The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-03-01
Furnlan's Genuine Formula.

y subscriber writes us from Decatur,
Ala, and asks US to print in the fuIttrH-
~ Tie genuine En!man's Formula, "a
he has seen twO that were not alike, and
he wants to know which is the correct
one. We comply with pleasure, and
also suggest that he will find it cheaper
TO purchase the materials and make the
compost himself, than to buy il already
prepared for use Here il what Mr. Fur
man SAYS of his formula:
give YOU the formula upon which my
compost is made: Take thirty bushels
well rottcd stable manure or well rottcd
organic matter, AZ IeaYcs, muck etc,
and scatter j, about three inches thick
upon piece If ground 80 situated that
water will not stand on it, but shed off
in every direction. The thirty bushels
will weigh about nine hundred pounds
take two hundred pounds OF good acid
phosphate. which cost me 222 80 per ton,
delivered, making The two hundred
pounds cost !2.25, and one hundred
pounds kain;, which cost me by the ton
$li.00, delivered, or seventy cents for
one hundred pounls and mix the acid
phosphate and kainit thoroughly, then
scatter evenly on the manure. Take
next thirty bushels green cotton seed
and distribute evenly over the pile, and
wet them thoroughly; they will weigh
nine hundred pounds; take again two
hundred pounds acid phosphate and one
hundred pounds kainit, mix, and spread
over the seed; begin again on the ma
| nurc ard keep on in this way, building
up your heap layer by layer until you
get it as high as con2enient; then cover
with six inches of rich earth from fence
corners, and leave at least six weeks ;
when ready to haul to the field cut with
spade or pickaxe square down and mix
ns thoroughly aa possible. Now We have
| thirty bushels OF manure weighing nine
hundred pounds, and three hundred
pounds chemicals in the first layer, and
thirty bushels cotton seed, weighing nine
hundred pounds and three hundred
pounds chemicals in the second layer,
and these two layers combined form the
perfect compost You perceive that tho
weigh, is 2iOO pounds. Value at cost is :
80 bu cotton seed l21 cts...........$3 IS
400 pounds acid phosphate........... so
200 pounds kainit. 10
Stable manure nominal.
| OtdI dI........................... %
Or, for 2400 pounds, a total value Of $9.65.
| This mixture makes practically per-
| fcci manure for cotton and splendid
arp!ice,inn for corn. TO have perfect
manure for cotton, we reed: Phospho-
ric acid. ammonia, humus, potash, lime,
magnesia, soda, and silica. Now my
compost contains every element needed +:
Acid phosphate gives phospholic acid
and lime.
Stable manure or organic matter gives
ammonia and humus.
Cotton seed gives ammonia potash and
humus.
Kainit gives potash, lime, magnesia
and soda.
Silica is always present in the soil /; ia
practically in inexhauDtible quantities
40 we have in my compost everything es.
genital supplied. You will readily per.
ceive in the formula the vast Importance
Of kainit containing, rs it does, nearly
nethird of its bulk Of salt, it is grea,
cnnservat0r of moisture. | have found
it, combined with humus, specific
against rust in cotton, and owing 10 itt
contents of sulphate of maguesia it is
invaluable in the power that it possesses
in the compost heap of fixing the am
monia as II sulphate and thereby pre-
venting it's escape. Iregard its discovery
in the bosnm Of the earth at Leopold
Hall in Germany along with that of the
phosphate beds mt Charleston, which
occurred almost simultaneously, az the
greatest boon that n kind Providence ha.
bestowed upon the agricultural commu
nifty in the last century.