TALKS ON MANURES A SERIES OF FAMILIAR AND PRACTICAL TALKS BETWEEN THE AUTHOR AND THE DEACON, THE DOCTOR, AND OTHER NEIGHBORS, ON THE WHOLE SUBJECT
TEXT
TEXT
PAPER
SEARCH INSIDE THIS BOOK
54 pages
Results for MAN. Open a page to see the matches highlighted.
Page 1 104 matches
* * * * * TALKS ON MANURES. A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and Oth
Page 2 50 matches
us, and this fact explains and confirms the common idea that shade is manure. The great object of agriculture is to convert the nitrogen of our soils, or of green crops plowed under,
Page 3 44 matches
buy such food as will furnish the most nutriment and make the richest manure at the least cost--taking both of these objects into consideration. He will also buy more or less artifici
Page 4 56 matches
manure one. Is this “high farming?” I think in my circumstances it is good farming, but it is not high farming. I
Page 5 39 matches
or is defective, inasmuch as it makes no distinction between soil and manure. Both contain plant-food.” “What is your definition of manure?” asked Charley; “it would seem as though w
Page 6 56 matches
manure, will almost invariably give us a greatly increased yield of grain crops. I should expect, on my farm, tha
Page 7 71 matches
grass. And as all this produce was consumed on the farm, we made more manure than if we had plowed less land.” I have great faith in the benefits of thorough tillage--or, in other wo
Page 8 97 matches
for manure alone, found it still more profitable to use it first for food, and then for manure afterwards. Mr. Lawes,
Page 9 66 matches
depreciation of the value of the manure. In the foregoing analyses he will find the direct proof that as long as heavy showers of rain are exclude
Page 10 67 matches
The above analyses are of value to those who buy fresh and fermented manure. They can form some idea of what they are getting. If they buy a ton of fresh manure in November, they get
Page 11 98 matches
ectual means of preventing loss in fertilizing matters is to cart the manure directly on the field whenever circumstances allow this to be done. “7. On all soils with a moderate prop
Page 12 128 matches
manure is handled but once. It is made in the yard and sheds, and lies there until it is drawn to the field in th
Page 13 123 matches
corn-stalks and straw, and what they do not eat is thrown out of the mangers and racks, and used for bedding. I should state, too, that I keep a good many pigs, seldom having less t
Page 14 111 matches
se and cart we drew to this heap, just as winter set in, every bit of manure that could be found on the premises, and everything that would make manure. When got all together, it made
Page 15 85 matches
gument,” said the Deacon, “against your plan of piling and fermenting manure.” “Not at all,” I replied; “it is a strong reason for not letting manure lie under the eaves of an unspou
Page 16 45 matches
oductive meadow or pasture for years to come--or until our young dairyman could afford to give it one of Harris Lewis’ “homœopathic” doses of 40 loads of good manure per acre. He woul
Page 17 62 matches
In regard to the application of manure on a dairy-farm, we have seen what Harris Lewis does with his. I also wrote to T. L. Harison, Esq., of St.
Page 18 44 matches
ed nothing but straw to stock is poor economy; and to rot it down for manure is no better. Straw itself is not worth $3.00 a ton for manure; and as one ton of straw, spread in an open
Page 19 10 matches
or soiling, or make it into hay, feed it out to stock, and return the manure to the land. If clover got its nitrogen from the atmosphere, we might sell the clover, and depend on the r
Page 20 15 matches
well known, is specially benefited by the application of nitrogenous manures, and as clover carries off so large a quantity of nitrogen, it is natural to expect the yield of wheat, a
Page 21 2 matches
however, by no means proves its sufficiency for the production of so many crops of wheat; for, in the first place, it can not be shown that the whole of the phosphoric acid found by
Page 22 13 matches
und in the clover-roots from the part of the field twice mown. In the manure, in which the decay of such and similar organic remains proceeds, much of the non-nitrogenous, or carbonac
Page 23 27 matches
ch, by good cultivation, and the liberal use of animal and artificial manures, they may expect a good crop of wheat from the roots of the clover. But they take good care to feed out t
Page 24 78 matches
wheat, or we must make more and richer manure, or we must plow in more clover. The rotation, which many of us now adopt--corn, barley, wheat--is profita
Page 25 47 matches
crease per | | | Produce per Acre, etc. |Acre by Manure.| | | P --------------+----+----+----+----+---------------+ | | l Dressed corn. | |
Page 26 54 matches
reduced the plots, previously so differently circumstanced both as to manure and produce, to something like an uniform standard as regards their grain-producing qualities. “Plot 2 ha
Page 27 30 matches
.. | .. | .. | .. | 200 | .. | 200 | 300 | .. | 500 | 20 | Unmanured.| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 21}| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Page 28 31 matches
with the difference in the crop; 8_a_ was left this year without any manure, and though it had received a liberal supply of mineral manures the year before, and minerals and ammonia-
Page 29 25 matches
+----+----+------+-----+------+----+----+--- The plot continuously unmanured, gives about 16 bushels of wheat per acre. The plot with barn-yard manure, nearly 30 bushels per acre.
