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WAsH.Scros, Dec. 20, l845.

Ashes.
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As manure, ashes on certain soils, are
invaluable. We have frequently expert
enced the beneficial effects resulting from
their application, but never more conyin-
cingly than during the past year. On
piece Of corn, containing about two statute
acres, we applied about twenty bushels,
and like quantity Of gypsum Or plaster
Of Paris-.he ashes being applied on eve.
cry other row in order That the compare
tive value Of the two articles might b! iae-
curately ascertained. The result Of this
experience was perfectly in accordance
with our previous observations. Through
the entire season, the rows on which the
ashes were applied, "took the lead,"' and
at harvest produced nearly one-fourth more
corn than those TO which we applied gyp-
sum. The corn was sounder and better
filled, and besides there was much larger
amount Of stover. We would recommend
10 every one TO save all the house ashes
he possibly can. Even leached ashes are
too valuable to be thrown away. Applied
as top dressing on grass lands, they pro-
duce important and lasting effects. One
Of the most substantial farmers in Massa-
chusetts, writing Us on This subject, says:
! am now more fully than ever persuaded
Of the value of ashes as nanure; Moth.
ing in the whole catalogue 0: manures;
compare with them Oh my lands, and this
appears 10 be the common opinion wher-
ever they had been applied. At the dis
tance Of nearly two. miles from the sea
shore, Isowed, in 1885, twenty-five and
a half bushels to the acre. The. soil WAS
: thin, clayey loan, and the result of the
application was crop or excellent clover,
where, for years, nolhing had grown tut
mullen and wild rye. The land has not
yet forgot the application; the grass On tho
soil dressed with ashes being greener and
far more luxuriant than Oh That where no
such application has been made. Oncorh-
beans, and wheat, ashes leachei Or fan.
leached, operate with the best effects.--
Formerly we were in the practice Of dis
posing OF our ashes at from shilling 10
twenty cents per bushel; but experience
has now opened my eyes, and we are p,:t-
chasing all we can obtain at double heir
former price. ."--.Na,ne Culfipatoy.


