The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-24
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the tiller OF the soil. sketches Oh tneLs 0ss
ings appear weekly in the New York IN
'5tsne.. AS might ven be supposed, there
are amongst lie members concefted and
shallow-pated fellows who utter deal Of
nonsense, while there IRE many very sensi-
bic and skilful men to compensate for their
visionary nonsense. There ia, besides, .
suficiency of conceit in the association. The
corporate body demeans itself very much
as if oil knowledge is mouopolized by it, YET
it ntoncs for this vice by most freely send
ing out its LESSONS to the world. If it does
claim all the knowledge it speaks It abroad
without charge. Occasionally We find very
interesting paragraphs in the report OF its
transactions and we now copy the following
from the 7ribune's report:
MANUREs FOB CoKS.-James H. Ball.
North Nassau, N. Y: In planting corn
Inst spring [ waa anxious to get some COM
mercial fertilizer to take the place OF hog
manure in the hill. Not finding any ground
bone or ground fish in the Albany market,
tried barrel Of double refined poudrette
IN competition with bog manure, hen ma
nure and plaster, and ashes and plaster,
the plaster being about one-fifth the bulk
of the two other mixtures. Commenced
planting on west side of piece May Is, using
about gill of ashes and plaster TO hill
till the supply was exhausted then left
four rows, planting the corn dry then used
hen manure and ashes, about gill to hill,
till that was used up; then planted four
rows dry; then used poudrette, also about
a gill to hill; then four rows dry; then
used hog manure that had been mixed with
four times it's bulk of muck; Of this we put
perhaps quart in each hill. In each case
the manure was covered with earth, and the
corn planted on the covering. 1t all came
up very nice, but from the start that on the
hog manure took the start, and could be
distinguished by its ranker growth and
darker color as far as the piece could be
seen. June %, I looked over the piece and
could see but little difference between that
where the ashes were used ind that planted
dry by the side of it. Where the hen ma
nure was used it was one-third larger than
that planted dry by its side; poudrette
about twice az large; the hog manure four
times as large as that planted dry by it's
side; end remarkably fine, dark coloret,
and stdcky. / cut up 100 hills of each kind;
husked separate, and weighed in the ear.
The weight OF the 100 hills where the ashes
and plaster were used, am unable to give,
but it differed but little from the hen ma
nure. The ears from 100 hills, hen manure,
weighed So pounds; poudrette, weighed As
pounds hog manure, weighed 50 pounds
without manure, weighed 80 pounds. The
soil was o graveIly loan, and had perhaps
eight loads of yard manure to the acre,
spread and ploughed in: before planting.
w. s. Carpenter: cannot advise pou-
drette for corn. 1t makes great growth OF
stalks to be sure, but il fails when tue time
of caring comes. 1t is good to give start
to the young blade, but there must be other
manure used broadcast in connection with
lit. g..
L. w. Sylvester: In the experiment
cited have no doubt the benefit was in
creased by the combination of muck and
hog manure previous to application. Many
farmers suppose it is the fact OF applying
muck and rank manure that benefits. Not
so. 1t is the composing that benefits both,
and makes one ton Of the rank manure no
better than three OF the compost.
II. L. Rcade: can endorse oil that is
lsaid about hog manure for corn, properly
| composted. | have used it myself with
great advantage, making q shovelful suffice
for eight or ten hills.
MEN WHO MACE FARMING PAT.-Mr. j.
| B. Lyman read the following paper: About
twenty years ago John DAVIS, Quaker
! farmer, whose ancestors migrated with
| William Penn, came across the Delaware
from Bucks county, Pa, and looked at Jer-
sey lands. He bought an old farm of $50
acres in Monmouth county, about IL miles
west of the Battlefield. A portion of the
British force camEed On the land the night
before that memorable action. Mr.. 'Duwe
gave 800 an acre. The land had been run
in nm exhausting round of corn, rye, old
pasture till it would not yield over five
bushels of shelled corn to the acre, often
not more than three. He began with lime,
and lime has been his favorite dressing for
20 years. He has applied in all 1900
bushels, or, ct the rate nearly of |, 600
bushels year. His crops have been wheat,
potatoes, grass, sorghum, and apples. he
plants trees that will bear, whether the VA
riety be the best or not then he makes CT
der and converts his cider into vinegar. lie
has this winter $500 worth of old vinegar
in store. Some years he has made $500 in
come from poultry. He holds his farm now
at $l50 an acre, and his land is not in the
market.
In 1852 he sold farm to his brother, for
which he had given $34 an acre a few years
ago. His brother gave him $50 IN acre
very little in cash, but mostly in 81 200
notes secured by mortgage on the land sold,
the notes drawing per cent. interest. In
six years the last of these notes was taker
up. This was done on common farm crops
as wheat and potatoes. The land, mear
while, has doubled in market value.
A few years ago German farmer gave
his notes for $4,000 rs the purchase money
of fat. marshy farm of 90 acres neal
| Trenton. He drained the wet parts, go
them into tame grasses, kept as many COW!
as the place would carry, often rs or 81
head, erected all the buildings necessary
for the dairy business, and in three year
from the purchase lifted the last mortgage
note; 5000 an acre would not buy the pro
lperty.
These three cases are recited, not as mark
of uncommon thrift, but Us proofs that Will
the brave, the Industrious, and the hardy
he who rises with the sun and eats no breat
of idleness, rich and profitable farm i
not an impossibility, not even a difficult
achievement. ! notice, too, that the neces
sity for working off the vendors mortgage
is wholesome stimulus. Running IN deb
| for the farm on which one lives is nm ex
cont;on 70 common maxims about debt. Il
times like these, when values decline am
merchants tremble, it behooves every maj
who knows how to grow beans or to feet
COWS to set 40 acres of firm earth beneath
his feet. -
Z. W.sylvester can give an instance
of similar imnort "A DOOR Young man O