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m • ■■*•- i Devoted to Agriculture, Elorticulture, Mechanics and the Useful Arts. D. P. HoLioway Wm. T. *De.\*.iis, K. T'. Heed—Editors.' RICHMOND, MAY 15, 1856. iTIolloway ■& Co., Publishers. I Vol. V, Xo. 10. Terms of the India.ski Farmer* OfAYMEXT TO BE MADE INVARIABLT IN' ADVANCE. 43) One copy, per volume, §1 00 , Four copies, ....; 3 00 Nine, " 6 00 And any larger number at the latter rates. Bills of aU specie paying Banks and postage stamps received at par. Subscription money, properly endorsed, may he mailed at our risk. Address ^ HOLLOWAY <fc CO., 'Richmond, Wayne coiuity, Indiana. Terms of.Advertising. Advertisements will be inserted in this sheet for fire cents per line for the first insertion, and three centsper line for each subsequent insertion. COHMUNIOATIONS. For tho Indiana Farmer. Farming. Around Washington. No. 2. My Deak Sib : Besides guano there is another powerful fertilizer, which is much used by those within, its reach hereabouts; and at the moment of this writing our wagons are busily engaged, day and night, in hauling it from the wharves at Alexandria and Georgetown and the various landings on the Potomac—this article is fish offal, being the heads and entrails of the herring, together with such worthless fish as find their way into thc numerous seines which are spread in the Potofnuc, from some time in March till about the 1st of June. It is not many years since this valuable manure was thrown into the river, and even now, when there happens to be a glut of fish, and the offal accumulates faster than it can be removed, some of it is thus lost. But our farmers here have learned its value, and not much of the precious stuff is wasted; although it is sometimes injudiciously applied. The proper mode of making the most of it, for both land and crop, is to broad-cast it and plow it in; but some few, who are cultivating as tenants at will, and paying yearly rent, make the most of it by reserving the few cart-loads they obtain until after corn-planting, and then dropping a single head or two by the side of the hill of corn. If the weather is favorable, however poor the ground, this quantity is certain to make a good hill of corn. But not 0 only is this mode of using it troublesome and wasteful, it is also attended with some risk ; for if the weather be dry the oily substance of the offal remains near the surface and causes the earth to cake so hard that sometimes the corn has to bo re-plantcd. Some mix the offal with their long manure and cover the whole with the earth, suffering it to forment, and reserving it for turnips or some other fall crop. But, bless ine!— does n't it smell when opened 1 I know of a Virginian, who lives directly upon the turnpike and in the midst of a Yankee settlement, who took this mode of venting his spite against his neighbor, and certainly he gave them the. benefit of a most aboniimablc* stench when the weather was at the hottest. If can imagine a compound of all villainous smells, from a dandy's hair oil to asafcetida combined, and concentrated, you may have some idea of this. A few years ago I had a visit from a brother, a sugar-planter in La, at this season of the year, and as we were riding out together, he was frequently obliged'to hold his nose or apply his handkerchief—it certainly affected his appetite, although "custom had made it a property with me"—finally he broke out, in bitterness of spirit, with this exclamation: "Horace, I would not live here, where the land is so poor that to avoid a famine, you are obliged to create a pestilence." I advised a fastidious neighbor of mine, who .complained of my using it to his great annoyance, that he should buy a load or two to fend off with ! It is a very valuable manure. By broadcasting it ,a_____t_____i. rate of between two and three tons foTHSracre,you may get a first- rate crop ofj__M**k; and the same ground put in wheat i^|tn§_lB_r' will yield an excellent return, beside setting a strong stand of clover. Surely all this, where land is poor and manure consequently scarce, is a sufficient ofi'tfet for a few days violence to the olfactories. Oyster shell lime is another valuable addition to the facility "of making the land better, aud this, as well as ashes, is gettiug into use by the moro intelligent and improving farmers. The soil here is deficient in alkaline properties, and the culture of tobacco, together with the lazy practice of breaking up ground with small plows, which can do little more than move an inch or two of the surface which the first dash of rain causes to slip off and thus fill the fields with unsightly gullies, has given the Yankees plenty of work to renovate their grounds and undo tho mischief of their predecessors.— This same slovcnfy practice of plowing has served to increase, instead of eradicating, tlie briars, sassafras and persimmon, which arc the great pest of the soil. By gradually 388gg$8^«-'
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1856, v. 05, no. 10 (May 15) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA0510 |
Date of Original | 1856 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or not-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 2010-10-04 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
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Title | Page 145 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
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• ■■*•- i
Devoted to Agriculture, Elorticulture, Mechanics and the Useful Arts.
D. P. HoLioway Wm. T.
*De.\*.iis, K. T'. Heed—Editors.'
RICHMOND, MAY 15, 1856.
iTIolloway ■& Co., Publishers.
I Vol. V, Xo. 10.
Terms of the India.ski Farmer*
OfAYMEXT TO BE MADE INVARIABLT IN' ADVANCE. 43)
One copy, per volume, §1 00 ,
Four copies, ....; 3 00
Nine, " 6 00
And any larger number at the latter rates. Bills of aU
specie paying Banks and postage stamps received at par.
Subscription money, properly endorsed, may he mailed at
our risk. Address ^ HOLLOWAY |
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