Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-03-31

| tnd ashes, going over this iand every lew
years, keeping the grass heavyand clean
An energetic man with fair oxen and a
good teams,er can wonderfully improve
his farm in this way, aud the receipts
from the sale of very few towns of hay
will purchase sufficient manure to fertil-
ize great area if expended in ashes or
special fertilizers, and Sudiciously appli-
ed BY judiciously applying manures,
mean to apply the right kind of ma
nure to the right kind of land. In plow-
ing in my fields, often insert different
kinds of soil.
One corner might be deep rich mud.
On this | endeavored to get off the wa.
ter, aad then applied some quickly act
ing fertilizer, like guano, simply to as
sist in getting : a catch" as we term it
Of the grass seed. Another portion OF
the acre might be only so low that if
plowed into beds of proper width the
dead furrows would carry off The surplus
water, and is easily moved off with the
machine. On this kind of land / have
used tons of superphosphate, and during
ten years use, have found it not only a
quickly acting, but lasting manure.
While know it seems almost ineredi,
BILE that so small an amount as 500 lbs
to the acre should last over one season,
still with phosphate made with prop
5r proportion of ground bone, what ma
nure can be more lasting. On the re-
naming portion of this acre may have
some clayey knoll or some land quite
poor, and on these l have applied leach
ed ashes literally, and always with good
success /; though quite expensive, it cost
ing more than $40 per acre to manure
with ashes. and but SIS with phosphate
To satisfy myself in regard to the act
ual value of the phosphate in the mar.
kets, | have taken considerable pains to
ascertain how much really valuable mat
ter entered into their composition. While
doubtless all the phosphates SO extensive
ly advertised for sale, have some and
perhaps equal merits, still on account of
its accessibility, / advise farmers propos-
ing to use special fertilizers, to visit
Bradey's manufactures in Boston har-
Dor, aud at Weymouth and they will
be satisfied that they are purchasing an
article scientifically compounded, and
composed of elements each valuable, and
all indispensable tosuccessful cultivation.
They will find there piles of bone large
enough to fill any ten barns in New
Hampshire, Peruvian guano by the yes
sci load, and the largest mandatory OF
acid in the country.
Knowing before that Mr. Bradley had
nearly hall million dollars in his man.
ufaeturing business, supposed it was
for his interest of course to sustain the
reputation of his phosphate, still was
happily disappointed in finding that
nothing entered into the market, simply
to make weight and profit, but that
every portion of it was valuable, and
supplying to our soil, what is only val
liable in all manures, however bulky,
viz. phosphoric acid and ammonia. AT
ter plowing all | care to in my low
land, and getting out some muck, turn
over some acres Of higher ground and
harrow it down to grass.
! like to plow under as much second
crop as possible. / apply here, plaster,
ground bone, superphosphate, and all
the composted manure / can spare, and
on all these lands have inverted, wheth-
er high or low, get good crops of grass
the ensuing season.
Did I simply invert the sod on my
high ground, applying no manure, Istill
think l should be amply paid for my la
Dor, for careful experiments show that
in plowing land partially run out, we
bring under twelve tons of matter which
will decompose and enrich the soil. Does
any sane man believe that you can turn
under such mass of matter without en-
riching the soil? Hence say, am JUS
tiled in saying, use the pillow more, and
the hoe less, at the present high price Of
labor.
But put on this land, all the compost
ed manur l can spare, much more on
the knolls, than in the valleys, for it will
wash there soon enough.
The committee who visited nv farm,
said they had never seen so much second
crop in one field before, and l certainly
never purchased ten dollars worth OF
barnyard manure, because too expensive
when purchased by the cord, and drawn
six or seven miles. In pursuing this
manner of farming have not expended
a large amount for labor, and that chiefly !
in haying time aud the two succeeding !
| honestly think that if raise one
thousand dollars worth of hay to sell,