The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-12-30
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Boston CaluvstoI.
Deep Cs issre Again.


MEssRs- EDIFOks.-May 4 be permitted to OBJ
serve, | consider the address Of the late Senator
Dixon III. Lewis, before the New York Farmers
Cmb--and which is yet going the rounds Of the
papers, the subject being ''fhe Agriculture Of
the south, IS dangerous TO the generality Of
agricultural readers, inasmuch As IL goes to advO-
cate deep tillage, without the accompanying
caution, TO be mindful Of the nature and quail
~ Of the subsOH. To be sure, he ADDS, 'shis
sod is black mould, resting on limestone but
BY many, this observation will be overlooked:
few considering that deep and sAall0sc are mere
ly relative terms; and while with the Senator IL
meant a foot, for with me IL IS anything over sir
inches, on the sllayiai formations Of the Ms
sssiPPi, twenty times his depth would not touch
the subsOil.
For myself, l am content TO obtain ell the
goo1 soil, leaving the bad, or subsOil-oftsn not
merely sterile but P0isonOus-tO be stirred ana
deepened by the subsoil plough; preferring TO
enrich that, and deepen my surfses soil, BY
manuring from above, which Is then done grad
ually and not at the cost Of the crop, or loss Of
time. And although may have no objection to
touch the clay, il must not be more than that,
for 'the less the BETTER know. by sad sXPe-
Tience. And have a neighbOr, who, on read
ing the above address, sees the danger in the
same light that do: and nOtw outstanding the
remark that the soil rested on limestone, ex-
presses his belief that many Will either overlook
that circumstance, or not understand It's import
Now his land IS very thin, not more than i've
inches above a sour clay, which Il he were 70
more than touch, would be destruction TO all his
hopes; and yet he contriyes TO obtain better
crops than many Of his friends, whose land Is
double the depth and three times as fruitful
Do YOU ask, how Is this will tell you
He, as well as the late Senator Lewis and my
self uses the Prouty * Mears' Centre Draught
Plough with a wheel. and with this aPPendags
he can, 10 the greatest nicely, regulate the
depth. so as to take up all the good soil with not
particle Of the bad, and by throwing this good
soil into four turn ridges. IL becomes eonssdera-
bly, deepened under the crop, while the open
burrows, left deep for the purpose, operate as
surface drains in a wet season, without al all
tending to injury in a time Of drought tie
thus deepens his soil considerably; and although
he loses somewhat in surface, his gain - four
fold in value in depth; his dung going farther
and doing more service than would be imsein~e
hy any hut eye ~isncss. hno whhe on heeh
better land ploughed fat and without ridges and
burrows, wheat has suffered, 50 As TO compel lis
owners to plough it in and plant corn in the
spring, his crops have stood dry and healthy,
giving him a yield of thirty-hve bushels per
acre; the plants in early spring Appearing green
,r on the sides Of these ridges than on their
centre; showing that the crop was healthy, with
/ no fear but that the middle Of the ridges would
soon catch ND And in potato planting my
neighbOr has a doubls advantage in ridge Ploagh-
ing, his crop remaining dry and healthy, com
i ing more regularly to maturity, and OF far bet
| ter quality, the quantity also sometimes doab-
! ling, by thus doubling the depth OF his sarfaee-
soil.
The subject requires much care and caution;
hut IL anv one is DESTROYS OF seeing "what u be-
low" assuredly such q Plough Is the Senator's
is the beau ideal Of a tool for him; at the same
time, il is as suitable for turning the thinnsst
and smallest furrow, as / proved on wheat
stubble after the late harvest; ploughing in the
stubbls and the weeds, preparatory to sowing
the land with turnips, with perfect ease, and to
NV surprise and satisfaction, burying syery
particle, as though IL had never been Do you
concur with me in the view above taken
| aAoxicK IN PovLrRY KKErISs.-Ths Prinei-
pies upon which rely for success in keeping
hens, are, 4, to have two breeds few to hatch
and rear the chickens, and twice the number OF
everlasting layers, as eggs are more Pronitaois
than chickens; 2, 10 get hatch az earl .Pos-
sibls in spring. and to keep them weii-thsss
never cast their feathers like the old BIRDS and
II they begin to lay In autumn, lay more OF less
all winter; 3, never to keep old fowls none o"'
, favorits fowls ought to be kept more than i've
years, old birds lay larger sggs than Peiies,
bat not near 90 many; 4, TO give them me oss.
barley could get, and % much % nsy soa'1
oick M once q day, in summer, and t~es ~
n winter. they are not only more Pronnois, -.
E.,.f hat the egss are better The two oreees
~. h,,,s are the spotted Dorkings for sitnnS
D and the pheasant breed for laying--Agrsea"@
raj Gazetss.