The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-05-13
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Will Good Farming Pays

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Of letter, from farmers who coolIy undertake
10 eel us right with regard 10 shst We may
term High and Low Farming they consider.
10. cur notions occasionally Indicated 10 The
Tribune entirely erroneous, or at least uu.
suited to the present condition Of Agriculture
in this Country. "Lsnd Is 90 cheap ard
Lsbor so DEAR" say they, ",has we can't
oford to farm SO high Is the English and
Bsleans do" Now half the men Who talk 10
this way have no clear idea Of what superior
farming really is, but, if pressed for dshn'.
ton Of it, will dilale on the upproductive ex.
pense Of ~h,e.washins trees, planting boards
for fences, or something Of The sort, which has
nothing to do with Farming at all. A farm.
or, coed or bad, may sxpend SO much,cap''al
10 mere fancy work IS to render his farm un'
productive and even an expense to him; but
tina, does no, invalida,s the sound general rule
tina, Any thing can probably be reH done
which can prc6taby be done at ALL 10
this rule We know no exec stions. One mans
land may be unsui,ed to Corn, or Wheat, or
Barley, so tbs, he ough, not TO attempt the
growing of that particular grain but II 1t will
pay for growing any crop Of i. at al, II will
pay for growing good one. II IT will not
pay for such crcp, il will no, for any and
should be turned ever 10 something OF which
i, riH yield = generOu. return; and, IN default
Of that, gwen up to pas,ursge and got into
wood IS soon as possible. To raise twenty
bushel crop Of Iadlan Corn ought to be nd'cs'
able az petvsrsiSn and wass Of the boun.
ties OF Providence.
The farmer who plows {once) FIVE or six
inches and manures fsebly, and gets 10 his
crop late, and abou, half eulsxates It through
the Summer, and gets a mesge' baIicroP 10
the FALL (uniess cattle happen TO break over
bio shif,less fences AID ca, i, up meanilme) not
ONLY dooms himself TO fence, and watch, and
pay taxes to twice or thrice the extent he
ought, bu, be is committing Aigrant crime
against Nature by exhausting the Soil OF It's
virtues. An official survery Of our National
Agriculture estimates the deterioration OF the
soil Of this country since its settlement, by
white men as de,rac ing at leas! Five Hundred
Millions OF Dousrs from rs value All OBJ
serving men are familiar with fac's ~h'ct
. su,,aiu this estimate. There are whole Coun
lies. and almost whole States, which would
once have yielded an average ofiwens, bu'heI'
of Whea, or forty OF lndiau Corn 10 the acre
ye,wculd now (onmanured) average not mor'
Than twenty Of Corn and not FIVE OF Wheaf
The virtue has gone gu, OF them. The.
have been gradually robbed Of their ferlllli.
by false, miserable, wasieful culture. In
70 elements essential 10 the production OF To
! cereal grains have been gradually sbstractee
u and no, returned nor replaced. They hav
10 been sen, of to the cities, to Europe, and hav
:" long since served 10 fsr,lllzs British fields {
nave DecH thIDMu lioH NV Vthoi " -
~ through the sewers Of our sea board cities lnl
u the ocean. Every dollar OF the dimlnI,he
p value OF the Soil IS so much robbed BY md
:" ence and ignorance in the past from the pa
30 rinony OF future generations.
Every acre Of land under cultivation ous
10 be worth more after each years tllIsl
,lv. than it wa. before. II may not, indeed, be
n. condition to produce larger amount Of III
10 same crop; II so, lha, is ample reason !
81. changing to something ell e. To say that
1T. farmer cant oford the fertilization aud cultu
IS needed 10 obtain fifty bushels OF corn fro
m. az acre, bu, can afford to own, fence, I'LL a
The pay taxes on i, Cor ,seuiy bushels, is an sm
md zng ab,urdI,y
ped Proof Mspes Of NeeJersey, 10
ubr Working Farmer " for April, thus bears Il
the llmony to the effects Of science 10 Improvl
oy, the Agriculture Of tina, State;
q Within the last three years We have '
enc tied many farms IN New.Jersey, and some
Who the owners Of these farms sent certificates
cry results to Trenton. One represented that
hen der our advice he had added the missing c.
siituens TO bls sou, at an expense of only
l2s per acre, with proper Village, and pro-
ced, in consequence, The following cfol
w. Corn l2S bushels Of ears per acre, VIII
ion. - b ,.o, a,,,,.
was manures, but 30 bushels Of sheed corn
''u' been produced. Potatoes 80 bushels
(, be u.,a ,,,,,d "a la, arc
4ing :