Horace Greely has sent South for fifteen or twenty bushels of fine-cut tobacco seed. He recently bought a plantation in the South, and intends to make a philosophic experiment. He is confident that, with careful culture, the United States can produce from its own soil all the cigarittos that are required, for the market. There is a remarkable fact about the application of manure to black peat land, and that is that aminoniacal many ures do no good on such lands. But mineral manures, as the phosphates, work wonders. The reason is this. Peat and muck are very rich in the elements of ammonia, more so tb,mthe average of farmyard produce. •" The .different forms of lime, do such lands most good T
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 222, 2 May 1872, Page 8
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122Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 222, 2 May 1872, Page 8
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