Principles of Economic Application, or Manuringfor Money.
A concise and practical discussion of the all-important topic of commercial fertilizers in connection with green manuring in bringing up worn-out soils, and in general farm practice.
The lands selected for poppy cultivation are generally situated in the vicinity of villages, where the facilities for manuring and irrigation are greatest.
But although manuring is the chief element in successful cultivation, there are many other matters for the planter to attend to during the period that the trees are growing.
If the clods are turned over the grass will rot and help to improve the ground; new land thus treated will not require manuring the first year.
To ensure sound, crisp, fleshy roots they require to be grown quickly, therefore moist soil and liberal manuring is necessary, and the ground kept free from weeds.
They know little or nothing of manuring their Grounds: Sometimes they burn their Fields and Vineyards after Harvest and Vintage, partly to destroy the Vermin, and partly to enrich the Soil.
In the Oyster Bay region formerly all manuring was done in the spring, but the practice of applying all fertilizers immediately after the cutting is finished is rapidly increasing.
The Rockvilles saw plainly enough the necessity of manuring their lands, but they scorned the very idea of manuring their family.
This is both because the soil actually dries out earlier, and also because no time is lost in manuring or plowing after the soil has reached workable condition.
As the onion is an intensive crop and yields great quantities of marketable bulbs for the area planted, the grower is justified in manuring heavily.
When white asparagus has been cut, either manuring in the trench between the ridges before disturbing them or harrowing down the ridges and then manuring broadcast is perhaps the most rational way.
Manuring in November in many cases does more harm than good, as the mass of manure causes many roots to decay, and those which do survive are weak and only produce small spears.
The plowing under of manure in the fall hastens the drying out of the soil in the spring, so that planting may begin earlier than if the manuring and plowing were deferred until spring.
For best results the land should be subjected to two or three years of preparation by manuring and planting to leguminous crops.
On light soils and in rather mild climates, crimson clover for green manuring may advantageously take the place of rye where early planting of potatoes is not specially desirable.
The manuring of the plants should, therefore, take a form which will be conducive to this strong, vigorous growth, yet not sufficiently heavy to produce plants which run to wood at the expense of fruit bearing.
The Bermuda requires a very rich soil for the best results, and this can only be obtained by first selecting a good soil and then manuring heavily.
In manuring and fertilizing, the character of the crop and the season of its growth should be remembered.
As between manuring in the row and between the rows, the latter should be selected as the evidently advisable one by which the feeding roots of the plants are most easily reached.
Further proof is given that manuring with common salt tends to decrease the yield.
Manuring with basic slag at the rate of from 5 to 10 cwt.
These few trees, having the benefit of the hoeing and manuring bestowed on the other crops, will produce much more abundantly and with less trouble, than by separate culture.
Lands will not produce two successive crops without manuring and ploughing.
This can hardly be called an essential constituent of plants, and is never taken into consideration in manuring lands.
In many cases (when heavy manuring is practised), it may be well to apply organic manures to the soil in a green state, turn them under, and allow them to undergo decomposition in the ground.
The best rule for practical manuring is probably to strengthen the soil in its weaker points, and prevent the stronger ones from becoming weaker.
Some have supposed that manuring with night soil would give disagreeable properties to plants: such is not the case; their quality is invariably improved.
The first consideration in procuring lime for manuring land, is to select that which contains but little, if any magnesia.
Hydrogen and oxygen are never taken into consideration in manuring lands, as they are so readily obtained from the water constituting the sap of the plant, and consequently should not occupy our attention in this book.
From the meadow it is soon got rid of by manuring and depasturing; haymaking, though it cuts off the main stem, only encourages smaller ones to spring up late, and so the seed is sown.
It is pretty generally agreed that special manuring for corn, when grown in the ordinary shifting crop system, is positively injurious, and more truly so, if farmyard dung be employed.
Too gross manuring without well mixing the dung with the soil would seem to be a constant source of the evil.
Sheep-folding previous to barley, special manuringfor this crop, and other causes of increased fertility, are constant causes of the increase of the dust-brand.
In this, as well as the generality of forms, the smoother and larger growth indicates cultivation, manuring will sometimes make the difference.
Two essentials are requisite to success with it--high manuring and skilful pruning.
After digging about my bushes, and manuring in the spring, I cover the earth around the bushes with tobacco stems, and place a handful in the middle of the bush, and the work is done for the season.
I will guarantee that there are successful farmers who no more think of manuring a currant bush than of feeding crows.
Many advise a liberal manuring after the fruit is gathered.
The manuring problem must be met and solved by the best resources at our command.
The germs of the Ricardo law of rent, in Boisguillebert: the price of corn determines how far the cultivation may be extended; by manuring the land, as much corn as desired may be obtained, provided the cost of production is covered.
True, but it does not follow from this that rich land, or heavy manuring is the chief cause of this difference.
A few days ago, a neighbor, a very intelligent farmer, assured me that from manuring eight to ten acres every year, his farm was now in better condition than when be broke up the prairie fifteen years ago.
Indeed, no kind of manure can be compared in point of efficacy for wheat, to the manuring which the land gets in a really good crop of clover.
As all soils with a moderate proportion of clay possess in a remarkable degree the power of absorbing and retainingmanuring matters, none of the saline and soluble organic constituents are wasted even by a heavy fall of rain.
Manuring the land--that is, hoeing and cultivating it--increased its fertility.
In the case of clay soils, I have no hesitation to say the manure may be spread even six months before it is plowed in, without losing any appreciable quantity in manuring matter.
You can see that manuring in this way is very expensive.
In the case of very light sandy soils, it may perhaps not be advisable to spread out the manure a long time before it is plowed in, since such soils do not possess the power of retaining manuring matters in any marked degree.
Practically speaking, all the essentially valuable manuringconstituents are preserved by keeping farm-yard manure under cover.
In some sections, no amount of manuring appears to make corn do well after turnips or ruta bagas.
The necessity for manuring becomes more important in the case of bulbous plants that are to be left in the same soil for several years.
Half way up the principal hill, backed by a dense wood and furrowed with deep trenches, whence soil has been removed for manuring the vineyards, is the village of Verzenay, overlooking a veritable sea of vines.
If a tenant withheld rent or services, his lord could seek award of court to find distress on his tenement and if he could find none, he could take the tenement for a year and a day in his hands without manuring it.
The necessity of manuring and the rotation of crops and grasses such as clover for enrichment of the soil were recognized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manuring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
