The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-04-07
STOCK, FARM AND GARDEN
Continued from Eighth Page

tilizers without an intelligent idea OF
the Deficiencies of their soil, or Of the
best way 10 use them. There is
class OF farmers who pronounce all
commercial fertilizers humbug and
fraud, and who firmly believe that
their continued u'e will ruin their
land. Land may be damaged to some
extent when farmers get the idea
that they can dispense with manure,
and clover, and depend on CONNER
cial fertilizers alone to keep up
fertility. Bur q farmer who will fluid
out by Garrett experiment what par
ticular elem, nts his land needs, and
will furni, h them, and then will al
ways Tow grass and clover with the
fortified grains, 30 as to get the
benefit for two crops, and one Of them
a crop which leaves large part OF it's
fertility in the soil for succeeding
crops, will soon realize the value Il
fertilizers
On my wheat crop of 1892 I used
commelcl aI fertilizer on The poor
lands, and there / got good plump
grain, which gra led high 80 "a to
CO nmand I Q top price il the market
izer was use d, ths grain was 30 In
ferior that alter taking out with the
farning-mill five or six quarts to the
bushe it still graded only No. 8. IN
my neighborhUod little fertilizer IL
u ed, but few miles north of my
1arm is a nelghborhood where most
of the farmers use il, and the records
of the thresher-men snow that the
yield Of wheat per acre there, is fifty
per cent. above that OF near lOcalitit s
where fertilizers are not used. FIRE.
quently the increase OF grass or eli.
yer the second year, is sufficient to
pay the entire cost IF the fertilizer
and | have known fields where strips
have been left unfertiized to com,
pare with the fertilized, and the
second ye, one could stand at the
side OF the field and trace the lane
on which the fertilizer had beer
applied, by noting the heavy growth
of grass.
Experiments have shown that or
my farm fertilizer rich in phos
phOric acid is what is needed, anC
that | eau furnish all the nitrogen
needed by growing clover; in SON,
bone, 20 pounds to the acre, ha'
made b. difference between i
bushel, OF plump wheat TO tie acre
and four bu, heels shriveed and un
merchAlInble. No one however
should invest largely in fertilizers OF
the Recommendation Of another, bu
first experiment. in small way OF
his own land, until he finds wha
elements he needs to supply, an
then he can buy intelligently.
Several gardeners have told me tn
past winter, that frequent busting c
phosphate on melons and cucumber
will repel the striped bug and at IN
same time help the growth. 1 be
lieve tha suggestion to be good ON
and shall try it this year, fer | fin
that it requires vigilance to e
melons and cucumte era throug
the first two weeks after they com
up, and anything which aids the
growth and hastens their getting /
the rough leaf, is great help.
think the plants should be duste
every other day until out of the wa
of the bug, and oltener il raj
washes it off.
Many farmers expect too mu3h {
commercial fertiliz r They wi
apply 200 To-, to the acre, costing onl
SO or SO so, and denouuce it as wortl
less If they do not SEE as good lesul
as from fifteen or twenty tots
stable manure, which would cost
cash and labor dollar or more to
Or they will apply the fertilizer on
rough cloddy field so that much of
is lost. The use of commercial ferti
Izer belongs to good farming, and
should always be applied on a tho
oughly prepared seed-bed. | earnes
ly advise farmers to experiment on
small scale with several brands
fertilizers until they can sett
definitely whether or not they CT
use any kind at profit, and if tn
find that they can, then it will
time enough to buy largely.
Always seed to grass or clover VIII
using fertilizers on small grain
Waldo f. Brown, in Country Gent
man.