The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-03-15

IN ne gruund ~ sialef. sna : phi 40" in
ihe spring. and sill ma IN slork az any
Kind. In lsi2. ! Planted : bushel on :
Zen are heid, dropping de pea in ihe
lurrow next 10 he eorn. u The second
blowing in May. | had an abundant crop.
lpiekFd some serrn or eight bushels cor
seed. and turned upen The field. according
10 custom. eveTy thing had. lnur HOSES.
seven head nf cAille. twenty hogs of al
sizes. and few sheep. IN The an SOW
ed rye upon The field Cor winter pasture.
Z he rye was harvested. and consijera-
bic crnp If Peas esme up and malured.
adonling my hngs good picking next
fall. In Isl3. plalied peas among all
my corn in like manner, and pasIuFed
them. will remark. on = twelve acre
field. / sowrd wheat in 0rI0her. When
The wheat was harvested. good stand Of
peas zane M. and covered The ground.
In 1874, planted corn in 4 Geld Of forty
aeres, ltrap SOIL, and 81 the last blowing.
sowed peas Al the rate Of peck In The
acre upon il. They came mp beautifully.
mainTrs. and gave me most abundant
crop; picked seed and turned all things
on 10 in the winter seasnn. In ls45. The
year Of famine. made very few peas
enough for seed. and 10 put my bacon hogs
in fine condition. In iSt6, ! planted peas
among all my epTn. One Geld deserves
particular attention Il was field Of fif.
teen acres. wkirh had been in part manur.
ed in ls45, and planted in cailon. A field
very liable To rust. | sowrd peas one
peek tn the acre al the last pl"wing. (l5ih
June y the yield was a most ahnnslan,
nne. II was not paslured; I picked some
% or 30 bushels for seed from il, and
turned vine and all under when sowed in
wheat. between the 20ih Of November and
5ih Of Derember. The wheat was har.
vested about the LIST ri June, 1877; Weld
2Ol4 bushels. The hest acre yielded 30l
bushels. which nv the by. had M, been in
peas. but had been supplied with ten loads
(wagonl stable manure in 1916 for cot.
ton. The hest three acres Of the pea por-
ton yielded 6sa bushels of wheat. And
throughout tie field wherever the peas had
been ihickest, the wheat was The best.
had, by this time. become convinced,
that could only derive the greatest bene.
fit Of pea crop, by not pasturing it,
And as had found out the most impor.
tan, Of all maxims was "lead us not into
temptation" ! planted cotton and corn
in The same field 10 guard me against the
temptation: After ,hs wheat vas Y! ha !:
soon spread over the whole field. In rid.
ing over il in August, found the vines in
many places, three feet high. covering the
earth, and an abundant crop Of peas al
mos, malured. In few days after, was
prostraied BY fever, and unable 10 look
into my pet field, until the 2Oih Of Sep
tember. when to my great sorrow found
some 20 Of my neighbours hogs had been
feeding on my peas during my illness
They were eaten. had them turned ont,
and notwithstanding the injury done the
vines heavy crop has maiured since. and
there is enough now on the ground 10
keep my hogs fat for months 10 come.
The earth is now black with the decayed
food and vines. and ! think in fine condi.
ton to make good corn next year. A
word or two more, kind reader, and III
let you of. My bacon hogs were put up
in the pen. fat, upon peas CLEANED from
my corn fields this fall. My stock hogs
! now Christmas as il is-are fat and
have had 10 corn.
/ | have never los, a hog, old or young,
By eating peas. The only fatality ] ever
had among hogs, being in lS45, which ]
suspect was TO be attributed more TO the
want of them. Ihave never los. COW
or horse, and | always turn them in to go
it ad .Rbifum. I, has been but few
/ weeks since a boy, through mistake, turn.
ed Is head Of cattle, (big and litile.) and
one colt. into field where Is hamper
baskets full Of peas tunshelled) were in a
pile. They eat up every pod at one stand
| ing, and we're none the worse for il All
of which is most respectfully submitted
10 thy considerate readers by thine hum
BILE friend, PETER PROGRESS.
Hayden.-The poet Corpani once ask
ed his friend Hayden, How il happen
ed that his church music was always o
/ an auimatinp, cheerful, and even CAV dc