Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1878 — Effect of Salt on Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Effect of Salt on Wheat.

In an interesting series of experiments recently made on the farm of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, the manorial value of salt was unmistakably indicated. An acre of wheat dressed with 300 pounds of common salt yielded thirty-nine bdshels of grain, with a proportionate amount of straw, while an adjoining acre, left unmanured, produced only twenty-nine bushels per acre, with the straw imperfectly developed. The entire cost of the crop is not stated, but this experifflßill shows thar the" additional ten bushels resulting from the salt were produced at a cost of thirty cents each. In another case a piece of ground intended for wheat was plowed the ceding fall, and again in May, when it was sowed with salt, and afterward plowed before seeding. -Onrthe*lst &hd 2d of September wheat was sowed at the rate of two bushels to the acre. The crop, when harvested, yielded according to the estimate of the owner, Mr. John Parke, not loss than forty bushels of grain to the acre, with a luxuriant growth or straw. From these and many similar cases the inference seems to be that salt is a specific for the wheat crop, imparting solidity to the grain and firmness to the straw. But it must not be concluded that equally good results will al waya follow the application of salt.— Montreal Qasette. __ Two Germans met in San Francisco recently. After affectionate greeting, the following dialogue ensued: "Fen you said you hes arrived?” “'Yesterday.” “ You came dot Horn around ?”, ■"» No.” 1 ! Oh! den you come dot land over?” “No.” “Deh you hes not arrived?” (“ Oh, yes! I hes arrived. I Come det Mexico through.” - • «*"— ...Mn. Dentlrt. Jnßsßftnore* writes: “ I have used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, personally and In my family, for two or three years, and I am prepared to say that there is nothing to compare to it as a remedy for Coughs, Colds, etc.