Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-05-08
BY the president.
The Secretary of stale, B. fNGiNAC.
AGRICULTURAL
From Notices JJT N NOWHg F,IJypPT.


yUDGE PrTEPs.
Plough aud harrow sodd, nrlds in tie fall AMI add
lime harrcwcd in at season If IL be within your pow
In additinnto other advantages Of this opeTaiion
YOU viii thereby escape either wholly for the most
part the Of til CO,0 GTUbS. w what mode
the desuctiOn of the Prus the of their paTent
(be IL B-edt. or what IL for this subject.
there are varieties Of opinion y is ny these operations.
Accomplished or their raVagSs prevented. IS subject
Of laudabs curiosity hut the fact of the purpose being
achieved, is al important; and IN numerous instances
incouesiaby proved. hat srring ploughirF IS vtner
ally ineicacious. too frequently and fatally Known.
Instances OF failure rrodGce The effect mentioned, h.
fall plouehng, have been adducrd. on examination
into the facts some is fopnd that the operation
has been performed either we'll. in due t'ur. and
only partially aud. in other cases either uucomIron
g'ub years u'uer peculiar circumstances Lave
CURED. The balance of facts is assuredy,
favOiabetc tn practice and warrants it's adop;ion.
II is henrhcia in other RESPECTS, that il should he
followed even wi'hout regard Ia its effects the grub
soTe acute diseases defy common remedies, dams
and mounds resist common floods yet weld extra
ordinary inurdaiions Nevertheless, medicine, and
medical skiii, md nrevenives of over1"ws should
not bese al nongt. Nor should INV beneficial opera
ton IN hnshandy he dsre2arded bccause il does not
every Instance succeed.
Fail pio'ghiug enables 10 plant early and
II is better thus & risk spring fross, which do less
jury to yOnr plants than do early osts in autumn,
tn full grown.
I. IL alleged by several highly respecahIe farmers
that IN holes made the hlis with pointed sick.
iaconceivabr numbers OF erubs have peri he'd. In
letter to the Society ON The of one who ac
aiiv exuerrnced the FACT appears that by ditch
dug for the purpose Held the passage of cut
worms from field which had been DESTROYED,
uninjnIed, ObsiIncfed aud six bus hels ofgrubs
we're TINS collected. This wonid seem indrhahy to
prove that they migratory and shew the cpnse-
quences NJ leaving part of field urD!onehrd i'm The
an uIun which affords harbor for CRIBS. which may
frnm thence wander over Ire f poughed portion -.
Several farmers have escaped the grub h. scpng
seed in spirits oftnrpeni!ne, and rolling 1t in pas
ter.
soddy grouHds should be roiLcd, and well narrowed
in the direction OF the frT0ws aer being broken no
deeply as 70 place bc,oUd vegetation the sod and by
thns excluding ar, aud by clean, shallow ana ire.
quent stirring not to disturb IT, TO promote its
natures esioFatives ius retained in the soil Cor
appropriate manurss. Lime plaster, mail SC. 10 co
operate with Fhe cod len edge eitie dries use
sssy, Or vegetables with aliits pests.
The rOiic5' is too little used and mistakenly suppOs
ed consolidate to" much whereas IL crushcs aud
sepa rates clOd and onsen the soil ON clay aud heavy
grould lc Sy.ity roiier is best as il is on an hide
bound surfaces oimeadOws and moving grour par
tcuiariy; hat, like other operations, rolling must he
performed udiriously aud adaptsdto soils and crcum-
stances Few indeed, are the Soils which Il is nos
highly Beneficial