Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-07-05

oo'''' '>~''Oe A~S' ySoi3 W <hGjs hH'p AS'S
told, one ofour most enterprising farmers
one to whom our community are largely in
debtcd for the impetus given to our agricul-
tural Improvements
On one field Of % acres, he raised 2,2-
16 bushels, about 100 "a bushels per acre.
On another field, 80 acres, he raised 90.
40 3-4 bushels, about IS bushels per acre.
On do. 81 acres he raised 1919 bushels,
about 81 bushels per acre. ~
79 acres-total crop 6,2s4 10 bushels.
averaging for the whole crop of &c acres,
near 80 bushels to the acre-and all this
upon soil that was not naturally as good
as greater part Of the soil of this country;
and brought up within the last ten years,
from an extreme state of poverty.
Ihayc obtained from Maj. Reybold,
statement ofthc mode adopted by him for the
Improvement Of his land, as well as the cul-
tivation ofthc crop of corn here referred TO,
which is us follows: On the field of %
acres, about 7ycars ago, he put 60 bushels
Of stone lime to the acre and planted it in
corn, in the following spring he put it in
oats, and in tho fall put on about 40 loads Of
barn yard manure to the acre, and sowcd it
in wheat and timothy seed, and in the ensu-
ing spring with clover. 1t remained in
grass until last spring, receiving an intcrme-
diate top dressing in 1888. of 40 loads OF
barn yard manure per acre. lie moved 1t
for or successive years, and each year
obtained from2 l-2 to 3 tons of hay per
acre. Last spring he gave it another top
dressing of 40 loads per acre of long ma
nure, which was permitted to remain as
long as possible in order to give the grass
chance of starting through it. He then
ploughedi it up about ten inches deep, with
a No. 5 cancave plough, which completely
covered the manure; he then gave it
stroke with the harrow along the course OF
the plough furrows, and then crossways, and
struck it out very shoal, 3 l-2 feet from the
centre to centre each way. After the corn
came up, he narrowed it both ways with the
fallow harrow, and from that, until the first
of July, he gave it.three dressings with the
cultivator (tluke harrow first crossing the
plough tracks in ten or twelve days the
other way, being very careful not to disturb
the manure by going too deep, with the cui.
tivator. The plough was never used IN the
field after planting, and the corn thlnned so
as to leave good stock in the hill. When
the corn become fit 10 top and blade he cut
it off by the ground and put it up in shocks.
The field of 30 acres-one half he cov-
cred with oyster shell lime, 100 bushels to
the acre, and acres with mari, IL loads to
the acre, and previous to planting in corn,
the whole field was covered with 40
loads oflong manure per acre. The pro.
duce of the ground on which the lime and
mari were put, was about equal, and cx-
ceeded that Of the ground which had not the
benefit oIthe lime and mari, about l2 to 10
| bushels per acre as near as he could Judge.
| The field was planted and titled in the same
way us the one described. In order to test
the advantage of the cutivator over the
plough, for tng corn, he had 5 burrows In
this field that he Tapped the furrow to, with a
plough, previous 10 going over 1t the last
time with the cultivafor. He soon discoy-
cred that the growth Of those five years fell
short, inheight, ofthosc adj djaccnt, and yield
ed onc-fth less corn.
There is no doubt but this mode Of TILL
ing corn, especially where the soil ground is
used, is, to plough deep, and TO use nothing
but the fallow and fluke harrow for its cultl-
yation. BY not disturbing the sod plough
ell down, it remains there as reservoir OF
moisture, and an cxhiarating principle
throughout the season, to the growth Of the
corn. 80
The third field of 81 acres was covered
with about 80 loads of manure to the acre,
in the spring of 1884, and 6 or I years
ago, 60 bushels of stone lime, per acre, was
out upon it. The planting and mode ofcul-
tivation was the same. | might here re-
mark, that all the second, and part OF the
third field, were in corn, the year before last.
JAMES N. SUTTON.
St. Georges, Delaware, March 5, 1886.
Notc.-The management which led to the
extraordinary product of corn, should be
deeply impressed upon the mind OF every
corn grower. /, The ground was reH dung.
ed with long manure; 2, it was planted on
grass ley with one deep ploughing; 8, it was
pulvcrized with theharrow; 4, the plough was
not used in the after culture, nor the corn
billed, but the cultivator only used; 5, the
sod was not disturbed, nor the manure turn.
ed to the surface; and 6, the corn was cut
at the ground, when it was fitto top. These
are the points which we have repeatedly
urged in treating of the culture OF this crop;
and their correctness isput beyond question
bv this notable result. The value Of lime
and mari arc well illustrated in the, second
experiment. Conductor efthe Cmtrator.
RITTER.