The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-08-15
WILL FARMING PAY
with the Use of Common Fer
tilizers?

A correspondent of the Jonesboro'
journal furnishes the following in
terestlng article on the above sub
ject: &
. This question is often asked. but
not satisfactorily answered. Twas the
nrst man ia Carter county that ever
used them, and have used more of
Cnem than any other man in the conn
ty, and | say most emphaticalJv that
T" scM pay if the right kind is used and
used in the right way. 4
have been asked thousand aues.
nons in regard to its use and It's effects.
and as 1 have made my living by farm
ing on about as poor lard as was in tn.
county, and among the hardest to inn
prove, (t being land that clover weuld |
NOT grow on-plaster not having effect |
upon it, had to study a great deal |
to find out how best to improve NV
land. When commenced the use of
commercial manures, 1 soon found I
had 9oE1 mine, SO far at least as max
ing me good per cent on the money
invested.
Now to you, farmers, who have been
watching my farming and have wer-
Flea me much more by asking me Il
questions than l am geing to worry
you In answering them, / will saw that
plain simple facts are what farmers
want, and l will give sou my expert
ence as briefly as l can.
Before l used fertilizers, | consider.
ed that l made good crop if got five q
bushels OF wheat per acre, which was >
about the average yield in good sea- =
sons New. if L don't get 16 to 18
bushels l. think there is something
wrong IN the fertilizers used. I use
N an average 200 pounds per acre. la
egard to the kind use will say, that r.
nave tried all the different brands of
ered tsr sale in our section. But let
ne say one thing, "All is not gold that
litters, and so it is with fertilizers
IL Is not good that smells like skupsk.
you ask me what kind is best l will
ay, that which has enough ammonia
make the straw, plenty of potash to
'iffen it, and animal bone to improve
le land. That is the kind that is the
est for me. 1 have favour for all
nd prejudice to none until T have q
led them. upt
AS L am not whistling a tune nor tee
nging a song for any body's fertilizer -
Will tell you something about nv
'perience In using them on my poor
'avelly soil with clay sub-son and
enty of limestone rock. When ha
n the use OF fertilizers. 1 saw the IL
cest chance for farmers to be swim
ed out OF their money without the
erclse OF great deal of common
nse in making selections. As am Tn
chemist and don't live near one.
q to draw upon my common sense -
guide me, and if there was any diff >.
'ence in fertilizers was going to
d the best L commenced with diff
ent kinds and put same-nsouey
Ne-per acre, and had every bundle n~'
't grew upon that one thresbed nv
ef. Then L began to get what
nted, and soon found there was
ater difference in fertilizers than
'ected. On the same land with "
ne cultivation and treatment in ev l.
way, there was a difference of S Iers-
hels in the yield in favor of the rrag 1
goods The unfertilized land Civ. POI
., poorest fertilized Is, and the
fertilizer 1S bushels per acre. jul
ow taxing $40 as the net cash value
Ion of fertilizer we have the fol-
ing results, viz:
5s5;9ss; + Alto
- -. "a t1s 'uy poor Iertlnzer r..................TO
res fertil1zed, Is bushels per acre ie0
res unfertiLzed, bushels per acre go MOI