Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-02-24
A GRICU r A L.
From the American Farmer.
ESSENTIALS TO PRODUCTIVE
JoNJTNC

FARMING.
l. Good implements of busbandry, and
plainly of them, which should always be
kept in perfect order.
g Deep Plcughing, and through puzreri-
cation of the soil, by the free use Of the har-
row, drag, and roller.
3. An application Of lime, mari, or ashes
where calcareous matter or potash may no,
be presen. in the SOIL In applying lime to
land, if there be mucl, vegetable matter there
| in, 100 bushels may be applied at once,
though we should prefer giving it at four
different doses, SO that a portion thereof
should be always near the surface, thus pro-
viding, by the means Of its application, a
gainst its sinking, owing to its specific grav-
ity, beyond the ordinary reach of the roots
of many plants, Where land may be thin,
and bu. sparsely provided with vegetable
remains, 90, as go b,,ehel7~of finI6- per
acre, would be enough. The quantity OF
mari should be regulated also by the condi-
ton of the land, and made to conform there
to but to act advisedly, it would be bes,
to cause the mari to be Analysed, in order
TO ascertain the relative proportion of calca-
reous matter, which it might contain, and
then, SO to apportion 1t, as that the soil
should only receive such quantity as would
yield to such land as was rich in vegetable
matter, 100 bushels per acre of the carbo-
nate Of lime, and a similar quantity as above
prescribed of lime 10 that which was but
indifferently provided with such remains
Where an analysis is not practicable, from
200 to 400 bushels Of mari, would be safe
application, either quantity to be regulated
by the condition of the soil, whether e1-
haus,ed or otherwise. Of ashes from 81 TO
100 bushels, if leached, to land in good
heart, per acre, while from 25 to SO would
better suit, if the ashes should be snteached
and half the quantity of either, to such
lands as had been exhausted ny severe and
improvident cropping.
4. A systematic outstanding of every sub
stance on farm capable of being converted
into manure, as systematic protection OF
such substances from loss of evaporation or
waste of any kinds, and careful appllca-
ton of the same to the lands in culture.
s. The draining of all wet lands, SO as to
relieve the roots of the plants from the Ill Ell
fects of superabundance of water, a con-
dilion equally pernicious as drought, to
their heatlhful growth and profitable fructi-
Gcalion. g.
6. The free use of the plough, cultivator
and hoe, with all ro1c-cultured crops, so as
to keep down. at all times, the growth OF
grass and weeds, those pests which prove
so destructive to crops.
z. Seeding at the proper time, with good
seed, and an equal attention as to time, with
regard to the period of working crops.
| s. Attention to the construction and re-
pair of fences, so that what is made through
the tolls and anxious cares of the husband
man, may not be lost through his neglect te
protect his crops from the depreda'ions o.
stock
9. Daily personal superintemdance, on TIT
part of the master, over all the operations o
the farm, no matter how good manager HI
may have, or however faithful his hands
may be, as the presence of the head OF a farm
and the use of his eyes is worth several pair
of hands.
10. Labor-saving machinery, so that ON
may render himself as independent as need
full of neighborhood labor, as sense of tn
comparative independence Of the employe
upon such labor, begets disposition of o
bedience and faithfulness ON the part of tn
employed.
IL. Comfortable stabIng and sheds, 70
the horses and stock, all necessary outbuld
and protection of the tools and implements
as we'll as for the care of the poultry.
u II. Clover and other grasses TO form