Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-06-03
From the Providence Republican Herald
GO TO WORK THE RIGHT WAY.
ADDRESSED TO FARMERS.

ADDRESSED TO FARMERS.
am sorry there is so much need Of the ad-
monitious am about to give. Depend upon
1t, you do "not work it right" or you would
make your farms Just twice as valuable as they
now are, Many you farm too much. You
would find it much more profitable 10 farm
twenty acres WELL, than forty by halves. The
last season made my grounds produce one
hundred bushels Of Indian corn to the acre.
Is'this not much better than common crop Of
the thirty or forty bushels You will certainly
say it is, and with the same breath ask how
manage to make it produce so plentlullyl My
land being much infested with ground mice, or
moles, and overrun with grubs and other viz
mini put on early in the Month of March, a.
boutscven bushels of salt to the acre, which
thoroughly destroys all kind of verinln being
excellent strong manure, and ploughed and
came completely, mellow; then had every corn
hole filled with long manure, and after dfop-
ping my corn, (Which had been previously, soak
ed in warm water,) lscattered pint oil lime
over every, hill, and then covered the whole
with little mellow earth. In about a week the
corn began to come up pentifully, after which
Inursed it with the plough and hoe, every
other week for eight weeks, at which time 1t
was as high as my head, and not a spre of it
was destroyed either by frost, grub or Birds
My other things manured and equally well,
and have been amply paid for my extra care
and trouble, as raised more than twice as much
per acre as any ofmy neighbors. and did it in
much less time. mean, gol all my harvest
ing done two or three weeks before many 9TH
ers, This is accomplished in great measure
by redeeming time rising between three and
four o'clock in the morning, then if the day be
suItry and hot, lie by from II to 3, and rest,
Ithen feel refreshed and able to work till quite
dark. This call "working it right" whereas,
should lay in bed until the sun be up and
shame me, haunt the tavern at night drink, too
much whiskey, but half manure, half plough,
half plant, halfnursc, half harvest, and do every
thing by halves, I surely should not "work it
right, .norget half a crop.
Ishall now conclude by giving you for further
considerations, few excellent observations,
from wiser head, perhaps than my own, and
hope that every brother farmer will do likewise,
II often say to myself, what pity It's our
farmers do not work it right. When see
man turn his cattle into the road 10 run at large
and waste their manure, during winters day
I say that man does not work it right Ten
loads of good manure, at least, is lost in sea-
son, by this slovenly practice; and oil for what7
For nothing indeed but to ruin his farm.
$50, when see cattle late in the fall and eur
ly in the spring, rambling in meadow or
moving field and pounding the soil and break
ing up the grass roots, say to myself, this man
does not work it right.
$50, when see barn-yard with drain-to
it, say this man does not work itright for how
easy it is to make yard hollow, or lowest in
the middle to receive the moisture and all the
wash of the sides which will thus be kept dry
for the cattle. The wash and moisture Of the
yard mixed with any kind Of earth or putrid
straw, is excellent manure yet how much do
not our farmers lose 10y negeciins these things.
in fact they do not work itright,
"When see farmer often going to retail
ers store, with bottle or jug, lounging about
tavern or wrangling about politics, or quarrel
ling with and defaming his neighbors' good
name, am certain such man does not work
it right" AN OLD FARMER.