SALT AS A FERTILISER.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2600, 7 August 1882, Page 3

SALT AS A FERTILISER.

At a meeting of the Elmira Farmers’ Olnb, held on the 29A of April, Col. Y. B. Piollot, P.M. of the Pa. State Grange, gave the following as his experience on this subject—l am in favor of using salt as a fertiliser and asl an insect destroyer. I have used it on alluvial and diluvial land with good effect. Last year on fifteen acres of corn I applied eight bushels of salt to the acre, after drilling in the seed about one kernel to the foot. On that field there were no cut worms, while my brother, who doubted the efficacy of salt, planted without, and the oat worms destroyed a large share of his crop, so he bad to plant over. In the cultivation of turnips I have succeeded in destroying the black fly completely through the nse of salt. I have tried salt in alternate strips in my wheat field and found where the application was made no Hessian fly, while on the other strips the loss from ravages of the fly was estimated at from five to eight bushels to the acre. I sow measured bushels of fine salt. Farmers here who have not proved its effects, and do not care to venture largely, should join and buy a car-load, for it is cheaper to get it in bulk and parcel out after it is received. Last year I derived essential benefit from salt sown broadcast on my potato field.