Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-04-02

the eastern States, however, it is absolute.
ly necessary TO have the soil well and
deeply pulrerized, and in many instances
well manured, and also handhoed twice or
thrice, to insure large crop. In this dis
trlct ii Is usually planted about the middle
of May. 1t should be marked each way,
three feet apart, as it is then planted straight
er, and is much easier horse hoed, plowed,
&c. 1t delights i'll light, gravelly loan,
and does best in an old meadow or clover
lay plowed the previous fall. Barn manure
IS always gratefully received and handsome
ly remunerated. Four to SIX grains are
planted in 4 hill. When the corn is I'D
about an inch it should be dressed with
plaster-a good handful to a hill. lis
good effect is speedily visible. Wood
ashes applied in the same way is often at
tended with gsod profit
Potatoes, TIL within the last few years,
were considered one of the safest crops
never being attacked by insects or injured
by disease; but the potato disease, which
has extended to all countries, deiies con-
lecture to account for it, and science TO
provide a remedy. 4 well drained, light,
black soil, if well manured, is best calcu
lated TO produce heavy crop. But a
dry, light, sandy soil, now yields the sound
est and most palatable potatoes Subson-
ing for this crop has been attended with
great benefit. Good, short hog manure,
Is the best for potatoes. A handful of
plaster on the hill, as they Just break the
SOU, IS also beneficial and unleached
wood ashes are Of great benefit Two
hundred bushels per acre ought always to
be raised. They should be planted about
the first Of May. If planted in hills they
are more easily kept clean; though plant
ed in rows about thirty inches apart and
twelve inches between the sets, 800 lbs.
OF Peruvian guano sown broadcast per
acre and plowed in, has been attended with
very good results OF the crop.
C{oUer.-About ten pounds of clean clo-
yer Is usally sown per acre, in April. on
the wheat fields. 1t should always be
rolled or narrowed in, if possible. In
England, clover is usually sown with the
barley crop. Red clover, as found by ex-
perlence. cannot there be grown oftener
than once in eight years on the same soil :;
for II sOwn once III four years, the land
soon becomes - clover sick" Twenty
pounds OF seed per acre is often sown by
good farmers, Ill hopes Of securing d crop.
We have seen much heavier clover grown
here by the use OF plaster, than we ever
saw in England under the most favorable
conditions of soil and manuring. Glover
Is often much injured by keeping sheep on
1t too late in the fall and too early in the
spring and it Is better not to let them run
on it at all in the fall if it can be avoided
. We would never let land lie with clover
more than two years, as after two years
there is little extension of root, and the
clover is apt to die out and give place to
timothy and red top, which we think as
exhaustng TO the soil as wheat, and should
never be sown except on low land not well
adapted for wheat. 1t is to the extension
of-the quantity Of land sewn with clover
and the adoption of root culture, that we
confidently look for great improvement in
our agriculture and increased profits of the
farmers, and, as consequence, of the en-
tire community.