The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-04-22
RUR.gL ECOAU.NY:
From the Farmer,s Advocate.

improvement Of Sou ana crops oy Jad!-
cious Culture.
FRIEND SHERWOOD IL have been a
Farmer upwards of forty years and an adj
vocate for Improvement all the time.
Upwards of twenty years past. at the
commencement of the mania for Clover,
&c. &c. was one 10 the rank for I'm.
pro, ement. | aimed 10 initiate the North
ern Farmer with Clover, until | esiima
ted nv loss in round numbers, at five
hundred dollars cost Of seed and loss of
crops, &c. SC.
have since abandoned clover, except
small lot for mich COW, or colts little,
but other grass is better. A rich lot OF
land that will produce heavy crop Of clio
er, will make more profitable crop of oats
the grain for feed, and the straw for feed
or manure. | have al length grown into
system Of farming more suitable TO the soil
and climate Of N. c., than any | have been
acquainted with. The best evidence !
have to that fact, is, that have not missed
crop Of wheat on old fields for the last
twenty years, mean old fields without
manure. | have adopted a system Of 70
ta,ion of crops, which think has proved
10 be the saving Of labor, and The Improve
ment Of crops ard soil first Wheat, Sc
cond Corr, third Oats, or Oats and Rye,
ard the fourth rest, from harreSl TO Au.
gust after coGe year; then commence
coulering deep, opening the earth SO as to
absorb the rain and hold season, TO be
followed up With good two hurse plough,
where the soil is thin touch the clay lit
tie, so as 10 make soil IA the round (; plough
IN lands Of about iwes;y feet wide, IN a
manner rsost suitable 10 save II from wash
ng. This land followed up abou, the mid
die of September, pasture wl1h sheep, To
eat down tho tender grass that may pu, up
to RAISE q stock If uesslaD Ny sheep are
light aud bite close, and will also clean the
fence rows, so that no, the egg Of Hessian
fly will be left and about the middle OF
Ociober commence sowing, one bushel OF
near il 10 the acre--sosiag the lands as
they we're ploughed, and barrow after the
sower the frs, day, aad then cross harrow
the same With good iron ioolbed barrow
Of taeu,y teeth. have not ploughed 10 u
grain Of wheat in twenty years.
| will give you farm Of leo acres,
divided into ioCr thirty scso fields which
can be cultivated with lso hands and two
horses---30 acres IN wheat, 80 10 corn, aud
80 in oats, and 80 resting FOR wheat The
next crop. 80 acres will be good for 100
bushels Of wheat, and the 80 acres in corn
aud 30 10 oats, viii be good for ono hun,
dred barrels OF corn, and oais enough TO
feed those two horses sll tho year, which
IS much better than clover.
This is only beguning--Apply ma.
nure after sowing wheat in October; in
November, gather your corn, and YOU
may, all the month. Of December, unless
very wet, haul your manure aud give your
wheat top dressing--Ihls is the beat time
to pa, manure on wheat laad, the Sun has
then little power to evaporale, and in few
years you will increase 10 fry or an hun
bred fold.
A very small handfal of manure to each
hill of corn at planting, and even after it is
up half leg high, viii much increase your
crop.
have improved some Of my land by a
rotation of crops wilhog, manure. Much
can he done BY ploughing judiciously TO
save land from washing. would recon
mend 10 all farmers Of North Carolina, IN.
less in a limestone Country, to let clover
and roots alone, only po!stoes; excep, FOR
table nse. Irish potatoes planted early,
will yield mora than iot table use some
years, but few understand The proper mode
Of culture.
have lately turned nv attention to hill
side ploughiug With little fall, and on very
lengthy hill sides make horizontal bitches
With descent Of two or three inches 10
the rod, SO that 10 great flood Of rain they
will convey the water of, wlhoat breaking
over my laods or ridges for corn, say
every forty or sixty yafds apart--madc
with two or three burrows aud cleaned out
with the hoe.
Oats ought not 10 be soved as thick es
wheat, say about three pecks to tho acre.
think heavy crep Of weeds is an ex.
hausliag crop, returning TO the soil coat
Of dry stcks-I am nearly aloha in this
opinion. | recommend gTsZing our rested
land, IN the months Of April and May; II
will tend to tho destruction Of filth on the
land, 10 w.t. briars end sassafras.
Dry cattle should DO penued on CALLED
spots, inclosed and Uttered with leaves OF
straw.
|, is very destructive 10 land, to remove
heavy crop of corn and Immediately sou
crop Of wheat
may hereafter say something about
making meadows and hay, &c.
Respectfully,
MICHL HOLT.
From the Farmsrs Register.
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