Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-04-14
SIMON SHORT.
MiselIanp.
THE FARMER.

have your labor rewarded by exuber-
ant crops, perform such labor as nature
approves. Ii you plough. plough
deep: never less than six inches, and
then put your sub-soil plough one foot
below your sod plough's furrow--then
pulyerizt thoroughly.
lfyou plant corn, furrow your ground
off three and half feet apartand cross
at the same distance, and be sure you
drop the kernels of your corn from two
TO two and ahalfinches apart in the hill.
Nothing is more injurious than to drop
six oreight kernels in the circumference
of q cent.
lfyou put your crop in of wheat. fail
not to drill it, and put one bushcl and
half to the acre. If you SOW broad
cast, put on two bushels, and sow
between the 18th Of August and the
middle OF September. Early sowing
succeeds the best as general thing
BY II you escape the rust and the
winters freeze.
lfyou SOW oats, never delay till after
ne tenth Of April. Oats sown in
March will always produce the heaviest
crop.
Potatoes should never be planted
after the first of May. Early planting
succeeds best. To raise good crop
OF good potatoes, you should never
manure the ground-stable manure
will give the potatoe a liability to rot.
Rotation in cropsi essentially neces-
sary to the maintainance of a fruitful
soil. And with a view to this, / would
advise the farmer to divide his farm
into ght field of equal size. Three
fields should be sown in wheat each
year. one with rye or barley, one plan
ted in corn, two IN clover and one LETT
an open fallow. Ii the farmer own
land enough, one field should be put
in meadow. The open fallow should
be the field on which corn has been
planted the previous year. Keep one
clover field for moving and the other
for pasture. and break both up immedi-
ately after harvest, and prepare them
! fos >sisost - shs-f..lt. Jvt 1slie year
accumulation Of manure be hauled oul
upon the open fallow in the spring.
This field should be ploughed, narrowed
and cross ploughed twice through the
summer, and also put in wheat in the
fall. The field on which barley or rye
is sown is field from which wheat has
been taken the same year. and which
has yielded three successive crops
The rye or barley should be succeeded
by crop ofcon. The rye field being
work ed in corn and then fallowed, as
above, no rye can be left to mix with
the wheat. To prepare the rye field
for corn, it should be ploughed i'm
mediately after harvest-the stubble
turned under TO rot through tl,e winter.
Clover seed should be sown on two
Of the wheat fields early in the spring.
The two wheat fields last manured
should be cloyered.
BY this method each Of the eight
fields yields three crops of wheat. one
of rye or barley. two of clover and one
ofcorn every eightyears. In the mean
time each field has lain an open fallow
and has received heavy dressing of
manure.
With this process of rotation in crops
the farmer may expect 1900 bushels OF
wheat the fields containing not less
than l6 acres ESQ bushels of barley
600 bushels of corn, at least, and II
clover seed is gathered from one field
each year, it will not yield less than
$500 worth at present prices. The
Income from farm OF l4Uacres cleared
cannot be less than two thousand dollars
per annum.
The farmer cannot help but say that
farming after the foregoing plan-clo-
vering, manuring, DC, will increase
the fertility OF the soil andpay him well
for his pains.
Now, TO accomplish this good, the
farmer must have good tools, good
fencing, and a good shelter for his
stock. lie must not be one Of those
shiftless, slip-shod loafers who spends
more than half his time at the retailers
bar. No such man ever was, or ever
can be a successful farmer. Your ex-
pert farmer puts things through in the
shortest notice. Ii tree is TO be
planted, he takes it up. not from the
roots, but by the roots, and plants 1t in
n broad hole, dug up and loaned up in
the most suitable manner, and after il
is planted he keeps il free from grass
and weeds. His ploughing is always
done in seasonable time, and ko is
sure to plough it over once, after he
thinks he has ploughed enough. He
never sows his wheat broadcast and
harrows il so imperfectly as 10 leave
one fourth TO be dovoured by the fowl
Of heaven. The good farmer will SOW
bountifully Of clover, timothy and other
seeds to forestall the mullen, the fox
tail, the rag weed and daisy. He rolls
his wheat. his meadow and his corn
ground. He keeps his orchard pruned
and protects his cofhdeld against grass
and weeds as well in June and July as
in August and September. And he
prevents the occurrence Of grass spots
and weedy places. He ploughs his
ground thoroughly when he breaks il
up. and never lets his weeds go to
seed.
The thrifty farmer does everything
in its season. He ploughs and hoes,
and reaps and mows, in short, he takes
time by the forelock, and shoves his