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PU15!JSHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 52 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Agricultural Warehouse.) 



vol.. XVUI.] 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER !), 1839. 



[NO. 14. 



N. E. FARMER 



[For ihe New England Farmer.] 



A"ew York, ilst Sept., 1839. 



Sir — The New York Urate and Poudrette Co., 

 Snding that gentlemen who had purchased their 

 manures had been e.xperinienting with the articles, 

 some advisedly and others mistakenly, it became 

 desirable I'or many reasons to learn — 



] — On what particular grains or garden vegeta- 

 bles the manure was used, the quantity applied, 

 md the result : 



2 — To know the precise manner and result of 

 ach trial : 



3 — How the urate and poudrette compare with 

 )tlier manures in their effect: and 



4 — Generally, whether it was not desirable to 

 he farmer and gardener to have the contents of 

 inks and privies made into inodurous manures. 



In answer to their circular sent to Mr Linn, of 

 chenectady, they have received a letter of so in- 

 eresting a character, that we ask the publication 

 f it at as early a day as your arrangements and 

 onveiiience will permit. 



Amended instructions, the result of information 

 Eceived, will be published in a few days forgratui- 

 ms distribution among those who have or may 

 'ish to use the manures. 



(copy.) 



Schenectady, Sept. 19, 1839. 



he New York Urate and Poudrette Company: 



Gentlemen — In answer to your "circular,"! 



oiild say, that I obtained from your company a 



arrel of poudrette last spring, intending to test its 



ue as a manure, by a few close and accurate ex- 



eriments. It came to hand, however, so late in 



le season, that I was unable to apply it as I in 



nded, or to arrive at results which would in all 



spects prove the value of the substance as a ma- 



ure, or the best modes of applying it. I applied 



to a variety of vegetables in my garden, and also 



a small portion of a field of corn of about five 



;re3, at my farm in the vicinity of this city. 'I he 



getables in my garden have grown with unusual 



chness ajid lu.xuriance, and have most evidently 



It the effects of the application. Of the results at 



y farm 1 can speak more satisfactorily, because 



lere I can compare the portion which has, with 



lother portion of the same crop, in the same field, 



hich has not received the poudrette. This crop 



upon a strong, rich soil, which had been slightly 



anured in the liill from the fold-yard at the time 



■ planting. At the first hoeing, and when the 



ants by reason of the unfavorable season were ex- 



emely backward, I directed my farmer to apply to 



corner of the field where the crop was the least 



•omising, a handful of poudrette to each hill, cov- 



•ing it at the same time with a thin coat of earth. 



his was faithfully done until the poudrette was 



snsumed. The remainder of the field received, a 



irt, the 'usual dressing of plaster, and a part, of 



■hes. — The plants to which the poudrette was ap- 



lied, were the first to change color — throwing off 



the sickly, yellow hue, and adopting a deep green. 

 At the period of the second hoeing, the same plants 

 retained not only the appearance of better health, 

 but had obtained greater vigor and more size than 

 any others of the same crop. They have held the 

 same distinction throughout the season ; and it is 

 now plainly visible, although the entire crop is a 

 fair one, that when we come to harvest, we shall 

 gather a greater weight of stalks and more grain 

 from llie portion where this manure was applied, 

 than from the same space at any other.point in the 

 field. — We have certainly no experience proving 

 that the same results could have been reasonably 

 expected Irom the application of any other of the 

 various manures in common use. 



With us, plaster has long been considered the 

 grand restorative for this crop, and ashes, with many 

 farmers, almost a specific; and indeed that both 

 substances are very useful as manures on most va- 

 rieties of soil, is universally conceded. Mills to 

 grind plaster for manuring purposes, are as eommon 

 throughout this part of the country as those devoted 

 to grain; and I have seen boats loaded with leech- 

 ed ashes, toiling their way from the far west, in or- 

 der to enrich farms on Long Island. 



