The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-06

(oOSened three inches lnoFe--ta"'
ie'd and one on the bottom land
,ere plautad in corn, and the sea-
son proved the driest season WITHIN
~ knowledge. In the fall { 1854
there WAS harvested onthat upland
ield so SUBSIDIZED forty-hye bushels
Of shelled cora to the acre, and thru
ry-seyen bushels in the bottom land,
That subsoil plough was.of ron. but
I persuaded one, Mr. Joho l.. CT,
the owner Of fDuU Try and An asrl-
cultural store, to make steel SuOsoil
ploughs, and used one here eight
years with great benefit to my crops
Professor Liebig, in his work on
agricultural Chemistry, says that
in 1000 pounds of stable man1re
rotted in the usual way there was
only 400 pounds Of real manure,
the rest being worthless, the ammo
MIA (the real manure) having eS-
caped with q bad odor in the at
mosphere, and that the application
of land plaster when the manure
vas fresh each time the stable was
cleansed would fin the ammonia
into the manure heap and retain the
fertilizing qualities and prevent the
ofeLsive odors, Lime will also com
bine with the ammonia and destroy
The odor, but will form 4 gas Wlncll
will escape, and the fertiillng quail
ties will be lost. Plaster has no fer
tiIiziug qualities in itself It's value
consists in its power to attract the
ammonia from the atmosphere and
the soil and convey it to the plant.
It has therefore been said that
plaster enriches the father and i'm
poverishes the sou" 70 the extent
Of its attraction of the ammonia
from the soil, this sayinsls true, as
the abstraction of the fertlllzns
loual ties from the soil into the crops
with or without the aid of plaster
| tends to l!npoyerish the land.
Professor Liedig further accounts
for the fertlIlzins of the soil BY
clover turned in. lie says clover ha.
the capacity of abstractlng sixteen
times as much ammonia FROM soil
A. any other crop, and takes six
teen times less from the soil. There
| fore clover, we'll covered with plas-
ter, with its aid holds an immense
amount of fertility, and ploughed
into the soil, is q cheap and very
valuable fertilizer, Deep ploushing,
fine tillage, and frequent charge OF
crops have been said to be the three
great secrets Of farming successful
| ly. To these must be added perfect
drainage and q conservative use OF
all manure made on the farm.
The first knowledge of the use OF
earth closets, accordingto Prescott's
History of Peru was by the In
cas-, in and around Cusco, the capt.
lal, in consequence Of the great ter
tilty Of the soil where used. Som'
fifteen years since | learned tina
they were coming into general us'
in Europe on account Of the dlsn
lection of the excreta, using th'
contents for fertilIzing land, AS tn
earth thrown on the depOslts i'm
mediately confined all fertility, rem
lerlng the manure very rich, one
load thereof being worth more thar
three or four of stable manure rot
ted in the usual way. | Lave use'
such closets thirteen years, and int
them free frGm unpleasant odor
and the contents valuable as ielti
lzers. | nUlne the State Board Il
Health have required all closets I
that character to be used nea
iiemluck Lake, from whence tn
drinking water Of the CITY Ut Rochei
yer is taken, to prevent the pollutio
of the water Of the lake The
4 should be adopted IN all cities, Vi
- lagos, aud farms, both for Sanital
=. reasons and for ferul2ms. Furthe
# the garbage of all cities contain
>, much fertility. Ii cementei reese
voirs were constructed in the nelg