Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-01-02

ago it was plowed and seeded, and par
OF it has been plowed once since. The
soil is a sandy loan. | plowed it last fall
and spread manure on six acres Mt the rate
p of fifteen two-horse loads to the acre, and
thoroughly worked in with harrow and
cultiVator, worked both ways; rows three
feet apart. On one end of this piece
took thirty rows, Qor EXPERIMENT., thirty
rods long.
Ten rows Stockbridge, forty-fve and
one-half bushels ears (eighty-two pounds
to busheD. and sixty-two bushels shelled
barn to the acre.
Ten rows no fertilizer, forty-eight bush
els ears (eighty-two pounds TO the bushel)
and sixty-four and one-half bushels shelled
corn to the acre.
Ten rows Goes Superphosphate, fifty
one bushels ears (eighty-two pounds to
the bushe), and sixty-eight bushels shelled
corn to acre.
The Slockbridgo and Coe fertilizers
were applied in the hill in equal values,
and worked in the soil with hoe. could
see no difference inthe growth of the thirty
rows until after the first hoeing then Goes
took the lead, and held it through the sea-
son, maturing some ten days earlier than
the other twenty rows.
II. p. Dinsmore reports as follows:
No manure, twelve and one-half bushels
shelled corn to acre.
Two hundred pounds phosphate in hill,
four dollars and eighty cents, twenty five
and three.fourths bushels shelied corn to
acre.
Two hundred pounds phosphate, costing
four dollars and eighty cents, and four bags
Stockbridge, costing twenty-five dollars
and forty cents-total twenty seven dollars
and twenty nts-thirty- four and three
eighths bushels shelled corn to acre.
One hundred pounds phosphate and
stable manure, costing twenty-seven dol
lars, forty-seven and one half bushels
shelled corn to acre.
1t is hardly necessary to add that we do
not believe the Stockbridge fertilizers pay.
From the certificates published by Messrs.
Bowker e. Co., and from their representa-
tions that they manufactured their fertili-
zers after the Stockbridge formula, and
believing the theory that different plants
required different food to be correct, we
bought quite literally of the Stockbridge
fertilizer, We have not, however, used
them blindly, and do not think we are to
blame for being cheated once. In farming,
we have often to learn wisdom by costly
experience. certainly do not believe il
)ays to purchase fertilizers for II complete
manure. 1t is better to buy bran and feed
o our stock, and thus reap the double
benefit OF improving our stock and getting
he very best kind of fertilizer in q solu-
Die form. think it pays us to use phos-
Dhate for corn in hills us stimulus, either
GOES or Bradley's. Both have been
Used here with uniform success, and it
gives me pleasure to say word for them.
To be heard in offset to this, Mr.. Obed
Nhipple of Pomfret, who plowed two and
'ne-half acres in an old pasture, which
lad lain for some years in grass-on two
Lcrcs he put thirty-fve loads of manure,
ather small ones. as it was drawn up hill,
nd some of Bradley's phosphate in the
ill. From the two acres he harvested
hree hundred and thirteen bushels of ears.
l half acre of it he took for the Stock
ridge fertilizer, and applied the formula
or fifty bushels per acre more than the
ordinary yield, which cost eleven dollars,
nd with freight added, thirteen dollars.
rom this half acre he harvested seventy
tx bushels of ears. In each case the
uality of the corn was about the same,
hough the fodder was stouter on the 5
'tockbridge piece. Mr. Whipple also
aised on half an acre, with Bradley
one hundred and thirty-ive
ushels of potatoes, and thinks he shall
ry the Stockbridge some more.
With all this uncertainty of result, and
disappointment from expectations based
n scientific promise, there comes an in
reasing conviction that chemistry, as at
resent understood and practiced, is not
o be relied upon to tell us in what our
oils are deficient, or how to make that
efficiency good. And from some cause,
seems powerlcss also to predict with the
ertainty of scientific result what its form
las will accomplish in actual trial.