Page 30 11 matches
per Acre, || | Produce per Acre, | etc. (For the Manures || | etc. (For the Manures P | see pp. 202 and 203.) || P | see pp. 202 and 203.)
Page 31 82 matches
until the 16th of March 1853. You will see that the produce on the unmanured plot was less than 6 bushels per acre. With barn-yard manure, 19 bushels, and with a heavy dressing of am
Page 32 29 matches
om the air_. This is an important fact. Lime may act beneficially on many or most soils by converting the soda silicate into a lime silicate, or, in other words, converting a salt th
Page 33 40 matches
ined 62 lbs. of nitrogen. How much nitrogen does 10 tons of barn-yard manure contain?” “That depends a good deal on what food the animals eat. Ten tons of average fresh manure would
Page 34 10 matches
| .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. 6{1 | .. | .. | -- unmanured continuously-- | .. {2* | .. |<..> | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. 7 | 14 | .. | .
Page 35 17 matches
on the Growth of Barley, Year After Year, on the Same Land, Without Manure, and With Different Descriptions of Manure, Hoos Field, Rothamsted, England. Table V.--Straw (and cha
Page 36 72 matches
a good crop. The unmanured plot, it will be seen, yielded over 35 bushels per acre of dressed grain, weighing over 53½ lbs. per bush
Page 37 64 matches
heat, or barley after barley, we do not get half the benefit from the manure which it is theoretically capable of producing. Now, the question is, whether by a judicious rotation of
Page 38 80 matches
eed out this amount of bran and cake, and you would have 800 loads of manure, worth _on the land_ $2,226.96, or, estimating as before that it cost 30 cents a load to handle it, its ne
Page 39 87 matches
of land will grow 25 bushels of corn every year, we should aim to so manage it, that it will grow 50 every other year, or 75 every third year, or, if the _climate_ is capable of doin
Page 40 58 matches
and when _potash_ is added to the manure, the yield is still further increased.” “Answer me one question,” said the Deacon, “and let us leave the
Page 41 81 matches
“We may conclude, therefore, that on this soil, which has never been manured, and which has been cultivated for many years with the _Ceralia_--or, in other words, with crops which re
Page 42 89 matches
common salt, alone, or with other manures, had comparatively little effect. Practically, when we want to grow a good crop of beets or mangels, the
Page 43 121 matches
richer the manure is in nitrogenous matter, and the more thoroughly this is distributed through the manure, the more readily
Page 44 49 matches
-------------+-------+--------- No.| Kind And Condition Of Manures. | Wt/Bu | Wt/Load ---+--------------------------------------------+-------+--------- |
Page 45 30 matches
“if it could be purchased at the same price, it would be the cheaper manure. It contains 46½ per cent of potash, and on soils, or for crops where potash is needed, we may sometimes b
Page 46 43 matches
n fact a patent was taken out by the Musgraves, of Liverpool, for the manufacture of Liebig’s Special Manures, based on this theory. But the manures, though extensively used by the le
Page 47 36 matches
d 20 or 25 years ago. It may be, that the guano is still the cheapest manure in the market, but at any rate the price is higher than formerly--while there has been no corresponding ad
Page 48 61 matches
proportion, considerably lower than that grown on the continuously unmanured land. These results, if they are to be accepted as correct, must bring about a very considerable change
Page 49 87 matches
an invaluable acquisition to the agricultural literature of the day. Manure in this city is usually sold by the two-horse load--about 1½ tons--at the rate of $1 per load, or 66 cents
Page 50 17 matches
----+------++-----+----+-----++ m t |Food|100 I| Man.|Resp. || Inc.|Man.|Resp.|| t d. ---------------------+----+-----+-----+------++-----+----+-----++-----
Page 51 20 matches
--+----+----+----+----+----+----- B.--AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF VARIOUS MANURES. W Water. OS Organic Substance. A Ash. N Nitrogen. P Potash. S Soda. L Lime. M Ma
Page 52 60 matches
Barn-yard Manure, Difference in Quality of, 246 Bean-straw for Manure,
Page 53 67 matches
d in Open Yard, 63 ” Stable, Management, 333 ” Straw and Chaff as,
Page 54 7 matches
roofs and roofing, doors and fastenings, workshops, poultry houses, manure sheds, barnyards, root pits, etc. 235 pages. 5 × 7 inches. Cloth. $1.00 +Irrigation Farming+ By L
Two hundred and fifty-seven illustrations. A most valuable work, full
of ideas, hints, suggestions, plans, etc., for the construction of
barns and outbuildings, by practical writers. Chapters are devoted to
the economic erection and use of barns, grain barns, horse barns,
cattle barns, sheep barns, cornhouses, smokehouses, icehouses, pig
pens, granaries, etc. There are likewise chapters on birdhouses,
doghouses, tool sheds, ventilators, roofs and roofing, doors and
fastenings, workshops, poultry houses, manure sheds, barnyards, root
pits, etc. 235 pages. 5 × 7 inches. Cloth. $1.00
+Irrigation Farming+
By LUTE WILCOX. A handbook for the practical application of water in
the production of crops. A complete treatise on water supply, canal
construction, reservoirs and ponds, pipes for irrigation purposes,
flumes and their structure, methods of applying water, irrigation of
field crops, the garden, the orchard and vineyard, windmills and
pumps, appliances and contrivances. New edition, revised, enlarged and
rewritten. Profusely illustrated. Over 500 pages. 5 × 7 inches.
