The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-07-01

Ha fIon the Indisna Stale journal
MANAGEMENT OP LANDS. &r.-TIME
To CUT WHEAT.
Nm. EproR: N0n have from time 10
Time requested Your readers 20 write Coz the
Farmer and Gardener. I have Ibis eve-
ming summoned vanity enough 10 take up
my pen. Il. ..s.~rs4 +.s So. .s /
You wish 10 know how we plough our
fields; how we keep them in good heart,
&c. j." @4.n
As there are a variety Of soils in our
country, 1 vii gire you an idea of mine.
| found IN ploughing The lirst time yari.
ely OF SOILS IN the same field; some a fine.
mellow, black sud; some mnlsilo some
quite wet, and some dead, heavy, ash.
colored soil, which was very poor; leonld
not raise more than twenty bushels u corn
To the acre /; Sawed il in wheat with 40
better sueeess. ! then began trying 10
impmye il by spreading on some thirty
loads per acre OF baTn.yanl manure and
chips from the woodward and when !
gathered The next crop Of corn. | found
myself sbunJanlly paid in getting some
sixty bushels per acre. | Then sowed Il
in whest aud in the spring sowed clover
upon il. | found my wheat crop as much
improved as the cOru. then set apart
lol Of clover. for early cutting and seed,
aud when scare of ps3rc. would com-
mence cutting, and feeding hogs, cattle.
sheep. and colts, by the 2Oth May and
by the time would gelover he FIRST time.
! could commence again, and generally en-,
over three times, except what | would
need for seed--that | only cut twice
saving the seed from the last cutting, and
! lind one acre managed in this way will
afford as much feed as three to pasture.
will now tell how | manage my clo-
yer and corn,lields; I sow all my ground
thai is in small grain, fax. &C.. in clover;
sowing. say two bushels chalEseed per
acre. That which want for corn next
year. would prefer breaking when the
clover and weeds were in bloom--say the
last Of August or first Of September. By
that means destroy The worms and the
seed of The weeds, and give the ground a
fine coat Of manure, being careful not 10
plough so deep that The horses cannot pull
the plough, and in the spring cross-plongh,
and my word fur il you will have corn II
you tend il well. OR If need the pas
ture after harvest. turn on, and have a
good pasture until frost, and in the spring
let it lay as late as can. Let the clover
get knee high, il you can, then break deep
and harrow before the ground dries. Let
the harrow pass over, say, three times,
going round the same way il was plough
ed then lnrrow lightly, and plant say 81
feet east and west, and -Four north and south,
and use the harrow until the sod is so rot.
ted that il will not drag. by late break
ing You turn the worms under where they
: will stay and feed on the clover; and by
deep pIoughing the moles travel deeper
and do less injsry and if il is a wet sea
sou, there is greater depth for the wateI
10 sink il dry season, the deeper lhC
ground is mellowed the longer it will re
f tain mois,ure--and | find the gencfal con
: dition Of the ground is improved by deeI
. ploughing. Old clover or grass fields
; would manage in a similar manner.
In my wet land, where | can, | finish
!. land in the lowest place every time breal
4 the ground, thereby form ditch or hol
:. low, and extend it on TO some drain o
brook. | have not tried understanding
v but have seen some and am much please
with IL. One of nv ncighbors has mad
one through field on which the waite
:; has always stood during wet seasons, an
~ Mas succeeded admirably. He completes
some five rods por day. There has n
- water stood ON the field since the ditto
: has been made. ... >E,.. f. r. .: -
will now say word on haryestln
a wheat. have cut, in different stages. an
its find the dough state the best for the follow
lis ing reasons: The grain is bright, make
fairer flour and sweeter bred, and man
times escapes the rust; You have SON
: eight or ten days longer TO harvest in, an
We The straw is much more nutritious va
ny can take in much larger harvest with few
We er hands, avoid the general scramble Il
ii hands which is always the case when e
We cry body lets their wheat get ripe heio
he harvesting il. have made many blu
its ders, bu, will not mention any Of the
ng now. Yours,
be HOOSIER.
II! Cottage in the Woods, March 20, ls47.
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Singular Grain.-Rev. Mr.. l'umsd