The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-06-06
KEEP YOUR LAND RICH.

LUIS - TO DE done by uanunng, by pas
turing, and by alternate crops Caule
and sheep make manure-maDure makes
gram, aud grass, and roois-these 10 return
Iced the family, aud make meat, milk and
! WOOL and meat, milk and wool are virtually
money, the great object Of the farmers
ambition, aud the reward of his labors.-
his IS the farmers magic chain, which,
Kept bright by use, Is ever strong and
sure; but If broken or suffered 10 corrode
by neglect, lis power and efficiency are lest.
You possess all the earthly elements of
good sUIl clay, sand and lime. Its your
duty TO husband and apply The vegetable,
aud most essential element Of frlliiy-ma.
nures. These are as much the food Of
your crops, as our crops are food for your
cattle, or your family and II is as VAIN TO
expect 10 pcrpetuotr good crops without
manure, as it would be to expect fat beef
and fat mutton, from stiG;ed pasture or
buckwheat straw. We see, then, that ina.
nures are tue basis Of good husbandry,
whether We have reference ioi.age or cat
tie farms; and that tllage and cattle re.
c,procaly benefit each other.
It results iron these facts, that farmer
should Oil no more land than he can keep
F.. dry , aud clean and rich ana that he should
keep no more stock than his crops viii feed
vel, and that can be made profitable 10 the
farm.
The farmer who makes bu- thirty bush
els Of corn, dozen bushels of rye, or ion
Of hay, from an acre og laad--and here
are not few Who fall short Of th,s--ls hardly
remuuerated for his labor, bot he who Leis
these measures from half an acre, and eve
~ good farmer ought OF least to do so,
realizes a nett product OF one halt Of the
ya.ua OF his crop, or receives twice as much
TOR hs labor as The FIRST does. The reason
become poor, either from not saving and
applying hrs manure, or from spreading it
and his labor over too much land or by
cropping Il too long, While the other keeps
has land rich, aud thereby saves half his la
bnr How Is this disparity increased,
"nen, INSTEAD Of being double, the crop of
the good iatmer exceeds tina, Of the bad far.
NJ: faur.told, incidents that often happen
On adjoining l1rms IL the latter gets me
hundred dollars per anuum for his labor, the
former gets four hundred dollars Cor his Ia
4 5or No lucoustderahie item tins, in the
aggreglte Of mans lie, or IN the profit
aud loss account Of a large farm.
So wilh animals. The (ood which PAR
-lnony or lndoence, or II Judged economy
dole, out to beast and winch barrly keeps
I hrn two years, wound JDuiccusly fed out,
! iatteu him IN SIX months; aud taereb, con.
vert three quarters II the food into meat,
mdk aud money, winch 10 the ether case, Is
I expended 10 keep the annual alive. Time
/ IS money, a vel ~ faitenug animals aud
/ feeding crops, as 10 other expenditures OF
human labor.
/ Pas,utpg is means Of inducing fertility.
/, IS computed to add twenty per cent. To
/ the fertility Of first rate sHl. All this Is
grown upon the soil. This arises from two
causes. All tia, is grown upon The soil. is
/ returned to IT IN the droppngs OF the AMI.
mails which grszr upon It. Aud IN the Sc.
cond place, when broken up by the plough,
/ the swatd is converted INTO tllage crops,
aud has been found 10 be equivalent, in a
well set sod, 10 more than twelve loads Of
manure on the acre. In thus way sheep
hu>bandry - known Ia enrich lands rapid.
". But thus remark does not apply to
meadows where the crop is carried off, and
40 equivalent returned to the soil, III the
form OF mauure.--Judge BDCl.