Cloth. $2.00
+Forest Planting+
By H. NICHOLAS JARCHOW, LL. D. A treatise on the care of woodlands and
the restoration of the denuded timberlands on plains and mountains.
The author has fully described those European methods which have
proved to be most useful in maintaining the superb forests of the old
world. This experience has been adapted to the different climates and
trees of America, full instructions being given for forest planting of
our various kinds of soil and subsoil, whether on mountain or valley.
Illustrated. 250 pages. 5 × 7 inches. Cloth. $1.50
* * * * *
* * * *
* * * * *
Errors and Anomalies noted by transcriber:
Close quotes have been supplied or deleted where unambiguous, and
paragraph-ending full stops (periods) have been silently supplied. No
other attempt was made to regularize quotation format or punctuation.
The Deacon, the Doctor, the Squire, Charlie
_the name is spelled “Charley” everywhere else_
it would seem desirable to apply the superphosphate
_text reads “superhosphate”_
wherever agri-_culture_ is practised.
_so in original_
Turning over, and fining a manure-heap
_word “fining” probably technical term, not error_
said the Doctor, “but value.” “Suppose, Deacon,” said he
_quotation marks as in original (same speaker)_
carbonaceous matter and water, of little or no value?”
_text has question mark after close quote_
It would be a very exceptional case.
_word “It” illegible_
“7. In the insoluble organic matters
_number 7 missing from original; adjacent paragraphs have 6 and 8_
would be reduced to 49.6-10 tons
_numeral format as in original: 49-6/10 or 49.6, though computed total
is 49.508_
Dr. Vœlcker draws the following conclusions
_text reads “Voelcker” with separate vowels_
It is high, rolling land, but needed underdraining.
_text reads “under / draining” at line break without hyphen_
“Why so?” asked the Deacon.
_text has question mark after close quote_
and consequently will ferment or putrefy much more rapidly
_text reads “putrify”_
crenic and apocrenic acids are produced
_text reads “aprocrenic”_
100 tons of hay lying dormant
_text reads “dorment”_
endeavor to persuade them to eat more
_text reads “persaude”_
when we draw deductions from the facts of the case
_text reads “the the case”_
and I think the mechanical condition of the land
_text reads “mechancial”_
”In 672 lbs. of clover-ash, we find:
_open quote missing_
Organic matter* ... 64.76
_text reads “Oganic”_
“Now,” said the Doctor, “... in the soil_.”
“There was more clover-roots per acre...
_unclear whether speaker is the same for both paragraphs (delete close
quote) or changes (from the Doctor to Harris)_
For the superphosphate of lime,
_text reads “superphoshate”_
Table VII.--Manures and Produce; 7th Season, 1849-50.
6b | .. | *00 | 200
_first digit of number is missing: probably “300”_
Even gold may be bought too dear.
_text reads “to dear”_
The value of quick-lime as a manure
_anomalous hyphen in original_
Table IV.--Offal Corn per Acre--lbs.
1 N. |}(94){|283 ‖109 ...
2 N. |} {|228 ‖286 ...
_double lines as printed: should be one year earlier?_ ]
cotton-seed-cake
_hyphenation as in original (two occurrences);
similarly “Beech-nut-cake”, “Palm-oil-cake” etc._
fish-scrap, woollen-rags, Peruvian guano
_hyphens as in original_
the plants / came up first, and exhibited a healthy, dark-green
_text reads “exhibted”_
for sugar-making purposes, or for fodder
_text reads “foddder”_
ruta-bagas
_hyphenation is standard for this text_
Isn’t it paying a little too much for the whistle?
_text reads “Is’nt”_
And this fact ought to be understood
_text reads “An this fact” with invisible “d”_
The plaintain, which I believe is sometimes sown
_spelling “plaintain” as in original_
... his book on Manure, “Praktische Düngerlehre,” Dr. Emil Wolff
_text reads “Wollf”_
[Index]
_Note that the Index uses short dashes where commas would be expected_
Crops Best to Apply Manure to
_“Crops” entries printed out of sequence, between “Corn” and “Cotton”_
Farm Dairy // Mr. Joseph O. Sheldon’s
_name in body text is James O. Sheldon_
SOURCES & PROVENANCE
1 listed
This page is an AI-organised index. The label means the grouping and cross-links were compiled with AI; the information itself comes from the public-domain books, reports and manuals listed below. Open any source to read the local copy or follow the link to the original publication.
PUBLIC-DOMAIN BOOK
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and Other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject
primary
Full text in the local archive
Bibliographic record from the archive catalogue.