The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-11-20

| EIKe0 t0ctS IN n grteuAture.
The following useful items are going the
rounds, and, though without an endorser, are
worthy of attention from every farmer:
/. All lands on which clover or the grasses
are grown must either have lime in them nat
urally or the mineral must be artiicialy sup
piled. 1t matters but little wheth.r it be sup
piled in the form OF stone lime, oyster lime, or
mari.
2. All permanent improvement Of land
must look to lime as it basis.
8. Lands which have been long in culture
will be benefited by application of phosphate
OF lime, and it is unimporlant whether the
deficiency be supplied in the form of bone
dust, gunao, native phosphate of lime, COM
posts of fish, ashes, or that of oyster shell
lime, or mari, if the land needs Inning Also
A. No lands can be preserved in high
state of fertility unless clover and the grasses
are cultivated in the course Of rotation.
8. Mould is indispensable in every soil, and
healthy supply can alone be preserved
through the cultivation of clover and the
grasses, the turning in of green crops, or by
the application of composts rich in the ele-
ments of mould.
6. All highly concentrated animal manures
are increased in value, and their benefits pro-
longed, by admixture with plaster, 1t,
or pulverised charcoal.
4. Deep blowing greatly improves the pro-
ductive powers of every variety of soil that
is not wet.
s. Subsoiling sound land, that is, land that
is not wet, is eminently conducive to increas-
ed production.
9. All wet land should be drained.
10. All grain crops should be harvested be-
fore the grain is thoroughly ripe.
IL. Clover, as well as the grasses, inten-
ded for hay, should be moved when in bloom.
IL. Sandy lands can be most effectually
improved by clay. When such lands require
lin ng or marlng, the lime or mari is most
benefcally applied when made into compost
with clay. In shaking lime, salt brine is bet
ter than water.
Is. The chopping or grinding of grain to
be fed to stock operates as saving of at least
twenty-five per cent.
IA. Draining of wet lands and marshes adds
to their value, by making them produce more
and better crops, by producing them earlier,
ADD by improving the health of neighbour
h pods.
10. Tomanure or lime wet lands 10 to throw
manure, lime, and labor away.
Is. Shallow blowing operates 70 impover-
ISL the soil, while it decreases production.
| IL. By stabling and shedding stock
through the winter, saving of one-fourth the
| food may be effectet that is one-fourth less
| food will answer than when such stock may
be exposed to the inclemencies of the wealth
er.
Is. a bushel of plaster per acre, sown
broadcast over clover. will add one hundred
per cent to its produce.
l9. Periodical applications of ashes tend to
| ;eep up the integrity of soils, by supplying
nost if not all, of the organic substances.
! 30. Thorough preparations of land is abso-
lutely necessary to the successful and luxuri-
ant growth of crops.
81 Abundant crops cannot be grown for
a succession of years. unless care be taken
to provide an equivalent for the substances
carried off the land in the products grown
thereon.
%. To preserve meadows in their produce
tiveness, it is necessary to harrow them eve-
ry second autumn, apply top-dressing and roll
them up.
90. All stiff clays are benefited by fall
and winter plowings, but should never be
plowed while they are wet. II at such plow-
ings the furrow be materially ripeued, lime,
mari, or ashes should be applied.
"a. Young stock should be moderately fed
with grain in winter, and receive generous
supplies oflong provender, it being essential
to keep them in fair condition, in order that |
the formation of muscle, bones, &c., may be |
encouraged and C, ntinuously carried on.
25. Mich cows, in winter, should be kept |
in dry, moderately warm, but well ventilated
quarters, fed and watered three times a day,
sailed twice or thrice a week, have clean
beds, be curried. and in addition to their long
provender, should receive succulent food,
morning and evening.
26. Full compliments of tools and imple-
ments of husbandry are intimat ,y connected
with the success of the husbandman.
%. Capital is not only necessary to agri-
cultural success, but can be as properly used
in farming as in any other occupation.
%. Punctualty in engga gements is as nec-
essary to an agriculturist as it is to a mer-
chant.
30. Every husbandman should carefully
read and digest matters connected with his |
business; his success being as dependent Ut on
full knowledge of its principles and details
as is that of the lawyer or physician with a
knowledge of the science ofthe law or physic.
30. Wheat, rye, oats, and barley should
never follow each other in course of rota-
ton; there should always be an intervening
hoe crop between them.
81. Weeds should never be permitted to
matur" their seed on farm, but be pulled up
or cut down as often as they show themselves, |
such being the only effectual mode Of eradica-
ting them. To insure thus result, the ground
should be planted in corn, and that kept
clean.
80. Time and labor devoted to the collec-
ton of materials to be converted into manure
are the most fruitful sources OF profit in the
whole range of farm economy.
The orchard, to be productive of good, fair