Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-02

ago 1t was plowed and seeded. and a M,
oil II has been plowed once since. In
q SOL Is sandy loan. plowed it last fal
ana spread manure on six acres Mt the rat
OF hfteen two-hOrse loads TO the acre. an
: thoroughly worked in with harrow an,
cultlvator. worked both ways; rows tire
b leet apart. On one end of this piece
/ rods long. '"' y
len rows Stockbridge, forly-five anC
one halt bushels ears (eighty-two pound.
10 ousheI, and sixty-two bushels shellet
barn to the acre.
Zen rows no fertilizer, forly-eight bush.
els ears (eighty-two pounds to the busheD.
ana slxty-lour and one-half bushels sbelled
corn to the acre.
Ten rows Goes Superphosphate. fiftv-
one bushels ears (eightv-two pounds io
the busheD, and sixty-eight bushels shelled
! corn to acre.
The Sookbridge and Coe fertilizers
were applied in the hill in canal values
ana worked in the soil with a hoe. could
see no difference in the growth of the thirty
rows until after the first hoeing; then Goes
LOOK the lead, and held it through the Set
SON maturing some ten days earlier than
the other twenty rows.
II. L, Dlnsmore reports as follows:
No manure, twelve and one-half bushels
shelled corn to acre.
Two hundred pounds phosphate in hill, |
Tour dollars and eighty cents, twenty five
ana three-fourths bushels sheled corn TO
acre.
Two hundred pounds phosphate, costipo
louf dollars and eighty cents. and four bags
costing twenty-five dollars
ana forty cents-tolal twenty-seven dollars
ana twenty cents thirty four and three
'lghths bushels shelled corn to acre.
One hundred pounds phosphate and
stable manure, costing twenty-sevcn dol.
ars, iorty-seven and one half bushels
heIled corn to acre.
1t Is hardly necessary to add that we do
lot believe the Stockbridee fertilizers INV
rom the certificates published by Messrs. S
oo"ker " Co., and from their representa- $
IONS mat they manufactured their fertili- i
ers after the Stockbridge formula, and |
ellevlng the theory that different plants y
equlred different food to be correct. we t
ought quite literally of the Stockbridoe o
runner. We have not, however, used fl
ZEN ollhdly, and do not think we are to fl
ime lor being cheated once. In farming,
e nave often to learn wisdom by costly
<perIence. | certainly do not believe il p
lys TO purchase fertilizers for complete "
ahure' 1T is better to buy bran and feed D,
our stock, and thus reap the double h,
neilt of improving our stock and getting "
very best kind of fertilizer in a soIn' "
form, | think it pays us to use phos- m
ate Tor corn in hills rs stimulus. either tl
'e,s or Bradley's. Both have been 10
ed here with uniform success, and il -,
yes me pleasure to say word for them =,
10 be heard in offset to this, Mr., Obed Ii
nipple of Pomfret, who plowed two and III
e'hall acres in an old pasture, which Id.
d lam for some years in grass-on two ''
res he put thirty-fve loads of manure, 'n
her small ones. us it was drawn up hill. w
some of Bradley's phosphate in the 'n ~
|. From the two acres he harvested eli
ee hundred and thirteen bushels of ears ~
lalf acre of it he took for the Stock ct"
dge fertilizer, and applied the formula ",
nifty bushels per acre more than the NM
mary yield, which cost eleven dollars, be
with freight added, thirteen dollars. fac
m this half acre he harvested seventy pie
bushels of ears. In each case the , n,a
.llty OF the corn was about the same. far
ugh the fodder was stouter on the sic,
ckbrldge piece. Mr.. Whipple also day
ed on half an acre, with Bradlev's f"'
sphate, one hundred and thirty-ive
hels OF potatoes, and thinks he shall eve
the Stockbridge some more. l
18th all this uncertainty of result, and II
appointment from expectations based woi
scientific promise, there comes an in. ans
sing conviction that chemistry, as at ice
ent understood and practiced, is not our
relied upon to tell us in what our MAJ
are deficient, or how to make that >
'lency good. And from some cause, wor
ems powerless also to predict with the wfl'
unity of scientific result what its form tIle
will accomplish in actual trial. L