Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-11-03

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On the long, thorny blackberry vines
They gather the delicate sea-weeds,
And build tiny castles of sand;
They pick up the beautiful sea-shells,-
Fairy barks that have drifted to land.
They wave from the TALL rocking tree-tops,
Where the ORIOLES hammock nest swings,
And at nighttime are folded in slumber
BY song that a fond mother sings.
Those who toll bravely are the strongest;
The humble and poor become great;
And from these brown-handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers of state
The pen Of the author and statesman
The noble and wise OF the land
The sword, and the chisel, and palette
Shall be held in the little brown hand.
Our Young F6lks.
MANUREs - SALT.-One hundred
parts of common salt consists Of 6O.44
of chlorine and 1856 of sodium. The
specific gravity of chlorine is 2.5, while
sodium is only 0.9. The opinions of
farmers as to the value of salt as a
manure have been very contradictory.
Some have given it the preference
over every other fertilizer, while 9th
ers have regarded it as useless APP
plication. These various opinions
arise from the various circumstances
under which it is used. 1t is not a
general, but a specific fertilizer. 1t
enters to a limited extent into the cir
culatiCn of all plants, but its most i'm
portant Office is, no doubt, to combine
with, dissolve and distribute other
substances in the soil and render them
assimilable food for plants. 1t must,
therefore, be most beneficial on soils
containing a large proportion of veg
etable matter, or phosphoric acid, sill
icic acid, potash, &c, which, some
times, require the aid of common salt
to become assimilable. In England
it proved most beneficial at consider
able distance from the sea shore, the
damp sea breeze furnishing a liberal
supply of salt near the sea. The
English experiments have been very
favorable. Mr.. Sinclair increased
the yield of wheat from | to q bush
els by applying 6 IL bushels after a
bean crop; and from II to % bushels
by the use of IL bushels of salt af-
ter a turnip crop. Mr. Cuthbert w.
Johnson increased the wheat crop, on
light gravelly soil, from 13 to 26
bushels with 5 bushels Of salt; and
Mr.. Fleming, with 100 pounds of salt,
on a heavy loan, increased the yield
of wheat from 25 to 30 bushels. Mr..
Ransom increased the barley crop
from 80 to 81 bushels with 16 bush
els of salt. The hay crop was in
creased, on thin, light soil clay sub
soil, from 2 tons, 10 cwt. to 3 tons
Il cwt. with 5 bushels of salt; anC
in another case on a light soil, grave
subsoil, from 2 tons to 2 tons II cwt
and on a clay soil, from 2 tons, cwt
to 2 tons, 8 cwt. Quoted by POI
Johnston.) Experiments of the Roy
al Agricultural Society Of Englan,
were made on wheat, and the Gro
was increased from 20 to 80 3-4 bust
els, by the use Of 1886 pounds of salt.
The committee of agriculture of Be-
varia instituted experiments in 1878
at Bogenhausen, on barley and whea
The barley crop on four different plat
of ground was increased from 40
$50 per cent. by the use of 2O5 lb
of salt per acre on loan and the Stra'
in a much less proportion; and tn
wheat crop was increased from %
GO per cent. (Liebig.) These Ge
man experiments were with the salt
of ammonia alone, and then in con
binatiOn with common salt.
Many experiments have been trie
in this country with salt, and the
have generally been favorable to il
use, though, in most instances, the d.
tails have been loosely given. Th
Germantown Telegraph publishe,
some years since, experiments wit
salt and guano, superphosphate G
lime, &c, and the salt proved the best
but this could only occur where tt
soil was more deficient in chlorine an
soda than in the other elements, {
where the salt was needed to distri
ute the other elements in the SOIL
The Rural of 1856 refers to S. \
Brown of Onondaga Co., who is state
to have applied from three to fl,
bushels Of salt per acre to one-third
q thirty acre fallow for wheat in 1876
four days before seeding, on whit
part he harvested 26 bushels per acr
while the average product of the OF
CT twenty was but 16 bushels p
acre, the whole crop being somewh
injured by the fly and winter KILN
He also applied to two acres of SO
three weeks before planting to cor
a barrel of salt per acre, and the OF
er portion of the same field, aft
planting, he top-dressed with asht
with plaster alone, and with asht
and plaster and salt t
gether, but the part sown with So
alone was quite superior to the re
of the field. He also claimed tn
salt prevented rust on wheat. N
John Johnston has top-dressed vile
with barrel of salt per acre, al
found the wheat heavier and the stra
brighter and sitter, besides ripeni
some days earlier, and thus escapi
the weeyil. He thinks salt very v
liable for stihening the straw on ri
land. giving q heavier grain. n