South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1834-09-13

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Pharaoh's dream seemed reversed.
| April and May. Rolled all my seed
corn as usual, leaving slips upholstered
An excessive drought. No difference be-
tween these slips and the rest Of the field
\ The following year when that grass grew,
tufts Of lukurient bird-foot clover desig.
mated the exact spots where the plastered
corn had been planted.
! April Esd. Slowed 16 bushels Of plas.
ter on eight acres Of oats and clover, Just
lup, intending to have great crop, and
Leaving a slip. Land naturally fine and
highly manured.-Drought as above ex-
cessive. Oats bad. No difference be-
tween the slip and the rest. Glover killed.
Land ploughed up in September and put
in wheat. Clover sown in 1907 on the
wheat. A heavy crop Of wheat, clover
Ipastered in March 1908, at bushel to
the acre crop very great. No inferiori-
| ~ in the slip upholstered in 1906.
1907, March 1st to the 18th. Sowed
clover seed on 100 acres 10 wheat, and 80
bushels Of plaster, the sewers of the latter
following those of the former. Left a
strip Of 20 feet. Weather dry, moist, win
dy or calm, and for two days of the SOW
ing snow two inches or less deep on the
ground. Land stiff, rich, poor or sandy,
and ofseveral intermediate qualities. The
clover came up better than any l ever
sowed on the surface; the strip was little
and but a little, inferior to the adjoining
clover, which attribute to its receiving
some plaster from the effect Of high
wind. The whole field received s pecks
to the acre in 1908, & was the best piece
OF high land grass of the size I ever saw.
The wheat received no benefit.
March 10th. Sowed 4s bushels of
plaster on 60 acres Of poor land, cultiva.
ted in corn (Indian) last year, and we'll
set with bird.foot clover, leaving an IN.
plastered Slip, Weather dry and windy.
Effect vast. Strip visible TO an inch, as
far off as you could distinguish grass. The
bird-foot clover died, and crop of crab
grass shot up through it, and furnished a
second cover to the land.
1907 and 1903. In these two years ALL
nay corn ground, as it was broken up or
listed, has been plastered broad cast, with
from three pecks to bushel to the acre,
and directly plOughsd liz iQ III ad Y both s the
bushel to bushel. In both, the crops have
greatly exceeded what the fields have ev-
er before producsd.-That cultivated last
year has double any former product. But
they have been aided in spots with mas
nure, and the years were uncommonly
fruitful. All the manure carried out in
these two years, has been sprinkled with
plaster when spread before being plough.
ed in, and several fields Of the bird foot
clover have been plastered. The result
conform to those already mentioned.
1908, February. Plastered four ridges
Of highland meadow oats at bushel to
the acre. No effect.
Some Of the differences I make from
these experiments are, that gypsum should
be worked into the earth that half a
busheI or less to an acre, worked in, will
improve land considerably that drought
can defeat its effects upon corn, but not
upon the land if it is covered that the
weather is of no consequence at the mo.
ment it is sown, though the subsequent sea-
son is cfgreat that it may vastly improve
red clover even as late as May; that it
increases the effects Of course manure (;
that quantity less than half a bushel to
an acre, is in some cases as effectual as
much larger one; that excessive mois-
ture or excessive drought destroys its eff
feet that its effect is more likely to be
destroyed, when sprinkled on the surface,
than when mixed with the earth; that
sowing it broadcast among Indian corn
after it is up, may improve the crop rs
par cent; that sown in June, it may not
improve English grass that sown in Au-
gust and covered, it may improve the
land, though drought succeeds that sown
on whe at in November, it may neither
benefit the wheat nor land : that about
three pecks to the acre Immediately
sprinkled on clover seed sown on the sur
face, may cause it to come up, live and
thrive better; that similar quantity
sown on the surface in March, may tres
BILE the burden of bird.foot clover; that
sown broadcast from the LIST of January
in breaking up or listening corn ground,
the quantity will probably add considera-
Die to the crop; and that it may not i'm
prove the high land meadow oats if sown
in February.
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