Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-02-14
TE;ir.sriEsg i'm the Hsill.

For tOrty-five years We have been en-
gagged in the labors of farming or in watch
INC closely the labors of others in the
same vocation. Farmers have ever been
divided on the subject of manuring in the
hill. And now we believe the great ma
jority still continue the practice of put
ting a shovel full of fine manure in the
hill or of spreading some along in the fur
row marked out for the seed
When man has been brought up TO
this mode we find he is 10th to de part
from it. He fears his corn will not find
the manure unless it is put close to the
seed. Many farmers tell us, Oh, it will
do very we'll in your warm land to spread
all the manure, broadcast, but it will not
do on our cold wet and heavy lands
Our answer is that cold, and wet, and
heavy lands should not be planted with
corn. Such lands are best for grass and
potatoes and often for other roots-but
corn can never be proGtably raised in this
part of the country on cold lands.
Corn is like an African and never suf-
fcrs with excessive heat. But every
farm has warm lands on it and these
should be selected for corn. If cold and
wet land is planted with corn we admit
its growth will be so slow at first, without
manure in the bill, that its roots will not
extend sufficiently to be benefited in due
season by the spread manure. 1t should
start more vigorously If we wish it to RI
pen IN season.
BY putting handful of ashes, on each
bill, as s0on as tie corn is corcrcd, we
never fail to start it sufficiently Oh a
ercen-SrGrd (urrow, in any case where
the land is suited to the crop. When it
is not grccn-sward, or the soil has not
much vegetable matter in it to be rot,ed
by means of the lie in the ashes, we re-
; ccivcd no very essential benefit from this
application, the lie has nothing to opcr-
ate on, and the other mattcrin the ashes is
too inconsideraLlc for single handful to
produce sensible effect.
We are aware that corn looks prcttiest
and larger in June when it has had a
shovel full of fine manure in the bill, pro-
vided the worms can kept asleep. And
we admit the crop comes soVncr IL
maturity when forced up in its first
stages by this powerful incentive. Still
there are the most serious objections to
the application OF manurcs in this manner
If we count the extra labor of spread
ing and also putting in the hill, for both
must be done or we obtain more stalks
than corn, we shall find it costs US nearly
double what it would to apply it in one
mode only, for the labor OF spreading IL
, loads on the acre is no greater than The
spreading of 20. The heaps are so nigl
each other the ground is covered by
throwing it only half as far. So if we pu
it in the hill it is nearly as easy to put in
: shovel full as half shovel full.
But unless the whole soil is rich,
shovel full in the hill will produce a large
growth of stalks and but few cars.
> the whole is rich then this large quantit,
, is not wanted in the hill. If we have |,
loads of fine manure we can spread thi
on the surface and commingle it com
: plctcly with the soil of one acre by mean
} Of the harrow-this is less labor than layin
it out in the hill, and the roots will get
. portion Of it Immediately, and as the,
extend they will find it all.
t Thus in almost all cases-and VIC hav
a watched thousand iields-we get a bet
\ ter harvest by spreading on than by put
Il ting in the hill. A trilcIn the hill does n
Il injury, but a shovel full is often a harbo
: for worms that get hold before the root
:, are large enough to protect themselves
- When all aIc agreed that for futur
= crops the land is far better prepared i
} or mode than in the other, should W
: have no rcgardto the permanent improve
:, ment Of the soil ! In many towns nea
~ Boston, we plant our lands with a vie,
principally, to preparing them for gras
again, and for grass-a far more proiIta
bic crop, we never want our manure to b
|, left in hills or heaps. We want it to b
# incorporated with the soil
S If Mr.. W., should spread his fine ma
a nurc along in the turrow-a better mod
V than putting in the hill-he might poss
= bly, Use his Cornplanter to advantas
d though we doubt it.
d We hope he will plant at least a sma
d patch next summer in our mode and W
o promise to come at short notice and sho'
|. him how to hold the Planter - CNitirQtO
It LICE ON CATTLE.
N In February the lice will often driv