The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22

used for fuel, is an excellent fertilizer
for pot-plants. Put into 4 pail and
pour hot water upon it; then water the
plants with this every few days.
Professor L. B Arnold advises skim
ming the milk as soon as sourness is
perceptible and to churn at sixty de-
grees instead ofseventy, before the cream
gets sour. When the butter comes in
eranules, enough cold water or brine
should be put in to reduce the mass to
about fifty-five degrees, when, after a
little slow churning, the. granules will
become hard and distinct, and the but
ter be in condition for was hing out
all the buttermilk. The salt should
then be worked in with as little labor
as possible, and after standing while
it will be ready to pack.
Hogs when nearly fat are liable to
have disordered stomach through
over-feeding, refusing their food. The
best antidote for this is charcoal. If
the charcoal is taken fron the stove
when cold there willbably be ashes pro
taken up at the same time; these will
not hurt the hog should he eat por-
ton of them. Charcoal is best taken.
from an. open fireplace. 1t would be
well to have on hand at all times
barrel or two OF charcoal. Charcoal
corn cobs or charcoal corn have a good
effect. There is nothing better than
these substances when: hogs haye the
sours. y, ~ ~ D; 81 ssssAss A
A. L. F., Somerset county, Me-, asks.
our opinion concerning the practice of
subsoil blowing. 1t is to be recon-
mended where the underlying soil is
equal to that on the surface. In the
case of strong, deep, loamy soil, that
for years has been plowed but three or
four inches in depth, large number of
roots will be found two feet or more.
deep. These with portion of the salts
contained in the lower soil can advan-'
tageously be brought to the surface.
Where the upper layer of soil has be.
come filled with vegetable matter, then
a mixture of a few inches of the under
soil, whether clay OF. loan of a sandy or
clayey nature, will have beneficial eff
feet. On the other hand, if you propose
to subsoil in a location where there is
only sand or gravel to bring to the CUR
face, then you will simply make the
poor exchange of a few inches of good
soil and fairly productive, for worth
less and entirely barren soil. We have
in mind an amateur farmer who. having
read Of the wonderful effects of subsoil-
ing, determined to test its merits and
plowed under thin sod, bringing to
the surface only gravel. After The job
was completed his field appeared like a
/ new graveled road, though as an agri-
cultural experiment it was a failure.
The soil, though thin, which lie had
turned under had taken ages to accumu-
late, and had produced fair crops of
corn and barley. By judicious manage
ment his land in its original condition
would have produced a fair crop of
grass. The material now on the surface,
worthless for present crops. would re-
quire hundreds of cords of manure to
tertilize. At the outset it would neither
produce buckwheat nor clover. BY first
applying manure in liberal quantities,
then green manuring would aid in sup
plying the needed elements of a fertile
soil. Judgment is necessary in every
farm operation. No set of unvarying
rules will give remunerative results.
Before attempting subsoiling or even
very deep piowing, make sure that the
soil below the surface is worth bringing
up. In many cases, it would be better,
if it were possible, to sink the subsoil
still deeper, instead of bringing it any
nearer the surface.-BoStoss Cultiuator.
Salt as a Fertilizer.
81 want to know how to use salt as a
fertilizer, in what quantities, and how
applied. Is salt that has been used in
preserving meat ofany use as a fertilizer?
And what kind of land is, salt best
aGaptcd Tor
Your question suggests another, 1. e.,
"To what extent is common salt fer
tilizer, or food of plants" That the
soil is often improved by free applica'
tions of Salts scarcely to be denied, but
this is far from proving that the salt is
in itself fertilizer. More than cen.
tury ago (l749) Brownrigg, an English
writer on the art of making salt, de-
clared that the soil of the whole king
dom might be made rich by applications
of salt, but in practice it was found that
in many instances the applications o.
this substance had no apparent effect
Lime may be placed in the same list
with salt, an Indifferent fertilizer OF it.
self, but, acting upon matter in the soil,
it increases fertility. Salt destroys YER
min in the soil, and their bodies are dis
solved and become food for plants. Il
also furnishes small quantity of soda
it converts many noxious and refractory
bodies in the soil into principles of nu.
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