Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-22
HOW TO MANURE cHEAPLY.
An Answer to This All Important Problem
a. Given by American Cultivator.

a. Given by American Cultivator.
Virgin soil, after few years cultiva-
ton, becomes untitled for the crops that
wcro at first successful, but at the same
time is rich clu- II TO grow some other
crop that may lay as well or better.
The wet prairie soil of some western
states produced large crops of corn un-
til cropping exhausted the excess of
vegetable matter, when suddenly these
same soils arc found to grow good crops
of winter wheat, with draining and
some phosphate manure every year.
When wheat is sown. good grain crops
can be pruNuced indefinitely.
Tho mineral elements of soil fertility
ran he restored more cheaply and easily
than can any others by the use of COM
morcial fertilizers. Tho prices, both of
potash and phosphate are now so rea-
sonahle that there ought to he no hest
fancy III buying them for every crop
where either is needed. Drt the nitrog
enous elements of fertility in CONNER
cial form are SO dear that except for
gardening purposes, and sometimes for
farmers who grow early potatoes and
peas for market, recourse must be had tC
other means than purchase. No one
should think of buying nitrogen to grow
crops whose growth is made mainly in
tho summer In hot weather stirring
any moderately fertile soil frequently
will develop heterogeneous fertility more
cheaply than any one can buy it Or than
it can be made on the farm.
All the stable manure that can be ap-
piled without too much cost should be
used in growing such crops The Guilt
walton with the manure will be more
effective than it POSSIBLY can he without
it. Part of the benefit of frequent Guilt
yatiOn Of crops that are cultivated in
tho summer comes from its effect in de-
veloping "a cnt fcstility. That i'll coarse
stable manure comes under this CategO-
~. Stirring tho soil over stable manure
brings TO it more of the air and causes
it to dcCompose and thus give off its
fertility more rapidly. Though stable
manure itself has little mineral fertili-
ty, its decomposition i'll contact with
the soil liberates carbonic acid gas, and
that acts as Il solvent for mineral fertil-
ity that the soil contains.
Where enough stable manure can
neither be made nor easily purchased,
manuring with green manuros is q
cheaper way than any other. 1t ought
to be cheaper, for it takes more time,
and with land very valuable the waste
of years use of it while growing a
renovating crop becomes too heavy Il
loss. The market gardener only coca
sionally grows clover crop, and then
only because the clover roots Tighten the
subsoil i'll away that heavy applications
Of stable manure cannot do For ordi
nary cases the market gardener finds
green manure too slow. He uses com.
morcial nitrogen fur the early crop be.
fore that from his rich garden soil Cal
be made available by warmth and cul'
tivation.
The farmer who dcvotes much of hi.
land to fruit viii find the rcnovating
crops like crimson clover and peas, III,
cheapest way of supplying nitrogen
Most of his outlay in money will be fol
the purchase IF mineral fertilizers, pot
ash and phosphate. 1t will require
much heavier applications of these min
erals To grow large fruit crops than ar:
needed for growing crops of grain.