Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-09-20

psatsd With borrowings, At proper intervals,
several times during the summer; it was sown
about the last of the ninth month. The soil
Being weak, the growth in the fall was slow,
rs also in the spring, yet regular, the colour
always good and no appearance of suffering.
either from drought dcet at harvest, the
straw was not tall nor thick on the ground,
but the heads large and well filled; the pro
duct, between sixteen and seventeen bushels
per acre except part vi the iield, sown with
q kind Of wheat was not before acquainted
wth, wnica was too thin, In consequence Of
a short allowance of seed | observed the
state Of the soL from time to time, until
harcest and found, that even then, it was
open ami in good tilth, except crust of two
90 three in res, nexs tie surface.
In the spring OF lI95, win large plough
AID four norses, bro.e up part of a field 1
measured the ploughfng frequently, anu found
IL in many places eleven lncaes deep, and no
wae,e less chan seven; so that the average
was at least n,ne. Tnis piece contained about
four acres, on a genie Geoieyity; the surface
about five inches of earth, that nad never be
foe beea exposed, wnich was principally
clay a. the upper edge OF the piece of a
bgIgnt yellow, whIch became gradually paler,
furl er down, and OF blush Appearance
Il was sown with bucl<wneat the same year ,
TIE crop tolerabie; after the bockwneat came
Of, the ground was ploughel and sowed Ia
rye, in the eleventh month, very little Of
which cams up, owing, as | suppose, either
To its being too late put in TIE ground, or the
seed not good. Ii remained without further
tilldge, until last year $500 Wien it was a
gain sown in bucllwheat, which grew SO large.
as generally to fall. Before it ploughed
! In tie spring, j took several OF my friends to
see TIE difference in the appearance OF this
piece aud the ground adjoining, that had lain
the same length OF time out OF tiilage, 1t was
observable 70 .urrow; the deep-pt0aghed
piece apge4ted OF the open texture, and
aark colour, thick SET with white clover; the
adjoining ground, compact and hard OF a pale
ash colour, bearing scarcely blaze OF any
other Kind OF grass, than tnat common to old
felIs, known by tne name OF poverty grass
In short, one had the appearance OF an ez-
hausFed old field, and tie other of land late
ly mAnarel Those who expressed senti-
ment on the subject, were OF opinion, That
those WHO did nor know what occasioned the
difference, the deep pioughed piece, would
sell tor double the price OF the olner
Part Of another field, from having a very
retentiye clay near the surface, was or that
kind called cold, or sour land, and was thot
unit to produce any crop; either water ice
generally appearing on the surface in an open
time In winter. tbs was SO thick set with
w.ite dins gravel and stones, that the, first
rloughing could not be deep; but having cul-
liVated several crops on 1t, taken oil the
largest OF he stones. and consequently been
aoe to geta Little deeper at each succeeding
ptoughing, the nature of the ground seems
alteHed, so that now there is seldom either
water or ice to be seen GA It's surface, more
t1an is common to other places: 1t is now in
rel clover, very little of which has been in
lutel by the iate open winter This piece
has been manurea; it is therefore, unfair to
sscrioe the quantity Of the crops, which have
been good, to deep ploughing only tnough
am OF opinion that on such land rnanures are
nst of much consequence without it.
ITO be continued