Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-10-28
MISUNDERSTANDING Oats-Ma'
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The Secretary Of the Irasburg, VT, Farm
er'e Club, z. e. Jameson, Esq, furnishes the
New England Farmer the following brief dis
eussions at meeting, y pit, %, on the cub
.ect Of Superphosphate, Norway oats, and
.lenures and their use.
H. E. Jameson has used one barrel of Su-
perphosphate. On corn il caused better
growth than ashes used in adjoining rows, but
not so good growth as that where a hand
ful of compost from the hen house was used.
The soil was sandy. the crop good, aud no
manure applied except in the hills. On tur-
nips the result was satisfactory.
VIM. l.. Jameson had used Croasdale's su-
perphosphare on four rows of corn, horsc
manure on four rows and compost of muck
lime, ashes and decom posed bones on four
rows. The corn was all alike, and he con-
Guided that it would not pay to buy 1t as n
fertilizer.
VIM. L. Locke, Jr. used half barrel OF
the Vermont superphosphate on hops with no
visible benefit. On corn, the rows manfred
With super phosphate were not enough better
than the unmanured to be discernable, until
re stakes were pointed out that marked the
rows.
The subject of the growth and production
# Norway oats from seed obtained from the
originator, being introduced, VIM. L. Locke
Jr., remarked that he sowed half u bushel
where the ground became vet by rains, and
they mostly died out. The result was six
stocks, probably FIVE bushels.
j. B. tassett sowed one bushel they we're
1edly killed out in the spring by wet weather
bit proved twice as productive as common
o ts. attn ugh common Ga were not killed
~ badly by wet weather.
WIN. l.. jameson sowed one pint which
Welded half a bushel.
Geo. b. Brewster sowed one bushel and
mad threShed the crop, which was fifty bushels
A. Jameson SO Aed one bushel, which
| while growing. seemed three times as good al
the common oats by the side of them. Crop
not threshed.
L. E. Jameson sowed twelve quarts. Th,
,rowth was not much better than common
| oats. Crop unthreshed.
| J. B. Fassett had this year sixteen rows o.
potatoes sixty seven rods long At one end
| IN sandy ground, there were good potatoes
| ,long further the ground was damp and the
| potatoes were excellent; these were manurec
| " ploughing in strong manure. part o
| he same field was msnured On top after
| plouging. Here the vines were large anC
| he potatoes small. Will never manure Oh
| top tor potatoes again.
Capt. E. trrant bought last spring some
| horse manure that Was burnt very badly by
| Is own heat; SO much so, that what was caleC
twenty cords, made in barn cellar, shrank Il
five. He applied II to ground for oats, and IL
| comparison with other cow sta bic manure i
proved as good Fertilizer, and he made ~
his mind that burnt or frefangled horse ma
nure is as profitable TO buy as any, and he die
not care how much !. was burnt When ht
| lived in Maine. q farmer there bought horse
manure and piled it in large heaps where il
would heat. and when applied to the land FOL
corn, gave most excellent results
The secretary suggested thst it might d
more profitable to buy manure after TWEEN
cords had bean reduced to FIVE. than it woult
| be for the farmer or stable keeper TO allow
his manure heaps TO shrink ut that rate