The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-12-12
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PREMIUM ESSAY,

From the Arator.
\ PREMIUM ESSAY,
os TIE PREPARATION OF LANDS THE best MODE
! OF cuLTIvATISG CORN AND SAVING FODDER.
Published By order of he Presidents Of he Gyanri.
Warren and Franklin agricultural Societiesl
| all stiff, stubble, and soddy lands, intend
cd Tor corn, should be SUBSIDIZED at least
eight inches deep, the previous fall, or in
early winter: Immediately after which, it
should be horizontalized with bitches, hay
/ ing sufficient fall for the rains to keep
them open--if the soil is not too subject to
gully; and likewise to drain the land of
superfuity of water; so as to enable the ac-
tion OF the elements to disntcgrate, and fer
tilize the soil. as well as to kill the eggs Of
worms and insects during winter.
Just before planting. the land should be
laid oifinto rows, with bull-tongue plow, five
feetapart, perfectly horizontal, for the pur-
pose Of retaining the light showers Of rain !;
permitting as many Of them as practicable
to enter into the upper side of the bitches,
in order to part with the heavy ones. Then
it should receive broadcast, at least, 900 lbs.
Of Peruvian Guano to the acre--or as much
bone dust, stable, hogpen, or compost ma.
nure, as will enable the land TO produce an
abundant crop of corn-if il is not rich as
it is impossible for il to yield corn without
ITS component elements are present, or put
into the soil. Twenty five per cent. Of Plas-
ter Paris, or fresh charcoal pulyerized, will
fix the ammonia in the guano, and stable ma
nure likewise, (if it is not permitted to es-
cape by its accustomed exposure TO rain and
leat,) and render them vastly more produc-
tive and permanent; and as much ashes, or
lime, should be added in forming the com
post.
While the fertilizer is being cast on the
land, il should be bedded with the largest
size single horse, (approved) cast pillow, that
pR HSPs Tf i liz 'pa laeq Fqaw tA ARg Ri irG R Ire
ridge on either side. enough earth TO form a
soft bed for the corn, as well as to raise it
above the damp, and sufficiently high TO work
the young plant. Open the salae with a duck
bill pl0w hoe, armed with wo0tlen mould-
boards, long enough to make drill six inches
wide and two deep, for the reception Of the
Kernels, which should be dropped three feet
apart, two grains in the hill, aud covered one
inch deep only, with board, attached to a
pillow. hoe helye, about ten inches long, and
= seoopcd out below.
!. High land corn should be planted by The
25th nf March in this latitude. Soon as il
is well up, it should be sided with a Golfer
6 or inches wide from wing to wing, ant
sharp in front, TO prevent covering the youn.
blades: and the earth thoroughly loosened
around the corn with light and narrow hillng
hoes, and thnned out to one stalk at tn
same time. Som as the grass appears Of
The beds, and Immediately after every heay,
rain, il possible. harrow the beds with Sin
Glars 'fiye Tooth Expansive Cultiyator !;
which will gradually level them, BY film
up the corn iurrow. By the lst Of July TIL
corn should have thin Hat hill.
Rich aud fresh lands require another weed
ing between the stalks, and around stumps
!, Corn should be planted, worked, and lai
Y BY early.
a Light and sandy soils need not be sub
% soiled until planting season. as they are na
q. subject ta bake; aud the benefits to be dc
rived from the chemical action Of the air an
frost on such lands, will not remunerate 70
e the extra plowing.
~ Wet. low or high lands, should be deepl
NJ SUBSIDIZED when the weather j. dry in lall, an
thrown up into higl, beds Of ), 10, or 20i &c,
width, with deep water burrows betwccl
60 running into Jrain-dtch on the lowest sid
II. of the field. The manure should be apple
re. on the beds, broadcast, just before rcsersin
!. them for the reception ol the seed corn.
$ All fertilizers, especially coarse one
should be applied broadcast; soas 70 becoH
- thoroughly incorporated with the soil. IN o
- der 10 allnrd uniform and constant suppl
N. 10 the thousand little corn fuOts that ralnll
the earth in every direction ~ search
food.
!. When manure is deposited in the hill, q
V, corn grows rapidly. until the tap and bra
roots cease 10 be absorbcnts; after which
:, pcrishcs, or produces but snail nubbii
y, as the runners cannot lind more nutFlinc
). than will sustain The cxtrasagantly rals
= stalk, and consumption Of July's sun.
As Tie virtue Of manurcs resides ~ The
=, salts and Volatile qualities, il is obyiu
w. w. that thcy should be deeply deposited, al
NJ. remain undisiurbcd; therefore the system
The thoroughly blowing the land from three
! In five times during the growth Of The corn,
not only destructive to the land antl lI,anul
=. but equally injurious tu the corn, by g
slant accfation Of It's tender riots, and
V posing them to a vertical sun. We might
well expect TO lattcn an animal ny repcat
ycncscetiun, ur increase the volume 81 2 Z
!, cr by cutting ull its branches. as to calculi
v ~. upon making crop ci corn, q = dry rs
mug by thus tearing is ruuts with plow. llei