Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1838-11-01
Miscellaneous.
From tie Southern Agricuhurist.

From tie Southern 1gricutfuriSt
INDIAN Conn on WORN OUT LANp.-In
some paris of our country it has been said it
ptost more to raise Indian Corn than il was
worth. and the notion prevailed that the
Hand must be strong, highly manured. well
ipl0ugled and hocd. or it would no, produce
half The value of the labor bestowed upon
II. 1t can be proved that worn on, fields as
they are called. can be made available even
without manure,a las an experiment ofi''c fol-
lowing kind has proved. Take the field as
it lays, break it with a plough having a
sharp coulter. ami a share about the fourth
the siz and weight of the common plough
shares, a furrow hoard which will follow the
coulter edgcways. turning the burrows over
in somewhat a spiral form. With this
plough which requires only a single horse.
plough 81 iurrow through the whole length
The side next to- which the furrow was turned,
throwing up another furrnw against the
Grsl. Al four feet from this, plough anulh-
er iurrOw ~ the same manner; and SO on,
leaving d space of four feet belwecm the
double burrows through the whole Icngtnn!
tie field. Upon these double burrows plant
potatoes, leaving u space of four feet be-
tween each hill. A horse, with Two boys
will plough aud plant two and a half acres
10 Il day. When the potatoes come ul' and
van, tending. two boys with Il horse and
,I,n.l, ,.:l ,,r, ,,n,kor E,rroyy ,f fkn mn
ploushed ground towards the potatoes on
each side. and dress them with their hoes III
ON, day, AT half killing, repeat aud The
whole field will be ploughed. At killing.
The field must be cross %ploughed, the earth
thrown towards the crop each way, "a d
dressed with the hoe. BY this mode, iw"
acres aud n half TO every horse and TWO
hoys. can be completely titled III four days,
while in tbc Common way of managing
gr0uud, the labor of u man u boy and Nv"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES spring fol-
lowing plough between every two rows Of
the oil pola,oe hills, two burrows. which are
to oe thrown one against the other, and
plant your corn upon Them wilhoutauy ma
nure. The p~IouahIng and planting as be-
fore, can be lone by the same force; in the
same time and al the same rate by all your
force. My corn was husbandcd in the
same manner as my potatoes were the year
before. A field on the other side of the
fence, much of the description and size of
mine, (uron which | experimentcd) was
iyyn n ,S nn,l a halrin ,,ln,ohin. anil ,,irr,
ing, with one man.. a boy, and two horses.
with a comon plough. This field was plant
ed the same day as mine, and was well
dunSed. My corn made its appearance
about Two days before my ncishhors', rip.
ened aboui Il lnr:niShi earlier, and | had the
larscs, crop. | continued to plant corn in
the same land. between the old hills as be-
lore mentioned, without carving on it any
mannrc-the crops increasing about two
bushels every year.
shrewdly suspect there is no part of the
world where SO many old fields lay out Il
dead tax to their owners, which with proper
Industry and tillaSe, would yield a profit
The foregoing is an experiment without
manure, aud yet the adjoining field tended
al a much greater expense of manure. time
and labor,did nor yield SD much. The diff
f'rent results show conclu>ivcly that the in.
'rinsIc value of land. is 10 be asrertaimed on
J., by its being property worked. Tao
many seek the West because they are too
lazy to work; too indolent, even TO think
whether they may improve their lands bN
manure. or their produce by some new mode
of culture. | think the Atlantic States,
should make their runaway children paw
Tie penalty ofingratitunr. in the shape of IA
tax on every negro. horse, 81, and ON cvery
dollar they take Out of them, 10 their i'm
PoverIshmcnt, and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
The West. Right or wrong. that is NV
opinion. will probably trouble YOU again
ere long. Yours with respect.
EXPERIMENT.