Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-04-19
RURAL ECONOMY.
pIouGHING UNDER GREEN CROPS FOR MA
NCIE.

pLouGH1NG UNDER GREEN CROPS FOR MA
NuIE.
Being the owner ola small farm, most OF
which was in q low state OF cultivation u' u.e
time I commenced making experiments
and feeling desirous of enrlch'nS " 'as'ei
than could with stable and barn Xara ma
nnre the quantity made being small, there
fore resolved to try the effect of ploughing
under ercen crops. The piece upon which
/ tried my experiment contains nearly four
ocres. and is Of hazle-nu' colored loan,
wing near the Connecticut river.
In 1871, the lot above mentioned had
wheat and rye reaped from it; about "a
were Of wheat and produced II bushels,
Welding 8 5.7 bushels to the acre. Inc
Ia acres of rye yielded about p bushels,
being 10 bushels, to the acre-total OF wheat
and rye, A bushels. The ground for the
wheat was ploughed three times and had
tho same number Of harrowings. That Tor
rye was ploughed but twice, with two har-
rowings clover and herds grass were sown
ON the whole piece. At the time OF raising
the grain did not intend trying any expert
ment, but the grass seed not having come
nm we'll, the lot was ploughed once in Au.
crust. 1882, and sown with rye, was fed
down with sheep in the fall and also IN spring
until about May; thus atfording suthclent
feed to pay the expense of the seed TOR the
first crop.
After the sheep were taken from the gram
ii was left to grow until about the time II
blossomcd, when it was ploughed under,
and the ground sown with buckwheat-l.2
bashel OF seed to the acre. When the Duck
wheat was in blossom, that also was ploush,,
ed under, of which the ground was suffered
TO remain until short time before 1t was
sovn. when it was again ploughed once
with wheat and rye, October 30. previous
to sowing the wheat, the seed was soaked
about twenty -four hours in brine anu u ai'e., T.
ward rollcdi 10 plaster, where 1t renamed IN
a body twelve or sixteen hours. MY oo'
iec.in treating it in this manner was 10 pre-
~ vcnt smut. and the ravages of the Hesslan
Nv. which has several times destroyed some
ofmy wheat the rye was sownin It's nas-
ural state.
In the spring of 1884 the whole piece
was plastered with about two bushels 10
the acre. 1t was sown for the purpose OF
benefttng the young grass. and it has now
{spring of 1850 come up well, and oids
tair to produce nearly twice the quantity OF
feed usually obtained from it in a season.
The quantity of grain which the piece pro-
duced the past season was as ioitows
Abont one acre was sown with white flat
wheat and Welded l6 bushels-2 3'Sacres
were sowed with red bearded wheat, and
produced 33 bushels, making in all 49 BUSH
els, or IA l.2 to the acre SD OF an acre
was sown with rye and yielded about twelve
being at the rate Of ls l-5 bushels to the
acre. The increase ofthe wheat crop, nc.
cordine to the above estimate was more
than 90 per cent. and that of the rye more
than SO per cent. Had the past season
been favorable for wheat crops, doubt not
that should have obtained eight or ten
bushels more. Perhaps some may think
the plaster caused the last crop TO be better
than the preceding one; but DO not think
j. was, as sowed some on q piece OF rye
the past season, part Of which was LETT
upholstered, and it could not be discovered
that the plaster benefited either rye or
lapd-the soil was the same Us that on whIch
the wheat was sown.
Northamnt0n COur.