The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-08-03
Yhe Practical Farmer.
From the Memoirs Of the N. York Board Of -ag
TicuLttlre,

From the Memoirs Of The N. York Board Of 49,
ricuture.
REMARKS.
On cutting Oats and Indian Corn-making
and applying Manures-rosation of Crops,
&c.
Jesse Buel, Esq.-Being honored with
circular from the Board of Agriculture,
will offer few experiments which have
proved to me of great advantage.
In the first place, every landholder who
.ills the ground should be very careful to
provide and make manure by all possible
means in his power; and this he may do to
considerable extent. He should provide
himself with as much fodder as will winter
more cattle than he can summer; and this is
done in the following manner:-Cut your oats
when the straw is green in part; let them
lay and cure in the swath until they are dry
enough not to mould: bind them in sheaves
and stack them. When they are threshed
the farmer will find that his oats will thrash
to greater advantage. The light oats stick
ing to the straw, makes it good fodder, and
I consider it of as much value as will pay the
expense of raising the oats
Secondly, give up the old method of cut
ting your top stalks; and when your corn is
sufficiently hard, or when you cannot find an
ear soft enough to boil and eat, then proceed
to cut and stout shock your corn in the
following manner.-Bring the tops of two
hills together, without cutting, bind them
with few spears of straw; then cut and set
up about enough to make four sheaves. if
bound; then put band of straw about the
top, and then you may add as many more,
and bind the whole with two bands, always
keeping the bottom of the stout open, SO as
to admit the circulation of air. At the pro-
per time of gathering corn, you may proceed
thus: Throw down the stout, unbind and be-
gin to gather the corn; when you have stalks
enough for sheat, bind them and lay 1t a.
side until you have enough for stout. BY
this you save all the silk and small husk s
and under leaves of the corn, which were all
lost by the former practice of topping and
gathering corn. / will recommend that the
stalks be stacked Oh hovel, or poles laid on
crotches, and foddered in the yard. have
been particular as to the time it takes iii this
process, and can say that ! am satisfied it
takes no more time than in the old method
The farmer should embrace every open
spell in the winter to collect from his milk
ing yard the scrapings, and also from the
pond holes and hollows in his woods the
leaves and dirt, and draw and spread them il
his yard or yards. This will enable him te
make, tby the help of twenty head of cattle
one hundred loads of manure, which will be
fit to put on the ground the next autumn. al
the rate Of twenty loads to the acre; which
if plovghed in, and the land sowed with
whest or rye, and seeded with timothy seed
at the same time, and clover the next spring,
it 1ill produce burden that will be salts
factory to the owner, and the ground in bet
ter condition than when first poughed.
1t may not be amiss to mention what kind
of cattle farmer can winter on such fodder
as have spoken Of | would recommend
that he buy, in the fall, young heifers of good
quality, and good looking young cows; and
if his situation permits, pair or two Of
steers, broken to the yoke; all which are il,
demand in the spring, and will advance ir
price sufficient to pay tor the wintering, and
leave for his advantage yard full OF good
manure. | will also recommend attention
paid to the hog g-pens and as much litter
weeds and refure from the garden and yards
as can be procured, and by careful mixtur,
Of some good black earth, the quantity o
manure may be swelled to large amount
AS almost all landhoders have ON theil
farms ponds or swamps that are miery,
will recommend that they draw out, in th,
month of August, when most of swamps ar,
dry, a large quantity, and put it in a heap
and there let it lay until the next Spring
when it will be fit to put OIL corn in the hill
and will have very great effect. IT, after
the operating Of the frost On the heap, ths
compost should crumble, and have pro
portion of dust it is then good Ii it shoult
dry hard and lumpy, like clay, it is only t.
be put in the barn yard, or hog pen, and b
trodden in with the compost. By apphca
ton of pond manures as above, have bee
enabled to make some poor land become We
ry productive.
AS have given some practical remark
en- the making of manure, shall now pro
ceed to state the process of culture | brea
the ground in the month of April, and hav
the sod turned under by one of the Free
born's ploughs, about eight inches deep; (an
here it is that many make great blunder'
and much to their disadvantage, by not at
tending IN person, and having their groun
ploughed deep and well;) and then harrow
ed with an iron tooth harrow, or wood wi
do. if it be heavy, and the teeth made of goo
hickory, and kept sharp Harrow the sam
way you have ploughed, until your groun
is we'll mellowed; then, when you see I'll
earliest apple tree begin to drop it's blossom
furrow your ground three feet apart at rigl
angles, and plant four grains Of corn in
hill.