The Winchester appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-03-15
agrltHltural.
Fixed Facts in Agriculture.

I. All lands on which clover or the
grasses are grown, must either have
lime in them naturally, or that miner
al must be artifcially supplied. It
matters but little whether it be sup
piled in the form Of stone lime, oyster
lime or mari.
Q. All permanent Improvements Of
lands, must look to lime as their basis.
3. Lands which have been long in
culture, will be benefited by the APP
plication of phosphate Of lime, and it
is unimportant wheth the deficiency
be supplied with bonedust, guano, ma
tive phosphate Of lime, composts of
flesh, ashes, or that Of oyster shell
lime--or mari If the land needs lime,
lime also.
4. No lands can be preserved in a
high state of fertility, unless clover
and the grasses are cultivated in the
course of rotation.
5, Mould is indispensable in every
soil and a healthy supply can alone
be preserved through the cultivation
of clover, and the grasses, the turning
in Of green crops, and by the appllca-
ton of composts rich in the clements
of mould.
g. ALI highly concentrated animal
manures are increased in value, and
their benefits prolonged by admixture
with plaster, SALT or with pulverized
charcoal.
r. Deep ploughing greatly improves
the productive powers OF every variety
Of soil that is not wet.
s. Subsoiling sound land, that is
land that is not wet, is also emlnently
conductive to increasing production.
0. All wet land should be drained.
10. All grain crops should be har-
vested, before the grain is thoroughly
ripe.
II. Clover as well as the grasses, in
tended for hay, should be mown when
in bloom.
IL. Sandy lands can be most effect
uaIly improved by clay. When such
lands require lining, the lime Or
mari is most bcneiicially applied when
made into compost with clay. In
Stacking lime, salt brine is better than
water.
10. The chopping or grinding of
grain to be fed to stock, operates as
a saving Of at least twenty-five per
cent.
II. Drainage wet land and marsh
cs, adds to their value, by making
them produce more, and by improv-
ing the health Of neighborhoods.
Is. To manure or lime wet lands,
is to throw manure, lime, and labor
away.
16. Shallow blowing operates to
impoverish the soil, while it decreases
production.
II. BY stabling and shedding stock
through the winter, saving of one
fourth their food may be effected: that
is, one-lourth less food will answer,
than when the stock may be exposed
to the inclemencics of the weather.
Is. A bushel Of plaster per acre,
sown broadcast, over clover, will add
one hundred per cent to it's produce.
10. Periodical applications of ashes
tend to keep up the integrity OF soils,
by supplying most, if not all, OF the Or
ganic substances.
30. Thorough preparation Of lands
is absolutely necessary to the success
tul and luNuricnt growth of crops.
81. Abundant crops can not be
grown for q succession Of years, I'M
less care be taken to provide an
equivalent for the substances carried
off the land in the products grown
thereon.
%. TO preserve meadows in their
productiveness, it is necessary to har-
row them every second autumn, APP
ply top dressing and roll them up.
90. All stiff clays are benefited by
fall and winter plowings; but should
never be plowed when wet. If at
such plowngs the furrow bematcrial-
ly decpcned, lime mari, or ashes should
be supplied
"a. Young stock should be moder-
ately fed with grain in winter, and re-
ceivc generous supplies oflong prov
cnders, it being essential to keep them
in fair condition, in order that the
formation, of muscle, bones, &c. may
be encouraged and continuously car
ricd on.
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