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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. — Exchange, Mrs, W. J. Clarke, Mcßae, Ga., writes: For years have rarely been, and hardly know how I could keep house, without Dr. M. A. Simmons L.ver Medicine. It cured me of Sour Stomah and Indigestion; my husband of Dyspepsia, aud from personal test regard it superior to Black Draught and Zeiliu’s L'ver Medicine. Buying a Paper. ‘‘Here, boy, let me have a pa per,” “Can’t.” “Why not? Yov’e got them. 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He’s a fortunate boy to have such friends.” The gentlemen bought two pa pers of him, aud he went on his way down town, wondering how many men in business would re fuse to sell their wares in order toj give a weak, haul ting brother a chance in the field,—Exchange. "Pitts' —- Cnrmhmtivß SmrmS My Bmby’m Ufm.” ¥¥ LAAAR A RANKIN DRUG CO.i I can aot recomraead Pitta* Car ainatir* to* strongly. I anat aay, lowa my baby's lifs to it. I earnestly ask all mothers wko barn sickly or delieats childrsa Jast to try aaa bottle and see wbat the resell will be. Respectfully, Jas LIZZIE MURRAY. Johnson ’• Station, Ga. ¥¥ Pitta 9 Oarmlnatlvo Im motS by mil Draggfafa. PMtHE, SB OEMTS. 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 of it. Eldon, Mo. N. J. Shepherd. HERB is a medical lecture in a nutshell. The Kid neys drain water and im purities from the blood. The Liver makes bile and helps to drive off other waste. If these organs work badly the body becomes a cesspool and disease sets in. You must get them into healthy action or die. 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