Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-09-06

perienee teaches that it is impor.an. fencing with
stone that large and small stones should be mixed A
good fence cannot be made with either alone build
tirey with my abourers.
There are some other great in the Of
ing IN this county which prevail also to greater
degree in of tho country though Ina ppy
say by no means to the extent to which they
some years past which 1t may be OF service point out
The horid practice of turning put the hills improve
rest while the bottoms kept in cultivation even now
me cause oil rum TO many farms The injurious Of
facts of this plan must be obvious The hill sides lying
unpo~ghed absorb but little which pours down into
the bottoms sweeping away the soil which is loosened by
cultivation thus proving destructive both hill and bot
tom have even had corn land very much injured by
sewing oats the hills above The land i'm oats
hardens not receive the rain i'm sufficient oon
ties; and break commences which the skillf hor
izcnal i.,:., i....ruuait to resist ennnot nrn
lion tins mode of plooghng without boating my decided
testimony to the great advantages resulting it, and
acknowledging the great debt of gratitude
worthy president, Col Randolph for its introduction I'm
tho year 1900 became citizen of Albemarc At this
time the method of horizontal eloughng connedex-
OBJECT tat he persevered i'm it against may almost say
the of the whole county Such is tho force oiha
IT. that the most judcious formers in the county at
that time rldicuedi But TO the great avahiacs
toDe derived from this improvement in agricultural
processes, 1T should be eicctually done; if it not
were better not to attempt at all. OF this ain so de-
cidcdy convinced, that has for length of ti:e
my careful to harrow the las, time seeding my
CROP on the level.
For the benefit of those who do not remoraber the face
of the coun.sy in the year $780, will cneav to pre-
Sent flint description of it 1t is certain that the quilted
PORTIONS of it almost universally altogether
Attributable to bad farming; for all know that the soil
IS generally fertile, particularly i'll that tract of country
lying OF hear the mouescins at ttc same time tho
most Liable injury from the then of shallow plough
ing directly up and down the steepes hills Fields plough
cd i'll this frequently turned without
ven seeding them kind of small grain The
sequence was that in lew years, every
guiley know there are who <eme.s.ber tho ap-
Pearance of the farm now live on MoSan bear me
in saying that there not in any one field ~
ing together that could be called land There
bc
ed with ease The greater part undera heavy crop
clover and there but three gules the plantation
great change is due, almost entirely, deep horizontal
pougbng; which not only preserves all the soil, bat re-
tans also all tho ran that falls for of which often
suffer severely twill say that se author Of SO vaiun
bic an Improvement Deserves not ea The testimonial of
silver cup, which the society have presented to him.
but that monument should be erected to his memory
Thirty agohe county of Loudoun ofwhich as the
county of nativity have always been proud stood
unrvalleby any other in the state in point both
tty and agricultural improvement In travelling then
from Abemare to that county, the marked
could have failed to strike the most careless observe
Such is not now the fact. The traveller from Abemarie
to louloun will ROW remark gradual falling of in the
system OF farming until he reaches the latter counyand
there he will meet with but few farms that can
boast oany superiority over the greater part coun
OF Abemare at least that part of lying the
public roa, leading from Rockfsh Gap to Gotlosvillc
While have the pen in hard, it may be amss to
call the attention OF the society of the most com
mon pests Thai inest our lands anu invite them unite
with me in of determination againet them The
most prominent of those with which Ihave %csa besc,
are the b!ee THISTLE the Canada thistle the com.,on null
len, the docks CT various kinds, the horeIound and the
common Wheat cookie. Il have devoted much time and
abour H cndeavourlng to exGrpac the former of
these Which, consider of the serious character
When removed to PcnParhSr fuea the blue thistle in
great nbuhoanceis parts the place am! parti,y
throughout immediately about irving 10 destroy Il
by P"nghng up the most Formidable patches, and going
over with the hoe, and glcan. what ives left by the
plough together with all the other pests still keen an
this practice. In this way havo nearly footed out the
blue thistle but fear that of Canada will be found much
more for'nida BILE enemy. The first of hitter kind
ever saw was in of my fields the Franklin farm
which lad been s6wn with clover the seed of which had
been procured in Richmond and brought doubt from
some OF the Northern states from Canada Ths though
one OF the most prominent of the thistle kind from the
circumstance of its having nly over the field
created no alarm for one or two years and it had nearly
gotten possession before had fairly taken the alarm
Upon my following the field in the third or fourth wear
from tho time FIRST discovered IT, HOSES became
lame, one OF them muck that il with great diff
hcuy could get horizon the field the stable where
she remained entirely useless to me for twcyo months
indeed until she had shedae hoos Of both hsr for. feet
An Inflammation apparently slight around the crown of
the hoof, continued, in iefianc of all the remedies
could apply, until the of the hoof was
Several hc colts running in the field were affected
more or less Some of them very mach swollen in
the legs and sheath and although very fine horses i'm 9TH
er respects they arc still Considerably dciormed by the
remains of the affection described There IL also
yellow water continually issuing from between the hair
and the hoof hope the Society will enter into gsncr
al league against these pests; for il is useless r ono
man to contend, single handed against AN host of enemies
especially when know that them have Wings
and are waited for miles by the wind. hope that prac
teal experience of 80 years may have chabe me to sur
gcct hints that will be found useful to the
OF Agriculture; if So Shall feel amply compensated
Respectfully, yours, &c.
we recommend The following commune alton to the at
ention OF those at distance who may have alarm
cd by the absurd reports which have obtained circulation