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21 S. Planter: Devoted Agric. Hort. & House. Arts 1 (1861)

handle is hein.slavery/southplnter0021 and id is 1 raw text is: THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, DEVOTED TO Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts. Agriculture i the nursing mother of the Art,.-Xztiorno,. Tillage and Pasturage are the two breasts of the State.-SctsY. J. E. WILLIAMS, M. D., F AUGUST & WILLIAMS, PRor. WILLIAM GILHAM. EDITORS PROPRIETORS. VOL. XXI. RICHMOND, VA., JANUARY, 1861. No. 1. From the Christian Intelligeacer. Peruvian Guano, and Phosphates. With no sort of propriety can it be said, that Peruvian guano is a stimrulant to vegetation, in the common sense of the word-Ist, because it has almost no stimulating property whatever; and 2nd, because if it had, vegetation itself is not, and cannot be the subject of stimulation. We very properly call alcohol a stimulant, simply and only for the reason, that when it is brought in contact with the sensation nerves, and blood-vessels, of an animal, it produces in them a peculiar irritation or excitement, called stimulation; but as guano is almost devoid of any stimulating principle of any kind, and as plants have neither nerves, blood-vessels, nor sensation, nor any thing else precisely analogous thereto, of course it would be simply absurd to liken the action of the one, on the vegetable organism, to that of the other on the animal economy. Equally true and demonstrable is it, that guano does not stimulate plants in any manner or sense whatever. No doubt there are many very credulous farmers, who, making it a point to believe every thing they read in the advertise- ments of interested manure mantfacturers, very dogmatically assert the contrary of this, and talk very flippantly nn the subject, who have no definite views of any kind, as to the action of guano. There are others, however, who make a sort of figurative application of the word stimulant, and with some show of plausibility contend, that as guano (because of its relatively large per centage of ammonia) uniformly and invariably causes a rapid and excessive growth of the stalks and leaves, and corresponding extention of the roots of plants, its constant and inevitable tendency, is to drain the soil of the mineral constituents of plants, and that a frequent application of this fertilizer, to the same land, will sooner or later--surely--effect a complete and hopeless exhaustion of the soil, by depriving 1 Digitized from Best Copy Available

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