Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-04-19

observed, by night and by day they pillage, waste
and destroy more of our properly than all the rest
of our enemies, excepting rum and tobacco. Let
us set our faces against them, watch them close,
and extirpate the first, radically from cur corn
fields, and the latter from our houses then, and
not till then, shall we have peace and plenty, with
the voice of health, both in borders and in our
dwellings. Weeds are of noxious growth, quick
err and more succulent than any of the grains:
they therefore exhaust the soil more and quicker
than the grains, and they also rob all plants In their
vicinity, of the ertlzing properties OF the air, and
thus doubly destroy our crops and interest ltyou
wish for any illustration upon this idea OF nutrition
afforded to plants from the air, examine such small
trees grow contiguous to large ones, or such corn
other heritage grows near to tree, or other
or heritage which is greater; the lesser will
take their growth in direction from the larger, for
the purpose of drawing from the air that nutrition
which the larger robs it of upon the side next to It,
Thus we see that every weed that springs up In
our corn-felds, becomes tax upon our industry,
or upon our profits, the first is necessarily so 1t
is a part of the original curse-the latter, which
is not only the worst-but may become rulnous, is
the effect of our own neglect.
Weeds, when watched and extirpated in season,
are subdued at a small expense with little damage;
but when elected their extirpation is attended both
with expense and damage; thus, by neglect, we suf-
fer double loss. Worse than this; one year S neg
lect will cause years toll and seven years
damage; so the other hand, one years close at
ention to wedding, will give years ease, with
their profits: take your choice. To guard against
the common enemy far as possible, would re-
commend the following attention:
l. Plant such lands with potatoes corn, as are
infested with grass and noxious weeds. The plough
and hoe together, can alone destroy this enemy.
2. Suffer no weeds to seed your lands, either in
autumn or summer.
3. Be careful that your seed grain is clean, and
free from all foul seeds.
a. Remove every noxious weed from your hedg-
es and fences, which can expose your fields to the
effects of their seeds.
5. Weed your corn with plough and hoe; not af-
ter the weeds grown, but as soon as they begin
to appear. One crop is enough for one piece Of
land at one time; and if you suffer weeds to grow
with your corn, you will have in fact but crop,
and that will be aceeds. Your corn will be only
nominal crop.
6. Weed your wheat, rye, barley, oats, and flax;
the profit will be great upon either of these crops
as upon your corn, and the expense comparatively
small.
Whatever may be the nature of your soil, and ST.
tuation of your farm, remember, that there is no
soil so good, but it may be exhausted, and ruined
by bad tllage, and that there is none so bad that
cannot be rendered fertile by good tlage.
The true art of husbandry consists in suffering
no crop to grow upon your land that will so far ex-
haust your SOIL as to lessen the value of your sue
ceeding crop, whatever profit such crop may af
ford you. TO avoid this, suffer crop to grow
two years successfully, upon the same piece of
ground, excepting grass and buckwheat, without
the fertilizng aid of rich manures to support the
strength of the SOIL and even then change of
crops will generally do best, excepting onions, car
rots, and hemp. Every plant derives from the earth
for its growth, such properties as peculiar to it.
self without lcssening its powers to produce some
other plants; this fact is most striking in the article
of flax, which will not bear to be repeated oftener
than in seven years, and is common to all
crops, with the exception of those noticed as above
To avoid this evil arrange your farm into such d.
visions will enable you to improve all the variety
of crops your lands may require, in such regular
succession as to form routine of 5, 6, years,
according to the nature, quality, and situation OF
your farm. This method will make poor land good
and good land better.
Harrowing.-No instrument of husbandry re-
quires the judgment of the farmer more than the
harrow; it is capable of doing the most good and
hurt at the same time, of any other instrument.
The harrow in field husbandry, answers to the rake
in gardening, and cannot be made to pulverize your
tage lands too fine but if this is done after your
seeds are sown it will cover them often too deep,
and thus injure your crop; and in flax and hemp,
often double the labor in pulling; and In your grass
seeds, by covering too deep will destroy their
| growth WHEATLAND.
| April 8, 1912.
TNE TELECRlPH.