Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-09-01
A CIR &c u l. T u r A L.
suPERpH0sPHArE OF LIME.

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
tells how TO make superphosphate of
lime Take large tub or barrel and
put into IT, 100 lbs. water add, very
slowly and cautiously, 43 TBS. of pure
sulphuric acid. You must be very
careful while handling this article not
to let 1t touch your skin or clothing, 40
it will instantly blacken the skin and
destroy the clothing wherever it comes
in contact, and when mixed with water
it engenaers very intense heat. Into
this mixture throw 100 lbs. weight of
homes, no matter how old and useless
they may be-. The sulphuric acid
| attacks and gradually en- tors into COM
bination with the bones, reducing them
| to pasty consistence and completely
dissolving them.
Keep under cover and turn them over
occasionally while the process is going
on, and when completed dump out the
| whole contents on the barn floor or on
platform of boards and thoroughly
| work into the mass four times its bulk
of dry bulk earth or dry road dust mix
and pulverize completely with a wooden
| shovel. The bog earth acts as an alb
| sorbent or dryer, retaining the ferti-
| LIKING properties Of the compound and
rendering it easy of uniform distribu-
ton. If whole bones are used 1t will
take six to eight weeks to dissolve
them. If they are broken with an axe
they will dissolve in about three weeks.
If they are ground in a bone mill, four
days will be sufficient. This manure
IN the most powerful fertilizer in OK.
isteDce, and when made by these d.
rections is the cheapest, as ton Is equal
to 80 tons of yard manure In phosphoric
acid. For top-dressing grass lands, use
300 lbs. per acre for corn, potatoes,
beans, turnips, ETC., apply 400 lbs. per
acre in the drill, mixing with the soil.
For wheat, rye, oats or barley, 400 lbs.
per acre. Harrow in with the seed
| For buckwheat. 800 lbs. psr acre.
ONE WAY TO CURE A BALKY HORSE
l notice you are always ready to say
a good word for that noble animal, thu
horse. Our neighbor had a good horse
l. a large, handsome horse. In one re-
spect he was better than lnost men, fol
he had but on& fault, but that WAS bao
lone, and greatly reduced his ash value
He would balk, and always just wher
you didn't want him to. My father
was a humane aud practical man. III
happened 10 want a good horse. III,
offered our neighbor low price for hi,
balky horse, and then and there he be
came straightway the owner OF the ami
NAL. For several days he fed and Hat
tered the horse, making his acquaint
ance. On a pleasant day no pu
him before single wagon, putting :
newspaper In the seat, leaving tn,
whip III the stable, aud starting of
for u drive. After going off in gooc
sty IL about "a mile the horse came to &
!. dead halt and expressed signs of good
/ long stay.
My father quietly took up tn,
paper and persued it. In about on'
: hour the horse started off in full gallon
: and went about mile further, an,
came to another full halt. The pape
t was resorted To for about one half hour
when the horse started again in full
!, stride. After going a short distance h'
headed HIM toward home, which wa
: reached in good time. The next da,
: he repeated the experiment with only
one balk, and that only one-halfas long
The thiru day was n success no ball
D lat ali. He then passed him to TIN
. seamsttr, who put him in with anothe
j horse and worked him six months, dur
ing which he was never know to balk
; and not having further use for the hors
/ he sod i'm for $50 more than he paid.
PREVENTING WEEDS FROM SEEDING
Among the many duties " hich farm
er- II. girti 10 perform, there are few,
lany, that are so important az that O
destroying the weeds before they ripel
Z their seed.
. While some farmers will be care
full to keep their cultivated crops yer,
lclean of weeds during the first part O
the season, very few make any effort t.
Idy 40 the last part, yet most of the weed
viii come from the seed and matur
I after the middle of July. In coDse
q Iquence of this, he who permits tn
!, weeds to grow the last part of the sea
son VIII soon fill hrs land with wee
seed, and will have constant fight t
K keep them down in the earl tor part {
r, the sea.on sufficient TO prevent ther
!. e from getting the advantage of tho usefr
N plants.
/. No time on the farm liz better spel
than that in thoroughly destroying n
weeds before they ripen any seeds !; {
do this two or three years lessons tn
labor OF cultivation ut least one-hali
and at the same time very mn"h in
n creases the product of the garden O
y field. Some farmers say that, az tn
c. manure Is full of weed seed, it is bu
a. little use TO try to get rid of weeds i
ls the garden but they forget that 1t
= very much their own fault that wee
Is seed get into the manure. Ii every faI
mer would make it part of his bust
70 ness to sre that TO weeds go TO seed IN
9; der the fences, and around the cultiva
- ted fields and compost heap, 1t woul'
be but IL few years before he would fin
his manure quite free from weed seed
= The labor of moving around the ploge
Hand and fences, before the weeds ar
old enough to seed, is not half the labo
thai would be required TO destroy th
weeds that would come from the seed
jif permitted to stand to ripen the seed
| Never use manure from the stable o
\ lawns, as the seeds of weeds are thu
' scattered, which germinate, grow u
and disfigure the lawn. A fertil,ize
made of 200 pounds sulphate of potash
100 pounds superphosphate and 10
hounds sulphate of ammonia will b
found excellent The quantity is suff
,lcient for an acre, and should be apple
OF in October and April, half the amour
" being used at an application.
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