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‘ ' A , w..â€" . pm... wwwm , ...,.,.,.M._..._... ~,V.mw -...,L......_...~s=.=.y~‘m, -L.MWW,~L..~L.- MWM._~ ...- . 1% ~23. " *- W14“ ~a MN . «moan? “Wasaan .~w_~ .-.....â€"......... .4 a- a -N, -....... - -â€" vat-v. no.4 -o-a...‘ L... vol" - The Vaccination'of Land. Some of the most extraordinary agri- home a crop of “serradelle,” a small “cultural experiments ever-undertaken, considered both practically and scien- tifically, are described in Le Genie Civil. 'Every one who has ever owned ’a lawn knows that to plough the ground at thirtyofive pounds to the acre of serra- inte‘ryals, and :i’ats‘ela crop ‘ofrcertain vegetables, improves 'the subsequent The rye produced a good crop, growth of grass; and a driva through ' .the suburbs of any large city will show lawns undergoing this treatment, some~ pounds to the acre of atmospheric nitro- ' ‘times with a crop‘of potatbes,sometimes gen, was ploughed in, as green manure. with beans, according to the notions» of The next year, the land was planted " the owners, 'or' their gardeners. .The with potatoes, and similar potatoes were process by which this alternation of 'â€" crops improves the soil has never been not had‘ the new treatment, but were very clearly explained. Most people simply enriched with barnyard manure. suppnse that the repeated digging up of At the harvest, the yield from thevac- 'the earth, toplant the potatoes and har- cinated fields, which had received no ' vest the crop, is the secret of the success of the treatment, but chemists have fancied for many years that, in such rotations of crops, one set of plants ‘might have the power of absorbing nitrogen from the atmosphere and con- veying it to the soil. With this idea, a long series of experiments was car- 'ried out fifty years ago, by‘the greatest chemists in Europe, who analyzed vari- ous plants, the air in which they grew ‘and the soil, before they were planted, during their growth, and afterward, and came to the unanimous conclusion peaty soil was treated with half a ton to the acre of sand, from a field which had legumincus plant,.unknown to us. ‘The ‘ sand was harrowed in. No other man~ ure of any kind was put on. The ground was sown with winter rye. In May, delle seed, was sown among the rye. and, after the harvest, the serradelle, which had absorbed and fixed. about sixty planted in neighboring fields, which had other manure, was from twenty-eight to sixty-two per‘cent. greater than“ from the manured fields, according. to the variety planted. The most surprising result from the treatment appears, how- ever, to have been obtained in Prussia, where a tract newly brought under cul- tivation was divided, and part vaccin- ated with earth from a lupin field. The whole was then sown with lupins; and the yield from the vaccinated portion was five and one~half times as greet as that from the other portion, for equal areasâ€"American Architect. that the absorption and storage of nitro gen by growing plants was an impossi- bility. For all this, farmers continued to ob- ;serve that certain plants, particularly of the legnminous tribe, such as clover, lucerne, sainfoin, and some others, in- stead of exhausting the soil, seemed to enrich it, so that. even after the leaves and stems had been cut and carried away, the roots alone, left in the ground, sensibly increased its fertility. Analysis showed that these roots contained a considerable quantity of nitrogen. If, according, to Boussingault, Lewes, Gil- lbert and others, it was impossible that this nitrogen should be derived from the atmosphere, it must bedrawn from nitrogenous matters in the soil. The inference would be, in this case, that nitrogenous manures Would be beneficial to crops requiring so much nitrogen for their growth; yet it is well known to farmers that these plants not only derive no benefit from nitrogenous fer- tiliZers, but are injured by them, while, although through the nitrogen contained in. their roots they improve the soil greatly for succeeding crops of other plants, they injure it for themselves; and leguminous crops, cultivated too long in the same ground, become sickly. It was not until a few years ago that science and observation were reconciled, by the persistent investigations of MM. Hellriegel and Willfarth, who demon- strated beyond question that the legu- minosse do, in growing, absorb large quantities of nitrogen from the air, but with the singular condition that the absorption of nitrogen begins only with the appearance of a diseased state,which is marked by the development of tuber- cles, about the size of a millet seed, on the roots, and is, apparently, caused by minute animals,which are always found in the tubercles, and seem to give the plant the nitrogen-absorbing power. Further investigations showed that the young, healthy plants lived on the nitro- gen already contained in the soil, and ‘that it was not until this was exhausted, and the plants began to suffer, that the nitrogen-absorbing excrescences made =their appearance; and proved, also, that rthe tiny