New-York tribune., 1870-04-23

eiu,pents OF the manure. Every meadow, every pas
ture shouid be sOwn with it at least tIiennialy;
whrre it is abundant and cheap, as IN Central New
York ] you'd apply it each year, unless careful OBJ
seryation shorld satisfy that 1t no longer sub
served good purpose
AS to the time of application while Judge any sea-
will do, my present impression is that it will do
most good if applied when the Summer is hottest and
the ground dryest. If, for instance, you close your
haying in midsummer, having been hurried by the
rapid rpening Of the grass and find your meadows
baked and cracked by the intense heat, reckon
that you may proceed to dust your meadows with
Gypsum with moral certainty that none Of it Will
be wasted. SO if your Corn and other Fall crops
suffering from and likely to be stunted by drouth,
advise the application of Gypsum broadcast,
evenly as may be and bounteously its price and
your means will allow. / do not believe it so
wellTo apply it specially to the growing stalks,
spoonful or so per hill and doubt that it is
judcious 10 plant it in the hill with the seed The
readiest and quickest mode of application is also,
believe, the best.
HOW Gypsum impels and invgorates vegetable
growth, do not pretend TO know; but that ii does
so was demonstrated by Nature long before Man
took the hint that she freely gave. The city of
Paris and considerable adjacent district rest on
bed Of Gypsum, ranging from five to twenty feet be-
low he surface and considerably disntegrated in
its upper portion by the action Of water. This
region produces Wheat most luxuriantly. and pre-
sumo has done so from time immemoral. length it
crawled through the hair of the tles of this soil that
the substance which did so much good fortuitousy,
and las ii were) becanse 1t could not do Otherwise
might do still more if applied to the soil, with
deliberate intent to test its value fertilizer. The
result we all understand
Gypsum is a chemical compound Of Sulphur and
Lime-so much is agreed and the theory of chemists
has been that the winds pass over surface sown
with it, the Ammonia which has been exhaled by
thousand barn-yards, bOgs, &C. having a stronger
affinity for SULPHUR than Lime has, dissOlves the
Gypsum combines with the Sulphur, forming Sui
phate of Ammonia and leaves the Limo TO get on as
it may. l accept this theory, having no reason
TO distrust it; aud, knowing that Suphate Of Am
monia is a powerful stimulant of vegetable growth
las any one may be assured by buying a little Of it
from some druggist and making the necessary
application. can readily see how the desired
result might in this way be produced. For
our purpose, however, let it suffice that il is
| produced of which almost any one may be
convinced by sowing with Gypsum and passing
by alternate strips belts Of the clOveTteld.
suspect that not many fertilizers repay their cost
out of the first crop; but account Gypsum one Of
them; and submit that farmer afford not to
try it, That its good effect is diminished by many
and frequent applications, is highly probable but
there is no hill slope to which Gypsum has never
yet been applied which ought not TO make its
acquaintance this very year. l am confident that
there are pastures which mis- ght be made TO increase
their yield of Grass onethird by moderate dressing
Of it,
have heard Andrew B. Dickinson. late Of Steuben
County, and one of the best unscenti6c unlearned
] fnvrp IA
he can not only enrich his farm but impoverish
| his neighbors' by the free use of Gypsum On his
woodless hills The chemists explanation Of this
effect is above indicated. The plastered land at
tracts and absorbs not only its fair proportion
Of the breeze-bOrne Ammonia but much that, if the
equilibrium had not been disturbed by such applica-
tion would have been deposited the adjacent hills
As Mr.. D. makes not the snalles. preteusons to
science. the coincidence botw cen his dctum and the
| chemists theory is noteworthy.
Now that country is completely gTidirOned
with Canals and Railroads, bringing whatever has
mercantile value very near every ones door, sug-
gest that no township should go without Gypsum
Five dollars will buy at least two barrels Of it almost
| anywhere; and two barrels may be sown over FIVE
or six acres. Let it be that its effect oT
effect may be papable; give it fair careful trial,
and await the result II it seem to subserye
no good purpose, be not too swift to enter up judg
ment but buy two barrels more, vary your time and
method Of application, and try again If the result
be still null let il be given up that Gypsum Is not
the fertilizer needed just there-that some i-under
stood pecuIarty of soil climate renders it there
Ineffective. Then let its be there abandoned; !;
but it viii still remain true that in most localities
and in countless instances, Gypsum has been fully
proved one of the best and cheapest commercial fer
tilizcrs known to mankind.
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