Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-05-14
AgricMAtura.
From Notices tord Yoang Farmer, BY
Judge Peters.

Judge Ts1eFs'
Plough and harrow sOdly fields In the
fall and add Lime, narrowed in that
season if it be within your power. In
addition to other advantages Of this
operation you will thereby escape either
wholly or for The most part, the ann"yan'
ces Of the Corn Gru5s. In what fnode
the destruction Of the grubs, or the eggs
Of their paren. (be tia Beetle, or what It
may for on this subject, there are Varle
ties Of opinions J is by these operations
accomplished, orstheir ravases prevented
Is subject of laudable curiosity, but the
TACT Of the purpose being achieved is all
important; and in numerous instances
incontestibly proved. That spring plough
ing is generally ineficacious, is too fire.
quently and fatally known. Instances
offailurs to produce The effect mentioned
by fall ploughine, have been adduced'-
On examina ton iuto the facts Of some, it
is found, that the operation has been per-
formed either well, or in due time. and
only partially and in other cases either
uncommon grub years, or other peculiar
circumstances, have occurred. The great
balance of fact is, most assuredly, favor
able to this practice, aud warrants its
adoption. 1t is SO beneficial in ether res
poets, that it should be followed, even
without regard to its effects on the grub.
Some acute diseases DEFY remedies, as
dams and mounds resist common floods ;
yet yield to extraordinary inundstions.--
Nevertheless, medicine, and medical skill,
and prsventives Of over flows, should not
be set at nousht. Nor should any bene-
fetal operation in husbaudry be disregard,
ed, because it does not in every instance
succeed.
Fall ploughing enables you to plant
corn early: and it is better thus to risk
spring frosts, which do less injury to
your plants than do early lrosts in autumn
to the corn fully grown.
1t is alleged by several highly resPec'
table farmers, tina, in holes made near the
hills with a pointed stick, inconceivabls
numbers Of grubs have persisted. In a
letter to the society. on the information Of
one who actually experienced the fact, it
appears, that By ditch dug for the pur-
pose across the 6eld, the passage Of cut
worms from a field which had been des-
to,ed to one uninjured, was distracted.
and six bushels of grubs were thus COL
lec,ed. This would seem individually to
prove that they are migratory, and to show
the consequences Of leaving part OF q
field unploughed in the autumn, which
aff,rds harbor for grubs, which may from
thence wander over the fall ploughed por-
ton. Several farmers have escaped the
grub, by sleeping the seed corn in spirits
Of turpentine. aud rolling it in plaster.
soddy ground should be rolled, and
we'll narrowed, in the direction Of the
burrows, after beng broken up so deeply
as to place beyond vegetation. the sod
and by thus excluding air, and BY clean,
shallow. and frequent stirring, so as not
to disturb it, to promote its decay with
out capacity to grow. The dead fbres'
(natsre's restoratives,) are thus retained
in the soil, for appropriate manures.-
Lime, plaster, marie, &c. to cooperate
with. The sod left on edge, either dries
uselessly, or vegetables, with all its pests.
The ROLLER is too little used, and
mistakiugly supposed to consolidate too
much; whereas it brushes and separates
clods and loosens the soil. On clay, and
heavy ground, the sPIkY ROLLER is best,
as It is on all hide bound surfaces-of
meadows and moving grounds partieu.
larly but, like all other operations. roll
ing must be performed judiciously, and
adapted to soils and circumstances. Few,
indeed, are the soils. on which it is not
highly beneficial.
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