The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-24
ARTIFlciAL MANuREs.



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As long - farm has not reached
the highest point Of cultivation, every
means must he pronounced acceptable
wh;oh r,,,s ,ha farr.r IN ros;,;or :, No.,
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'No MS ''.' VIZ
ing tnan ne IS able 70 give them from
his own supply OF home-Pr0duced
natural manure.
Whoever seeLs tn arrive uuicklv nj
tb;s state ~ cultivation must mako or.
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cial 'a'hurcs tnas aFe now onereo nlm
by commerce.
As long as these powerful agents for
increasing the productlveness OF land
were unknown. an advantageous alter
nation OF crops was indeed the only
means OF insurlng large yield from the
farm, and this leads slowly yet surely
TO the results; now. on the contrary, it
Is IN the farmer power. by buying adj
ditional manures, to attain his object
with far greater rapidity. The more ex-
tended employment OF artificial manures
Is an advance In farming that has
already opened up a new era by this
means the business OF farmer is be-
coming more closely apprOximated than
formerly to that of manufacturer; for
while formerly our farming arrange
ments were conducted In the manner
which the quantity OF manure produced
on the farm itself prescribed. We are
now free to cultivate, as may seem most
profitable, every plant which Is adapted
TO the SOL. les, still more; we can
produce. as 1t were. with single effort,
tine harvests from WORKOUT and poorly
manfred land; we cam IN such a case,
secure IN two or three years the same
results for which formerly ten or twelve
years were required. The farmer should
avail himself of artificial manures; O
10 render land more speedily productive:
% to improve quickly the condition
OF land already much exhausted; l3) to
raise the fertile land to the maximum
OF prOductlveness IN general attainable.
or, what is the same thing. to make the
occupation OF farming as intensive as
possible; to be able to command I'M
interruptedly the most profitable rota-
ton of crops in a pecuniary point of
view; (3) to strengthen and reinvig-
crate poor and backward sowings, or
such as have been hurt by the severity
OF the winter; (6) to obtain in the
shortest possible time more abundant
prodactlon OF animal manure. The last
observation Will especially comfort those
farmers who have hitherto imagined
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ural manures' suPposlt'on which will
OF course be seen to be untenable when
it is considered that the former. when
they have rendered proper service. will
rather dlsplace themselves anu make
their employment uncalied for. For if.
by the agency OF artificial manures.
helds are speedily brought into state
OF greater productlveness, more straw
ana fodder VIII also be produced, and
by their assistance the stock can be so
increased ana the supply OF natural
manure so enlarged that thu. use OF arti-
ncia manure Is no longer necessary.
whoever Is now contented with the har-
vest when haif-exhausted or but par
tialiy manfred held produces surrenders
OF ms own Tree Will the null income de-
rivaoie from MS land. The farmer, it
Is true requires a larger capital to carry
on MS business than IN che usual mode
OF farming but when the money which
ne invests IN the iand Is soon and surely
returned 10 nim' with abundant interest,
IL Is then: ndeed' most auvantageOusly
employed.
how 90 these manures produce their
effect! For what KIND OF soil and for
what KIND OF crop are they especially
adopted!
Inns Is learned by reducing them ac-
curateiy into their separate constituents
ana ny subsequently comparing these
constituents with those OF the plants to
when Iney are proposed 10 De applied
Is iertiiiZing agents. In the exc.ementS
ana urine OF those domestic ANIMALS
when produce the ordinary staii manure
the farmer nnds all the elements united
that plants In cuitivation require for
their n1urishment' hence ne rightly re-
CARDS TEEN as universal manure.
Ii Is otherwise with artificial manures.
whose constituents are extremely vari-
GUS ana III "nicn are seidom found all
the substances necessary Tor the food OF
plants Dut' as general rule, only a
lew individuai lnsredients,
Hence the FARMER should not regard
tnem as representatives or substitutes
ior stable manure out rather as supple
mentaty anu accessory agents. by
"nien ne Is ehaoiea 70 heighten ana IN
crease the power OF the latter.
Every practical farmer Is aware that
ne can not suppiant stall manure by
hme' gypsum manurlnS salts ashes
ana the ike, out may probably
strengthen It's action; so. too precisely
with most arfanciaI manures; and 1t
must accordingly DC OF great lmpor-