Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-20

winter n much az we have card frozen ground 10 DO
think better OF US we preserve with religious care tho
and sure that can go and point out every
spot that has been done Tor the last ten years,
permanent is this way OF manuring. There is fire.
much to the The object Of farmer should be to
large surface with his manure, just applying
enough TO make the clover take WE'LL aud by plaerng
his clover no will have the best possible in good
cloverlay My practice to put twenty two good wagon
loads Of stable the acre. aud thirty very heavy
wagon loads OF farm pen the acre; Gas that is
interior To the stable manure and in that manner
get about so acres OF land per annum.
will return 10 the reasoning the four shit sys
tenn. In the fourth place, lands very liable TO
weeds OF every kind to onions blue grass, wire grass
partridge pea, aud many others, that they require a
spring hoe very frequently to keep them clean; the
four sh system, with corn every fourth year, Will do tina,
very eHecualy have tried the cat crop instead OF the
crop cleanser, but it will answer. The
crop enecuai cleanser OF onions Tor the time being,
that Is TO your OF wheat for three al
ter the oats will be perfectly free from onions but they will
return alter while, you stop the oat system But the
wire grass or partridge pea and hoe crop is the only
, remedy. shall now be compelled, to my sorrow, TO
abandon oats as cleanser, and substitute the corn
crop, so foul has my land become OF every thing
cept the onion, which the crop has kept under.
have this year lost third Of my wheat by blue
grass | consider the oa crop if heavy one, fully as
exhausiing as the corn crop; aud do not regret be-
ing obliged TO abandon and take the crop, that
account, but regret il account Of the onion OF which
the corn crop is not half good cleanser and besides
shall hud too aboIious to cultivate of land
in in addition TO swamp land: but il be done
there is alternative, for the blue grass must be
checked
The fifth and las, in favor of the four shift sys-
'em with standing pasture, is that it requires less fencing
than any other. You may have your four fields either
under QUO fence divided into two equal divisions, with
fence to each, which is the most you may
hen occasionally Craze your fields when il will be least
injurious 1t will be found that tho grazing system
viii not do altogether alter while the land becomes
too much pulled up, and too full OF vegetable matter
make good crop OF wheat That may be reme,ed though,
by grazing Immediately after hauling of your wheat
Ike off han
ever the ground is it does njure the young
clover in the least but rather benefits il Tor clover; like
wheat, requires the hoof the land occasionally the
land becomes too porous and pulled up by the
matter and besides, the young clover very much pro-
cctcd by the growth Of weeds, which require breaking
aud trampling down-Iou may Craze your fields from,
winch You have taken your wheat, until you put your
cattle up into winter quarters, with the foregoing precau-
uon In wet weather. But never suffer any thing to
on your clover field the year you expect TO alow it,
is that which have heretofore spoken of obeciona
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have frequently remarked that field of clover which
was grazed moderately while young, (rom The time the
wheat was taken of until the time to put cattle up into
winter quarters would take much earlier the ext
spring than which had not been graZed owing
weeds in the latter choking and keeping back the
young clover.
The standing pasture may be made OF the most inferior
land on Tie farm which WILL in the of years.
be very much improved by or you may convert your
woods into standing pasture by enclosing hem and
clearing up the underground, SC. and frequently on
farms, there are swamps marshes, strips OF land that
cannot be cultivated, which make good standing
lures that in the two last cases you have all Your
cleared land TO cultivate One of the strongest proofs of
The superiority Of the four shift system is that my friend
Seiden OF MISSIONER, who has adopted il, makes dou-
BILE large crops his did, and has nut
good crops under any SYSTEM for he is rate farmer
HILL CARTER.