The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-07-21
The duty is also devolved upon

The duty is also devolved upon
these stations that test the purity oi
nianures, food stuffs and seeds pur-
chased BY the agriclturists. The con
troll Of the manures is the most per-
feet. In those districts of Germany
where agriculture is best developed
it has been for long time the Gus
tom of the agrculturist on receipt Of
the manure supplied to him, to sub
nit the same to the experimental sta
tion for analysis, and OF ascertainins
the percentage of nitrogen, phospho-
nc acid and potash, he then pays so
much per cent. as he has previously
arranged with the manufacturers. It
will thus be seen that the farmers
themselves have the analysis of the
fertilizers they use controlled by the
stations, thus preventing any kind OF
fraud that might otherwise be attemp-
ted by sellers.
With respect to food material, the
analysis are confined generally to fat
and protein, and in the case of seeds,
+; to the value OF the terminating quail
ity. The payment Of the cost of these
analysis is generally borne by the
seller, who is bound under penalties,
by special agreements with the agri-
cultural experimental stations, to de-
liver only good qualities.
\ special control over the manure
factories, on the part of the Govern
ment, does not exist, and is held not
to be necessary in Germany, as these
manufactures, with few exceptions,
deliver these articles in fair and good
condition, and as the buyers have
them analyzed before they are made
use of. Formerly much fraudulant
stuff was supplied in delivery, but
this has almost entirely ceased since
the experimental stations have treat
ed such malpractices with severity,
and now the manufacture of COM
pound manures is carried on honestly.
All the larger manufactures aye na.l:rr n.ase.str
the management of--teSrperimental
chemists.
The WlTE of agricultural expert
meNes;il stations is not devoted entirely
TO the different subjects already re-
ferred to, but there are number of
stations in Germany that are engaged
in work of a special character. In the
north OF Germany for instance, be-
tween Holland and Hamburg, there
are large tracts Of unfertile moor and
heath land, and about nine years ago,
the Prussian Government established
in Bremen iNoor Station, which has
been successfully engaged in the work
of trying for practical and scientific
methods to utilize the moorlands by
them arabic. In the Interest
of wine culture stations have been es-
tablished in western Germany, and !
the same is the case with regard to
the culture and sale of fruit. Other
stations are engaged exclusively with
subjects closely related to agricul-
ture, as, for instance woods and for
ests, gardening, beer-bcewing, spir-
its manufacturing, starch manufac-
turing, sugar manufacturing, and the
like.
It is impossible, in short article,
to give an idea of the full scope of
usefulness OF these agricultural exper
mental stations in Germany. They
can point already to great results,
which lead to the hope that, consider
ing the work by these stations during
he last fifteen years, and the great /
experience of their directors,
German agriculture viii be vastly
benefited in the future. The undis-
outed fact that the work of these sta
ions increases from year to year, and
nat the practical agriculturists pat
'onize them more and more, furnish
IS the best evidence that they work
With success All experimental sta
ions of Germany have sprung from
small beginnings, not one OF them be-
san with means of any consequence.
Within the last ten years these sta
ions have been furnished with the
,est scientific means of assistance, and
re, with few exceptions in buildings,
# q most desirable kind.
Experimental stations, which serve
'nly for scientific purposes, or for the
ducation Of young farmers, are kept !,
'p exclusively by the government. {
those, however, which are closely
onnected with practical agriculture, /;
eceiye pecuniary aid from the State ,
xtent only of a few hundred dollars
yer annun, and are obliged to look
lsewhere for additional income, -,
which is derived partly from coptri- (
utions from agricultural associations I
nd partly from payments from anal t
teal work Although the charge !,
or alalyzipg IS very low, yet the IL {
ONE from this source is considerable. {
or an analysis Of nitrogen and phos- q
horic acid a charge OF ten marks (say t
2.50) in all is made. Some sta j
ions have tariffs which are cheaper {
till. ;.