inhabitants of the tubercles .were, as a rule, confined to one species of plant, the acacia microbe, for ex- ample, refusing to live on the bean, or the clover microbe on the lentil. It is evident that a plant capable of abmrbing nitrOgen, which is a costly as well as indispensable adjunct to form- ing. and of storing it up in the soil for its master’s profit, is a valuable posses sion ; and, as only diseased plants have that property, it is obvious that it is desirable to spread the nitrogen-storing disease. With this view, several skillful farmers in France and Germany have, within the past two or three years, been trying experiments, by “ vaccinating,” as they say, fields of leguminous plants, by sprinkling them with earth in which tuberculous plants have been growing. or water in which they have been soaked; and the results have been ex- traordinary. Analysis has shown that a single crop of tuberculous leguminosas, if the tops are ploughed in, adds to the soil from five to twelve thousand pounds of nitrogen, worth from eighteen to forty-five dollars, to the acre; and even when the tops are cut and carried away, there is enough nitrogen left in the roots to insure a good crop of cereals on the same ground the next season. with- out other fertilizer. In 1890, a tract of old. peaty soil was " vaccinated " with a ton and a half to the acre of earth from :I diseased field. Besides this, five hun- dred and twenty pounds to the acre of are a liar." Whereupcn the other re- ocorire from a dephosphorating furnace marked: “ Oh, it that's the case I were spread over the ground, and about g accept the apology. If a man says he a thousand pounds to the acre of kai- reiterates, that is all any gentleman can uite, but very little nitrogenous manure. ‘ ask." Accordingly he relaxed his hold, The tract was then sown with clover, and is still unable to account for the which produced nearly three tons of hay roam of laughter which greeted his ob- u the acre. The next year, a virgin ; servation.-â€"London Globe. Cured His Oolic. A few nights ago, on a train coming east on the Michigan Central road, the porter of a sleeping car aroused half a dozen of the male sleepers to ask if they had anything to cure a case of colic. A drummer for a city-hardware house fumbled around in his coat and finally said : . , “ Here's a box of soda mints which may help him. He can use the whole box and be hanged to him, for he’s no business to have colic l” Nothing farther was heard of the case until morning, when a strapping young man, with a far West look to his hair, came into the sleeper with the mint box in his hand and inquired for the drum- mer and said: “ Took ’em all but one and they smashed my colic right in the eye. How much to pay?” “Nothing, sir. I’m only too glad to have been of service to you.” When the other had gone the drum- mer opened the box, and we saw his hair trying to climb up. “ Great Scott, boys, but what do you think ?” he gasped. “ What is it ?” “ I gave him the wrong box, and he’s swallowed eleven bone collar buttons." --Detroit Free Press. To His Best Knowledge. A lawyer was cross questioning a negro witness in one of the justice courts the other day, and was getting along fairly well until he asked the witness what his occupation was. “ I’se er carpenter, sah.” “ What kind of a carpenter ?" salt; They calls me a jack-leg carpenter, ‘- What is a jack-leg carpenter ?" “ He is a carpenter who is not a first- class carpenter, sah.” “ Well, explain more fully what you understand a jack-leg carpenter to he," insisted the lawyer. “ Boss, I declar' I dunno how ter ’splain any mo’ except to say hit am jes dc same difiunce between you an’ er fust-class lawyer.” , The negro was one of the old-fashioned kind. and did not mean to be insoleut or impudent, but had just decided in his own mind that the lawyer asking the question was not a first-class lawyer. It is needless to say the questions ceased at onceâ€"Macon Telegraph. Brownâ€"What tobacco do you smoke most of now. Bunkerâ€"Other fellows’. Mrs. Hicksâ€"-Are you sure that you married me for myself alone ? Hicksâ€"Of course. Having your mother to live with us was not strictly an idea of mine. In connection with the Chinese oath a story is told of a representative of the Middle Kingdom who once appeared to give evidence at Bow street. He was politely consulted as to the method in which he would prefer to be sworn. "Oh," said he, witha breadth of outlook not common in Sir John Bridge’s court, “ Kill ’im cock, break ’m plate, smell ’m book, all samey." An animated discussion, punctuated with cbjurgation, recently took place in a town council in the north. Finally one of the disputants gave the other the lie direct. The latter madea plunge at him, and as the pair came to grips, the first exclaimed: “ I reiterate that you 1 living prices. yMlLLINEBY ~ . MILLINERY , WALL PAPER ' WALL PAPER At Me Lowest Prices. WINDOW PAPER FANCY GOODS MATERIALS FOR FANCY WORK TOYS III GREAT VARIETY STAMPING DONE l Eggs T when in Ext/image. MRS. 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