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Plaster As A Fertilizer

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
July
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent of the New York Tribune writes thal about tLirty years ago, his falher had about three acres in dover. About htlf was frcsh lookiug, rank and large ; tl e other halfwas short, tawnyyellow, with desid and punctured leaves. He could uot remember any trea'ment of (he land that would liave made the düL-runce; but afterward recolleeted tint three yoars previously, behadcorn thero ; wheo, having twotbirds of a barrel of piaster left, be put it on as far ns it would reaoh, aud tben three years after sowing-, i t, moro than doubled the yield of clover. Pubse quently the arfjoiuing field wbb iu clover, aud iu a gi'owiug time in the montb of Juue, standing on a knoll nbout 200 yards dietant, every row wbere the corn had been plastered Gvo yoars before could be distioctiy traced. Tb3 provea that this cbeapest of all fertilizers is the most permanent iu its effccts upon the soil. According to his observation, piaster does little or no gnod beíore rain comes to dissolve it, er act on it ia eorae way. When be waa a boy, working on his father's farm, there was a six acre field of corn. This field had seldom been manured. They put on 1,500 pounds of piaster, an oíd negro and the writer being employed to apply it to tho coru. They worked until thrce o'clock in the afternoon, when thero came on a heavy ehower. Nest day the job wnsfinished. This was early in the week. On Sunday the part of tho coro that had boeD plastered bofore the shower, had turned dark green, while the part that was finished after the shower was yellow and unafiected ; but as there. were eoon more sbowers, the wbole becaine an equally good erop. He mentions this last to show the mistaken idea that piaster is best in dry woather, on the theory of its attracting moisiure.

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Old News
Michigan Argus