Smyrna times., 1879-08-20
agricultural.
Wheat Growing and Fertilizers.

The PeninSe.lar NeoUS in an article on the
value of fertilizers to wheat growing, says
OF course our readers have long ago
learned how to get fertilizers cheaper and
better than formerly. For this they are
very largely indebted to John E. Tygert &
Co., now of Smyrna but formerly of Har-
rington. They are the pioneers who in
troduced the "Star Bone Phosphate" at
fair price and through them the farmers Of
all this section have learned to make their
own phosphate. For this we are all greatly |
indebted to that enterprising firm and |
when we have bone or other materials to
purchase we should remember them for it ;
especially as they now have large bone
mills and can furnish the materials for
fertilizers to as good advantage as anybody
or sell as good and cheap fertilizer
The improvement that has been made in
farming in this section for the last quarter
century is very we'll illustrated and measur.
| ed by the increase in the crop of wheat.
Thirty years ago ten acre field of wheat
was almost curiosity, and now fifty or
even one hundred acres in wheat is not an
uncommon sight while the product per
acre has been doubled. Now we are reach
ing out for still larger production. A few
years ago some of our farmers thought us
very extravagant when we put down 40
| bushels to the acre as a maximum crop for
this community and more than this has
already been produced in some cultivated
fields, while Mr.. Joseph Frazer this year
| had 36 bushels to one acre on common
| field culture which he and others can no
doubt readily increase up to the 40 bushels
The time is coming when 40 bushels to the
acre will be produced the field over and
then at present prices the crop will only be
$40 worth per acre. This is no great thing
after all. If we cannot get $40 from an
acre of our best lands the profit cannot be
very much. 1t must either be done or
farmers must grow rapidly poor one or the
other.
If one Of our readers this year have a
good field of clover which they intend
seeding to wheat let them try for 40 bushels
to the acre the field over. If the land is
of the best quality for the crop and has a
good stand of clover on it not mo wn OF
pastured this season, a good dressing of
manure, to the clover and ploughed under
with it, followed by 400 pounds of bone
dissolved in acid, and double drilled, OF
single drilled and cultivated, on the new
method, the yield ought to equal 40 bushels
to the acre if the season is favorable.
Bone furnishes the material that this
crop requires and pure bone dust would bC
precisely the thing only it is not soluble
To make it so, treat it with the acid anC
then use it. Take say two barrels of tht
ground bono and empty it on the barr
floor. Dampen it with water through ant
through and then apply the acid stirring i
we'll with a wooden shovel until the Who'll
heap is moistened with the acid and quit
boiling. When this agitation ceases, adj
dry sand sufficient to make it handle eas
and you have just about the amount r.
quired to dress we'll one acre. If you hav
ten acres get twenty barrels of bone or fc
sixty acres one hundred and twenty barre
of bone. This makes the best dressing fc
wheat that can be made and costs abor
Sc per acre. 1t will increase the Gro
under ordinary circumstances and on goo
wheat land to the extent of eight to te
bushels for each acre to which it is apple,