Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-03-13

Blencowe's drug store.
~, 100000 u year for fertilizer. This
Is just about 81 5000 more thln
we ought To pay. If rhe ANALYSIS falls
ten per cent. below the manufactu
rer's guaranteed analysis, then the
farmer does not have to pay for IL.
You can't tell the ingredients unless
YOU analyze them. 4 gO0d many
farmers will take "a bottle aud smell
It and # II smells strong, the farmer
will say that 1t is strong fertilizee.
but if it doesn't smell strong he
thinks that ii Is "a good brand Of
goods The name mas nothing to do
with the brand: look at the ANALYSIS
aud that only. We ought not % buy
any fertilizer that has not ammonia
10 per cent. potash per cent. and
phosphorlc acid per cent Nature
ha- gwen us two hundred plants the
power 10 take the nitrogen from enc
air aud deposit il in the soil. Cow
peas is one of the hest things 10 fer
tilize the land.
We have smother trouble IN this
State from thin land Our lands
have been rohhed of the humus-
Vegetable matter. When the humus
is taken out of the land it dries easi
IN. Il Won bave got the humus it
viii resist the drou4h, four timce IS
long. II is like "a sponge aud will
hold the moisture. Ii takes 700 tons
of water TO produce 80 bushels of
corn; this cannot be gotten in the
summer time. IL also holds the nj
trogen in the soil. Straw, clover, COW
peas and such like are good for this
purpose. Cow peas will grow in some
States better than clover. Japan clio.
yer will grow on any kind of ground.
IL will improve the land and make
good pasture. If anybody has an old.
poor field, try Japan clover and will
guarantee he will have good results.
You csnnOt alone enrich your lands
10y commercial fertilizers. We have
got to have the moisture. If your
land hakeS YOU should run cultiva-
tor over it. When it bakes il be.
comes porous and the moisture from
the ground rises and comes ont. when.
if we break it up so as to make what
we might call dust blanket, it will
keep the moisture in.
OF course different soils contain
different proportion of these ingredi
ents. The poorest field IN Virgins
has hundreds of tons of potash and
phOsphO.ic acid. Nature-has put it
in on insoluable condition.
In reply to whether South Carroll.
ma bone made the soil sour. the Com
missioner answered not. A chemist
onl V wants TO put in enough acid "a
dissolve the rock. In putting ON raw
animal bone il ought to have fOnr OF
five per cent. ammonia. Acid phos
phate and South Carolina bone is the
same. Out of 755 samples of differ
ent brands SO per cent. have fallen
below the guarantee but not 10 per
cent. below. Thirty or forty bran.
have fallen 10 per cent. below the
guarantee. OF the 30 per cent. that
have fallen below the guarantee a
majority of them was in ammonia
We send the analysis to the manu-
facturers and they invariably charg,
us with having made some mistak,
or ask us to try another sample or t
wait until next year.
In planting COW peas they SHOULD
be planted in June. You eau feed
them and then turn them under
They will only lose about % per ct
by running it through animals.
A great many make mistake il
buying cheap South Carolina bone
You lose in hauling all this stuff
from the depot and you lose time il
putting it on the ground. Why no
buy 10 per cent and get go lbs. II
is cheaper in the long run.
At present we do not analvze soils
We only have two chemists aud the,
are kept pretty busy.
Prof. Hieges on Fruit Culture.
Prof. :. b. HiegeS said, il
part, lie gives ME great pleas