Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-02-07
MAINTAINING FERTILITY.
The Importance OF Husbanding Supplies q
Fertiiizing Material,

The Importance OF Husbanding Supplies of
Fertiiizing Material.
1t is of the utmost Importance that
we farmers make all the stable manure
we can; but even if half the farm be
kept in permanent pasture, and the rest
in corn, oats, wheat and three years
clover and timothy we can not get
more than enough for one of the ptwo
crops, corn or wheat. Which crop shall
get it? Ii only one, then the other will
suffer, and, besides, the catch of grass
after the wheat may be poor Suppose
we give the manure to the corn,
plowing it in shallow, or, bet
ter, dragging it into the hills, we may
get seventy bushels where we would
only get ten without the manure. Such
has been the experience on our Western
Reserve clay soil.
But now what shall we do for the
wheat? Here the commercial manures
may help us out. Chemistry teaches
that ordinarily the soil and the air sup
ply enough of all the needed food of
plants, except three constituents-ni-
trogen compounds, phosphate and pct
ash. Phosphates made from bones,
with other animal refuse added, may
contain these substances in fairly suita-
BILE proportions; but farmers are learn
ing that these manures can be too easi-
ly adulterated, and in their experience
they are getting better success with
raw ground bone than with superphos-
phate from bone or South Carolina
rock phosphate.
Wa nora rrnro houoUc,. fOv. ,.r>p,,1+,
than for the chemistry of the matter
but even in using the results we may
make mistakes. With bone adulterated
with one-sixth South Carolina rock and
one-eighth plaster, the whole ground
very fine, we may get as good cropof
wheat as with coarse raw bone, but we
may fail to see that the bone would
help succeeding crops more. On our
moist, compact clay soils bone-meal
gives a good crop of wheat without
any other fertilizer; one field here that
never had any manure, and would not
have yielded six bushels of corn to the
acre. gave, | think, twenty-seven
bushels of wheat with a dressing of
200 pounds of coarse bone-meaI alone.
On open, subsoiled land bone is not
SO beneficial for either wheat or corn;
but 200 pounds of superphosphate in
the hill will sometimes double the
latter crop, while in other cases it will
only cause more rapid growth in the
early part of the season without any
improvement in the yield of ears; with
us this year no difference was to be
seen where a row of corn was left
without phosphate between rows fed at
the rate of 200 pounds to the acre.
But this row might have stolen all it
needed from its too near neighboring
rows.-Ed. However useful phos-
pilates or bone-meals may be to us, we
should not buy them without knowing
what per cent. of plant food they con-
tain. AS we cannot always learn that,
the safest course would seem to be to
apply stable manure to corn, and to
wheat coarse ground bone which can
be afforded pure. B. Smith, tn N.
y, Tribune.
The list of goods canned has been
enlarged by company in ST. Louis,
which has begun canning eggs. a
factory has been erected and is now in
operation, where they will can 1,O00,-
1000 dozen annually. The eggs are put
through some some sort of process
by which the yolks and whites are sep
arated from the shells, and the sub
stance is then dried and canned. One
teaspoonful is said to be equal to one
iegg, and it is warranted to keep fresh
= for three years. ST. Lossis Post.
If the waterin your Washing is hard or
alkali, use the Standard Soap Co.'S Petro-
leum Bleaching Soap. It's effect will