Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-06-10
From the Indiana State Journal.
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS, &c.-TIME TO
CUT WHEAT.

from the Indiana state journal.
MANIAC EMENT OF LANDS, &c.-TIME TO
CUT WHEAT.
Mr.. Editor on have from time to time
requested. your readers to write for the
Farmer and Gardener. Lhave this evening
summoned vanity enough to take up my
pen.
You wish to know how we plough our
fields; how we keep them in good heart, SC.
AS there are variety of soils in our coun-
try | will give you an idea of mine. found
in ploughing the first time variety of soils
in the same field; some fine, mellow, black
soil some mulatto; some quite wet, and
some dead, heavy, ash-colored soil, which
was very poor could not raise more than
twenty bushels of corn to the acre SOW
ed it in wheat with no better success. then
began trying to improve it by spreading on
SOME thirty loads per acre of barn-yard ma
nure and chips from the woodward and
when ] gathered the next crop of corn, /
found myself abundantly paid in getting
some sixty bushels per acre. then sowed
tin wheat and in the spring sowed clover
upon it.. found my wheat crop as much
improved as the corn. then set apart lot
of clover, for early cutting and seed, and
when scarce of pasture, would commence
cutting, and feeding hogs, cattle, sheep, and
colts, by the 2Olh May; and by the time
would get over the first time, could COM
mence again and generally cut over three
times, except what would need for seed
thai only cut twice-saving the seed from
the last cutting, and find one acre managed
la this way will afford as much feed as three
10 pasture.
will now tell how manage my clover
and corn-6elds; | sow all my ground that
is in small grain, fax, &C., in clover; SOW
ing, say two bushels of chaf-seed per acre.
That which want for corn next year,
would prefer breaking when the clover and
weeds were in bloom-say the last Of Au-
gust or first of September. BY that means
] destroy the worms and the seed of the
weeds, and give the ground fine coat of
manure, being careful not to plough so deep
that the horses cannot pull the plough, and
in the spring cross-plough, and my word
for it you will have corn if you tend it WELL
Or if need the pasture after harvast, turn
on, and have good pasture until frost, and
The spring let it lay as late as can. Let
the clover get knee high, if you can, then
break deep and harrow before the ground
dries. Let the harrow pass over, say, three
times, going round the same way it was
ploughed then furrow lightly and plant
say 3 1-2 fee, east aud west, and four north
and south, and use the harrow until the
sod is so rotted that it will not drag. By late
breaking you turn the worms under where
they will stay and feed on the clover; and
by deep ploughing the moies travel deeper
and do less injury; and if it is wet sea-
son, there is greater depth for the water to
sink; if dry season, the deeper the ground
is mellowed the longer it will retain mois-
aure-and find the general condition of the
ground is improved by deep pioughing. Old
clover or grass fields would manage in a
similar manner.
In my wet land, where can, finish a
aand In the lowest place every time break
the ground, thereby form ditch or hollow,
and extend ii Oh to some drain or brook. ]
have not tried understanding, but have seen
some, and am much pleased with it, One
of my neighbors has made one through
field on which the water has always stood
during wet seasons, and has succeeded add
mirably. He completed some five rods per
day. There has no water stood on the
field since the ditch has been made.
will now say word on harvesting
wheat. have cut, in different stages, and
find the dough state the best for the follow
ing reasons The grain is bright, makes
fairer flour and sweeter bread, and many
times escapes the rust; you have some eight
or ten days longer to harvest in, and the
straw is much more nutritious; you can
take in much larger harvest with fewer
hands, avoid the general scramble for hands
which is always the case when every body
lets their wheat get ripe before harvesting it,
have made many bIunders, but will not
mention any of them now.
Yours, HOOSIER.
Cottage in the Woods, March 26, 1847.