Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-03-03
Gcommus icated
Persicator, or "concentrated
Ashes"

The following article is intended TO de.
ally adapted for all spring crops, and those
plants and trees which are largely dependent
upon Alkaline food.
1t differs from Super Phosphate in at least
three important features.
First. 1t is not taxed with the expense of
being fitted for. the dril--a cost which ex-
cludes from Super hosphates proportion
Of valuable fertilizing matter.
Second. This manure is not taxed with
Suphuric Acid at $50 per ton, which while
excluding more valuable elements from
Super Paosphates falls TO the level Oh
Plaster in value. Whereas, every element
of the Persicator is doubled in value by the
combination.
The farmer thus receives the benefit of
more economical method of manufacture, MS
the price and quality of the Persicator will
fully prove.
Third That as u result of this process
Soluble Silica, one Of the most valuable
features of wood ashes, is added to the
other mineral plant food, and, as forming
the bone structure or skeleton of plants is
of great value in giving them strength and
yigor.
The Persicator may be properly de-
scribed as Wood Ashes with its Potash
increased, and instead of the 50 per cent. cf
insoluble earthly matter of ordinary wood
ashes is substituted the fine powder of the
South Carolina Fossil Bone. The results
as thus far explained are Phosphates of
Lime and Potash, and Soluble Silica; and
we can also indicate the presence of other
elements which prepare the Pelsicator for a
wider range OF work.
1t is the result of years of both field and
laboratory experiment, and had its concep-
ton in the plain necessity of substitute for
the ashes Of wood, as II fertilizer, parallel
to the substitution of coal for wood, as a
fuel.
First used upon Peach Trees, the effects
| were so decided and SO evidently in the right
| place = the Fruit that the inventor ad-
vanced his claim and was granted Letters
gatcnt 1Or tine
PERsICAToR Or PEACH MANURE.
so called from the name Of the Peach which
from having been brought into Europe from
Persia was called Pe7sico. Being tried
upon corn Its results were not less marked
and will be referred to upon another page.
The manuriai value OF wood ashes need
| only be referred to. The reasons why they
are not more used, are, first, III the supply
having failed since the introduction of coal,
and second, that the temptation to adulte-
rate is so great, and to do so is so easy
matter that even when limited amounts offer
prudent men refrain from the risk A soap
boiler has bis tests a farmer waits for the
effect upon his crops; failure from adultera-
lion, results in the loss of money invested,
and months of preparation and waiting.
As manufacturers of fertilizers we have
been met by farmers with the opinion that
Super Phosphdtes iDjure their land by maxi
ing it more needy year by year. This Is
not surprising if the manure is pure Saip
er- Phosphate. Voelcker of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England, has demon
strated by experiment, that, on many soils,
the application of 6uper-Phosphaies with
out Potash. is, as he expresses il, like feed
ing man on bread and ALLOWING him ~
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