Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1847-05-13
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el of plaster per acre, to be followed by
ploughing in OF green crops, &c. Now this
NAV suit with some attitudes, but it wont
do here, where good north west wind al
Ter frost in November will sweep into the
fence corners every particle of vegetation
from the face of these old fields. The la
Dor alone, which would be required in the
ploughing and reploughing, SIC. on this me-
ihod, would, if hired out by the day to work
upon some public work purchase ashes
enough to do in one year what would re-
quire five years to accomplish in this slow
method.
Another plan is to 60 at it Taylor FASH
ion, and do the thing right up! As an ex-
ample of this latter plan, will give you the
resul, of an experiment made last year up
ou one of these sold fieids," and take this
merely because it is now fresh before me-
having Just finished threshing out the crop
growth upon this field, and not because II
shows auy more favorable results than twen-
ty more experiments of which have me-
moranda.
purchased last year, an addition 10 my
farm, of 365 acres of land on this tract
iEere was one lot which lay in upon the
lands had already improved, in such man.
ner as to inJure the appearance OF the whole
In the Spring of 1916 resolved to make an
attack upon this old field, and to satisfy my
self still further of the cost of such improve
men,, had it surveyed aud plated by
regular Surveyor, and found the contents to
, he ~ acres-out of which there was taken
fr house, lot and road, one acre, leaving
&c acres to be cultivated. This field was
,enanted out in the year 1915 to very
worihy man. who cultivated it in corn, and
have his word Cor the product. (and | am
sure no person who saw the crop growing
will ever question the amounD was 70 bush
els Of nubbins, or less than bushels OF
corn per acre. This, by the way, is about
the character of many crops grown in this
neighborhood
IN March, 1916, as soon as the grounds
would do to haul over, brought ont the
right arm of my resources, my flying artil-
iery, in the way of mule teams, loaded to
the muzzle from my manure heap, and
tsaate regular discharge upon my greatest
enemy, the washed and quilted side hills
These peppered thick and strong. then
put in tile ploughs, and flushed the whole
field up deeply, following in the stiff clay
parts with the subsoh plough. | then
brougas out ,ny other forces, in the shape
Of eached ashes, (Which cost delivered on
ahe ground $40 per hundred bushels) and
spread over the whole, manured paris and
aH, at the rate of 100 bushels per acae, pull
zverising the ground and mixing we'll with
the harrow. Sowed 2 IA bushels oats per
acre, narrowed again-sowed one peck Of
- fresh clover seed per acre and follow
: Ell ".h roller. This was all done in the
righ, way. and Just at the right time. After
the oats We're we'll up, put the finishing
rny corps de reserre, in the shape of guano
The first moist day, all spots that appeared
to have been missed in the spread of ashes,
or appeared weak, dressed over with about
200 pounds guano mixed with one bushel
plaster per acre, to the amount Of about two
acres in spots, and spread over the whole
field plaster at the rate of one bushel per
acre. You will say, perhaps, this is going
it rather strong, and requires more capital
than can generally be commanded by the
most of our farmers. There are few how
worthless colts eating their heads off every
year, to say aothng about the hogs and
horned cattle which might be disposed of
in some way to raise 500, which would
improve permanently 10 acres Of land with
leached ashes-or they nigh: borrow 500
for IL months, with almost certainty Of
returning it from the increased products on
the first crop, as you shall see by the fol-
lowing result of the above experiment.
have just finished threshng out and
cleaning up 1917 bushels of first rate oats,
grown upon this field of 26 1-2 acres-an
average of As 1-2 bushels per acre, and no
Chester county land ever presented finer
coat Of grass. This year it will be cut for
hay, and would not thank any man to in
sure me two tons per acre. Now for the
fgures:
2600 bushels ashes, $500 90
SO wagon loads manure on quilted
places, SO 90
400 pounds guano, 90
5S4 bushel seed oats-40, % 40
81 bushels clover seed, 80 so
Ploughing, seeding, harvesting &c, 100 90
s473 80
CREDIT.
1917 bushels oats-40 cts, worth now
in market 4S. S4S6 so |
Pasture last fall for my milch cows, 90 90
Straw in abundance-an offset for threshing, &c. |
Mr. Editor, what is this land worth now
(the Improvements of which cost nothig,)
more than it was when it would produce but
s bushels poor corn per acre? Why, if
there was nothing to the credit side of the
account but the improvement alone, it would
in my estimation be cheap-dirt cheap
This field, with judicious cultivation, is now
,ormanon,l, imnroved as I can show hv