Salt as a manure and weed killer in farming practices
A reader discusses why applying salt to arable land both helps crops and sometimes fails. The piece cites plant salt needs, soil salinity, and species variation, with Johnson’s method for testing soil salt and Madden’s annual salt deposition estimates. Experiments show wheat and hay yields rising with salt, while dandelions decline, prompting questions about differential plant salt requirements.
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Madden
Gragg
Cnestex County
Proposal to reclaim swamp lands near Philadelphia by dikes and canals
In German Town Telegraph, W. It. O. argues for building a substantial bank and canal to keep high tide waters off low lands. A twenty foot wide canal would supply material for a broad bank, enable a carriage road, and halt pestiferous air while converting barren lands into fertile fields and creating an attractive southern city drive at low cost.
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Philadelphia
Germantown
One Acre Cabbage and Celery Yield Astonishing Profit
A Jersey resident near New York, John Smith, cultivated one acre with 12 000 Early Wake cabbages 18 000 Silesia lettuce and 40 000 celery plants. From spring to Christmas of 1864 he netted 1050 dollars after expenses, proving the acre’s high potential under steady labor.
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Long Island
Trinity Church Steeple
New York
Jersey
I Will Callohn Smith
John
Wakefield
Cultivation Guide for Parsnip and Carrot Crops
The article explains parsnip cultivation, noting high returns with labor in early weeding. It recommends rich deep soil, subsoil plowing, drills 28 inches apart, last year’s seed, light covering, thinning to four inches, with 1000 bushels per acre possible. It also covers carrot culture, favoring the Orange variety for field farming.
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Johnson
England
Madden
Hovey Seeding Beats Albany in Berry Yield, Says Test
A reminiscence notes preference for Hovey Seeding over Albany Seeding strawberries. It cites a side by side test where a 300 sq ft Wilson fertilized bed yielded 30 quarts while Hovey yielded 42. In a 247 sq ft bed Hovey produced 28 quarts with berries up to 44 inches in circumference.
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