The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1852-03-31

. May yourrieh soil,

Coon FARsfN0.--ln the Goldsboroueh
Telegraph we find a communication
from A. Sherman, giving some account
offarming in Edgecombe c..unty, which
has Of late years acquired the reputa-
ton Of being the most fiourishing coun-
" in North Carolina. He says
The true secret Of farming seems
in this county to have been found out
that is. when crop is taken of to leave
the land in better condition than il was
before. AS proof. let me state one in
stance. which | do hoping to excite a
spirit of rivalry in other counties.
=" Eight years since, Baker station
purchased the plantation on which he
now lives; his first crop Of cotton was
seventy bales, the crop Of 1880 was
10, that Of 1851, a72, and nearly one
thousand barrels OF corn, and the pro-
liability is, that the increase in 1882
will be in proportion. How can 1t be
otherwise Think Of from 10000 to
10000 loads ofmanure applied annual
ly, and the most Of il mechanically pre-
pared On the field where il is to be used,
BY mari, ditch banks, cotton seed. &c.
Some 1000 loads. collected in the cat
tie yard. are now put up in heaps to
secure them from drenching rains and
also to prevent the volatile properties
from escaping.
"One gentleman told me he had
1900 barrels Of ashes, which had been
collected by burning dead trees and old
fallen wood about the plantation.
Another gentlemen told me he had
raised sla7 pounds Of seed cotton on a
single acre, and 90 barrels, Q bushels,
2qnarts and pint Of corn upon another
single acre. There is no mystery in,
this large yield. II was the result of
heavy manuring. proper plowing. &c.
If one acre can be made to produce SO
abundantly. why may not manyi And
would it not be matter Of economy to
get twenty barrels per acre instead of
going over 90 acres to get that quanti-
yF"
To RAISE CucuxBHRs.-We are in
debted to a friend for the following
method Of raising cucumbers, which he
has known practised with the most sa-
tisfactory results He is a bachelor
himself, and consequently has had no
opportunity of personally testing its
expediency, but some Of the finest Gu
cumbers he has ever seen were raised
in this way. The experiment will cost
but little, and is certainly worth the
trial. Squashes and melons may be
raised in the same manner.
yade Mecum.
"Take a large barrel or hogshead,
saw it in two in the middle. and bury
each half in the ground even with the
top. Then take small keg and bore a
small hole IN the bottom place the
key in the centre Of the barrel, the
top even with the ground. and fill
in around the keg. with rich earth,
suitable for the growth Of cucum-
bers. Plant your seed midway between
the edges Of the barrel and the keg, and
make kind of arbor foot or two high
for the vines to run ON. When the
ground becomes dry, pour water in the
keg in the evening-it will pass out al
the bottom ofthe keg into the barrel and
rise up to the roots of the vines and
keep them moist and green. Cucum.
bers cultivated in this way will grow to
great size, as they are made indie.
pendent both ofdrought and wet wealth
erin wet weather the barrel can bt
covered, and in dry the ground can bt
kept moist by pouring water IN th'
keg."