Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
Effects of Superphosr hate.


The Rochester Rural Home gives the
results of the application of superPhos-
phate on the farm of Geo. NJ. Hodges,
in Henrietta, New York, nine miles from
Rochester Hondges' farm, we are
informed, has been hard run for term
of wears by his father. his policy being
To get all he could from tho land, i'll
order to leave his defendants compe-
tencv: thus virtually "killing the goose
that laid the golden egg" The field
of wheat. the best we had seen OF any
size in our nine miles ride, contained
about eighteen acres, was remarkably
even and wouli yield, we should Judge,
abont thirty bushels per acre, twenty
five bushels of which no one can doubt
who sees it, is due wholly and alone to
the use of 200 pounds per acre of super
phosphate, applied at the time of SOW
ing bv means of fertilizer attachment
to drill which drops the fertilizer with
the seed as sown. There might be no
question as to the result. Mr.. H.,
when sowing, went four times across the
field in different places with no phos-
phatc in the drill. These strips can be
seen AZ far rs the field can be seen, and
arrest the attention of all passers. very
many having stopped during the sum-
mer to inquire what aiied the wheat on
those bare strips. At a distance the
field looks as though four swaths had
been cut through it with a cradle, and
on close inspection the difference is even
more striking, the strips not offering
wheat enough to pay for harvesting and
thrashing, 30 that nearly the whole crop
is evidently due to the superphosphate,
and this, after allowing Sc an acre, the
cost of the fertilizer, is clear profit, as
it costs just the same for preparation
and seed OH the four barren strips. We
never saw more satisfactory and COIL
vincing experiment. This might I've
looked upon as an exceptional case.
leaving room for dOubt rs 10 the a1-
vantage of its general use, had not II, :.
Fl. practiced using it for four consecu.
tive years with the same. and in one i'll
stance he informs us with even more
striking results than in this case. Three
years ago lie applied superphosphate to
one acre of corn, putting it in the hill
Mt planting. The result was forty-four
\
on the acre thus treated than on any
other acre in the field. This field Of
corn was aftcrward plowed and sowed
to wheat without any additional super
phosphate. Now for the result: While
the rest of the field presented no unu-
sual appearance the one acre did pre-
sent very singular one, the position
of the rows and every hill of corn be-
ing distinctly perceptible, the wheat
being nearly foot higher ON the hills
than it was between them. The effects
Of the phosphate are also distinctly
seen in the crops of clover grown on the
same land. We have never been much
of believer in these commercial
fertilizers" never having witnessed, We
thought, results commensurate with
the expense and trouble but in this
case seeing was believing, and We write
what We saw.
IT Runs LIKE PRAIRIE FIRE DIR.
Walkers Vinegar Bitters runs like a
prairie fire. The fame Of the temper
ance tonic is, however, but poorly ex-
by this figure of speech for
prairie fire runs only in one direction,
whereas the reputation of the bitters
spreads toward all points of the COM
pass. There is not square mile of in
habited territory in the United States,
where this meritorious preparation. is
not appreciated. If any theoretical gen.
tleman thinks he Is prepared to show
that there is nothing in it" We advise
him to go to the prairie states, in The Mis-
sissippi valley, to the deltas of the south.
ern rivers, to New England, in fact,
anywhere within the limits of "Uncle
Sans real estate" and ventilate his
views. By 40 doing he can raise hear
Ter and more general laugh than has
aver yet shaken the sides of An intelli-
gent people. Persons who have been
,ured can't help laughing at other peo-
pie, who tell them that the medicine |
which saved their lives is failure.