New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-11
THE MARL DEPOSITS OF YEw-JERsEY.


THE MARL DEPOSITS OF NEW-JERSEY.
AN AGRICULTURAL PIC-NIC-DIsCUssIoN on GEO
LOGICAL MANUREs.
Three or four hundred farmers visited the
mar-pits OF New-Jersey to eat sandwiches and hear
talk OF fertilizers how to make grass take what to do
TO land bring up how TO get great crops of potatoes
and by what top dressing TO drive out sorel and oxeye
daisy and bring in clover, herd grass and timothy The
marbeds OF New-Jersey reach all the way from Long
Branch TO Delaware Bay in belt about ten miles wde
But the Overlay cap Of sand and clay Is much tcke
in places than in Others the teaching OF iron hto
the mari has been great IN some places as 10 damage
and sometimes poison the marl and where the deposit IL
so far above the level that the rains have soaked
down through IT, they have carried away some OF the
choicest and most helpful elements Thus IL will be seen
that some pits dggngs will yield mari much rchcr
or much kinder sweeter in its nature or much more
accessible than Others
Sand gehes, coffee and oranges disposed Of the COM
pany was addressed by John G. Stevens Of Trenton who
said: We are very glad to see you all You represent
the class by which society is made possible without
you we railroad and writers, the editors and cap
tasts, and teachers, are nowhere ana nOtg We DC
fully understand the law OF restoration on wIcn ~
sound and solid agriculture Is based me gro9nG uoer
Us Is bank better bank than any we have at trenton
or New Brunswick, or Newark, or Paterson. But Ihe
any other good bank Il VIII dshon0r Gratis a tbe most
accommodation from this bank VINO makes ING "iseS'
The President then requested J. B. Lyman, who has
given the subject special attention ana written q
pamphlet on mari TO spesx S o. has been in the line Of
my duties to make some Investigation respecting te
quantity of food consumed in New 1Ork By con
OF our population with that Of London find that 1t takes
the growth about 5000 acres 10 ieed NeW loIh Vnu
day In year that hungry metropolis makes way Will
the growth Of food nearly two millions OF acres.
When remember that great portion OF lne ilaii9
created by this food IL swept down the sewers poured
into East and North Rivers and settles TO the bottom OF
the harbor and that other great cities close ny nave
Of fay and All the countries tributary 10 Rome were
hopelessly impoverished This pouring OF the feTtzlng
salts of the land into the sewers OF great cities Is one Oh
sad things in the march of civilization, ana might IN
the end stay the progress OF society were IL mo, nGs
of geological manure These pits are Immense gray b
yards where myads OF creatures iat h1a e ON te
sinking the oOZy bottom and mixed with the fragments
OF seaweed and and fine mud have been stored ana
kept for human use Across the Delaware along the Le
high have another deposit as WONDERFUL ana npor
is of the elements OF fertility The minute
grains smaller than the smallest seed, were minute
coral Insects works the depth Of the and unseen OF
human eve The life the death OF one Of these atoms
thew have accomplished by their work and their death is
mighty. In every bushel Of this greenland there are
about three pounds of phosphorc acid II IT were taken
ont and sold manure by ITSELF It would be worth 20
the farmer nine cents gold by u 70 the sou me
action Of rain and and of the soil itself releases ts
phosphorc acid and gives It TO the plants or late there
try immense beds of phosphate near Charleston dhese
deposits the bones OF sharks and turtles, agators
snakes, and great cdrYlVOrOuS HSnts
They are found OF all Sizes from that OF gallon meas
IRE to the bgness OF walnut They are cleaned OF mud
and sand, ground in strong MILL and. for s0luDllty
treated with suphuric acid the plants can appropr
ate the phosphate to growth. That discovery esteem
OF more value this country than the gift OF all Cuba
1t will enable to grow more surplus than we coul1
with all Canada. So with regard TO these deposits OF
mari. They do than add surface to the state OF
New-Jersey They enhance the producing power OF the
state without increasing the square miles 1t Is quite
Carolina and the greenland Of NewJersey-is exactly
suited to the favote crop Of each region In the South
phosphate will give and long staple cotton.
Here this mari viii give you the crops by which New
Jersey has grown rich-grass ard potatoes. There Is
but one objection to this manurets weight. When you
have 100 pounds OF it from the pit from the railroad to
spread upon your grass lands haul rs pounds OF
sanu and and % pounds of manure OF course
the point is reached when the cost OF hauling
that rs eats up the value OF the 25 Thus
mari Is at present a local fertilizer, and, far a.
mari is concerned the question Is not how good is your
land naturally but how far do have to haul marl
This alone has stimulated the growth OF railroads won
derfuly and expect to the State laced and neted
with roads connecting banks Of manure with every
county every township in NewJerscy. In this view
you have not in the State a more powerful cyllizng
agent than these ayeyards Of the life OF some old ocean
which Infinite Wisdom buried here and has kept III
dampness and gloom these centuries awaiting the age Of
steam and the ciyilzing march OF the Saxon race.
Appropriate and interesting remarks were made by T.
j. Harlan of the Pennington Seminary, by Judge Mar
OF Trenton Henry X Howe, Chairman of the Mddlesex
Farmers Club and Z. c. Bristol, editor OF Country
Homes.