The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-07-08
From tlse Western Farmer and GardenrE.
MEANS up IMPROVING WHEAT cUL
TIRE


7 When. some wears sg0. The Louisville
Journal published m arr0nnt Of 30 extra.
ordinary yield Of eorn. il was received
with great inrIeduliiy.. Vixen The most
unqucsiionahle evidence was addpred, and
men were si!enred, IL was said that surh
areounls Of gIeai crops did no good that
they gave 10 our agricultural papers the
r.pu'aiiun Of telling great stories. Per.
haps Just such feelings may he excited il
we rehrarse the prodigious results Of i'm
proved whrat rul'nre In Great Britain.
We will let Mr.. Colman speak fnr rs,
and no one will doubt the pains he has
taken TO he well informed, or his integrity
oi statement.
: ~ suppose there is no country whore
the Weld of whea, is so large as in En-
gland: aud this product has nearly doub-
led within the last thirty or forty years.
! am quite aware that, in many parts Of
England, the crops are still small, and do
not exceed sixteen bushels % an acre !;
but on the estate of the late Mr.. Coke, Of
forwards Lord Lrirc.ier,-whcre, when
he came To reside on his property, II was
thought. on account Of the ihmness and
poverty OF the soil. whra, would notgrow
the average Yield is from forty 10 forty
eight bushels per acre: and have already
referred 10 a Iage farm where The crop on
the whole farm, in Isi4-'5-a most ia-
vorable season, averaged iiiiy-six BUSH
els per acre. These are most encourag-
ing results /; but since, heyoni all question.
in an instance Ieierrel 10, eighty bushels
have been produced, who will say that The
limits Of improvement have been generally
even approached All this. TOO. has been.
without doubt, the effect Of improved cul'
iivaiion."
Duly think eighty bushels, once s. and
fly .six bushels over large farm and in
other eases. from land naturally ton poor
Tor wI,ea, to grow. yield offoriy 10 for
weigh, bushels; and sixteen bushels, spo-
ken of as minimum crop! "@
TO all this, the readers answer will he,
"a very different climate they have from
ours" DO you suppose the climate is
rs different rs is the style Of cultivation /.
Mr.. Colman saws the average crop has
been doubled within the lastihiriy or forty
wears. TWENTY-FIVE bushels is the average
/, crop of Great Britain aud half of that is
twelve and n halt, nj which average, per
acre, wheat stood some thirty years ago
in Great Britain. before improved meth
ods were applied. This is not far from
our present average. and shows that no
important difference exists in their favor,
except such as cultivation makes. Let
us look at the prominent features Of the
culture and inquire whether, in part, il is
not rs I'll for us as for them @
1. The English most thoroughly pre-.
pare their soil. The wheat crop has an
assigned place in a rotation system each
! crop Of which is skilfully related 10 the
crop which went before, and TO the one
which is to follow so that when it is the
time Tor wheat, the ground is in the very
best heart for wheat.
Then they plough in England instead
Of scratching The ploughing is very
deep, and it is succeeded by narrowing
clod.cmshing and rolling. variously applied
according to the naiureof the soil, so tina
l. the whoa, terminates not emily IN a FIND
soil, but soil g thoroughly furnished un
&. to ever good work |" #' >=s e We O.
/, 2. No pains are spared to protect the
F., ground and its treasure from wet. The
improved lulshandry is invariably baset
:. upon system of,horough understanding
In addition To these. aud yet more care
fully where no drains exist, the surface i:
/ plougked in such manner as TO relieve
) itself from all superiluous rains and from
: standing water. We can hardly imagine
= the pains that are taken in British husban
!, dry, TO secure to the soil enough, and on
4 W. enough water. Surlace-draining, AM
n understanding are, on large and we'll man
c aged estates, us common, and mdispensa
Is BILE, as ploughing itself. s~'s*. "~t *~.
II 3. The pgreaes, care istaken toprocur
:, = the best seed wheat. And varieties ar
iudicieuslv adapted tn various soils, AM
ID positions of farms in different parts OF III
\. empire. Neither is,ihe preparation OF Oh
seed neglected. Indeed, nothing is lei
nndone that wisdom can suggest. TO pre-
W ven, every casualty and to secure III
i. largest and the best conditioned crop.
4. We would call especial attention
the extensive use of the drill in Bliils
wheat culture. la Great Britain, whe'
Ut is drilled about as uniformly as in Amer
tea il is sown broadcast. The rows az
about pi"e, inches apart; they are hoe
- oa,s in The spring and, such Is the che al
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