck Of air Stacked lime.
Yield, eight bus hels ofgood aad three
bushels Of poor. Cost Of mixture for
one acre, s. 80; extra labor, so cents:
total So. Gain per acre fifteen bush
els o! good corn.
7hrd-Five rows were dressed
with one peck ofBoston -four OF bone,
dropped in the hill and covered with
corn. Yield, six and half bushels
sound and iourhushels poor. Cost per
acre, s4. l6; add fifty cents for drop
ping, total s466. Gain. seventeen
and half bushels good and five bush
els of poor.
Foarth-Fivc rows top dressed i'm
mediately after planting with a mix
ture Of one peck of plaster and one
bushel unlcaehc6 ashes. Yield, seven
and n half bushels Of sound and three
bushels Of poor Cos; of mixture for
acre, 81 e5 extra labor, fifty cents !:
total, sl.75 Increase, iwef ty-two and
hall bushels of sound corn and no
increase Of poor.
Ffftb-~Fiye rows were dressed with
mixture (dropped in the hill and GOV.
cred with corn) Of one fifth ola bu.hel
OF Boston -four Of bone. one-titth Of
plaster, and two bushels Of ualcaehed
ashes. Yield. ten bushels good and
three of poor corn. Cost OF mixture
per acre, s5 66 extra labor. fifty
cents; total. s6,l6. Increase of WELD
per acre, thirty-iiye bushels Of sound
corn. The SIX acres not devoted to
experiments were planted with this
mixture, with the same uniform re-
suits.
StrM Five rows were manured
with the contentsof the privv vault
composted with black gravelly sol
and one bushel Of plaster, dropped il
shallow furrow and covered before
planting the corn. Yield, thirteer
bushels Of good and three of poor.
estimate the cost Of m anuring All acre
Is. Gain, fifty bushels good cora.
Serenth-Five rows with hog ma
nure, and, eighth, five rows with hen
droppings. Treated the same way a
the last, and at the same estimated
cost. and gave the same results.
Niath-Fiye row Were top dressed
Immediately after Ian ting with mix
ture of one bushcl of unleached ashe
and one-tith Of n bushcl each of plas
ter, air Stacked lime, aud salt. Yield
fifteen bushels of good and two and
half Of poor corn. Cost of mixtare 70
one acre, $3.50; extra labor,titty cents
total. $3.50 making gain Of sixt
bushels of good and two and hal
bushels less Of poor corn than by th
first experiment. where no manure wa
used. aud at a cost Of only about fv
cents per bushel- What is very nc
ticeable is that the yield of these fv
roNs is mach more than those of tn
second and fourth combined. wher
the salt and lime were applied to fv
rows aad the ashes and plaster to til
other five.
The hen and hog manure made
very rank growth Of 81; ;alks and leave
and one bushel extra of poor corr
The Eve rows with nigh,-soil CROWN
between these lacked one foot i
height. The FIVE rows with Sshc,
plaster. salt and lime growing next TIL
hog manure. show ed fnll eighteen incl
IS less ia height, though exceeding
in yield. The growth of stalks in tn
other experiments, including the fiy
with flour cf bone, was about the sam
as this last /: but in No. 5 and tn
field of six acres, where the -four G
bone was mixed with ashes and pla:
ter, the growth OF stalks was quit
rank.
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