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acid present in the soil as soluble sulphates, to 
supply the wants of the rotation. 
The soil contains much too small a quantity 
of the alkalies, potash and soda, but only a trace 
of phosphoric acid. These, also, will require 
to be added. Contrasting the subsoil with the 
surface soil, we- find the former to contain an 
increased amount of those substances, excepting 
the sulphates; and thence, it is capable of ad¬ 
ding these mineral matters to the surface soil. 
Whether the crops will obtain what they re¬ 
quire from the subsoil, will depend, however, 
upon the facility of the roots to penetrate the 
earth, and upon the flow of water through the 
subsoil, to bring into solution these matters. As 
these contingencies cannot be depended on, it 
would be unsafe to trust to this source alone, or 
in great part. 
The rotation, consisting of Indian corn, oats, 
wheat, and clover, will require, besides other 
substances not necessary to be added, such as 
silica, alumina, and oxide of iron, large amounts 
of alkalies and earths. If we suppose a crop of 
68 bushels to be raised—50 bushels of oats, 25 
bushels of wheat, and two tons of clover per acre, 
there will be removed off the soil by these four 
crops, the following weight in pounds of these 
important mineral substances:— 
Pounds. 
Potash, 
100.35 
Soda, 
29.00 
Litae, 
104.00 
Magnesia, 
33.00 
Sulphuric acid, 
54. 65 
Phosphoric acid, 
36.63 
Chlorine, 
8.10 
366.33 
The corn draws 
the largest portion of this 
amount, being equal to 140 pounds, composed of 
sulphuric and phosphoric acids, lime, and pot¬ 
ash. Therefore, it would require per acre of 
Pounds. 
Unleached wood ashes, 
200 
Common salt, 
20 
Gypsum, 
60 
Bone dust, 
120 
400 
Thiis should be incorporated with seven cubic 
yards of farmyard manure ; 100 pounds of guano 
might be substituted 
vantage. 
for the bone dust with ad- 
For the wheat and oats, the following substan¬ 
ces might be added in a compost, per acre :— 
Pounds. 
Wood ashes. 
100 
Nitrate of soda, 
50 
Crude Epsom salts, 
40 
190 
This will supply the deficiency for both crops, 
having in view the residual matters left in the 
soil which the corn had not removed. 
The most efficient manure for clover, scatter¬ 
ed broadcast, per acre, would be of 
Pounds. 
Gypsum, 150 
Crude sulphate of soda, 75 
225 
Thomas Antisell, M. D., 
Analytic Chemist, 63 Franklin st., N. Y. 
JSew York. May 21 st, 1851. 
The fee for analysing soils and giving advice, 
will vary from $5 to $10. Please to address Dr. 
Antisell, as above, for all further information on 
this subject.— Eds. 
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AGRICULTURIST. 
The Tea Plant. —Dr. Smith proves conclusive¬ 
ly, (to himself,) that tea can, and will be grown 
in this country cheaper than in China. It will 
be hard to convince an old Chinaman like me, 
that tea will become a profitable crop in cotton- 
dom; or that corn-fed-hog-and-hommony-eating 
negroes, will ever become the patient, industri¬ 
ous, nice workmen that the Celestials are. If 
the climate will grow a good-flavored tea, and 
if the leaves can be gathered by machinery, 
dried by lightning, packed by steam, sold by 
telegraph, and fortunes made and spent in a 
space of time shorter than a Mandarin’s cue, the 
business will suit the genius of the American 
people, and not otherwise. However, this is an 
age of wonders, and no telling what may become 
fashionable. 
Southern Cattle , should have been entitled 
Texas Cattle. Owner of 3,000 cattle, and yet 
without milk or butter! Yes, and you might 
have added, without all the other comforts and 
conveniences of life; and destitute of a home 
possessing any of the attributes calculated to 
make life worth enduring. Such is generally 
the case with men who rely upon these over¬ 
grown herds of cattle, rather than upon the cul¬ 
tivation of a fertile soil. This writer thinks 
Texas will be one of the greatest stock-raising 
countries in the world. Then it will be the 
poorest state in the Union; the poor granite 
hills of New England will have to send them 
butter and cheese, to feed the few that ever en¬ 
joy such luxuries. 
Cultivation of Corn .—One acre manured at a 
cost of $11—product 136 bushels of sound corn, 
and two and a quarter loads of fodder l I have 
known the two left-hand figures made without. 
