The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-09-21
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Southern Cultirator.
Corn Culture-Makiug Pork

~ SSi VI eSChoiiiCdi unu success. T
ful corn grower, in Georgia is large
Among them enc Of the best iha, we have
seen operates after this fashion
The ground is p!owed bu, once and then
deeply with two horse turning plow.-
II Is isinglass, Savannah bottom. After /
blowing, 1t is well narrowed and planted
by a drilling machine, IN very straight
rows, six feet apart, with bills three feet
in the row, and three stalks in the hill
A hand and a mule will put in eleven acres
IN day. Being level when planted, the
surface is kept SO By using a small harrow
10 place OF plow in the after culture
No hoe goes into The field al all and each
mule tends thirty acres. Notwithstanding
liberal dash OF Bermuda and Nut grass
has taken root in great deal of the lend
on this plantation, yet Mr.. Jonathan Nil.
Ter, the proprietor, knows how TO keep both
pretty well subdued.
As the estate is within three miles Of
this city, we have watched with lively in.
teres' the working Of good implements in
killing Bermuda on low, rich bottom,
where the sod was exceedingly thick and
tough. Frequent rains this year have
greatly favored the grass and made the
task Of effac,uaIIy subduing i, one Of unu.
sual difficulty. The sod, however, has
generally rotted, and there is promise OF
from 30 TO 90 bushels Of corn per acre.
There are some 400 acres of corn on
this plantation, a part Of which is the bes,
that we have seen anywhere this season.
Mr.. Miller fertilizes his land and makes
pork, beef and mutton quite economically
IN this wise:
A few days ago, in riding over his farm
we found 800 hogs rel ,icing in 90 acre
field Of large ripe oats. This field will
bear crop Of peas for fall feed, and one
OF rye for winter feed so that next spring,
when plowed for corn, 1t will have had
within IL months all the manure and veg.
etable matter produced By three large crops
OF OATS, peas and rye in succession. In
this operation, there is no expense for bar.
sestlng and giving out the food no labor
IN hauling and spreading manure. Hay.
ing IN addition 10 this winter, summer and
autumn feed, an extensive swamp pasture
and good crops Of turnips, pumpkins, po.
tatoes and corn, II IS an easy matter 10
raise and iatten cattle, sheep and hogs and
mules for The plantation. A present, how.
ever, Mr.. NJ. has 10 purchase more or less
oil the stock on his farm. He has owned
II only four years and has still much to
10 10 perfect his whole system Of plan'a.
ton economy. His arrangements for max.
Jog and saving manure 10 the winter, and
where teams are fed ,hroughou: the year,
are quite defective. He raises corn aud
other grain as well as green crops, with
grea. skill; but in Transforming corn into
meat there is room for improvements
When this is done, We will give descrip.
ton Of the process.
From an interesting experiment. tried
by MIR. X. Peters, Of Atlanta, We have rea
son 10 believe that buckwheat will prove a
better plant for enrIching poor land than
our Southern pea. We saw a field one
half of which was sown IN peas and the
other in bgckwheat on The same day. A,
the time the latter was 10 full blossom and
gave fair bufthen 10 pillow in and lertlllze
the poor soil, the former were scarcely
SIX inches high and quite small for their
height.
Every fact tina, throws light on the ar,
or science Of entichng poor lands is I'm
porlant
In passing over the excellent farm oil
Mr.. P. 10 OJthcaloga, we were particularly
interested IN the appearance Of clover
field Of % acres. On one hall OF this a
bushel OF plaster to the acre was sown
broadcast, early in the spring; on the
other, nothing was applied. The fourteen
acres TO which the fertilizer was applied
presented as fac a stand Of clover as one
usually sees in regions best adapted 10 this
plant. The other part Of the field hal
scarcely stem Of clover upon il.
Mr.. Peters is making experiments will
ashes and sail put on, or IN, each hill O
corn; and also, with plaster Of paris, in 8
similar way. Most Of his corn IS very pro
missing and he has grown the finest cfof
Of imperial Scotch oats which weigh &c
pounds to The bushel, that We have seer
this year.
A good boz pasture, whether Of clover
blue grass. or some other kind we regarc
as a matter Of much Importance IN farm e.
economy. l. helps amazingly in making a
heap" Of cheap pork. Il Is not so very
dlfficul, TO raise and f4'ten from 500 tc
1000 hogs. after getting fixed for the busi.
ness, as one unacqu4inied with he subject
might suppose. A tIch, sweet potatoe pas.
ture is the basis Of this operation. 10 this
extensive fields Of oal-, peas or miIet, to
be fed off by swine. are Indispensable sd
juncts. The grain which is harvested with
view 10 change II into meat, had better
be cooked for that purpose before II is
eaten. Cooking facilitates digestion ard
enables the assImIlatlng apparatus to ex.
tract from % to 50 per cent. more nulr.
meni from given weight Of coro, peas or
other gram. Nolhing is more unequal
than the quantity Of d.sh and fat, milk,
butter, cheese, and wool, elaborated from
any given weight Of food.
The whole internal economy by which