Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-01-13
be permitted to 60 on clover from the time
1t is sown until it is in blossom.

IL IS soWn until 1t is In blossom.
The sures' way to obtain good crop of
clover for improving land, is to SOW as ear
ly as the spring viii! allow, at the rate of
one 6ushel OF clear seed on five acres. Sow
one bushel OF plaster 10 the acre as soon as
the clover is up, and top dress with any
KIND OF manure, lime, or mari, as soon after
harvest as possibe-but be sure to put i,
on, if that should not be convenient till the
last of April following. Keep off all stock,
and let not scylle be used either for hay
or seed. Then pillow deep in July, if posi-
Bile, and turn the clover well under. If the
clover be very heavy, put on either larger
plow or start heavy harrow, to comb down
the clover, little ahead of the plow-,hen
harrow with light harrows lenglhwise with
the ploughng, SO as not to disturb the sod
The oflener you pass the harrow the better,
as 1t packs the ground on the loose clover
Then roll with heavy roller. Your seed
bed being now we'll prepared, you may SOW
with Pennock's drill one bushel and one
peck OF seed 10 the acre. Some oc the best
farmers of this country, the Hon. E. F.
Chambers, the pioneer Of early sowing, a.
mongst the number, thinks July the suresl
season for sowing wheat. he having prac-
tced earl y sowing since 1882.
! sow all my grain with the drill-wheat,
oats, Indian corn and broom corn, and if |
should sow buckwheal, should put that in
with the drill also.
AS an evidence Of the superiority Of the
drill over broadcas, sowing, Mr.. J. c. Clark,
the President of the New Castle county Ag-
rIcultuIraI Society, stated at one of our late
regular meetings, that he gathered twice as
much wheat last harvest from land drilled,
with one bushel and quarter to the acre as
he did from Two bushels sown broadcast
Mr.. Clark has since then purchased one of
Pennock's drills. We have more than TWEEN
ty of those drills now in New Castle coun-
ty, besides which we have two others of
English make, one of which was imported
by Mr.. Frank Laudon, the pioneer in drill
husbandry in this country about twenty
years ago; the other was imported by Mr..
Joseph Carr, few months since, at a cost
of near $500, the duty of abou, seventy dol
lars included. These drills have manage
menl box for the purpose Of sowing The
concentrated manures, poudre,te, bone dust,
and guano, &C., at the same time of sowing
the wheat, and is so far superior TO all 9th
ers in common use.
] am sorry to say that was not as par
ucular in carrying out my experiment with
the guano, as the importance of that newly
introduced article would require. The
members of the Farmers Club Judged from
the appearance of the corn after it was top
ped and bladed, that the difference in favor
of the guano was 10 or IL bushels to the
acre. find, however, that where ] had
lined most the corn was best. From the
appearance of the corn in August last,
thought it justified me to make a further ex-
pendilure for the wheat crop, and conse
lnently purchased l6 tons, at $5l per ton,
which had intended to have sown on the
sod, as did for my corn but as did not
ge, it in time, then sowed 300 lbs. per acre,
with machine on the fresh rough plough
ed ground, which narrowed we'll and drill
ed in one bushel and quarter of Mediler-
ranean wheat TO the acre. e'... 81
am decidedly in favor Of ploughing in
the guano for all crops.
J. JONES.
WAeatland, DEL, Sd December, 1917.