The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-04

trough With holes bored about In tho
bottom. About the first OF January. T
began TO haul ont. putting sSy light four
horse loads to the acre. Tha1s aays In
his agriculture THAT thirty.six cubic teet
or 4. 900 pounds is a load. Ny fields arc
close to my lot, 30 two hands can haul
easily eight loads per day. I will put
that down at fifty cents per load, makes
the hauling four dollars. One hand can
scatter an aore, say ffty cents for that.
The piling and hauling in we will say
costs one dollar. We tanned the akin Of
the animal buried, and that pays for
thaNso we have the cost per acre. fvs
dollars and 0fty cents. I swiltTemark
entirely dieappeared in three or four
except the very large ones. II there is
That manuring will be equal to 200
pounds Of phosphate or gusno, which
will cost about seven dollars. It is my
opinion, then. land dressed with the do
mestio manure will improve the faster.
The great difficulty is in making domes-
tic manure enough. One horse will only
manure the same. In my planting I
preferred TO use both together in the
proportion Of six loads Of domestic and
sixty pounds of commercis! fertilizers
My average crop with that was 1000
pounds seed cotton to the acre. Last
year I made as fine crop as I ever
made by tho use of stable manure,
plaster, cotton seed and acid phosphate,
composted in equal quantities.
One year, I took six hands, two with
axes, to cut tho oak saplinHs, and the
other to gather and burn ashes; worked
one day. The cost, at fifty cents per
hand, is three dollars. I put that on
half an acre OF lend. On another half
acre, I put three dollars worth Of guano,
and on another, three dollars worth of
Rhodes super-phosphate. The ashes
made twenty pounds the most cotton.
PloughiDg under COW pens, weeds, or
any vegetation, when in bloom. is
cheap and good fertilizer. The COW pea
is now used with marked snccess in the
sugar.cane fields Of Louisiana. Cotton
planted after green crop ploughed in
continues green and bears longer than
when manured with commercial fertil-
izers alone. No fertilizer is cheaper
than trampling land by penning stock
upon it, but it should be first broken up.
Gathering the mud, grass and rotted
vegetation in the eddies and streams, is
equal to lot manure, and, where the
location is convenient, makes cheap
fertilizer. Domestic manure is q more
perfect fertilizer than the mineral ma
nuras can be. Thaus, in his principles
OF agriculture, says manure acts upon
the soil in two ways. First. by oommu-
nicating to it those juices which are cal
calated for the nutrition Of plants and
vegetables. Second, by the chemical
cotton which it exercises on those sub.
stances contained in the soil decompos.
ing them, and reoombining them under
new forms, and thus facilitating their in.
PRODUCTION into the suckers of plants.
Every organic body is formed by the
combination Of these four or more ele-
montary substances, united by vital
power in certain proportions. All
organic substances which have entered
into putrefaction or decomposition,
contain the elements necessary for the
reproduction and perfection OF the vege-
tables which We cultivate. Now our do
mestic manure contains these organic
substances in state Of decomposition,
and "it not only contains all those SUBJ
stances in itself necessary to the vegeta-
ton OF plants, but it also favors the de-
composition of the ineoluble humus 6nd
communicates greater degree Of energy
to the vegetation of plants"
Mineral manures, which do not con-
tain any organic bodies, act solely. or ut
least, essentially, by improving the
texture Of the soil, rendering those parts
of it soluble which we're previously in.
soluble, and favoring and accelerating
decomposition. Now We see from the
above that mineral manures are not and
cannot be perfect fertilizers, o. they are
lacking in organic substances, and
consequently must exhaust the land OF
some necessary ingredient for the growth
OF plants, and unless this is supplied,
the lands will ultimately cease to be pro.
ductivo. So if one of tho essentials for
the growth of q vegetable is lacking in
the soil, it would be impossible to
grow it until supplied, and that esser-
tial may be wanting in manufactured
commercial fertilizer. It could not be
80 in the domestic fertilizer, because it
contained all of the organic ingredients
necessary, having been vegetable be-
fore, and when it lost its vitality and de-
cayed, mono of these parts arc destroyed,
but remain to recombine in some living
plant. Although these mineral manures
may push forward vegetation more ra-
ni1IC 1aoo ~ ooon ooono 1>oo.