The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-28
waste In Land.

More than half of the land in occupa-
ton is waste. If 1 raise eighty bushels
of corn per acre, and my neighbor
raises but forty, although my neighbor
may think he does well-which he does,
and better than is commonly done-yet
it requires double the amount of land to
equal my WELD. This is loss of inter-
est and taxes on half of my neighbours
land, or virtually so much waste land.
The difficulty is, his land is half fed. Ii
therefore can do but half the work. But
usually land does much less than this,
and can be made to do more than in the
other case. This shows what an enor-
nous waste there is. Really, over two
thirds of our land is idle, the interest,
taxes and repairs lost, and this loss
constant drain. And yet this is not the
worst; farmers, instead of disposing of
some Of their land, or working to its full
capacity what they have, grasp after
more, thus increasing the waste, and
too often decreasing the profit, with
sometimes loss of the land in the end,
which is usually relief. II you men
ton Improvement to them they know it
all, and win even assume to instruct
YOU, assuring you that some land Is
sstoo poor to do anything WITH" and
pleading lack of manure, or the too
great c ,st of enriching the land with
purch 4sed manures. And yet it may be
that round about them are those who
never lack for manure, growing large
and profitable crops, on land originally
as poor as the land they COMPLAIN of.
Good tillage and homemade manure
are the most successful means of raising
full and profitable crops. The manage
ment must be to prevent not only waste
| in the land, but in labor, in manure,
and in many other ways that may seem
small, but in the aggregate amount to
much. This must be done, as the aver
age profit per bushel or pound of pro-
| duce is necessarily small. Economy is
a valuable aid here as in everything
| else, and the farmer can not well practice
it too much. Besides, he must have
knowledge and experience, not only in
a general way, but as directly applied
to his own, lsnd. He may grow large
crops-the largest, If you plesse-that
will cost more than they are worth, as
| is often the case with premium crops, or
with corn grown from the silo, or par
ticularly where commercial fertilizers
are used. The ground, very highly and
deeply enriched, will lose some of its
manure before it can be appropriated
taking years tD do it, with loss of the
Interest and the risks which accompany
overgrown crops. Less manure might
on the whole, have grown as good crops
with less loss. The best way is-ant
this experience must largely decide-to
use manure enough to grow full crops
or such as will secure the most advant
age. all things considered, in which cast
there will always be enough manure LET
in the soil to favor the next crop, which
may not need additional fertility Il
grow it, depending upon what il grown
some crops requiring less manure, ant
to some extent Of a changed character
but there should always be enough t,
tax the full capacity of the soil, so tina
the greatest profit, all things considered
may be realized. What is more thai
this is waste, to some extent, O
manure; what is less is lack and i'm
plies waste in land.-F. g., in Cos''tr.
Gentleman.