Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-12-07
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visited and spent day at Mr.. Slim
sons Farm in the township OF Galway,
Saratoga county, New-York. His tract
OF land OF farm contains about $50 acres,
of which he culsivates, as yet, only be-
tween 80 and 100 acres, which are laid
Oft INTO 8 acre lots.
He has certificates of premiums from
the Agricultural Society of that county
for having the best managed farm in the
county;
For having raised 60 bushels Of barley
from one acre;
For having raised Al tens Timothy
hay per acre from lot of eight acres,
and he took the pains to weigh the hay
from one OF those acres four days after
it was cut, and found it to weigh ions
and 524 lbs.
For having raised lo4 bushels Of corn
to the acre;
For having raised s574 bushels Of po-
tatoes from halt an acre.
His method for raising Potatoes is
thus stated:
He opens furrow fee, 9 inches apart.
plants 10 inches apart; hoes or hills
them one way only plants Them shallow,
namely about 2 inches; as soon as they
show themselves about 3 inches above
the ground, be covers about 2 inches Of
them; in or 10 days, or Wien the tops
are about 6 inches high, he spreads the
tops open, and hoes and covers them
again TO about inches, aud when grown
up again to about inches, he hoes and
covers them as before. BY this process
he thinks it possible that one thousand
bushels may be raised from one acre OF
ground.
His method for raising corn:
He has machine that crosses the
ridges; he plants three to hill; the
ridges or hills are about feet inches
apart. He suckers after the second
,ploughlns-hc cuts the stalks and blades
together close to the ground. The ave.
rage product is ~ ears TO hill. The
corn weighs 80 10 60 lbs. to the bushel
His general method Of farming is TO
lay off his land into lots of TO 10 acres
Each lot is MANFRED once in four or FIVE
years; his usual quantity is 8 wagon
.s3oads with four horses to each acre-first
year is in grass--scconu in corn--third
barey-tour,h in wheat, spring or winter
wheat, with clover and timothy, $ lbs.
clover and . quarts timothy per acre |;
the northern or late clover he prefers
He mows his timothy for two years, pas
lures it one year, in the fourth year he
turns down the sod, puts in wheat on
the sod-lst and I'd corn, Sd barley or
spring or winter wheat, and stocks il,
down as before.
Mr.. Stimson remarked, he has field
used as pasture, and what he intends is
turning down the soil, roll it we'll, give it
. top dressing Of manure, plough it the
second time on the sod, manure it again,
put it into wheat, harrow it in, and ex-
poets to make IS or 40 bushels per acre.
=. The following is his produc, from 100
acres as reported from actual survey and
examination:
Ten acres having 400 apple trees on
them, produced IS tons hays acres
eoln $50 bushels-8 acres do. 72O-lO
do do. 500 and l6 tons hay--4 do. wheat,
TAO bushels-l do. fax, 600 lbs.-s do.
.oals, $50 bushels-8 do. hay, 80 tous--
q do. do. SO DOL do. barley, 60 BUSH
-els-3 do. hay, loa tons--4 do. do. IL
do.-8 do. do. "a dog acres 1000 bu-
nheIs potatoes-2 acres in vegetables,
which also raised 400 chickens.
His wheat cost him 80 cents per bu-
$hel-eorn Is do. do.
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