Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-03-30
How To Feed The Sell.
WHAT IS ONE CROPS MEAT IS ANOTH
ER'S POISON-JUDICIOUS USE
OF FERTILIZERS.

WHAT Is ONE CROPS MEAT IS ANOTH-
Frs POISON-JUDICIOUS USE
OF FERTILIZERS.
This is the season when the farmer
expends the largest sum for fertilizers,
and he can easily make a mistake by
procuring something that may not be
as beneficial as that which he can pro-
cure by first studying the requirements
of the several crops to be grown, and
by aiming to supply the soil with the
kind of plant food in which it may be
deficient 1t requires two or three
years observation and carefully con-
Quoted experiments to be perfectly IA
miliar with fertilizers and the necessi-
ties of the soil, but the farmers should
aim, as far as possible, to supply the
different crops with those foods best
adapted for their use.
Some crops, such as clover, grass,
beans, pease and potatoes may require
more potash than nitrogen, but wheat,
corn, oats and garden vegetables will
always respond well to nitrogen and
the phosphates. All plants that pro-
duce seeds take more from the soil than
those which are cut in the green condi-
ton. Lime is one of the essential plant
foods, but it is applied whenever plas-
ter or superphOsphate is used; yet the
air-slaked lime itself is one of the best
chemical agents that can be applied,
and the good effects of lime are also
noticed when wood ashes are. used, as
lime is one of the principal ingredients
of ashes. Phosphoric acid abounds
largely in all grai ns and seeds, and also
in beans. The straw of wheat, potato
vines, turnip leaves, tobacco and clio
yer take up lime largely, yet there is
but little lime required for the grains
The straw OF wheat requires three
times as much potash as the grain, and
the same NAV be said of many other
grain crops.
The exact value Of ton of manure
cannot be estimated, as it depends on
the manner of its preservation, the
quantity of water contained, and the
foods from which it was produced; but
10 pounds of nitrogen, pounds OF
phOsphoric acid, 12 pounds of potash
and Is pounds OF lime will cover all the
plant food in some kinds of manure.
The farmer who has fed mostly straw,
or coarse foods, will find his manure
lacking in plant food, but ON those
farms where linseed meal and cotton
seed meal, with grain and bran, are
used, the manure will be almost com
pleUe 1eftlllZer. Inc DeSU GUIDE IN Sc
lecting fertilizers is to avoid those
kinds that did not show All advantage
in their favor last year. as such are not
needed by the soil. Procure those sub
stances that have been tested with
good results. Test all fertilizers on
on small plots, also, for observation.
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