Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-12-04
4arm ann houstbolO.


Not that kind of second-class hotel
hash, swill tub table leavings, aqed
bread, oleomargarine, tainted meat,
pnirescent fish. pepper-coaicd TO con-
cesl the smcH; but some odds and ends
of agriculture. minced aud mixed and
mashed into palatable and diges,iblc
form, of which it is purposed TO serve
up an occasional dish. during the win
try months, for the farmer readers Of
the imericdn
Don't surfaces spread manure. SAYS
Old Foqy, cause it loses it goodness. ="
True. Mr.. Fogy. 50 others, many OF
them men OF science, have said. Elsb-
crate, and exhaustive arguments have
been made, chemical tests have been
cited, and case made out. clear as
City Of Ellsworth mud-,hat manure,
applied as top-dressing loses its nitro
gen. or ammonia, by flying of, 10 waste
its richness on desert air.
This theory, with all of its "cloud OF
witnesses, is doubted. and disbelicved
by very many. The mistake Of theory
Is. that ii has gone "beyond its last. -
and al nEO disco omnes. or to talk in
English, ''irom a single instance has
inferred the whole" 1t has seen but
1.-THE half OF the whole"
When then, may we ask, is theory in
the right, and when in the wrong? In
the right. If at all. If manure is surface
applied in the warmth of spring. or
heat OF summer. when the DAYS are
longer than the nights. when the earth
Is receiring heat. the gases are tending
upward. and rapid evaporation is in
duced. With these conditions existing.
manure may loose its goodness: is am-
monla. volatile gas, may fly away.
But, applied after autumn begins.
when the nights are longer than the
days when the vapors have q falling
tendency, and when the earth is cooling
Oh by a process known as radiation,
there is no appreciate lost is taken
IN by The soil, which contains a wonder
fully absorptive power. Even in the
heat OF summer, the tests OF Lawes. and
Others, show, that less than one pound
In twenty.'fiies off, and Is lost in
"high air."
Deeply blowing in manure is anoth-
er theory, "teeming with ulcers. .
What IS deep blowing? We should Ike
to submit it TO jury of farmers, and
take them TO board, until they agreed.
In New England, 1.2 inches, is said TO
be the average depth of blowing. Bot
we are getting astray. Mr.. Fogy and
his disciples. tell us, that manure must
be plowed in deep, else it will "co,pe
up" and 60 TO waste, and practice has
conformed to its preaching. till nsny
an acre has been MANFRED into barren.
ness.
II has irrefUtabIy been shown that
the natural tendency Of manure ia.
when it goes to go dorn rather
than to 60 up. The loss is from the 60
ing down, teaching and diffusion
(spresding or perueating Throughout,
the soiD and not from its coming up
to dissipate in vapor or fy away BY
evaporation, hence, the modern and
well approved practice of working
manure into the soil as near to the sur.
face as it is possible. Says the Ameri.
can Cahirdtor, mo views held by
scieuti6c and practical men About the
operation of the farm have undergone
greater change"
Roots for stock-does It paw 10 grow
them? mol" Mr.. Fogy snaps out,
biting it of with a jerk, "ihey are moth
ing but water But, tell me, my dear,
old. antedil,fsias Josa7. do not analyses
show, that FIVE sixths Of the food usu.
ally eaten by man, consists of "nothing
but wsterr Even the dry hay itself,
contains from 12, to l6 per cent of wa
ter and cattle at pasture, living on
grass coatsisiag more than 30 per
cent OF water, require drink and die
without it.
Good health demands pure water.
Impure water Is . prolific source of
disease. When pure water plays so vi
tai part in human economy It is
seemingly strange that Nature has only
provided two pevar-failing eourcoe of