Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-08-09
state, as a matter of fact, what, at best, is.
only probable conjecture.

qualities. Part OF II tnln loanl, part of q,
sandy nature, and the remainder approach.
ing TO thin clay but all upon bottom 70.
tentive Of moisture. After pasturing the
field for one year, we applied lime upon the
sward, at the rate of 40 Linlithgow barley
bolls, of240 bushels per Scots acre. The
lime was partly hot but the greatest par, of
il was efete, which must necessarily be The
case when lime is hutled. unless the huts are
completely covered No difference, how.
ever, was discovered in the operation. from
the state in which the article was applied.
First year-The crop was oats. The
season being excessively dry, little benefit
was got from the lime.
Second year--We fallowed the field
completely, and dressed il with dung, atthe
ruto-ef ess..sea donhle perScots acrs.
Third year-We sowed barley and grass
seeds. The crop ofbarley was very good.
Fourth year-The field was dePastured.
with cattle.
Fifth ysar-I, was ploughed for oats,
Crop excellent.
Sirth year-We drilled the field with
pease and beans, after two ploughings, Which
were managed as already described the
crop was of great bulk, and produced fully
nine bols per acre. -.
Seventh year-Wheat was sown, and The
crop was excellent.
Field, No. 1l.-The soil was Of an 10.
ferior kind of loan, upon close bottom.
The year when this field was last under
sumner.fallow, we applied lime to q part
of it, by way oftrial. Dung was gwen
likewise. We sowed barley and grass seeds.
We took a crop Of hay, and ploughed ior
oats. Every one Of these crops was arik-
ingly superior, where lime had been given;
indeed, the superiority was recognizable at
considerable distance.
Field, No. l2.-The soil was chiefly q
heavy deep loan some Of it a strong,
tenacious red clay, but almost wholly ia'
cumbent upon close bottom.
We ploughed this field from old grass,
and sowed It with oats. It was summer.
fallowed in the second year, and dressed
with lime, which was mostly applied hos
from the kiln being drawn from the cat
in regular sized heaps of Ave pecks eactS
or thereby, and spread the moment i was
slaked by rain, or atmospherical moisture.
About two. thirds of the field received 80
barley bolls, or 500 bushels per acre the
remainder from Cot 20 bolls per acre ;and
the operation appeared to be in direct pro-
portion to the quantity applied nor was
there any distinction dscernable, betsiSt
what was applied hot, and what was com.
ple,ely efsts; some oft indeed, the seas
son being remarkly wet, was nearly ia
mortar state the whole answered well, and
operated Immediately.
II was noticed, in this field, that few
ridges. on which the lime was spread in p
winday day, carried crops rather inferior to
those Of the contiguous ones we apprehend
that the most valuable particles Of the lime
had been carried of: :.and would recommend
that spreading should be discontinued,
when high wind arises.
Much difference Of opinion having pre-.
vailed, relative to the quality Of the several
limestone quarries in the neighborhood, Q
trial was made of lime from each Of them,
upon six adjoining ridges Of the above field.
Though difference to the eye vas visible
in almost euery one Of these samples, yet
the effect upon the groand was, from all Of
them precisely simila. nor could the moot
accurate judge say which was the greatest.
The quantity applied in each case was the
same and the operations Of laying on the
lime, spreading it, and ploughing the
ground, were all carried on in an uniform
manner.
Field, No. l3.--Consis!ed Of loan Of
different varieties, upon bottom inclined TO
wetness, and the ridges lying 10 broad and
serpentine state.
We ploughed for oats, and then took
drilled beans, which were succeeded by
wheat. The first and last crops suffered
much from the grub. We fallowed the
field 10 the fourth year, cleaving 10 differ.
eut breadths, and cross ploughing the ridges.
alternately, till the. surface was completely
levelled then formed the ground into eigh.
teen fee. ridges, applied twelve double cart
loads of dung, about one ton each, and fifty
barley bolls Of lime, to the Scots acre.
The lime was laid on no, from the kiln.
and spread as fast as it was pulverized.
This quantity was found rather too much
for the sof,est part Of the field, which, after
all, is circumstance that rarely happens;
but on the remainder the fermentation was
not greater than necessary; and from this
part of the field, the best crops have been
procured, though the ridges were both bigh.
er and broader, and required more dwellings
than the other.
We may now draw few plain and proc
tical inferences from what is stated.
lst, That lime operates equally well,
whether applied in hot Or efsss state pro.
yided the condition Of the groupd upon