Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-07-24
AGRICULTURAL.
Geensville county, Va.

The following extract from report
for the District of Quebec, for the
month of June. in the Quebec Gazette,
NAV afford some useful hintsto some of
our agricultural readers:
The state of the weather has kept
back vegetation, and generally been On
propitioos to the prospects of the year.
Potatoe planting was done in good
time, whore the preparatory labor hsd
been seasonably and carefully perform
ed. The young plants look we'll, and
are nearly ready for ptoaghing off,
the Drills having been narrowed down,
lust before the shoots came above the
ground. Ploughing off, or removing
with the plough, the earth from the
plants, is a practice introduced by the
Scoth Farmers, which gives an oppor-
tunity Of loossuiDg the earth near the
roots, and destroying weeds in harrow.
ing between the Drills, before the Fl.
pal earthsng up. The perfection of
this and every other Drill culture is to
keep the earth frisble, suffering no
weeds to grow soasto perpetuaee them
selves in the soil, or deprive the crops
OF any Of its vegetative power.
II 10 with some difficulty that the
grounds reserved for Turnips have been
this year brought TO that finely pulver-
ised state, which 10 necessary for the
successFul culture of that valua BILE root
The sowing season will not commence
till before The first rains in The ensu.
ing month. Some experiments have
been made to add Buckwheat to the
Drill Culture, which now consists in
Potatoes, Mangel Wurtzel and Turnips.
Buck. wheat is an excellent and produce
tive substitute for grain and Peas, in
fattenipg Hsgs and Poultry, may be
sown any time in June. and hasa stalk
sufficiently s,ropg TO admit of it's stand
ing up in Drills Without greater
extent Of useful Drill Crops than is u.
sual in this country, the land can never
be kept clean and brought under proper
rotation, which, it has been proved, full.
" doubles the produce With very little
additional labor or expense, in series
of few wears.
The Grain Crops, although carly
sowp, are backyard. Complaints are
very general of their being thin and
having suffered from insests. 10 low
erou nds the cold and wet has given them
bad colour, and partially destroyed
them. Peas in dry grounds are looking
well.
The Pastures, If that name can be
given to the generality of ley fislds un-
der the system of alterpats crops of
grain and pasture, have been very back.
ward, and the Cattle lean In fields
under a proper rotation of let year
Grain; I'd Drill crops: Sd Gra'p; 9TH
Hay; 5th Pastures; Cattle have had
rich feed since the middle of May.
The Hay Crops in arslfiaisl meadows
are likely to prove productive this sea.
son. In the natural meadows, in low
grounds, they will not come up to the
expectations felt earlier in the season.
The Orchards and Gardens promise
but very little. thssesson having prov
ed unfaverable while the fIoit trees
were onder blossom, and the tepder
plants in The gardens being CO. off or
stisted, by the fsosts and sudden chan.
ges from the heat and cold. Grsbs and
che sman black fiy or beetle. called pu.
csron 10 the sounssy, has also been We.
y injuRiees this seassn,