108 FERTILIZERS. 



being a little over fifty bushels of shelled corn to the acre, 

 while the cost of the fertilizers was not over eight dollars. 

 A mixture of either fish or Lobos guano and muriate of pot- 

 ash has proved an excellent manure for large crops of corn. 

 Try it at the rate of five hundred pounds of either variety 

 of guano and one hundred and fifty pounds of the potash. 



FOR POTATOES. The summing-up of many experiments 

 made over a large area of country was, that the best 

 manure for potatoes is five hundred and fifty pounds of 

 Peruvian or fish guano, with one hundred and fifty 

 pound of muriate of potash. 



FOR COTTON. For cotton in sandy uplands, the fol- 

 lowing mixture is said by Professor Dabney to have given 

 excellent results: " 20 bushels dry earth, 250 pounds kai- 

 nite, 400 pounds pure dissolved animal bone (or 600 pounds 

 acid phosphate), and 100 pounds sulphate of ammonia, well 

 mixed ; 500 to 1,000 pounds to the acre." 



FOR WHEAT. In using guano on wheat, it is recom- 

 mended to use one-third in the drills at time of sowing ; 

 one-third early in the spring, to be lightly harrowed in ; 

 and one-third just before a rain, when the plants are eight 

 or ten inches out of the soil. 



FOR GRASS OR GRAIN CROP. Where finely ground 

 bone only is used (we will remember there is no potash in 

 this), an application is recommended by good authority, to 

 vary with the condition of the soil, of from 600 to 1,200 

 pounds to the acre. The effect of this will be seen for 



several years. 



COMPOSTS. 



Our farmer friends in the South do more in making a 

 class of composts which in- their composition and con- 

 centration approach commercial fertilizers, than do we of 

 the North. And this is not to be wondered at, when ori 

 so many farms they have cotton-seed, so rich in am- 



