Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-07-14

tracts from the atmosphere both carbon and
ammonia in larger quantities than other
plants.
The mode Of turning in green crops alter
an application Of lime or mari is one much
resorted to by our farmers, and the pea more
than any other crop used especially the
black and shney pea !; the mode adopted is
to fallow their lands and SOW the pea in the
month of Nav, and in the fall 10 plough
them in the land in the green state, and in
this manner impart great benefit to the
whea. as well as lasting benef, to the land.
Another mode is to sow the pea in their
corn fields, as they are working their corn
the last time, {say from 25th June to l5Ih
July,) the pea is sown as soon as the corn
is worked, and cullvalors or rakes follow,
which both covers The pea and prepares the
land for the better growth of the corn :;
though this mode in a measure sometimes
fails to yield a good growth, owing to
the growth of corn and a dry spell OF
weather.
Green crops contain in their substance ot
only all they have drawn from the soil, but
a great portion they have drawn from the
air; plough in these living plants and you
ecesSarly add 10 the soil more than they
have from it, and of course you make 1t
richer in organic matter. No subj ject claims
the attention of the farmer of greater I'M
portance, than that of turning in green crops
for the improvement, OF their lands, espe-
cially after an application Of lime or mari.
The subject has already claimed the at
tenlion Of The Essayist and all agricultural
journals.
Experiments wih Lime.-Upon six acres
of land accurately measured there was gath
cred in 1916, thlrtv-four bushels Of corn.-
In the summer of lS49, this lot of land was
dressed with fifty bushels of lime TO the acre,
applied as top dressing, and the following
spring dressing Of woods scrapings was
added, thoroughly ploughed in, and well
cultivated in corn; there was gathered in
The fall of 1850, one hundred ,wen,y-nine
bushels Of corn the same fall this lot Of
land was seeded in wheat, (lhe first time it
had been in small grain for The last twenty
years. the wheat grew off finely, and in the
spring so fourishing did it appear that ]
was induced to seed it in clover. The
whea. was got out, accurately measured, and
eighty bushels the result. The clover has
taken finely, and with the application Of
plaster and bones, will make one Of my fin
est lots.
Cd In field containing 130 acres Of land
upon which there was gathered IN lS44 "a
bout 500 barrels of corn, was lined al the
rate Of fifty bushels 10 the acre in August,
1S4S, and cultivated in corn in 1919; al
though the corn suffered very greatly for
rain, there was gathered 647 barrels of good
merchantable corn.
3d. Upon field Of $50 acres of land re-
Gently purchased, lime was applied al the
rate of fiflv bushels 10 the acre, in the sum
mer Of 1850. aud we'll distributed; il was
in corn iasl year and by good Judges it was
! pronounced the best crop that had been up
on it for number of years. 1t is now In
wheat, having had an additional falow OF
peas, (peas having been sown last summer
in The corn.) believe this old field, which
contained the sorrel and poverty grass, and
which was an "eye sore" 10 all good farmers
will this summer present new aspect IN
! the foliage Of good Sc, Of clover.
CONCLUSION next week.)