Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-11-08

1 civilization. They have found out that no
doiag merely is to b. made by it, bu
'money may, fortunes and this is a se.
cret which we wish TO circulate in other re.
gIofs, where at present the richness Of the
sof, the general climate, speculation, tran
sent circumstances, and good luck, are
more relied on than skill, and where agri-
culture is made 10 fact a mere shift rather
than science, or even business. Let us
illustrate ous meaning by few fresh speci.
faens Of Yankeeism. Take peat land to
kgin with. In some sections of this conn.
trv there is vast deal of il entirely waste.
lNotso in Massachusetts-not so 10 Middle.
Mex county at leasi. Dr.. Jackson, 10 bis
third Geological Report On Maine, gives Us
| a letter from Nc. Phianey,- Of L-.;ngoa,
Massachusetts,, wpo says that he considers
peat grounds by far the most valuable part
of bis Grm-more valuable than his wood
lol, for fuel, and more than double the value
Of N equal number Of acles Of his uplands
Tor the purposes of cultivation.
Sme years since, It appears, he occa.
siomlly sold to his neighbors few rods of
his leat land yearly to be cut out for fuel,
a! thee dollars per rod, being at the rate Of
fourhundred and eighty dollars per acre /;
but indIng the sum to be less in ITS value
for Cultivation, especially when laid TO grass,
he his declined making further sales at that
prce He has raised on his reclaimed
meatows, he adds, seventy five bushels of
corr, FIVE hundred bushels of potatoes, or
from four to five tons Of the best hay, at a
6rs and second cutting, 10 the acre, at a
les expense oflabor aud manure than would
berequired to produce half this crop upon
tn, uplands. He subjoius an account Of
tn, process by which these results arc OBJ
taned, but our purpose is effected by call.
ing attention to the subject, and for the de-
taib we must refer to the report above cited,
or the New England Farmer Of Sep,em-
Der llth. But we must not omit to mention
,haltulage Is but one use Of peat lands.-
Mr.. P. says: II have for twenty years past
reserted 10 my peat meadows for fuel
These, with the prunings Of my frui! trees,
and the brush from my uncleared lands,
have given me my whole supply" This.
ia some sections, is great consideration.
There is something very pleasant. too. in a
peat light. The smoke does not iniure the
eyes, and it is in every way more healthy
than coal. One hint more:
81 have annually, for some years past,
used on my farm some hun ireds Of loads Of
mud: ,nh;ah-ia atsess~ fa$e svsyhoS
stye or mixed with fresh stable dung or
lime. When mixed with green stable ma.
nure, the proportions are two parts of peat.
mud 10 one of dung; and | ar confident,
from repeated experiments. that q load Of
this compost we'll mixed and fermented will
give as great produce, and more perma.
nent improvement to the soil than the same
quantity of stable manure"
This Mr.. Phinney appears to understand
himself all round. He is the gentleman Of
whom It was lately stated that he cleared
three thousand dollars by his hogs. This.
g ao oS Ses es confess.
hundred, besides pigs.
Again. we have an account ofthe farm OF
Col. Moore, Of Concord, same county,
Much Of his land, few years since, was
thought worthless, and, by the mass of fer.
mcrs themselves, low, soggy, meadow, land
covered with dog wood and skunk.cabbase
Nothing daun,ed, however, the Colonel went
to di,ching and draining, and so on, and the
result is, tha, he has at this moment thirty
acres Of reclaimed meadow, which. for
grass or any other crop, he is not afraid 10
compare with any thirty acres in The county
Of Middlesc1 that might be selected from
one or dozen farms.
tie cut last year from eighty.fo rods Of
this meadow, by actual weight, Of we'll
made hay 3,e05 pounds, and is confident
that he has taken this year at the rate Of
four tons per acre. He has also raised at
the rale Of ninety bushels Of corn to the
acre. We have never seen, says our in.
formanf, more promising field ofruta ba.
gas, or finer oats than were growing a. the
present time on his place.
Take another illustration. A late New
England Farmer gives an account Of a
Mr.. Penniman's place at Dedham, nea.
Boston. 1t contains about one hundred
acres. Mr.. P. is Bostonian, and has ia.
ken it recently. The first thing he did was
to make geological surrey ofhis premises,
and he was rewarded by the discovery o'
two valuable mines, viz. One of fine gran.
ite where stones of almost any description
may be got out for uuderpinning, door-stePs
&c. very valuable in Dedhum, as there is
deficiency Of good granite for building
Secondly, valuable mine of meadow ma
nure of which there is an inexhaustihle sup
ply. II remarked that, although this farm
has been cultivated probably from the frs