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AGRICULTURE.
The Rothamsted Report.
Agriculturists the world over
watch for the report that ia issued
from the Rothamstod experimental
farms by Sir J. B. Lawes, each
year. These reports are particu
larly interesting because they tel)
ct the progress of experiments that
have been under way for nearly
half a century. The report for
1898 is just out. Its main interest
to American farmers is in the
wheat experiments. For forty-six
years certain plots have been sown
to wheat each year, and each year
the several plots have been under
the same treatment, One of them
has not had any fertilizer or ma
nure of any kind on it in all the
time of the experiment, while an
other has had fourteen tons of
barnyard manure each year and
each of the other plots have had
chemical fertilizers in the same
way.
The report shows th© yield for
1898 and the average for forty-six
years to be as follows:
Barnyard manure, 38 bushels,
average forty-six years, 35.13
bushels; unmanured, 12 bushels,
average, 12.85; Plot 7, commercial
fertilizers, 28.38, average, 33.33;
Plot 9,commercial fertilizers, 29.38
bushe's, average, 3G.75; Plot 9,
commercial fertilizers, 23.75
bushels, average, 3G.15, It will be
noticed that the yield for the barn
yard manure plot is considerable
above (he average for the forty
six years, while the yield from
every other plot is below the aver
age for that term, This is due to
the peculiarity of the season,
which was a very favorable one
for barnyard manure.
One notable fact in connection
with these experiments is that a
yield of above twelve bushels,
average, has been got from land
that has not been fertilized in
any way during the forty-six years
these experiments have been car
ried on. The yield on this plot is
rather above the average of the
yield in the United States, which
speaks well for the quality of
land that has been in cultivation
since the time of Julius Caesar.
Sir John thinks this plot has
about reached its lowest level of
production and will continue to
yield its present average for a long
time to come. He believes there
are plant-food elements in the soil
that are slowly unlocked and made
available and the land made ca
pable of producing certain crops
for an indefinite time. Of course
this is not true of all soils nor
under any but a very thorough
system of cultivation.
These experiments have nlso
shown that wheat grown with
barnyard manure is always heav
ier than that grown by the use of
commercial fertilizers. In these
experiments the average is about
one-half pound to the bushel in
favor of barnyard manure. The
wheat from the uunianured plot
has averaged two pounds less
weight to the bushel than that
from the commercial fertilizer
plots during the forty-six years,
showing a shriveled condition of
the grain that induces its value
verly materiallv.
There is an important point to
consider in these experiments
This is that fourteen tons of barn-,
yard manure is used on an acre of
wheat and that, too, year after
year for forty-six years. It must
be remombered that manure from
au English barnyard is carefully
protected from leaching or wash
ing and is much more valuable
than manure from an American
barnyard of the average kind. In
this amount of barnyard manure
there is 167 pounds of nitrogen;
170 pounds potash and 94 pounds
of phosphoric acid. It would no
doubt require twenty-five tons of
manure from an American barn
yard to equal this. Plot 8 iu the
experiments has received the best
treatment of any of the commer
cial fertilizer plots, through the
time, having been fed 200 pounds
of sulphate of potash, 392 pounds
of acid phosphate and 600 pounds
ammouium salts divided equally
between sulphate and chloride of
ammonium. This shows the ap
plication of 132 pounds of nitro
gen, 100 pounds of potash and 63
pounds phosphoric acid to the
acre each year. It will be noted
that this is something less than
two thirds of the quantity of each
element that is contained in the
annual application of barnyard
manure and yet the average crop
of this plot has been more than
one and one-half bushels more
than that of the crop produced by
the barnyard manure. This is
important, showing as it does that
we cannot count the plant food in
barnyard manure as being worth
asmuchasthe same elements in
commercial fertilizers.
It also should be remembored
that the percentage ot nitrogen
used in these experiments is very
high, as wheat has been grown
continuously on this land. In a
system of rotation the nitrogen
content could be dispensed with
almost entirely, as the clover crop
would supply that, In our west
ern soils the only present ii6ed
would probably be acid phosphate
for phosphoric acid and possibly
some form of potash. It seems to
have been established that for
wheat commercial fertilizers are
cheaper than barnyard manure. —
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Manure on Plowed Land
The advantage in applying
manure on plowed land is that
there is no occasion for turning it
deep into the soil, as often would
be the case if the land must be
plowed the manure is applied.
In nearly all casts land well
plowed in the fall can he gone over
with a good disc harrow in the
spring and this followed with the
smoothing harrow will put in a
good condition for planting.
When an application of manure
has been given the necessary
working needed properly to fit it
for planting will work the maunre
sufficiently in with the soil.
There are several advantages in
this. Flowing the land during the
fall and winter saves time in the
sprintr when, in nearly all cases,
work is pressing. Then land well
plowed with good surface drainage
provided wilt dry out and warm
up quicker than land left unplowed
and in planting this is often an
item.
Applying the manure on plowed
land the soluble portions are more
easily taken up and retained by
the soil aud there is less loss by
leaching, as sometimes a quick
melting of snow or a hard rain
with the ground frozen and smooth
some of the more soluble parts
may be washed away.
Then manure applied and kept
near the surface is in a better
positiou to be used by the growing
plants. With plants whose feeding
roots are near the surface if the
manure is plowed under it will be
below these roots and the crop will
fail to derive the benefit it should.
With nearly all crops better results
will be secured if the manure is
kept reasonably near the surface.
And if applied on plowed land
this can nearly always be done to
a better advantage than if on
stubble land this must be plowed
in the spring before planting,
During the winter is one of the
best times to haul out and apply
manure, but it is an item tc do the
work so as to make the most out
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except it be for busineess, but
rather by reason of enterprise and
unscrupulousuess as to methods.—
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