The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-05-13
CHARLOTTE, N. C., MAY 10. 1871.
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From tie Precedence RePub. Herald.
co TO WORK THE RIGHT WAY.

admAltious am ABOUT TO give. Depend
upon it, you 90 not " ,oork Il righi " or you
would make your laru,s Just twice rs vaua.
az they now are. Many of you fd,m too
much. You would fad II much more profit.
nble 10 farm twenty acres well. than forty
By halves The las, sco-on | made my
grounds produce at the rate Of one hundred
! bushels OF Indian cora 10 the acre. Is Inns
Dui much better than cGiHa0n crop Of
thirty or or.y bushels You will certain
y say /, is, aud with tue same breath ask
! how manage to make Il produce so plen
! iilully! Ny land being much infested with
ground nice, or noies, and orerrun SiIh
grubs, ard other vefmin, put on early Ia
/ the month OF March, about seven bushels At
salt to the acre, which thoroughly destroys
! all kind Of vermln, being an excellent siFoug
manure, ard plnughcd aud narrowed the
ground over aud over until /; became com
| pleleiv mellow then .j every corn hole
! filled with long mature, aud after dropping
my corn, which had previously been soak
1 ed IN warm water / scattered pint oi
/ lime over every hill, and then covered the
whole with little mellow earth. In about
week the corn began 10 come up plenti,
| fully, after which / Dursed il with the
! plough and hoe, every other week for eight
weeks, al which titne Il was as high as my
bend, and no, a spirc Of i was destroyed
either by frost, grub or birds. My other
things / nauured ard equally well, and
have been amply paid for all my extra care
/ aud trouble, as raised more than twice as
much per acre as any Of my neIghbors, and
! did 1t IN much less time. / mean got oil
my harvesting dooe two or three weeks be
fore many others. This is accomplished
IN grea, measure BY rsdeeming time rls.
ing between three aud four o'clock 10 the
morning, then If tho day he sultfy and hot,
! I lie by from / , to and rest, then feel
refreshed aud able to work I'LL quite dark,
This I call "working Il right" whereas
should lay in bed nul.i the sun be up and
shame ne, haunt The ;ayorn al night, drink
too much whiskey, but half manure, hal
plough, half plant, half nurse, half harvest
and do every thing By halves, surely should
no, ,rork il right nor get half crop.
shall now conclude BY giving you, for
further considerations. few excellent OBJ
seryalous, from wiser head, perhaps
than my own, and hope that every brother
! farmer will do likewise.
"iofen say 70 myself, VIVA, pity il il
cur farmers do not ,c0rk ii right. v hen
see q man turn his cattle into the road to
run q, large, aud waste their manure during
winters day, say tha, man does not pork
/ 4 right. Ten loads of good manure, at
least, is lost 10 a season, by this sloyenly
practice; and all Cor what For nothing
indeed, but 10 ruin his farm.
go, when see cattle late in the fall and
early in a. spring, rambling IN meadow
or moving field, pounding the SOIL and
breaking the grass roots, say to myself
I this man docs not uori il rigid.
so, when sec barn yard with drar
TO il, say thus ran docs not uork il right
for how easy il is TO nake yard hollow, OF
lowest in the middle 10 receive the moisture
and all the wash OF the sides which vii
thus be KEEP, dry for the cattle The WASH
and moisture of the yard mixed with ANY
kind ur ootth, putrid straw, is eXcelen
manure, yet how much do not our iarmcr
lose BY ueeIecllng Ihese things, in fact the.
do not tp0rk il right.
when see a farmer, often going 10
retailers store, with bottle or jug, o
lounging about tavern or wrangIing abou
politics, or qusrreling with and deiamlu,
his neighbour good name, Iam certain sue
a man does not ,sork il right.
AN OLD FARMER.
Mil9ep in lVbedt-At a late state
meeting Of the Philadelphia Society for th
promotion of Agriculture, a paper was reat
which ascrihed the disease Of Mldew il
Wheat 10 the common practice of SEWN,
Grasses with Wheat, which occasion a
J undue degree of moisture around the stalk
Impeding lis growth at time when sun
: shine and air are most needed. The thee
, ~ was supported by many facts, such a
/ freedom from the disease IN q Wheat iiel
! whore " heat was sowcd without GrGs:
between two fields sowed with Grass az
|. which suffered greatly from mildew; ais
/ the freedom from midew of Wheat in
5 strip Of land omitted 10 be sewed with Gras
while tho rest Of the field was much inlul
led. Other facts were adduced, sustalne
. by the laws Of vegetable physiology. 0
+ the other hand, il remains TO be accouuie
). Tor that many farmers had never been visI
t ed with midew, although 10 the constai
: practice of sowing Grass seed with the
!. Wheat or Barley Richmond Compile
ii For Bots in HorSeS.-A Junk bottle fl
Of strong sage tea, made very sweet vii
= molasses. Two or three doses is general
sufficient for cure.
Pearl Ash or Salaratus, put into the PHI
of the Poll Evil or Fistula, is said to bo
IS sovereign for these incuTables.
Fortune is painted blind, that sho ma
not blush 10 behold the fools who belong