Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-10-30

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lcngth--5ome parts of the lut at Match
ez is very poor soil, and the grass on.
those places did not gpow higher than six
or seven feet. But on a good soil in a
favorablessesson, ID this climate, am
persuaded it is a very moderates esti-
mate to allow TO every square yard ten
pounds at a cutting, wien we cut only
three times within tho season. This
would give 80 pounds o every square
lyard, or l47 900 pounds of green grass
to the acre. But this production seems
SO enormous, that should not have ven
tured on such calculation had not the
respectable authority Of Or. Edwards to
support me, He asserts that the Scots
grass, which ha seems toiconsidersas far
inferior 70 the Guinea grass, is SO pro-
iductiye that one acre Of will support
i've horses the whole year round, allow
| ing each horse Sc pound5per day which
lis 10000 lbs. per acrl. Admitting
that my calculations are ttray egant, let
us suppose that an acre Will produce one
third Of what ! have STATED, still we must
consider Guinea grass ast the most valu :
able d all the known grasses.
\ Z" At Fercyheld, near Fort Adams,
NJ. Ogiesty, my ma1ager, planted
abcui the eighth Of an acrt Of very fertile
iand, With plants ob,ai1ed from Mr..
siunson, in the first and second week OF
May. They grow without any trouble,
excep, that of cutting down the FIRST
Growth OF weeds. On the twentieth OF
June, be began 10 cuti, for the use Of the
| plough horses and mules; and ibis small
quantity Of ground continued TO supply
them With MS much as they could cat Of
lil, daring the whole summer. On the
| 25th Of September, be wrote me that he
had 81, il T3ur times--Fron 2o,roots he
ohtaincd at the fourth cutting ESQ pounds
/ of green grass, and in two weeks he
wuult! cut the fifth time. | find no diff
EQUITY in collecting the seed; ISIiaye al
ready obtained q bushel in return for
l,nreu or fopr. spnoHfa,s, which | scwed
on my lpt il, town--l CO. off about two
feet of the top wit, the pinnacle, IS soon
az he,secd begin 70 fall, and after il is
i.dry, comb out the seed with coarse
comb.
!" AS the seeds vesetatc very slowly,
| the most certain mode of obtaining
young plants would be to prepare the
ground and sow the seed as culiiva,ors
! III toharcn do tnbatcn seed. AAs soor no
The plants have attained the hight Of
two or three inches, and Rhen the dam
lgur of irosss is past, they should be re-
moved TO the ground whore they are q
stand, where they readily take root"
| A rich hlacA mould, and asoil somewhat
/, moist, think produces the most luxu-
rant grass, But have hadvery little cS-
perience as 10 the soils to which II ia
best adapted. ! hope thtt before n,sny
years, iii will be tried in every climate in
I tire United States, end OF every variety
Of soil. No kind ct grass With which !
}am acquainted, supports lhe heat Of the
}sun 50 we'll; j and this property, were it
Icven less productive, wodldrecommend
il 10 the notice OF The agridulturalist, FOR.
from the iirst Of July, unii. tits killed by
Eshc altumnal lYos;s, it Til,laTord a con-
stont, and an abundant supply Of green
food, and consequently enable the far
liner, whateyermay happens TO his other
meadows, TO lay up a plentiful stock Of
nay Tor the winter. The. hay is uAcom-
monty iragran, ant! horses prc!cri. great
" TO the best corn blades.
eli Guinea grass succeeds as we'll
with others, and in every season, as il
has done this season, with me, and as i,
has done in the. West Indies for more
than hatf a century, the planters Of tic
south will have no reason TO envy north
ern nrigbbors, their luxuriant clover
pastures, or their ricss OF timothy hay.
IL Gulacn grass is substituted for clover,
Timothy and luzernc, At least seven
eighths Of all,hc ground appropriatedto
these crops will be given TO the cultiva-
tor for the purpose of raising sustenapcc
for the human species. TO whatamount
This change win increase the sum Of ma
tiotiai wealth, ! leave Those to estimate,
who are more conyersait with such cal
|culations." ~ IA =
*There is no more diSSicplty in transplant
Ling IT, than IN planting cabbage or tcbacco
A basket or two of the Young plants would en-
able poor family TO keep aEow:in town, or TO
supply dray horse with food all summer
How much would the general cultivation of
I this grass add to the comfot Of the poor and
niddllng Classes Of society - Dt, B,vsvl.
TO PRESERVE CORN.
Fields Of Indian corn, bitten BY the
frost, ought 70 be Immediately stripped
of the husks, 10 save the corn from rot