Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-11-09

81 as soon as %gaihOsed, and was three days gather
lug, notwithstanding my having had for two dSys near
ly thirty OF the poor people of the neighborhood, be-
sides all my own people, house servants and ALL
Finally, | finished pressing to-day the PALMYRA, and the
amount OF the whole crop is near nine hundred gallons,
OF which the white amounts TO two-thirds. 1 have every
reason to believe that the wine will prove of a very supe-
rir quality, particularly that made at PALMYRA, which |
shall not mix with the rest. Oh tho white alone made
there, there is very near i've hundred gallons. Whatsnr.
prised rc was, that the wine called Palmyra is as yet oil a
rich red color, which has never yet been the case before,
though l have had IL generally slightly ,inged, aud then
the red color was dcpoSed in the lees; but 1 DO not think
ii rn depose this year all its color, and leave il merely, as
usual, of deep Madeira color. The cause of ;his must be
looked Tor in the long drought before the rains set in, aud
although it rained pretty generally every day for a month,
with little exceplion) NE have not had a single Que ~
those tcariug- every thing showers, usual in this climate
at this season. Add TO this, that | was most highly favor
ed with dry weather all this week, except a pretty heavy
shower, which had the goodness to come in the night
The grapes were then fully and regularly ripe, and / hope,
therefore, that it Bacchus himself could condescend TO pay
Us a visit aud drink some OF my wine, he would readily
acknowledge that he never had drank better i'm his life
time, and not often az good!
You must allow, my dear sir, a little Dragging, and re-
member The fable Of the owl and the eagle respecting
their young.
am, very respectfully, and with great friendship,
yours, sc. N. HERBEMONT.'
Iron tho Memoirs of the New York Board of Agriculture,
THE ADVANTAGES or fALLow CROPS OVER SUM
MER FALLows.
ioJEssE BUEL, ESq.-Dedr Sir: In answer to your
CIRCULAR l would observe, that 1 should not have preSuin-
Gu 10 FURNISH matter Tor a volume OF the Memoirs of the
Board, had 1t not been asserted. that "any facts. however
simple, would he considered valuable"
have carefully watched the progress of Improvement
III agriculture, in order to derive benefit from any system
OF cultivation, new and useful, which might be PROPOSED.
Although many improvements the business of h,isbandrv
nave been suggested, which would no doubt be OF adyan-
nge TO ihe farming interest, were they reduced TO practice.
yet | shall speak of bat one, which / consider the most
prominent, and ulat deserving the greatest attention; and,
which,, ~ generally Introduced, would save 10 the farmers
OF This state annually, many millions. mean the intro.
duction OF fallow-crops, and the abandonment of summer
iaIiows altogether, on green swards. The experience |
had in the system, confirms my belief, that all spring
crops, such as oats, peas, barley, and potatoes, NAV he
raised ON green swarls, we'll ploughed, either in the fall
or spring, and rolled with n heavy roller, with less ex-
pense IN labor, and double the profits, than on stub
bic land that the expense of tending , GRO,
on ground oil this description, and thus managed, would
DC less Than the expense of summer fallowinr. and
mat the good or poor land would not be exhaust
cuas much IN growing most of the above crons with
the sod under, unmolcstcd and unexposed. yLiIc r,,,ino
asst would be, IN receiving two or three plouyhings wLiIo
IN a partial state OF decomposition, in the heat of Summer
exposed TO the influence OF the sun, rains, and winds Tbe
first experiment | made of this kind, W n c,on nj corn
on a sun sward OF spear grass, plougEed in the fall anil
wen narrowed IN the spring, without rolling. NV crop
was ~ bushels TO the acre, worth 80 cents per bushei
Nett profit, $23 30 per acre. The ground w we'll
pIoughed once The next spring, and sowed TO . crow
81 bushels peracre, worth 81 90 per bushel-nett nr,6is
$50 10. The peas were harvested early in September.
and The ground well ~ploughed once, and sowed to wheat Z:
crop, 81 bushels TO the acre-nett profits. 500 90 IN tho
acre. Nett profits in three years, S7I so. haze this
year raised corn on the land adjoining, and of A similar
soil and sod, Uhe soil is what farmers call a sandy loan Y
managed III the same way, save only the crop was but once
hoeu, (wet weather prevented y crop, 100 bushels to the
acre. NO manure was used; and not so much Labor in
tending as stumble land would have re0nircd. In the same
held, | sowed 90 rods of ground TO flax, and narrowed il
wen on me soil. The crop grew well and was the best /
ever raised on any ground. 1t fell down, and | pulled il
while IN blossoms; after which ! ploughed the ground once.
and sowed turnips. The turnips are very fine, and promise
a good crop JAMES SPERRY.