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
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five or six bushels per acre, may give us an increase of fifteen or twenty bushels per acre. That is to say, owing to the dry weather in the autumn, followed by severe weather in the
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ld be less loss of nitrogen. The loss of nitrogen in 1863, was about twenty-four pounds per acre, and in 1879 fifty pounds per acre--the amount of available
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In the summer-fallow experiments, which have now been continued for twenty-seven years, there has been a great loss of nitrogen. The same remarks apply to this case. No one ever advo
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guano he will probably double his crops. His grass lands will carry twenty cows instead of ten, and if he raises the corn-fodder and roots, he can probably keep thirty cows better th
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e rich for other plants.” “That extract,” said I, “carries one back twenty-five years. We used to have article after article in this strain. We were told that ‘always taking meal out
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year. On the plot that receives no manure of any kind, the crop, for twenty years, averaged 16¼ bushels per acre. It is plowed twice every year, and the wheat is hand-hoed in the spri
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t cleared of the original forest, or than they were ten, fifteen, or twenty years later. In other words, the plants and animals that have been sold from the farm, have carried off a c
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invaluable store in April, May, and June, capable of supplying from twenty to forty bushels of ashes per acre, according to the care and industry of the collector, to drill with the
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r of spreading it in the one case than in the other, and, after all, twenty tons of this poor manure would not produce as good an effect the first season as ten tons of the richer man
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ure. When got all together, it made a heap seven or eight feet wide, twenty feet long, and three or four feet high. We then laid planks on the heap, and every day, as the pig-pens, co
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nded any one to pile their manure where it would receive from ten to twenty times as much water as would fall on the surface of the heap.” “But you do recommend piling manure and fer
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enses of his farm of 81½ acres. The farm cost $130 per acre. He kept twenty cows, and fatted one for beef. The receipts were as follows: Twenty cows yielding 8,337 lbs. of cheese,
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d see the farms hereabouts, and talk with our farmers.” Of course I went, and had a capital time. Mr. Geddes has a magnificent farm of about 400 acres, some four miles from Syracuse
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our wheat last year, and could see to the very drill mark how far it went. I would like to take your order for a ton. I am sure it would pay.” “We are making manure cheaper than you
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armer, but with little faith in chemical manures, paid me a visit. We went to the experimental wheat-field. The first two plots, 0 and 1, had been dressed, the one with superphosphate
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” ” ” ” 200 ” ” 36¼ ” ” The _twentieth_ season (1862-3), gave 17¼ bushels on the unmanured plot, and 44 bushels per acre on the manured plot.
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and not an agreeable one, to the passers by. He put the mixture on a twenty-acre field of wheat, and he said he was going to beat you.” “Yes,” said I, “so I understood--but he did no
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with different manures on barley grown annually on the same land for twenty years in succession. The experiments commenced in 1852. The soil is of the same general character as that
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ithout any manure, and you have selected the worst year of the whole twenty.” “Perhaps so,” said the Squire, “but we have got to take the bad with the good, and I have often heard yo
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intending to sell them in the spring.” “What did they cost you?” “I went into Wyoming and Cattaraugus Counties, and picked them up among the dairy farmers, and selected a very fair
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shels of wheat per acre, there is no difficulty in making it produce twenty bushels; and so of potatoes. If the land be dry and well cultivated, and, barring the bugs, produces withou
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not seem,” said the Deacon, “to have been deficient in anything. The twentieth crop, on the continuously unmanured plot was nearly 1¼ ton per acre, the first cutting, and nearly ¾-ton
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is a light, sandy loam. It has been under cultivation for upwards of twenty years, and so far as I can ascertain has never been manured. It has been somewhat impoverished by the growt
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marked effect_. This manure was applied in the hill on one plot (the twentieth of an acre,) at the rate of 400 lbs. per acre, and the plants on this plot came up first, and outgrew al
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te from the superphosphate. CHAPTER XXXVIII. SPECIAL MANURES. Twenty five to thirty years ago, much was said in regard to special manures. Fertilizers were prepared for the dif
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of Peruvian guano of to-day, with Peruvian guano brought to England twenty-nine or thirty years ago. I saw at Rothamsted thirty years ago a bag of guano that contained 22 per cent of
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ossessed a very considerable estate, consisting of light land, about twenty years ago purchased a large property adjoining it at a very high price. These were days when farmers were f
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oining field, where wheat and fallow have been grown alternately for twenty-seven years. The liberation of nitric acid, during the year of rest, produced for a time a large growth of
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ardeners, may be stated at ninety (90) tubs, and from two hundred to twenty hundred pounds of fertilizer in addition, according to its strength, and the kind of crop. The following r
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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_
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