The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-03-03

alng ms louT acres, put on as oelore. JUST
Ter breaking up for corn. The crop on
this NORTON was increased fully 10 fold
over that ad Joining, and bat recently lined
literally paying all expenses, and has con
timed ever since to produce profitable crops
! Plaster now acts Oh it with marked effect
the first application was made some IS or
! 10 wears since, and 10 test tho lily Of
lime, these four acres have been kept for
experiment, and without the addition o
other manure, except portion intended tol
still further experiment. About two acres
were sown in broadcast corn, with zoo
pounds Peruvian Guano, then followed
wheat Oh The 4 acres, and with 900 pounds
Guano 10 the acre, leaving two acres with
ou Guano.
The Corn was materially benefited by
| the Guano, but the wheat was not benefit.
ted by the previous application oft, though
it was nearly or quite double over The two
acres left without any Guano. The Wheat
was harvested two years since, and no one
conld now point out by the growth of The
clover, uniformly good Oh the whole, and
equally lined, which portion had, ard
which had no Guano. The conclusion is,
that the "renovating" effects of lime are
thus far ten times as durable as Guano;
how much longer, remains 10 be seen.
Some nine or tea years since, determined TO
reclaim an adjoining field, at whatever cost. |
was told long previous, by one OF my nelghbors,
who sold his farm and removed to the West, in
order to settle on better land, that the attempt
would be futile; or if 1t was ever made produc-
tive, it would cost great deal more than the
land was worth. The prospect was forblddlng,
for the larger portion was as much reduced as
could be by shallow tillage, no manure, no grass
and SEED sown, and constant washing, even to
gullies, and pioducng little else than running
briars. 1t was broken up in the fall and winter
to a much greater depth than il was ever plough
ed before; sixty bushels of lime to tine acre were
pplied in the spring; the ground well narrowed
and planted in corn, such portions as required
it having been well Northumberland two or
three acrcs-and which were about the amount
that produced any thing ola crop. or that mo re
than paid the expense OF ploughing. crop OF
oats and glass seed followed, as it was not con-
sdcrcd worth the trouble and expense to put in
n crop Of whcat on two-thirds Of the field. Al
ter six or seven years, the same field again com
ing in course, exactly the same plan was pnrsn-
inc tho drn,h tLn6 o,hervise
Tie crop of corn thourh injured by the bad
worm, was good, enabling mo to do what had
rarely or never done before, sell from quarter
to thrd OF inc crop. Oats followed on aoent
Two Ihrus OF 'ho leid, with so'iH h|e OF SIX n"-
sae's OIL zones 10 inc acre, ana wheat Oh 'l'G
balance. with guano; both heavy crops, and
iou%'ig over me greater part OF 'no nc'a' ne"
followed wheat crop on the whole' 'lah"reo Nv
l.. l.,r, -prl and
mach as possible, from Inc oarnyara. anu Oh
eighty to one hundred pounds to the acre. The
average yield OF the hold was over thsfty-tiFee
nusIic s TO tle acre r
These results are attained with certainty, for
every held ana lot arc actually surfeveu, anu
The contents noted on the pat oil Inc iafn'' ana
inc product OF lhis heiu was kept sePefa'e' lics'
cd ana measured ny hse,'.- we '',''o' Po'
saHeFed rom the uFought carry ''S' Year. %''u
the harvesting was badly cone, own " inc '''-
len tangled state OF the gram rom stof''' d
bout the time OF the rlpen'ng Dul nave no
doubt several cont gnons acres m,ght nay" occh
selected on the lowest ground lhe portion VA
bushels to the acres This season the same field