North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-26

BAD FARMING Sowing wheat upon land without [
blowing is considerably practced in various parts of
the United States particularly in the South, the seed
being covered with very light plow which merely
scratches the surface. This is bad faro,ing How
can crop be expected when thus pat in? Ii is con-
tended by the advocates of this labor-saving crop
losing system, that land which has borne crop of
and peas, and been fed off by stock, is always
clean and fit to receive the seed. Tree but being
clean is not all that is required to make young plant
grow. Fresh, newly pulverlsed soil is essential to
give the seed life and power to vegetate it is
essary puverise the grain for the of man, to
enable him to obtain the full supply of nutrimeRt
from the life-givng substance, when properly fitted
by grinding and masticaton to be taken into the hu
man stomach. No matter how clean your ground
may be, never the seed upon it, before it has been
previously well prepared by the plow-the most i'm
portant machine ever invented by mae.
Planting corn, before blowing the ground, is anoth-
er instance of very bad farming. This is also prac-
tced al the South. The land is Hsed that is, marked
off for the rows by turning couple of very light
burrows together, leaving the be broken out
after the is planted. One half of the labor of
tending crop, say nothing of its ncrea sed quanti-
ty might be saved. if the ground were well prepared
before planting. The excuse for this sloveny plan
is this The planter says he tend more acres
than he can pillow previous to planting, and it is i'm
poant get the seed in the ground and do the plow-
ing afterwards. The plan may produce him more
corn, but doubt it. If the ground were well pre-
pared before planting 1t would require less labor af
forwards, and undoubtedly produce to the acre
These hints not alone intended for the South
Northern farmers guilty of bad farming, ALSO We
have many hundred acres of oats sown before
I ploughing and then pIoughed in. A very common
practice is to oats stubbe, first splitting
2 the hill, by running furrow through them with
onehorse pow in this case, one-haIf the seed fal
upon surface untitled to promote vegetation as
brick pavement. In turning over, many of the seeds
are buried beneath the clods and lost forever If vol
3 deshe good crops, you must good tools-yes
use then-plow deep, puverise the so-ft it to pro
e duce harvest, and it will never disappoint you ex
in pofc doh
circumstance that Providence may infict upon you.
Negectng to set out fruit trees. is another evidenc
of bad farming, which pains the eye of every obser
wing traveller in America. With the best fruit
= try in the world for the most substantial kinds, w
, have thousands of farms as destitute of good apple
. pear plum. peach ounce, cherry, current thong
= God had forbidden them to grow and gladden. tn
n hearts of men in this fertile land.
IT Another evidence of bad farming is, the neglect
), that gre1t of comfort and luxury every fa
e mer's family-the kitchen garden. Bot where sha
e we stop with evidence We will do it here
% and submit the to the Judgment OF an improvin
= community. american .4gricuAurist.