The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-09-04

From the Germantown Telegraph.
FLOWING.

FRIEND EDITOR There are few seasons,
probably, when the important labor Of ploTing
can be better or more economically performed,
taking all things into consideration, than in the
fall Most farmers, after the business Of har-
vesting is over, have generally an ample suft-
ciency of leisure TO enable them to attend to
this business without serious inconvenience or
detriment to more weighty affairs. Another
important advantage attending this practice,
and one which is certainly of far too much i'm
POrtance to the interests of the farmer to be
hastily or inconsiderately overlooked, is the
benefit resulting from the turning-in Of the
green haulm and roots Of the grass which exists
after the crop has been removed, and which, by
being turned in, operates powerful and
speedy enrichment to the soil Grass lands,
frOm which heavy crop Of hay has been taken,
generally produces q crop of aftermoth, which,
in its deeomposed state, furnishes an excellent
manure, and is Of far greater value when ap-
propriRted in this way, than when cut and fed
70 stock, as hay. It has been estimated by
competent judges, that, on every acre Of grass
and-proyided it be Of ordinary fertility, and
the grass roots well set" there is from thirty
70 forty tons of soluble matter, fit for the food
G; plants. This large mass, by being covered
n autumn, by the careful inversion Of the swarl,
but not too deeply, and thus secured from the
deterioration Of the winds and rains, ) IN "a
suitable condition to operate the most beneficial
agency on the soil the subsequent spring. The
avs of chemistry, under such a concatenation
q circumstance, operate with the greatest cncr-
" and facility, and effect without any further
assistance from industry, the accomplishment Of
the most happy and fortunate results. There
are, however, some soils, the vegetable matter
Of which is scarcely sufficient, considered simple
IN itself, to remunerate one for the cost of turn
ing 1t In This is generally found TO be the
case on light lands, which have been many
years IN pasture, and, indeed, in all lands in
which the principle of fertility have been ex-
hausted by succession of weakening and emas-
eulaung crops. But even such lands however
UNITED may be the mass of decomposable or or
sanic matter they contain, are by no means IN
deserving Of regard. By plowing them in the
autumn, whatever they contain, viii be con-
'erted into the nutriment of plants and if they
Se oil & calcareous nature, and of texture rather
Aght and porous, the roller should be applied
III order to consolidate and give frmness to the
constituent particles which viii not otherwise
os hkeiy 10 adhere with sufficient closeness.-
Inls instrument also greatly facilitates the
ameiioraung action of frost upon the SOIL in
nning and breaking it up. In autumn the team
also DETER able to perform the work, than in
sPiIhg; they are IN good condition, consequent
sIong' active and ''in good heart" In the
'pring' there are multiplicity of duties to be
performed all of which are alike Important
ine haVing all ones plOwing done, releases one
.Om ihnumerable inconvenience, and make
nm In great degree, the master of his work.
II Is true there are soils on which this operation
" more benehcially performed in spring: bu
1uora but single exception 10 the genera
bimself -.
'hs'fs' coVsty, sh No, 1851.