The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-08-21
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From he American Farmer
TO THE YOUNG FARMERS OF MARY.
LAND.


o. PRAcTIcAL A0RlcuLTURE.
Six teeth out &c my Threshina ma
ins. and The consequent delay in my
operations. enables me 10 devote few
moments 10 . subject on which | have
long contemplated addressing you. but
until the pr,seni. prevented by various
eauses-lhat OF Practical Forming
more especially as applying 10 young
Maryland farmers. Ike myself, on old
lands.
The recent change in The form Of our
venerable aud useful Agricultural Jour
rsl. kee, ing p.ce IS il does, nth The
flights" A. they are dirovered booming
above The mists Of by-gone Ignorance, has
suggested the ,pirif Of these papers or.
il you viii dignity item with The Term,
essays-and il is my special aim. so Far
q. consistent with lari. 10 avoid all The
Technology OF pendaniry, The schools.
and the metaphysical lheorisi.
Succeeding 10 the management Of an
old estsle. 81 . period when mercan lie
pursuits presented more peebniary AZ
fractions than agricultural, my first ex-
pertinent 10 The latter. was 10 LEI my farm
on shares, By the advice Of my friends.
10 nOrking man; The consequence was
that IL the end Of two Yeas. ! was hearth
~ glad 10 rid myself Of VAMPIRE. who
exhausted what little !. blood" there was
lef in the old "mrnip'-his last boast
on quitting me, being, that I. he had skim
ned my place IN i,co years." and thought
by rushing if "a fayorite phrase OF his)
10 be able to DO the same. where he was
going-IIence you can readily imagine
the condition in which found matters,
on assuming sway in person.
Ny FIRST efforts al restoration acre, n
repair and have made several hundred
parcels Of out-fencing; discarding entirely,
and using the materials on IL, all inner OF
cross lines, save good sized, paled barn
yard; FIVE rail feeding and milking yard,
and poultry yartl-desisning 10 pursue
the soiiing and ersrrise systems, and stu
dy the economy Of nanures, Of which,
more anon. p.
or course the eyes of all our old neigh
bors were upon me, and their aged mouths
spake wondrously wise as to what q
would not do not " hat ] ,could,' 70
made living of that old place. "YouI
meadows have all run out" quolh one
you'll have 10 spend many a dollar lC
repair your houses" another quoihs-
and so on, un'il-at last, had MT poses.
ed the negative merit Of obsiinGry,
should have beaten any ploughshare int
sword, and taken road 10 Texas Cor ;
livelihood!
"lt's pity" said person who was
burning blue lime, you don't lime tina
bare-iooking field; Why il Won't raise
dogs hair"-Now gentlemen. with YOU
leave. it is Of that very field intend trea
ing inl this, my first agricultural paper
My on-shares rorking man no, leavin!
until late in November. no time could b
found to flush piece Of sod for my corn
having TO SOW my wheat, some as late al
25th November; so, the only spot " ciea'
enough" the mex, spring. was |" that barr
looking field;" now. by the order Of re
Prospect, you shall have the history of Thu
feld--a neighbor had il some six year.
ago on alease: his last cropping was wheat
10 bind which he ,ras compelled to hau
out old strdg it's own being foo shor
to tie around sheaf. My brother tbel
worked i, in corn. MANFRED in the hills
the crop vas scarcely worth saving; hi
wheat succeeding that, no yield; mex
my working man pl n,ed it in corn. par
tally MANFRED in the hills, and then neg
lected-so that you " i'll perceive the on
ly place | had for this voracious crop. ha'
been planted in il the previous year, with
out. Of course, and yirld-AIter havini
hploughed, narrowed and roleld inMarch
l had il cross-ploughed, narrowed twic
and rolled in April; marked of in check
3 f.. by Al ;-wi,lest spaces rnnnn
nor.l, and south, or nearly so;-hauled OF
two hundred one.horse cart loads Of WOO,
pile stuff; and sand and mortar, from a
old wall, composted, about equal part.
putting two ehovels full in each hi
Now the soil naturally, is what we terl
a white oak, clay bottom, with a fe'
traces Of iron ore. in particles:--a SIT
manageable soil if ploughed when zoe
and impossible 10 be worked when dry.
The season. you will remember, W;
very dry, notwithstanding this, after Il
hoeing, ordered the cullivator TO be pas
ed through il in both directions. uni
conference.-the was assured by all u
old hands, !. In all fire, SIR" presi
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