Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-10-18


and a full supply is regularly presented a
each.
He sent for me last night into the par
lour. Well, George, said he, how do yor
like your office? Pretty we'll replied, sir
providing l fill it to your pleasure. why
not worse than might be expected from 4.
beginner. Time and attention. 1 hope, viii
produce improvement. But sit down.
promised to explain, some day or other, my
mode OF management. and, having leisure
hour, shall be as good as fay word.
This farm contains altogether about two
thousand acres; and. when it came into my
possession, was divided into eigfa separate
farms but, es had long entetamed- an
inclination to try farming on large scale,
| ventured to take the whole. though al the
time in miserable order. Indeed, it has al.
ways appeared absurd to me. that the occu.
patton of a farmer should. by custom. be
restricted to certain bounds, while the mer-
chant or manufacturer is encouraged to ex-
tend his trade or business propor'ionally to
the extent Of his capital stock. With these
views in my head, and decent sum of
money in my pocket, | settled heie, and
proceeded to realize my former opinions.
This house, and all the adjoining Offices,
were erected by me, the old houses and
steadings being widely scattered over the
ground, and oiIittle use, except such were
preserved for cottages. You see am tol.
erably well provided with accommo 1a,ion
of every kind, both for a great number OF
servants, and large stock of bestIal, which
things arc absolutely necessary, If farming
is mean, to be carried on with comfort and
profit. My landlord aided me in the build.
ings, by furnishing one thousand pounds !;
but the sums have expended, at different
times, are three times above the amount of
the assistance thus obtained; though don't
grudge such expenditure. because consid
er every bal(:penny Of i, TO be we'll applied.
Ii Itrequired considerable time before |
got the farm arranged 10 my mind, much
of il being formerly run-rig, and intersected
BY baIks. However. by summer-fallowing
to grea, exrent, and throwing in plenty Of
clover and rye grass, |. a, last 90, the whole
into regular breaks Of one hundred acres
eoch. Part is enclosed. and considerable
proportion remains open field I; but this !
don't view as attended with much delrimrnf,
where corn is the chief object. The en-.
closures thatsI have a,e good; and this |
consider as of more importance than has.
ing many Of them.
Ny method Of cropping is very simple,
and regulated upon the principle, tf1at me
eartl, delights in variety therefore, | chiefly
follow what is called the alternate husban.
dry. As for regular rotation, in the strict
sense of the Term. | never followed any thing
of that kind, but limited my mode of crop
ping to a sequence of white and green
crops, without studying particularly what
variety of each was 10 be cultivated and
abstractedly speaking. TO take cutn'ferous
and leguminous crops alternately, | hold to
be tho ne plus ultra Of good farming. No
doubt this plan at times has been broke
through, because seasons and other circum.
stances havo rendered departure from IL
necessary but where it can be adhered TO
without material Inconvenience, am clear
that the departure therefrom should be care.
fully avoided.
NV last years crop consisted Of 200
acres of wheat, whereof 100 acres we're at.
ter:summ r fallow, SO acres after turnips,
and 100 after beans and peas; OF
100 acres of barley, whereof 30 acres
we're after ,urnips,' and 100 afer
beans and peas; of 300 acres of oats,
whereof 100 acres were after clover, cul
and used in the stable and straw.yard. and
200 acres afer pasture grass; of200 acres
of beans and peas, most oflhem drilled 100
acres of clover and rye.grass sown amongst
falow wheat and 500 acres ofpas'ure grass.
These, with 200 ac,es in summer fallow,
turnips and potatoes, comPrehended the
whole Of my farm, and in my humble opn.
ion, made the system SO complete as almost
10 ensure succession ofgood crops.
You will stfend' that as ] SOW grass seeds
along with the grain that succe'ds summer
fallow and turnips, and also with 100 acres
of barley, which followed drilled beans. !
am enabled to retain the like number OF
acres each season in grass because three
breaks of grass, one alter cut clover, and
two after old pasture, are PIoughed in each
year. This gives regularity 10 labor al.
ways desirable; and serves, undera parity
Of circumstances, 10 keep the whole OF my
farm in equal and uniform good order.
by no means, however, adhere 10 the mum.
her of acres in each grain condesc'ndeo
upon as forming the crop of last year. De-
cause have sometimes taken wheat on '!'e
| clover break, and at other iimes have sub
stiluted barley for whea' on the bre'Es
which had carried beans and peas. MY
aim is to have clumiferous and legumnous
crops alternately and this being attained
am no, rigidly s'udious to preserve tne
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