Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-12-20
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This is the leading vice Of agriculture in this por-
ton of the Southern States The small and neat farm
that is, the farm small enough in all its arrange
rnents for the management of the force which cult
Yates it's the angles visit of Southern husban
dry. One meets with but few such farms. and meets
with them far apart. Instead of farms where every
thing appears in complete order and arrangement
one often meets with those widespread tumble
downs, where disorder and arrangement tumbled
together in every variety of condition and this arts
es principally from over-eropping. The maxim of
agriculture that the productions of the earth must
ever be in proportion to the tillage, generally
to be neglected, not known in this part OF the
state; for. to frame maxim from the system most
y pursued the productions of the earth are in pro-
portion to the quantity of surface to which the APP
pearanee of tilage can be given. In every depart
ment of agriculture whole section of state is in
condition of comparative infancy. Can it be said
that the production of any article is carried up to
the capabty of the soil and climate ? The farmer
who throws into the shape of cultivation wide sur
face, which he merely plows and hoes while his mind
is as free vacancy from any thought about the ma
ture OF the soil which he takes nature gives 1t,
and of the different circumstances of climate that
may weary his labors and shorten his crops through
the existence Of some radical deficiency in the SOIL
or IN system of culture may say he raises what he
consumes, and sometimes what he sells but he owes
to God more thanks for good season than he owes
to himself for the exercise of skill and Judgment
10 obtain as much as possible from the number OF
acres one man can cultivate, and to cultivate no
quantity it is capable of yielding should be strictly
regarded by every farmer the worthiest object of
his study and his labor for the best course of pre-
paration, the best adaptation of soil which the man.
oeuryes of cultivation oppose to the ylcissudes
of climate and the perfect quantity and best quality
OF that quantity per acre, must remain unknown and
unenj oyed until become content to cultivate less
space, and to exert in the premises more practical
science and experimental knowledge A heavy crop,
from high state of fertility and cultivation is al
ways the only advantageous one. 1t shows the skill
and industry, properly applied, of the farmer who
produces. 1t shows the practicable extent of agri
cultural Development In short it is an example Gre
ditable and profitable to him who exhibits it-wor-
thy of imitation and rivalry and highly beneficial to
the agriculture of the state. No farmer complains
of this kind of heavy CROP it is real benefit and
a source of much pleasure. But crop which is a
q heavy crop because it occupies a greater number
| of acres than the cultivator can manage, under a
system of culture thoroughly adapted is commonly
no better than the wilfu cutivator ofsuch deserves
to have.--Mobile Herald and Tribune
/ Inning and NIorIing.
Many inquiries are made about the application of
Lime and Mari to land. The following will be found
of interest
| From the American Farmer.
If you have field that has been long in culture,
without having been lined, or married. it may be
sonable to conclude that dose of lime mari will
be serviceable Should you intend it for crop of
corn, oats, next spring the most udicious way to
apply either and to be of deriving benefit from
it in the next years CROP would be to give the land
through narrowing this fall, apply lime and mari
by spreading it broadcast, and narrowing it ir
thoroughly, lengthwise and crosswise. This would
give the mineral opportunity to become tolerably
Intimately mixed with the soil by next spring, and
thereby its action on the crop then to be pu
in.
In applying either line mari, you must regulate
the quantity by the condition of the land. If it b.
f well filled with vegetable remains, fifty bushels o
lime, or 100 bushels of mar may very safely and ad
vantageously be applied to each If in ex
hausted state, onehalf the above quantities will b.
enough for single dressing In the latter condition
of your soil it should be your policy to speedily sup
ply it with vegetable substances Of some kind, in
der that the mineral should have something to &C
;, upon something out of which to form mould-tt
provide food for the plants to be thereon, ae
that the soil itself might be clothed with the capaci
: ty of absorbing food from the atmosphere:
:. Calcareous matter of kind, is indispensable
n to all soils but neither line mari can do much
towards improving a soil wherein vegetable and ami
s NAL matters are not present 10 undertake to i'm
prove land with these substances alone, is of tn
p most quixotc and absurbed undertakings that MAI
n ever engaged in. In some soils, which have beer
c long in culture there considerable quantities
inert nsoluble maters-these by the action of lin
or mari will be rendered soluble, and, in that state
be available to the plants as food but so soon as thu
: stock of material shall have become exhausted, tn
soil will become comparatively sterile. Hence ever
effort should be made, possible after tn
l. application of either mineral to provide sup
y plies of vegetable substance. This can be done b.
e full dressings of barn-yard manures, peat, mars
e mud and turf; road scrapings, woods mould. greer
crops &C., with the first crop after the application
of the mineral and by speedily getting the land int
= clover or grass, after such treatment; and by sub
sequently treating it, at each rotation, in good dres
\ sing of the manures before alluded to.
: We repcat-to undertake to bring wornout land
to state of fertility with line, mari alone, is on
l of the most quixotc and absurd undertakings tina
l. man enga ged in and we will add, that so ex
sentia is calcareous matter to every SOIL that non
be highly fertile unless it be present therein. il
= some form or other.
If Errors in Composing Farm Manures.