The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-10
Vegetable Manure

Dr. Pendleton, of the AericulturaI
University of Georgia, has made a re-
port OF certain experiments with ma
nures to the Georgia agricultural con-
Yentlon, which contains some facts that
are OF interest to farmers. In regard
20 vegetable manures he says: "The
Importance of vegetable mold TO be
used IN conjunction with fertilizers
was tested as follows One row with
enough mold from the woods to half
III the furrow, with ammoniated phos-
phate at the rate of 200 lbs. per acre.
made SOO lbs. of seed cotton. The fer
tlllzer without the mold made 742 lbs. ::
the natural soil 432 lbs. The fertilizer
with the vegetable mold made 128 Der
cent. on production without it only II
per CENT showing that the presence of
organic matter in q soil adds much TO
It's production when fertilizers are used
Inc Importance of outstanding the
vegetable matter of the sell cannot be
impressed too often or too deeply on
tne c1ltlvators of the soil. Where a
good crop of grass, weeds or pea vines.
or other plants, have decayed in soil.
tnere is enough of all the mineral sub
stances left in an available condition.
except phosphoric acid, to make a fair
crop OF any of the farm products. One
thousand pounds of grass decomposed
In the soil will furnish four times as
much potash as will be REQUIRED to
make one thousand pounds of corn or
wheat, and half enough phosphorus
acid, with quite an overplus of all the
other mineral substances, The straw
OF the cereals will furnish more than
enough OF every one of them except
magnesia and phosphoric acid nearly
enough of the former, and one-fourth
enough OF the latter. To make meas
there are enough of all the minerals in |
grass, with quite an overplus. excent |
pnosphorlc acid just half enouoh Of |
tbs, ana double enough of notasb
Pea vines furnish a superabundance n |
potash and lime, to make both corn and |
peas, IN fact of every mineral substance |
except phosphoric acid. There is about |
half enough of this to supply the |
demand. Thure is a sufficiencv in
grass to make the seed and fiber of cot
ton, OF all these substance except MAG
nesla and phosphoric acid, The
stocks OF cotton will also furnish
OF all the mineral food except
potash, magnesia and phosphoric acid.
Lnese three are quite deficient. Tins
allowing that the stalks of cotton left
IN a held weigh as much as the seed
taken from them, for every thousand
pounds there will be taken away eight
pounds OF phosphoric acid in the seed.
more than is left in the stalk-ten
pounds OF potash and six pounds of
And when tits remembered
under our system of clean culture. the
COTTON stalk is about all the organic
matter left IN the field, and the cattle
lake on good portion of this during
me winter, 1t is not wonderful that our
Ianos deter1orate, our crops rust and our
purses r main empty. The inference
s clear from the above facts that a good
crop OF grass and weeds, or other veg
7'aole matter, covered in the soil and
decomposed, will furnish a
of all the mineral substances
% make good crop of corn, cotton or
peas, except phosphoric acid that a
piece or land run in cotton for a num-
Der OF years will rapidly be deprived,
lou only OF Its nitrogen, but it's phos. I
'norlc acid, and gradually of it's pot !
'sh ara ITS magnesia that in a system s,
y rational agriculture, it is quite as
Important TO husband the organic mat t
er OF tne SOIL as tits to apply fertilizers t
any KIND that one of the most i'm
'ortant processes for obtaining soluble )
alnei al food for plants is to furnish the :
ana with vegetable matter by proper
oSatlon OF crops; that the mineral e
nostance OF plants becomes, in the '
cry process which dissolves them. 9
variable for succeeding generation c
vegetable growth, by the extreme il
lechanlcal fineness to which thew are d
educed. and the action upon them of c
ne ammonia and carbonic acid. egcan- :
lg from their albuminoids durino the G
recess of decay" '--o a