Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-02-13
Experiment with Corn--Deep PlOw.
ing and Green Crops.

The gronud upon which the experiment was
made, was as near alike, and prepared as near
alike as could be. The corn was planted the 4th
of May, thro by five feet. That which was
plowed, was plowed the wide way only. -Four
rows were plowed exclusively with the coulter,
from eight to ten inches deep. Flowing repeat
ed four times at suitable intervals The next /
rows were cultivated exclusively with the hoe
The balance was plowed as usual here, first
throwing the earth from and then to the corn
and rlowing four times. AL was kept clean
throughout the season. The rows Of that culti-
waited as usual, when gathered, weighed AZ lbs.
The next weight 43 3-4 lbs. The two others of
hoed corn weighed 43 lbs. Two rows of coul-
tered corn, side by side with the preceding, and
having the same number of hills and ears ofcorn
weighed 43 3-4 lbs The hoed corn was nearly
prostrated by the wind and rain. had 10 set
up the greater part oft Just before and just after
it tasselled. The coultercd corn suffered hardly
hafso much as the hoed The residue suffered
comparatively little. These are the facts De-
ductions for you and your readers. The quanti-
ty raised on the ground is of no consequence.
I conducted various other experiments with
corn, but do not deem them of sufficient interest
to burden your columns, nor bore your readers
with them. These little things are interesting
to me, however, and always have some such
under headway.
| book-farmed that famous bottom-I spoke
to you about, and made fair crop Of corn. Last
year, it took sixty of the largest ears to shell
bushel; this year forty eight do it. This book
farming makes ME the subject Of great ridicule
and merriment. For instance, last spring you
advised us to pow deep and pulverize we'll. l
did so and was laughed at therefor. You ad-
vised sowing broadcast. l sowed something
like four acres This threw great many dia-
phragms into convulsions, and the ordinations
were rife and boisterous thereat.
So well am I pleased however, that shall
give them an opportunity to split the larynx
outright another year. The fodder produced
was enormous, besides pretty considerable
sprinkling Of corn. You appriscd US that it
might be well to SOW rye for early grazing, soil
ing &C., the next spring, and have done 80. 1t
is too green to laugh at now. You instructed US
to SOW twelve quarts of timothy seed per acre. l
did it. And if they do laugh at that it is mighty
grcen Fearing that some of our readers may
not understand the full meaning of the word
"green,'' as here used by our correspondent, We
explain that the timothy and rye sown by him,
agreeably to our directions, have already cover
ed the land with thick green herbage, and give
promise Of uncommonly large crops Of hay and
grin-EDs.
To renovate land, you inculcate turning in
green crops. Tcapsized all my clover-mastica-
tors displayed themselves, of great length and
breadth. OF all the green things, the wheat on
that clover land is the grcencst; and rather too
green to laugh at. The land having been put in
order by plowing and narrowing and crushing,
the wheat was ploughed in about three inches
the first of September, and narrowed it the first
of October.-Correspondence Of the +imsriea~