Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-03-30

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~ cts. deduct two barrels of corn
for last feeding, $500 50,72
Sl.1l3,37''
One thousand one hundred and thirteen dol
lars, and thirty cents, from which leave
the reader To nuke his own deductions for the
years expense OF cultivation and marketing.
This much affirm, that no mere Of the above
land, except the one IN turnips last year, has
ever cost Sl5,OU to improve il, and that every
acre has paid me from go, to $50, annually,
sln'e the lime and inanarc were applied
These results show what bud done ap TO
$780, aud what others mny likewise ., and III
most cascs, and in all cases OF old settled far
mers, in less Time and Ut less expense thin |
have incurred.
To give full and circumsiantial detail of all
the means and appliances employed to produce
the results stated would occupy far more time
and space than can lac appropriated to AN es-
say designed for the ,eorking farmer. If may
now cnim to be practical farmer, and sue
ccssful renoyator of worn out lands, how | have
accomplished this important end, | will endeavor
to reveal in the rules shall recommend for the
use of all young farmers, who, from whatever
motive or cause, may feel disposed TO devote
their time and energies to the cultivation of the
soil.
will suppose the young farmer already in
possession of the land and that he is supplied
yoke of oxen, good two horse pillow of the bar
shear kind, and n one horse bar shear piough one
sub soil plough, one ciod and one seed harrow,
one two horse roller, and labor equal at least to
two and half men, besides Il woman to cook,
mix and wash. | will suppose too. that he has
"A oomely aud notable wife, both willing and com
petent to share with her iord and protector, in all
the cares MS well as pleasures of life. Also that
he has proper complement of all farming imple-
menis, tools, &c, necessary to carry on farm,
am, ng which there must be IA two horse wagon, II
horse cart and an or-cdrt. This outfit is com
| puted for II farm of fri 100 to $50 acres, ac-
! corling 10 circumstances. If the young farmer
hns more land than means to stock it well and
cultivate ii thoroughly, then my advice is by all
means to sell oil AS much of his surplus land rs
will put him in possession of funds sufficient to
thoroughly cultivate and speedily improve the
residue Il have somewhere met with an old proyerb
which earn esty commend TO all farmers wheth-
er young or old, vim that, tpo dcresof idnd on
/ top Of each other are better than three side By
side For example, in 1882, got from one acre
OF well MANFRED land 72a bushels of oats, having
| suwed three bushels The same year rented an
adjoining field of 90 acres which had been in corn
the previous year. On that field sowed 30 bush.
of oats, and after giving the landlord his third,
and taking out the seed | had 100 bushels left
for my profit, rather less. for upon each of the
% acres there was the same labor bestowed as
upon the one-the manuring and eight dollars
worth of lime, about the value of two acres of
land at that time, made the difference.
As my purpose is to lay down rules for the
young farmer of minimum means, which The atilu-
cnt and more experienced agriculturist may cas-
lily extend or modify to meet his enlarged IL
bility and circumstances, shall take for lustra-
ton, an even hundred acres, thirty of which we
will suppose To be in wood, leaving 20 acres for
the plough. OF this ~ acres | will n, propriate
10 acres t" buildings, gardens and orchards
hence have 6o left for farming purposes proper.
will divide these into six ii Ids of 10 acres each
and number them l. ?, 3. 4. 5 and Cd will sup
pose too, that the young farmer is i'll possession
and prepared to break ground at the opening of
spring; of course he has employed all the work
ing weather of the winter months of tie year,i e.
January, February and March, in getting rails
and repairing fences, &c, &C., until the ground
was sufficiently dry for ploughing for corn, or if
any portion OF his land was IN summer crops the
preceding year,tor oats. When the corn ground
Is TO be broken for the first time, which | will
suppose 10 be in nothing better than porerty
grass ! would hitch the best one of NV three
horses to the one horse bar shear plough, and
turn the Jurrom 8 or 4 inches only, following at
the same time and in the same track, with the
sub stratum, alias sub-soil plough. drawn by the
other two horses, as deep rs they pull it,
which, if ii be Davis formerly of Georgetown,
ID. C.,) primitive sub stratum plough with my
improved point, will be from eight to ten inches
inns operation at once provides filth of IL inch
es on an average, still retaining near the surface,
where if there is any left in the soil,it should be-
the little vegetable mould as food for plants,
while at the same time, receptacle is furnished,
sufficient, in most cases, TO absorb and hold all
the ram that falls IN any one place, and Thus
more e6ectuaity, than by any other means ,cithin
reach The farmer Of imitcd means, arrest nash
ing to which cause is to be attributed the ex-
hlusted state of the once fertile, but now worn
out lands of Maryland and Virginia. he cause
OF exhaustion once removed, the work of renova-
ton becomes progressye; slow it may be, if I'M
aided by art and science, but time alone, in the
end tooaid bring back the land to its pri,neral
state, If surface washing were effectuay arrest
| ed.
Nor is the safeguard against washing the only
Up 10 thi,4tn'e la depended almost entirely M
e.t'e tt",4t-ts q fle tata 'ot mlstrins "a all u Q
tN5eplian 9" limo aad pastor my II aorr,.sl o .i
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