Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-09-05
Agricultural.
CrtticsCriticised

HN.trHHUu fu mIurrHa applied Iu tHN IH. H large I
lost by IaauHIrg especially. 300 v.f wluttrs. Therefore
only min. ROB mauurss tuat dn mot contain nitrogen,
anI Hlrn-,ard mauuras should Dee applied 900 The t4l
and ammonia salts should boz 4Hwu iu tIr spring This
fs.. r,. r.rn demonstrated Hv 800 years scientific
r.fIu.uta no UItham-tpu. Do should Doc romemncr"I
r Uagin. f.rtIrars or chemicals for seeding down
grass COY f1r sowing fall grains.
So SAYS the Homestead Haven't we quo
ted English results about long enough with
out taking into consideration the widely diff
fereut conditions prevailing suppose Roth
amsted experiments have proved that nitrogen
teaches through the soil IN an English winter
Does that prove that at Springfield with
fourth OF England rain fall and the soil fro
zen two feet IN depth. that the same teaching
is going ON there or that in Maine New
Hampshire and Vermont, where the Home
stead ought to have some readers, where rain
fall in winter is infrequent, but instead is
covering of snow two, three or four feet IN
depth that great precautions are needed
against teaching Il is better TO state things
about as they are il they are known, and II
they are not known we may as well be care
fu how dugmaucally We lay them down.
WIIas FuruSr.
"Who shall decide when doctors disagree?
TIE reader of the agricultural journals often
has this question thrust upon him. He is
seldom recommended to do certain thing
but another advises not to do it, The Maine
Farmer is not the only paper that has ques-
toned whether in this climate, any consider
able portion Of heterogeneous fertilizers are lost
iu consequence of being applied in the fall
But the fact, well known to practical farmers,
that the effect of commercial fertilizers con
tanning the usual proportions of nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash, is immediate.
and that. if not used IN large quantities, itap-
pears 90 bee mostly exhausted the tr.. year
tends to show that spring is a better time to
apply concentrated soluble fertilizers, miner
al as well as heterogeneous though rye or grass
sowu early III the fall might be benefited more
1y such fertilizers used at the time Of sowing
than ii they were applied the following
spring.
The Maine Farmer seems TO have the pop
u.ar belief that the amount Of rain fall IN
England is greater than it is here. Spring
hed Mass. is spoken of as having only q
fourth as much rain rs Rothamsted England
The fact u.s. the average annual rain fall az
Bothamsttd is much less than at Springfield.
Mass. Excluding the melted snow, which is
always measured and included in the tables Of
auuua. rain fall. Springfield has still more
rain than Bothamsted. The average annual
rainfall in London is only % inches The
farm Of j. b. Lavss Bothamsted, is IN Hert-
ford county. 20 miles from London. The
amount Of rain there is probably about the
same as Ia London. Speaking from memory,
We believe that records kept at the Roth
amstad farm show that the average annual
ram fail there to be- about - inches The
average in the southern half Of New England
Is about +6 inches.
The first paragraph quoted above might be
taken TO mean-though probably not so in
tended-that barn-yard manure was non
heterogeneous fertilizer, and therefore might be
applied in the fall without danger of loss by
teaching. Barn-yard manure Is a highly nj
trogenous fertilizer and if that part of it is
not as liable to loss from teaching as the nj
trogen in commercial fertilizers, it is because
it is held in combination with coarser and less
soluble material