Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-09-20


with the plough. Ifthe rye come TO ma.
turty before you are ready to plant peas,
you may top the grain !; or top in the milk,
if the you have time. If the land be very
poor, this plan is usually adopted two sue
cessWe seasons, ard then it wi! afford an
abundant crop Of any thing. The appear
ance Of the sol is now changed: it acquires
a vegetable mould, not to be exhausted for
many years. You may readily conclude
what the effect will be upon the soil by turn
ing under, first, growth ofrye, and then
agrowth of pea-vnes. Nothing, 10 my
own knowledge, rs more renoyating to land
than pea.vincs. They are friable, III may
be allowed to usethc word, and incorporate
immedlately y with the earth, and thus give,
from this combination. direct impulse 10
plants, whhout firing then.. or obsirpcting
the morion, or spreading oftheir roots. /
am told that the crop Of peas will, Of itself,
pay for the seed used, andih price Of Ia
bor: so that the Improvement of the soil is
SO much gained. ~-s''--. ~ ~
Writing ofreplenisbing soils, puts me in
mind OF whnt very successful planter, in
Edgefeld District, Is sin.the habit of doing
every year. He plants about one hundred
acres ofrye, oats, or wheat, in the proper
season; gathers tlem.in: and stacks them
in The field: when he has laid by his crop,
or whenever he can spare time, he gathers
the grain IN this manner He sews pieces
Of cotton bagging togetber-sprcads it.oul
as a carpet-places the rye, oa.s, or, wheat
on the same, and makes the little boys. o!
the plantation ride horses upon it, until all,
or nearly all, OF the grain is detached from
the stubbIe. He then gathers the seed, and
stacks the stubble in every part ofthe field.
Not only his o,ra cattle, bu; his neighbors.'
are now let in, whicl,tramplc the soil as
they MUNICH and scatter the s;ubble in every
direction. In February, the field is broken
up with the plough, and cotton or ce IN
planted. This PLANTER always makes fine
crops, and sells many hundred bushels of
small gram every year. A. better plan OF
ob:aining the grain might be suggested
The sheafmight be deprived Of lis grain by
beati9G,it on arail, as is done in some parts
of the IVES, and in Europe By pursh
ing this course, this plan!er, who originally
purchased large tract of land, says, he
has cleared very few acres, and has made
abundant crops fro:n lis old fields, which
were thrown out for their sterility. We
should take the hint Mr.. Edi;or, sand do
likewise. Let US not be running to the
West, when, by ittls industry, we may
improve our soils. Every citizen is want
ed at home! We shall have need of them
shortly.
Yours,
P.S. had almost forgot tosmention
how some the planters of North Carolina
replenish their corn.lands. Early in the
fall they cover their fields with leaves or
trash, and turn them under with the double
horse-dagan or the crow. bar; oats is then
planted, rather late in the season. with tao
rake or harrow, broad cast, for pea-crop,
which is abundant. Peas riot in vegetable
matter partially decayed. This ! have
seen; for the most abundant crop ever
gathered, was when manurei my corn
with leaves the corn was "tery sorry"
while the pass were vigorous. Thereason
was this the leaves did not decompose in
time 10 benefit the corn, while later in the
season the peas had the benefit Of thcm.
The ploughng oftfe leaves should be deep,
and they should be afaciually covered to
plant oats or rye with any hope Of success;
but the peas may be planted at all events,
and the same remark could be made OF
wheat, s.nce new ground is said by some to
yield good wheat crops. When the land
is thus replenished, the North. Carolinians
rarely, fever plant corn the first year: the
plant mos, generally fires if they do.