Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-04-02


foP-DBEsslNus AND SALT.-Craat mia
taxes are sometimes made by the Use Of nitrate
OF soda alone on poor lands as top.uresslnp. -
II contains very few elements of manure, there
lore the Intensely green and improved color of
the crop Is deluslve, which have Observed. and
this Is also the opinion of Baron I.iebig tsee
his ''Modern Agriculture" letter 4,p. So.
much prefer and always Use the best peruvian
suano, mixed well with lis own weight of COM
mon SAT-, Tor IN this mixture YOU have nea,ly
all the elements OF plants, excepting potash and
silica. A comparative trial 10 the same Held
wlil give satisfactory evidence when the crou
IS harvested. With nitrate Of soda the prowth
OF straw is forced, and it Is often mildewed.-.
There are cases Where nitrate of soda Is aJyau-
ageous' such rs on soils Astounding m phos-
phate OF lime aud Other fertile elements.
Common salt | have ussd mgel, tn, las,
| twenty live years, aud ain convinced OF its al.
'antages on drained and well.iarmed land a.
peeially oil light land; for where salt Ia usad thn
moisture OF the air will be more sbnnlanily
appropriated and retained. About i've O'Clock
one hne summers morning, noticed that
Where the salt had been sown the previous lay
every grain OF salt had attracted To itself III,
dew, and formed On the surface of the oround
Wei spot about the Sis of a six-pence. the
sio'ihu oeihS generally very dry. Ga our light
| lands IL consolldates them, aud makes them a.
ceedlngly nrm and acceptable 10 the whea
plant, whose straw will stand 6rm and erect
although l-2 to 5 feet long. II is also unfa
volaole 10 certain weeds by this consideration
IL pr events the ravages of wire warm. 1t ses
peoialiy favorable TO saline plants, such as man
gold, whose ashes contain fifty per cent. Of salt
l never SOW guano, except when mixed with IL
own weight OF salt. Like everything else. H
has, am sorry TO say, greatly risen In price -
observe that all crops seem to thrive well OF
lahu near salt water, especially where the lane
Is drained. Lumps Of rock salt should alway.
be placed in managers for horses or cattle lbei
instinct teaches them when to avail of it, The
spring consolidation OF light land, where wLea
Is sown, by sailing and cross. killing, great,
benefits the crop; very light hand -hoenc shonl,
follow these operations, although freouen,
hoeing is scarcely required. Lisbis, In hi,
Natural Laws Of HusDandry,"p p. 1876, CORE Ii,
| describes nitrate Of soda and common salt a;
"ehemical means for preparing The SOIL" Re
ferring to the experiments, he says (p. 337l
I'm both these series of experiments, the crop,
oil corn aud straw were remarkably increaseC
| by the addition Of common salt and il h
scarcely necessary to repeat that such an aug
mentation could not possibly have taken place
unless tie soil had contained certain auantlt,
Of phosphoric acid, sllicic acid, potash, ETC., ca
pable OF being brought into operation, bu
which, without common salt, was not assim,a
BILE "Liebing also says Up. 3i0): "The grass O
a meadow which has been manfred with com
mon salt, Is eaten by cattle with greater relish
and preferred to any other, SO that ever from
this point of view common salt deserves atten
ton az manure. Cor. Lire Stock journal