Manurial Requirements of the Leonardtown Loam Soil of St. Mary County, MD (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Manurial Requirements of the Leonardtown Loam Soil of St. Mary County, MD During the summer of 1904 a party was sent to Leonardtown to carry on investigations on different phases of the Leonardtown loam and to ascertain if the wire-basket method which had recently been devised for a study of the fertility of soils was sufficiently perfected to make it of practical use. The results obtained during the summer demonstrated that the method was capable of showing the same order in the crop-producing power of the soils as was observed in the field, and that it was also useful in determining what fertilizing materials would give the best returns. The facts gathered during the summer were thoroughly in accord with what had been previously observed in making a soil survey of this county and also with the experience of the more progressive farmers. In 1905 samples were taken from two phases of the Leonardtown loam. The sample designated "good" was taken from a field in a high state of cultivation located within the borders of Leonardtown. For quite a number of years this field had received annually liberal applications of stable manure. It was then put down to grass and remained for five or six years, when the grass ran out. In the spring of 1903 the field was plowed and planted to corn without the application of manure or any kind of fertilizer. The result was a fine crop of corn, estimated at about 80 bushels per acre. The following year, 1904, it was again plowed and planted to corn without fertilizer, but there was a marked falling off in the crop, which may have been caused by one or all of three conditions, namely, poor cultivation, shortage in rainfall, or the fact that the same crop had been grown the preceding year. The other large sample of soil, designated as Leonardtown loam "poor," was taken from a field several miles distant from Leonardtown, and although it had been owned by the same man for more than twenty years he had always rented the place and knew very little as regards its past treatment. The tenants were not permanent, and very little information could be gained from that source. The land was considered in the neighborhood as very unproductive, and this statement is further emphasized by the fact that the entire tract of something over 100 acres brought the owner an annual rental of only $50. In 1902 it was occupied by a colored tenant. The following year it was unoccupied and uncultivated. In 1904 it was again cultivated, and in the field where the sample was taken corn averaged about 2 feet in height and produced practically no grain. The chief differences in the appearance of these two soils in the field is that the poor one is somewhat lighter in color, contains less organic matter, and is much more compact and difficult to cultivate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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