The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-01-25

greahd daring the spring fTosis. This
expanding Of he snlfare. IL We may -
cal i, iiiss he nools IL he heat ~, and
ether breaks them "a. o., uhen slle
grtund settles again. hey ere lell expos
ID 70 skt veaiheF, and perish. We haze
10 donhs thal Ills i The eanse. III ms
NJ psEis 81 The Aroossook snunlry. ard
esea s lar noEih = Msdawaska. they can
ra.se winter wheat very well. We once
saw tie best rrsp IL inter wheat IN Na-
sarlis- . town on The AE00si0ok liver
ahai we ever saw any where. In that
sersinn 81 Tie stale. he snows fall early
in Aalamn and continue lage IL tie Spring.
This rcrers the earth Ike blanket. and.
Of course, there i no rising ~ falling n
tie soil. Indeed. lie earth itself i hard
III frozen, notwithstanding the, allenssmes,
iasessse suisl = lIeil y MT mere. Tnnfl
wheat vas Formerly saiscd very well II
fsiis viriniiy, and can be now, on !. burns'
Or new land recently cleared. The wiiicr
above referred 10. says The same i The
rase in his section; bni Tint on cid land
there i, olienlimes, great complaint ihal
the crop i winter killed. We attribute
lie difference 10 this facl. that in new
lands there i covering Of loose mould,
nr scnrf, which prevents this elevation by
Tie fr0s's. and therefore the eropsucceeds.
We have no doubt he Is correel. Il Is as
tnaishmg uhafa difference liulecoyering
Of litter viii make, in regard 10 The ELECTS
Of i'osts We once planted some Of the
white mulberry seed, late in the seasnn.
They did not grow very large, and We
thought them hardly worth taking up 10
PIT into The cellar, during tile winter, for
preservation, or covering over with any
thing. In February, during 4 ihaw, tie
snow was melted from them. and on ex-
amina,ion We found them in good condi-
lion. Succeeding SHOWS came and lar on
until the last Of March, when Tie ground
ghere they were was again laid bare.
We still found them in good condition.
but on visiting them Few days after. we
discovered that The freezing and lhawing,
which had been going on. had lifted them
up from their places, and by the middle
Of April, the surface Of ihe ground was
covered with their yellow fbrons roots,
some Of them broktn off. and all Of them
dead. We noticed tia, some patches that
wrrc covered with . very Thin covering
Of horse-siable litter were not thus dis
iurbet, aud also where some grass and
small weeds had fallen around few, they
were not destroyed in ills way. owing
wholly to the protection thus afforded
them. for The soil was Of The sauna aaais.
W and texture throughout.
Mr.. Mellen's observations are 10 the
same effect. We quote the following
from his remarks:--" The question re-
ours, can fall sown wheat. be successfully
raised on old land in the regions where
il ilourished when the lands were new!
| maintain il can, and will give the re-
suits of my observations. Many years
since, | knew farmer in the county Of
Saratoga, TO succeed we'll in cullivaiing
the crop Of f1il sown wheat when his
neighbors wholly failed and abandoned
The crops, BY reason Of its freezing ont.
This successful farmer prepared manure
from his harnyard, the straw, serapings
of the yard, &C., and put these ingredi-
ents into cnmpos, heaps. lie summer
fallowed or sufficiently plowed his land,
from which he had taken crop, and then
smooihed the burrows with the Lharrow.
lie then drew out his compost manure,
25 to 30 loads TO the acre, and evenly
spread il over the surface, sowed his
wheat on the same. Sad then narrowed it
in, Incorporating the surface of the soil
and tae manure together. The result
was that he always succeeded with his
crops Of winter wheat, when his neigh
bors, who pursued different culture,
failed. Ills wheat thus treated was ne
yer winter killed."
Mr.. Mellcn relates many other expe-
riments Of similar kind which always
resulted in success. Some experiments
formerly tried by The late Chs. Vaughan,
esq.,, corroborate the above statements.
He sowed oats with winter wheat in Au-
gust or first of September, so hiatt would
come up pretty thick. Before winter the
oats became killed, and falling upon the
wheat, afforded a very good protection to
it. We think that by observing The above
rules, winter wheat might, at least, he
grown as successfully with us as winter
rye. Naine Farmer.
AIXIETIES OF THE SAILORS LIFE.
BY THE REV. MIR. ABBOTT Nj NANTUCKET.