Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-09-11

busted over, when it will be fl 10 sow if
you have no lime handy, ashes will do.
No more seed should be taken to the
field in any one day, than can be put in
Seed in the soak will keep many days, but
does not do to be exposed long TO sun COW
cred in the earth. The custom is to cover
ii with cloth in the cartwhile being used.
Before putting the wheat in the l-soak,
wash it twice in pure water.
There are dozen other soaks; but we
believe this to be the best, the neaest, about
cheapest; and wi!hal, A SURE PREVENTION
AGAINST SMUT.
Selection of Seed-Be sure TO get such
kind Of wheat seed as is best adapted to
your soil lie, ii be hardy, early, and prolI-
tic be sure that there are no cookie, chess,
or other weed seed, in it. 1t is good Gus
tom 10 pass even the cleanest seed wheat
through q good seive before soaking II.
Mode of seeding and putting in-lf
sown broad cast, we would prefer plough
ing, or cuIliva,ing the seed in, no, less than
9 nor more than inches deep; to be after
wards narrowed and rolled. Either Of these
methods more effectually cover the seed,
shan when done with the harrow, and by
placing the seed deeper, serve measurably
30 protect the roots of the plants from the
effects Of frost.
Drilling the whea. in by machine, we
think better plan than either of the above
ones; and for the following, among other
reasons:
l. II requires 3-S his less seed to set an
acre of wheat when drilled in. than when
broadcasled, it requiring but 5 pecks by the
former mode, and 8 pecks by The latter,
when we'll done--a saving of IS bushels
in hundred acre field, is, therefore, effected.
2. The seed are more equally and eligib
,y distributed, as regards space and depth,
Than can possibly be done By hand, however
skilfully performed
g. By drilling, the labor of forming the
drill, dropping the seed, covering and roll
ing, is performed at one and the same time;
.hus saving the labor and expense of those
separate operations, which are indispensably
necessary TO be performed, whenever wheat
may be ploughed in with The culIivator, or
narrowed in.
4. By the drilling machine, a slight ridge
j. raised on either side Of the drill, which,
TO its extent, protects the roots Of the plants
from the injurious effects of cold and wei,
the sligh, elevation acting as barrier a
gains, the wind and water.
s. Should the roots Of the plants be up
rooted by the contraction and expansion of
cold and heat, the earth forming the ridges
settle down on them. and thus afford a toll
erably fair protection, rendering il an esay
operation in spring, when the fros, is oui
of the ground, and the earth settled and dry
enough, Ia replace the roots, by passing The
collier over the field, an operation Of infinite
service, and which should never be omitted.
&. The space between the drills, gives
free circulation to the light and air, matters
of grea, mon,eE, to the plan, in The course
OF ats growth, thereby letting In The light Of
the sun and The melioraiiug power IF the
atmosphere, whose kindly influences cannot
be too highly appreciated; besides which,
At opens direct channel for the revIvifying
action Of the dews, admitting them at once
on to the earth, to be there absorbed and
saken up as food for The growing plants.
z. Drilling is said by one Of the best, one
Of the most enlightened: and one OF the mos.
enthusiastic farmers in the country, to rem
wheat less liable to rust. He does not as
sign the reason but we presume the theory
of the thing TO be this that, owing TO the
free admission Of sun and air between the
drills, the plants do not suffer SO much from
supperabundance of water, as do those sowD
broadcast, and, as a consequence, vegetation
goes on more regularly; the plants, there
fore, are not so liable TO be forced into an
absorption Of an excess Of sap, and by Ibis
means escape the evils which would be
consequent upon an exuberance of that fluid;
the vessels of the stalks avoid disruption
no oxidation takes place, so that should the
close. murky weather. which 50 favors the
parasitic plants or fungus, to which the rust
is referred, occur, the stalks remaining
whole, and there being no weeping out Of
the sap, no Judgments can be made by the
parasitic tribe; and they are waited away
without doing harm, by the current Of air
passing through the spaces of The drills
for the efficacy Of this we do not answer.
So much for theory and now let Us see
what that sterling, strong minded farmer, of
Wheatland, Delaware, says, with regard 10
the results of its practical operation. In a
letter TO the Commissioned Of patents, Mai
John Jones, says:
"When ! commenced drilling; and for
two or three years, ! was rid,cued by my
laeighbors some would advise me TO take
Il mplemen, home, break ii up, and cook
dinner with H." Smar. neighbours
powever,. disregarded their jeers, and
cred. And now the best evidence
IAN possibly bring forward in support
Grill, over the broadcast system, is
tina. all my neighbors have adopted
for sowing their wheat, and mos,
mall grain and that we have three
drill builder besides II. w Pennnck.