The National tribune., 1892-02-04


value TO Introduce half dozen inferior brands.
One analysis has before now been frequently
used to sell a number of eargOes, and thus
chemical analysis grows into disrepute among
farmers. Yet 10 is by sale upon chemical analy-
sis that the latter can ever hope to escape i'm
position. What is needed is that when the full
market price is given for a manure land no
farmer should ever buy cheap manure, no
matter under how tempting guise it may be
ofered) that he obtains full equivalent there
for. To attain this end he should buy of re-
spectacle dealers only, and purchase on analysis
only. In regard To this last particular 1t -
proper not merely that the merchant should
hand the purchaser 4 copy Of the chemists GER
titicate (which, as stated above, may be decep-
tivel. but that the manure should yield such
percentage as stated to DO proved by analysis
made by direction of the purchaser, and the
manufacturer or salesman should guarantee his
manure To stand such test. Most Of these cases
OF purchase may be sufficiently protected by
such a guarantee. II farmer wishes to buy
bone dust. a written guarantee that the bone
dust is genuine is abundant protection to the
buyer.
There is a great advantage in farmers buying
manures on large scale; the price is lower,
| and the manure more uniform and exact. A
good manufacturer may take a manure in good
| faith. produce n valuable article and sell it on
analysis; no makes, say, 800 or 1000 tons OF
| IL, and sells the whole; it is found 10 work
we'll and is rapidly sold of: the demand still
comes, and he sets about 20 make more he
| purchases up all the raw material in the mar
ket; needs more; purchases a new lot, possibly
/ inferior; an article is run out Of the market
and the manufacturer endeavOTs to supply It's
place with the next best article, and thus, per-
\ hap5 with the best intentions, a second lot oil
fertilizer is made, really inferior to the first
/ but which is sold az Of the same brand. and has
appended to it the certificate of analysis be-
/ longing TO the FIRST lot. Now, when the farmer
purchases some Of this second lot. he suffers: II
a new purchaser being led to buy on the good
report Of the first lot. he is disappointed both
/ Of which results would have been avoided II
/ early ia the Spring the farmer had calculated
/ how much artificial fertilizer he needed and
bought il all at once Of the same lot. This Il
l the only method by which the agricultural
community can protect itself against the i'm
| positions Of trade, and it is strongly recon
mended for their adoption.
IRRIGATION.
The best time to irrigate is early in the morn
ing. before the sun acquires very great power
or in the evening, when il is about 10 20 below
| the horizln. A good time TO water land is wheI
| cloud comes up and you expect a shower. IL
nine cases Of ten the shower does not give al
| the water needed, so the work will not be use
lessly expended. In the Spring the work o
! irrigation commences III earnest. II - no
necessary to use water in May as a fertilizer
but simply TO mOisten the earth as a germi
nator. Probably it may not need any water j
large quantity has fallen during the Winter
| The water which comes down from the mount
aims then is the melted snow and surface water
but in June and July the sedimentary deposit
ara running, and the streams are laden will
fertilizers, which decrease as the Winter ap
pToaches and the streams are lower. When thu
waters are laden in this way, and the crop
want the fertilizer, the farmer shOuld irrigat
by nOoding and in the FALL when the stream
are limpd. it should be done by catch-wor<
The soil should not be kept continually moist
dryness on the surface does not always iudicat
dTyness below. IL will not hurt crops 70 le
them get occasionally partially dry. Som
crops require more water than others, and som
will bear very little at time. Twenty-fOu
hours watering will not hurt wheat and othe
small grains, nor beans, peas, turnips, and Tuta
| bagas. Bects and cabbages will not bear NOR
than II hours Of continuous moisture, as thei
roOt-fber5 are so delicate that they soon re
chOked up and rotten. In such cases they wil
sometimes shoot out more fbers, but often the
will die and a TetardatiOu of growth is certain
1t should be continued In August, as in tina
month the rainfall is usually less; in Septem
Der also, and. in fact, until early Winter, or tn
ordinary rains and snow appear. III an ord
nary or sufficient quantity does not fall
should be continued all the Winter at inter
vals "a it prevents the frost from extending TO
deep into the soil.