The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-06-22
Che farmer.
Green Crops as a Manure.

I
in the american Agriealfurist
A crop of mustard, on land rich
enough to produce 40 bushels of wheat
per acre, would probaly yield 20 tons of
green food and this would contain l.
l4S lbs. Of heterogeneous matter. Ia
other words, an acre of mustard plant
can take up and organize from the soil
III about two months more than three
times as much nitrogen as an acre Of
wheat.
Now We know that on the greater
number Of our wheat growing soils the
element of manure that we most need
to give us a large crop Of wheat is
available nitrogen.
All our approved processes in agri-
culture tend to this one object Of fur
nishiog available nitrogen for wheat
ald other grain crops If l have field
of wheat sown on the dry upland portion
Of my farm without manure, that will
yield Is bushels per acre, should ex-
pect that 100 lbs. of available nitrogen
per acre would cause it to produce from
80 to 40 bushels per acre.
This is precisely what we want. We
are now getting about Is bushels Of
wheat per acre, aud other crops in pro-
portion. We want 35 bushels; and it
our climate will give us 40 As aud so
bushels, we want such crops. We have
to pay SO much for labor, implements,
&C., that we must have large crops if
we are to obtain fair compensation
for our capital, care, aud labor That
we can make our land rich enough to
produce from 80 to so bushels Of wheat
per acre, according to the season, is un-
questionable. We must make our land
dry and clean, and at the same time
accumulate ia the soil from $50 to 200
lbs. of available nitrogen per acre, ond
other plaut-food in proportion. And we
cannot get this nitrogen from natural
sources without at the same time get
ting full suficioncy Of all other elc.
men;s of plant-food
All our so-called renovating crops
are rich 10 nitrogen. 1t will be seen
from the above table that clover, rape
.n". Inu .ios'aiu .i''D al eon.aln more tnah
corn. All the cereals, such as wheat,
barley, oats, rye, Indian corn and the
grass proper, such as timothy, red top,
M NJ, I'o u"paia'.ss'y poor u nitrogen.
s,, no Ve'ea's s, f:e gou'a'p Das co"pata'iseiy
-. - r. ''en - n'sen anu 'uei'
.oO'o ~ nI' pte'iuea win power OF
- 80. S'a,,, =, E 'aH'"s ~ " :" ial5e quan.l-
y "oiI aa "eSh Co.. so.u.'ous ' u u''osen in
.ms.;oa @ a. o'''S,, psap, Dsaus, se'cnes'
as, 20 n-Ussa'~ = Auu o'ne' reno :
o,Ln. s,pS PAU? son'a'n, 20 oonpa'ea WIN
ns' o;,"a,.'.. - 'pu'1".s, iarse ProPoi.,on %
naaSS :; @la az P'c'iueu "i," 'no
s"ns .;sSI,. - ."n' y uP 'ion' SOU reia-
tha, 49, pvJ' ln - n's.ooa. 10 nO' m KNOW
- - ~ 'ss4 e'e' puo ,
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aSi1 a1S:,; W., PtIu"'e, Si.nou' any o,hef
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7. ye 49, AVS may W oue 'nins Is c,eaf
= We "aLt " la'sc isise crops u wheat,
oui'ey oa.s, 'ye' in.'au corn anu .'lh-
o,ny nay, we must ueso.e consioera,
oio urea =, ", arms 70 'ne growth oi
v'os1' aa aua osnet lenosa,los crops.--
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'se'' ior u mnvm ! ua'e siea' respect,
t;n cay oroea e."paas,''' may, ~ @ snese fen0sa- y,
cs s wy NJ , nus " ~, l1SAi"eu on 'hc
;enaea ~. ~, $50, M a'osny
ssi, any,h;aa ,.,ha, ~. u A'as