The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-02-19
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EgoADcAer AND DRILLED VII

BROADCAST AND DRILLED WHEAT.
At The present perioA. when the rr;ce
al agricultural produce Of every desrrip-
ton j. 81 reduced, il beeames nf great i'm
porianee In the lIrner t. look around and
see whether he cannot increase the pro-
d ice Of hi> soil without increasing his rx.
Penses. This is parl ealarly needfaI in
RAISING whe 1t. From some eau e.. per.
haps 1 well understand. the wheat crop
has brcsme In Eastern and Atlantic States.
exceedingly precautions.
Oar wheat, even when not attacked
BY enemies-snch as rust or iy-has been
gr 'dially diminishing in the amount rais-
ell To the acre. The report Of the Farmers
{ lab of New York states that the auanli.
" has decreased there from 30 TO 10 or
! ) bushels per acre. This dipinalidn il
owing. probably, IN the Land heing graiu-
ally rnbbed Of the chemical con s'ituenls of
the wheat. by sending the grain away,
while We retain the straw 10 make fnod
In supply succeeding crops; hence. il We
PIT on enough Of this kind 0f IN ,nure, we
m,y raise large crops of straw, bat not
grain in prapmlion. And further, as il
We thought We had Yet too much grain.
We have MIR manure yards so planned,
that the salins part (which are tn most
impurian. in the formation of tie grain.
and which are soluble in water have eve
~ facility to enable them to be washed
away by rope tied showers.
But is oar, present method of planting
or sowing wheat the most likely to insure
the largest yield! This is what I now
wish TO speak Of. In the work of Jcthro
full, the father Of thorough Ill ,ge. J print
Ell about thee hundred years ago. he
safes that, while other farmers were SOW
ing two or three bushels Of wheat 10 the
ARE. and rsapihg only fifteen or twenty
bushels, he drilled about half bushcl in
three rowe. about eight inches apart, IN
the middle Of six feet " idle lands, aud usu
ally obtained about 40 or 50 bushels per
acre-anl this without the aid of much
or any manure. This success lIP at,ribu-
ted to tiIIing the land while the wheat
was craving. lie turned the furrow with
wha' he called his hoe plough. alternate.
~ from and t. the rows of wheat, like
many who use the plough are in the habi.
Of filling their corn. In the spaces of
eight inches between the rows, The ground
was loosened by the hand huene.
This plan. though not adapted 10 Ame-
rican farming. for the reason that, gene
rally. we wish grass To Follow our wheat
crop, was We, de sned sufficiently plausi-
bic 10 Determine us TO give fair trial TO
the drilling, in comparison to the btnarl.f
cast plan. Accordingly in the I'll Of
1919, our field Ithe clover being al
i ploughed under, and light dressing of
mannre--about ten one-hnrsc cart loads
TO the acre-being spread on the surIace)
was nicely narrowed. We commenced
a, one side. sowei broadcast about SIX
acres, with two bushels of seed to the acre.
In about week afterwards, we were fur
nished with drill be our en,erprising
neiglhor John james. Of Bohemia Manor.
who owned the only wheat drill IN the
State OF Delaware. Commencing on the
1 Goth of the OH month. we drilled about
% acres, put ng in ab ut 10 acres day..
with one busheI and one peek Of seed to-
the acre. The cast at the drill Including
the services Of one man and one hor.e)
was 80 cents an acre, though two horses
were required 10 work The drill. All the
whea,, both drilled and broadcast stood
the winter well. To appearance, the
broadcast lnoked best; it appeared thicker,
both in the fall and in The spring. The
drilled whea, bv our neighbors generally
was pronounced too Thin, and was con-
siipred by them failure.
In the All, month the weather vas very
dry and warm. which seemed unfaVorabe
for wheat. Il appeared to stop it from
sinnling sufficiently, causing il TO shoot mp
prematurply. and too Ihinly: bu, when the
heads were formed, there was manifest
difference between the length Of the drill
ed and brnaticast--ihose on the drilled
wheat being decidedly longer The whole
crop was free from rust or fly, excepting
along one head lind, which had been eaten
offhy cattle when about one foot or 10
inches in height. where we fn nd The fly
in misunderstanding certainly, that in
sects are most likely to attack those plants
whose powers have been impaired; thus
teaching farmers thai Tie most likely way
10 avid the hy, and even rust, is to keep
their plants, By all known means. in as
healthy c'ndif'on as they possibly can;
for where one fell "fvigorous wheat VIII
be destroyed bv the fly orru"t, tenwill Dr.
which are either pat in badly, or are foo
poor. ~ s-