The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-07-31
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From the Southern Calfirator.


meaced farming under the new school sys
TEN Of agriculture. The year 40 was spen,
IN arranging lots, making fences and exca
vaung pits for depositing leaves and trash
from the woods, aud refuse matter from
stables and the lot upon which my family
reside. These pits of which made two,
one thirty by forty, and the other fifty By
twenty feet, were partially filled during the
spring and summer Of 40, and durin. the
following winter their contents hauled out
and deposited in heaps - feet apart, each
way. Immediately the heaps (Which we're
the ordinary sz, Of manure heaps, MS we
drop them from a cart. were taken from
the cart with hoes, they were all covered
with splde, from the soil IN the field On
inch thick. This was the true condition
of the field, without any exaggera,ion, up.
on which this manure was put. Il had been
planted in corn a year or two before
bough, il, Che year was a seasonable one
too and did 10. weld more than half
barrel OF nubbins 10 the acre. planted in
AZ few sweet potatoes upon it. The
vines CID not average SIX inches 10 length,
and when dug open the hills in November
following, i had failed 10 produce any pc.
taloes. This was the character Of the field,
AID have stated the unyarnished truth
about its exhausted condition. After haul
ing out ny manure, as above stated, |
spread |, broad cast and turned il under
with a one horse turning plow, as fas, as
spread. In the autumn Of '43, harvested
from lha! very field, nj least seven barrels
oil corn (not nubbins) TO the ucre. The
land, 10 IT'S pslmiest days, never produced
more than three and bali barrels Of corn
TO the acre, before 'i3. plo.ed nv corn
but t6lce after II vas planted in '43, and
have done so every year since that date
but turn over my corn land ia the fall,
and put the weeds and grass under, and
cross with coulter, deep as ecu, during
the winter.
My stables, il which | have 10 u,snk
floors, are all boliumed wah corn stalks
during the winter. Whenever thew Get
dirty during the WATER, they are forthwith
covered with fresh leaves from The woods.
10 the fall and winter Of 49, manured
about six acres Of the above field, as above
stated, sluce which thu, portion Of the field
has had no farther man1rlne. but the weeds
and oat stObble we're turned under with one
horse turning plows, last September, during
the mornings when could no, pull pea
Sines on account Of the deNs. nov have
upon that SIX acres, corn, which, If no dis.
aster occurs, viii make eight barrels at
least, the acre. Some, over half an acre
OF 1t, will range between ten and twelve
barrels.
have abou. four acres in a Bermuda
grass pasture. iad i, very valuable for
all kinds Of stock. never had nv ho,s 10
DO SO well as those that ran upon the pas
ture all last winter. think they feed Up.
On the roots 10 the winter season. | went
INTO the woods come four years ago, and
opened and fenced the pasture, and LETT the
whole four acres surrounded with wood
land, | planted the grass and then sproul.
ed during the summer. | have never sur
Tered ploa TO 60 into the lot. As the
grass will never cross the shade with which
u Is surrounded | beg my friend John " g..
PITTS not TO use his butcher knife upon me
--'or ! much nrefer that be should first try
again and see Il be cannot stick Il 10 tha,
btiar patch 9. his.
And nov, since | have gotten Bermuda
grass, am trying 10 obtain q cross of the
Berkshlfes 10 feed upon il. never would
have even cross before this, because bad
no grass for them to feed upon.
Oats, until this year, have for several
years been almost failure. have aban
doned the crop, and, with many others in
this county, have substituted rye. From
one acre Of rye, which was well MANFRED,
fed from abgui the first March last Gll
hfst OF Jeae, eight head OF grown cattle,
nad match Of horses got but little else
They all did well. When the horses were
pio~lrg which was not half the time. tbev
had corn. think It was the mos! profita.
bic acre | ever cultivated. Nv boys are
now on tina: acre, and so soon as they clean
1t, vii DO turned upon another field which
was sown IN rye expressly for them. |
shall not cut It at all, but this fall turn un.
Der the straw after the hogs have eaten
the rye sat. ] never saw hogs thrive bet.
tet-and they eat nothing but the rye and
the much feared and awluly condemned
Bermuda grass.
Six years ago last April, sowed, for the
hfst time, the seed Of Lucerne erass. 1t
IS very valuable grass. III had 90, bad
Vt, know 90, how | should have fed nv
horses during part Of the severe drought,
Of last year. tired, at different tunes in
the year, FOR three years, ard failed as ma.
ny times, to get n stand. have so.n the
seed ia April, IN September and IL October,
and failed every time. | sowed in March,
three years ago last March and got but an
indifferent stand. THIS year sowed ht.
tie before the 20sh Of February, aud got a
most excellent stand. II grew Two feet and
upwards 10 height | sowed 10 drills one
foot apart. | have cut II once, and IN ten
DAYS ron ibis 1t will be ready for the sic.
k'e again. When | reflect upon the cold
ness aud oack~afdness Of last spring, an
sure febiuafy IS the hes. time 10 winch 10
COW 1t ~ this couutty. i would not, how.
ever ADVISE any one to a''siopt to raise H.
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