Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-01-21
Westminster Farmers Club.


Westminster Farmers Club.
JAN. 1.-THE committee appointed
May 9Th, 1869, to experiment with con-
centrated fertilizers, with means appro-
priated from the Treasury of the Club,
for the purchase of some of the leading
manures in the market, made the follow
lowing reports:
n, G. PIERCE Esq, upon hill land of
somewhat heavy texture, tending to
clay sub-soil, experimental with Brad
ley's Super Phosphate, hen manure and
wood ashes. Upon three acres | mauur-
ed upon the furrow at the rate of twenty
FIVE loads TO the acre. Narrowed and
marked into rows about three feet apart,
and hills little less, the rows being
about twenty-five rods long.
Upon four rows used twenty-eight
pounds of Bradlcy's Super Phosphate,
costing ninety-eght cents.
Next 4 rows, ashes of the same ex-
pense.
Next A rows hen manure Of the same
expense, (paying 20 cents per. bushel)
Next 4 rows no fertilizer.
RESULT.
B. Sup. Phos. First 4 rows of ears, 1l13
Ashaa Sannn1 4 $40
Hen Manure Third 4, +" TAO
Nothing Fourth 4, ZIG
Gain by Phosphate, 397 lbs. on rows.
=" Ashes, 143 II"
Hen Manure, "a
The Phosphate was incorporated with
the soil over space Of foot square, be-
fore the corn was dropped. Ashes APP
piled upon the hill after planting. Hen
manure in hill.
POTATOES.
Two rows Jackson Whites, Phos. 31S lbs.
Dovers, g 500
jackson Whites, Ashes 29S
Dovers, I" 260
Gain with Phos. jackson Whites, 20 lbs.
" Dovers, LOG
GRASS.
| staked out and sowed broadcast.
Could see no pereeptible difference.
Used it upon corn in my garden. and it
was almost as large again, though I did
not weigh or measure it.
| would say as to the appearance Of
the corn in the rows experimental with,
that as they passed over rises and through
depressions that were little more moist,
in the Phosphate rows, the corn was uni
form in size, while there was marked
difference in the ashed rows, while upon
the elevations the corn held its relative
size, but in the hollows it was much small
Ter.
JoHN McNEIL--Pine plain land stands
drouth well. | plowed about acres
that had been moved but once, turned
under twenty-five one-horse loads of light
manure to the acre, narrowed and mark
ed 81 by 3 feet, rows IA rods long.
Bradley's Sup. Phos. table spoonful
TO hill Oh Arrows, cost 90 cts.of ears 241 lbs.
Bowers Complete Manure, rows
cost 50 cents, of ears, 337 "
Ashes 4 rows, cost 40 cents, of ears 307
No fertilizer rows, cost 0 cents,
of ears, 1913
Bradley's Super Phosphate, 43 lbs.
Bowers +" 14S
Ashes " !" 100
/ used it upon beans and it doubled
the crop. In using the Phosphate in
corporated it we'll with the soil before
dropping the seed.
FENELoN ARNoLD--My land is heavy
meadow land. l MANFRED lightly and
turned it under, narrowed and marked it
3 feet two inches each way, dropped the
Bradley's Phosphate into the hill in rows,
Y rods long, upon four rows, costing 30
cents TO the row; dropped corn right on
to it and covered it. Corn looked bad
until middle of June, then gained upon
the other until harvest.
Result upon rows, ears, 1904 lbs.
Ashes 1924
No fertilizer upon 4 rows, 652
GAIN.
Bradley's Phosphate, 57s lbs.
Ashes,
Ashes did not do as we'll as usual. l
think phosphate will pay me if properly
applied, but think / would SOW broad
cast. 1t nearly paid me as it was. Pro-
badly my mode of using it injured the
roots of the corn and retarded its
growth.
REMARKs.-Tho foregoing is brief of
the minute reports given by the expert
menting committee which was received
with marked degree of interest, hoping
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