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The Farmers’ Index. AU letters Intended for the Editor of this De partment should be addressed, "Fabmirs' Index, Drawer 24, Atlanta, Ga." COMPOSTING. A correspondent from Gordon, Ga., asks: “Wnatare the best materials for composting with stable manure? Please give full directions.” We answer: Acid phosphate of lime, with or with out potash, according to the requirements of the soil to which the compost is to be applied. Phosphoric acid is the element which is nearly always deficient, except in very rich soils. And even in these it is exhausted by continual cropping soon er than other mineral elements. Potash is the next in importance, and many worn soils are much benefitted bv its application, as is evidenced by the t Sects of ashes when used on such. A soil on which the original forest growth was chiefly pine, is most apt to be seriously deficient in potash. Having determined , whether or no potash is demanded by the soil, the best grade of Acid Phos phate or Dissolved Bone should be sel ected-one have the highest percentage of soluble phosphoric acid in proportion io the price asked. Preference should be given—prices being equal -to a Raw bone phosphate as the insoluble part is more valuable than in preparations made from fossil bones or mineral phosphates. If cotton seed are at hand or can be purchassed near by at twelve to fifteen cents per bushel, they make a most desirable addition to the compost. Sup posing then, that acid phosphate, cotton seed, and stable manure are to be com posted, we would use them in such pro portions as would consume all the cotton seed and stable manure, allowing not less than 500 pounds of acid phosphates to the ton of compost. The following is the formula recom manded by the Department of Agri culture : Acid Phosphate 650 lbs. Stable Manure 650 “ Cotton Seed (green) 700 “ Making one ton or 2000 “ Spread a layer of cotton seed several inches thick on the ground and wet then thoroughly with water. Then add a layer of stable manure and n?xt a layer of acid phosphate; and soon until all the matetiaf is used or until the heap is five or six feet high, covering the whole with several inches of rich soil. It is a very good plan to thoroughly mix the different layers as they are spread. The whole should be cut down and re-heaped at the end of about two or three weeks. The points to be guarded is to keep the heap well moistered with water in order to prevent firefanging, but not enough to leach or run from it. The compost will improve in quality by standing four to six weeks, or until fermentation is complete or the mass becomes coal. When the stable manure is not stable manure, but scrapings from the lot, it is sometimes advised to purchase sulphate of ammonia, nitrates of soda or nitrate of potash to supplement the small amount of ammonia contained in such lot manure. But w.e doubt the propriety of buying ammonia in this form. Cotton seed meal at sixteen dollars per ton is a cheaper source of ammonia than either of the salts mentioned. The experience of many practical far mers throughout Georgia, is to the effect that 200 pounds of such a compost as the formula above will produce, applied to an acre of cotton or corn, will yield as good results as the same quantity of average commercial fertilizers, and the compost is certainly much cheaper. As intimated we do not think it is im portant that the proportions be strictly followed, but rather be governed by the relative quantities of the materials avail able. We have used acid phosphate and cotton seed alone with very good results. In this case there should be not less of the phosphate than the formula calls for. Half and half would be better, and the materials should be well intermixed at the start and covered with earth. ENSILAGE. The experience of those who construc ted silos and tried the new plan of pre serving green food during the last year, has been generably favorable. The prin cipal points to be observed are, to cut ' the material fine, press it closely and ex clude the rain and air by a suitable shel ter of boards and earth. Every farmer who makes any effort to produce green craps for summer feeding or soiling, knows bow easy it is to grow more than his stock can consume. A very small plat—much less than an acre —of rich ground, sown in Cat-tail Millet; will supply a half dozen head of mules and cows with as much as they will eat. If the area is increased the surplus may be secured in silos and preserved for winter use —very much on the principal of preserving, in sealed jars, fresh fruits ana vegetables for winter. While it is true that many farmers in the South keep more stock than their system of farming will warrant, the fault is not in the climate or soil, but in the system pursued —the all cotton policy that has so nearly bankrupted the ■country. LUCERN. February and March are the two spring months during which the cultiva ted grasses can be sown to the best ad vantage. Among these we know of none more worthy of trial than lucern. It has the advantage of being perennial springing from the roots very early every spring and continuing for many years, giving four to six cuttings during the spring find summer, according to the soil and seasons. It requires very rich clean soil to get it well started, and a good dressing of manure annually. It is really a species of clover, or at least belongs to the same family of plants and is somewhat similar in appearance to red