In this experiment, poudrette was applied side by 

 side with plaster and ashes, under circumstances in 

 favor of the latter, and yet they have most indispu- 

 tably yielded the palm to tlie former: and all this 

 is nut without reason. Heal and ■mnistnre arp iho 

 sources of vegetation : poudrette, if it have it not in 

 itself, will generate more heat and for a longer pe- 

 riod, than either plaster or ashes, and will absorb 

 and retain more moisture. It seems, also, to de- 

 compose inanimate vegetable substances in the soil 

 with which it is mixed, and so to diffuse and incor- 

 porate itself with the soil as to change its color 

 around the plant to which it is applied. Like most 

 other manures, (only mora sensibly and rapidly,) it 

 imparts of its qualities to every substance with 

 which it comes in contact, and by the aid of its own 

 and borrowed heat and moisture, assimilates all to 

 itself, and thus exercises, although applied in most 

 inconsiderable quantities, a certain and immediate 

 influence on vegetation. 



I regret that I did not receive the article so as 

 to apply it at the time of planting. I am not sure 

 that the results would have been more successful, 

 and except for the purposes of experiment, I should 

 be content to use it hereafter (m most crops, as I 

 have done this seasron. 



Desiccated manures have long been appreciated 

 in Europe. There, one tnn of them have been es- 

 timated to be equal in fertilising properties to thir- 

 tysix tons of barn-yard manure. At tliis rate, 

 there is a large balance on the score of economy in 

 favor of the former : and when it is remembered 

 that the manures as prepared by your coinpany, are 

 wholly inodorous, and may be conveyed in barrels 

 to the most remote parts of the country as commo- 

 diously as tlour, and at a trifling expense, our agri- 

 culturalists should be moved by every consideration 

 connected with cleanliness, rural economy, the pro- 

 ductiveness of the soil, and the right use of the 

 means which Providence places before them as in- 



citements to industry, to promote the use of sub- 

 stances, which, left undisturbed, are worse than use- 

 less — scattering in our large cities and towns dis- 

 ease and death, and which, when submitted to your 

 alchymy, spreads health and verdure, and blesses 

 and rewards both citizen and husbandman. 



I shall be pleased to receive your " improved in- 

 structions" for using the manures, of which yon 

 speak, and to know at how early a day this fall I 

 may order a few barrels* for future experiments. 

 Very respectfully, yours, &c. 



A. L. LINN. 



The following is a copy of the improved instruc- 

 tions alluded to in the foregoing : 



MANURES. 



The attention of the public has recently been di- 

 rected to the use of Urate and Poudrette. It has 

 long been known in France as the most efficacious 

 of all manures, and the experiments made during 

 the past and the present year, viz: 1838 and 1839, 

 in the use of Poudrette in the Northern and East- 

 ern States, but more especially in and around the 

 city of New York, have awakened the attention of 

 both farmers and gardeners. The Royal Academy 

 of Agriculture in England, have caused experi- 

 ments to be made of the respective power of thi 

 different manures, and upon trials so made, it ap- 

 pears beyond a doubt that manure made from sinks 

 on.) privies, is superior to iny other productive 

 agent for agricultural purposes. Ig it nec«>^'''ai-/ to 

 add, that it is worse k...ii laior l^av, to cultivjr„ 

 worn out or poor soils without the use of manure? 

 He who expects to be liberally rewarded fo' his la- 

 bor must give liberally what nature requires. The 

 wise man has said, "he that watcreth shall be wa-^ 

 tered also himself" 



AMENDED DIRECTIONS. 



Directions for their use were given by ?eter Bar- 

 thelemy, (who was one of the first discoverers in 

 France of the present system of preparing the arti- 

 cles,) how and in what manner they slould be ap- 

 plied, and who recently introduced tieir manufac- 

 ture in the city of New York. Many of the per- 

 sons who have used the articles, ha»e found from 

 practical experiments, that the fomier directions 

 may be amended advantageously, and it is doubt- 

 less the case that many new methoJs may be dis- 

 covered, which it is hoped will be communicated 

 for public benefit. 



Urate is the product of tile liqxid^axi, and Pou- 

 drette jf the su6s<an//al part of th! sinks or privies, 

 both of them reduced by a different process, to a 

 dry and inodorous substance, ard used as tlie best 

 of all manures known to agriculturalists and horti- 

 culturalisls, being an animal nunure of the richest 

 and purest kind, and the most powerful of any appli- 

 cation that can be made to the earth. 



Urate.— 'Vh.B urate may be used in its dry state 

 by spreading it on the land as you would lime or 

 ashes, or, after having been dissolved in water, may 

 be used through a watering pot, or by a cask on 



*'Yhe company have seTerai thousand bushels for sale at 

 the present time. 



