Manuring Sandy Soils

Having oultivated aandy aoil, and also observed tho practices of the bost farmers of the section, I will give the resiilt. of my experience and observation : Surfaoe applioations during fall or winter, of long groen manare, or of any other kind in f act, to lie and be washed intu the soil until spring, is seldom vesorted to and frota what I have een, would be a wastefui operation. Tho most economical modo with which I am acquainted to manure sueh Hoils, is to make the applioation in spriug, about pUnting time, and tho manure should be compoated and woll decomposed, for reasons advanced by 'F.,' p. 7ó;i. The manuro should havo boen composted with motfld, clay, muuk.orsoil of souio kind more reten tivo than that to which it is to be appliod, tho greater quantity of this seasoned muck, fco., applied, the better for permanent improvement. The manure does very little good boyond the erop to which applied, on sandy soil, unless with the manuro there is something to amend the soil so as to retain it. Plowing of such soil, till permanently iinproved, is bost not over four or five inche8 in dopth, increasing thu depth as the soil is amended, and this plowing under broadcast manure is best done by the " lap furrow ;" that leavos the manure moro evenly distributed through the four or five inches of soil just where the erop will find it, ond the manure being compostod, is in just the state to impart the plant food as needed by the plant. In such a inanner I have known land which would scarcely grow the most common weeds improved so as to grow good crops or any kind even grass for mowing which would yield fairly for three or four seasons, when the process of breaking and culti vating wonld need ropeating - this in oase of no top-dressing. And I have also known this same kind of soil, by application of eight or ten solid cords of manure, yiold crops of the choicest kind of tobáceo, averaging 1,800 to 2,000 lbs. to the acre. An unele of the writcr, inany yoars since, grew large quantitios of vines of various sorts, cucumber, melon, squash, &c, with unvarying success on this kind of soil, manuring only for the erop. He managed in making hi3 manuro to have the pig pon so that the' manure from his horse stable was thrown into it, and at different times a considerable quontity of muck, meadow mud, feo , was thrown in to be workod over by the pigs, so th;it when thrown out to lie and ferment a few weeks in the spring, tbere was three orfoar times as tuiich other matter as animal manuro. and this would bring thu best resulta appliod liberally in the hills. Long, coarse, and recent manure I have found of veiy little benefit, applied to sandy soils, as the erop selilom vras benefited thereby and the next soason it was dispatched. Others' experience and observations raay be very different from mhio in the treatruent of sandy soil. As to the application of miinute on any soil, 1 am fully convinoed that tho nearur the surface it; can be kept, without lying exposed, the botter ; for all observations teach that the rains teud to wash it down and dissipate its strength in the ioil. - W.