clover. Lucern is better for green feeding than any plant ordinarily used for the purpose, being equally rel ished by horses, mules, cattle, hogs and sheep, and it is more nutritious than eorn forage or millet. It will not, how ever, bear the tread and bite of animals and therefore cannot be grazed. We learned this by experience (though it was well known by others before), hav ing ruined a small patch—a first exper iment—by letting the calves graze on it. Seed of lucern can be had ofany seeds man and ten pounds will sow one acre. The ground should be • prepared as for drill turnips, the seed sown rather more •thickly, and covered in the same manner, THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1881. but the youngplants shonld not be thin ned out. It is very troublesome to clean out grass and weeds from among the lucern, and for this reason it should be sown on land that is free from their seeds. ROTA HON OF CROPS. With a proper rotation of crops rigidly adhered to, we see no reason why the soil may not be constantly improving— growing more productive every year. We have one great advantage over the North in the possession of a great staple money crop which removes permanently from the soil a very small portion of the ele ments of fertility. The lint of ootton is composed almost entirely of elements that are abundant in every soil or easily available from the atmosphere. If to an acre of land which produces one hundred and fifty pounds of lint cotton, all the seed, leaves, stems and other portions of the plant be returned to the soil, the latter will have lost the following elements- carried off in the lint: Phosphoric acid 0 25 lbs. Potash 0.50 “ Lime 0.75 11 Magnesia 0.25 “ Nitrogen 1.00 “ On the other hand, a crop of ten bushels of wheat (all of which is market ed) removes from the soil: Phosphoric acid 5.00 lbs. Potash 330 “ Lime. 0.30 “ Magnesia 1.40 “ Nitrogen 1.240 “ An average crop of corn will carry off similar proportions of the scarce and val uable elements. Thus we see that cotton does not per ceptibly exhaust the soil by conveying off in the crop these elements, provided the seed or their equivalent be returned to the land. But owing to the fact that it is a clean-hoed crop, occupying the the land the entire summer, the soil los es greatly by the washing leaching ef fects of rain water—especially in winter. We need some crop to take possession of the soil in the fall, and hold it together during the winter. This need is supplied by either of the small grain crops, but especially oats. The best land should be sown in oats and wheat, and the re mainder in rye. The latter will furnish some grazing duiing mild, dry weather, and may be turned under in the spring i preparatory to a crop of corn. If the | small grain crop be followed immediately by cow peas for turning under, or even if left (without depasturing) to lie during the summer and grow up in weeds and gras*, the soil will be rapidly filled with vegetable matter, humus, and be in good condition for the crop of corn, which should follow in the rotation. PHOSPHATE OF LIME-PHOS PHORIC ACID. There is a great difference in value be tween phosphoric acid and phosphate of lime. Phosphoric acid is what is need ed for plant food; but if instead of stating the percentage to be phosphoric acid, it is stated to be bone phosphate of lime, farmers are liable to be deceived. Per haps it is sometimes intended that they be deceived. Phosphoric acid only should be stated in setting forth the merits of a fertilizer, as that is the ele ment that feeds the plant. Phosphate of lime is composed of phosphoric acid ar.d lime in nearly equal proportions. The insoluble phosphate, like common bone or Charleston rock, is treated with sul phuric acid which takes a portion of the lime from the phosphoric acid, leaving the latter still as a phosphate, (bi-phos phate), but soluble and available. A fertilizer which has—say 33 per cent, of phosphate of lime, cannot be made to yield quite 15 per cent, of phosphoric acid. SMALL NOTES. The Country Gentleman remarks as fol lows; The smell of fresh manure is commonly supposed to be a waste of their valuable proberties. It is one of those cases wherin “a little learning is a dangerous thing.” The escape of ammonia is a loss, but it is not commonly ammonia which passes off from freshly spread manure. We can detect ammonia in the escaped air from rapidly decomposing horse manure and around stables, but the stench from fresh dung is not of any particular value. So it is not safe to judge of the fertilizing value of any manure by the smell. Some of the best fertilizers are inodorous. The fact is that a thin covering of dry earth oyer manure heaps will entirely prevent the escape of ammonia. On the surface of a plowed field, manure will soon be covered with a thin crating of earth, entirely preventing loss. Formula for Irish Potatoes. Stable manure 750 lbs. Virgin soil from hammock. .600 “ Acid phosphate or dis. bone 550 “ Muriate of potash 150 *’ Making a ton of 2000 “ The muriate of potash must be dissol ved in warm water and sprinkled upon the other ingredients as the heap is pre pared. Hull-leas Oats. The Amreican /griculturint says this humbug, to its certain knowledge, has been known in this country for thirty years, “Bohemian” having been added for “grandeur.” Ohio hw-le»s oats men have been selling them at $lO per bushel, and binding their dupes not to sell them at a less price. 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