. The industries of Russia . es by purchasing manure from the peasants, paying for itfrom five to twenty-five kopecks per cart-load. In this region winter wheat fields arealways manured in preference to rye. Further to the south extends a narrow strip of land, where the practice of ma-nuring fields is comparatively new, not more than twenty years old. In this region nearlyall the landed proprietors fertilize their estates, while the practice is exceptional withthe villagers and peasants. Still farther to the south follows a strip of land, wherethe fertilizing of fields began not more than eigh
. The industries of Russia . es by purchasing manure from the peasants, paying for itfrom five to twenty-five kopecks per cart-load. In this region winter wheat fields arealways manured in preference to rye. Further to the south extends a narrow strip of land, where the practice of ma-nuring fields is comparatively new, not more than twenty years old. In this region nearlyall the landed proprietors fertilize their estates, while the practice is exceptional withthe villagers and peasants. Still farther to the south follows a strip of land, wherethe fertilizing of fields began not more than eight years ago. The peasants of thisregion do not manure their fields in the least, excepting the German colonists therefound. Here also the landed proprietors having begun to fertilize their estates, ma-nure comparative small portions of their fields, and that generally for winter wheat,occasionally for spring cereals and the so-called oil-crops. Finally, in Bessarabia, Astra- FERTI LIZING Chapter V. Cultivate* of the soil,Map. Semenov. Cartographical works Fertilizing of the entire Estate owners and peasants Estate owners fertilize The estate owners and peasants fertilize their entire their entire winter fields and fertilize part of their winter fields. the peasants only part. winter fields. winter and spring field The greater part of the estate owners Fertilized by some fertilize theirfields,and some of the peasants. estate owners. Part of thespringfield is fertilized. CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL. 77 khan, and Orenburgh, in the province of the Don and the Ural, in some places of Khersonand Tauride, also in the districts of Tsaritzyn and Kamyshin of the governments of Sa-ratov, and in Novouzensk and Nicolaev of the government of Samara, fertilizers are usedneither in the farming of proprietors nor of peasants. Several very intelligent proprietorsof these regions not only do not manure their fields but even claim that such fertilizingis injurious, arguing that
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