The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1856-06-04
PROPER TIME FOR MANURING.

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PROPER TINE FOR MANURING.
| The leisure Of the past summer has occa-
stoned several communications to you dra WI
from the remembrance of many years ol
close attention to the general business of the
cotton and corn plantation where the want
Iof fertility had directed the attention very
much 10 all possible aids from manurc- En-
closing fields TO be ungrazed. listing witt,
the hoe and plow, and the hoe aIune, and
movable and stationary stock pens, littering,
with straw from the woods direct to the field.
and generally the usual practices oil a farm
where its wants were more than the means
oi supply for them; cotton seed very fully
tried, rotted at the gin honse in the usual
way, and put on sonnd and unnjured also.
| think success, having due respect to the
seasons, has much depended on deep plowing
and late manuring. To this latter shall
confne my remarks, aud give the reason for
my opinion, SO that each may test its correct
ness by his own observation.
i There is observable in all plants and an
imsls a growing and bearing stage, and as
the object you seek is the bearing or fruit
ing. the manure should be so applied as to
be in its most powerful action when the
plant is in its lruition. This seems reason
able. Can il possibly be better to give all
your manure to the cotton and corn when
growing than when il is bearing, and this is
too often the case. short lived manure
may be expended in giving growth TO the
stalk, and leaving nothing TO make the ear.
'ottun seed, early winter-rotted, is "f this
class. and il put on rotfed at planting. its
effects are all expended in the stalks with
nothing left for the ears. The tendency oi
our warm climate is to run TO too much stalk,
and should be counteracted rather than sti-
mulated. Our ouly friend that has been
doing this is early drouth. always unlhanked.
and frequently regarded as an enemy. Corn
will stand seasons that much diminish its
size, aud yield we'll. provided suitable rain,
come when the grain is making. The man.
urc should be 50 managed as TO act at this
.juncture, saw June aud July. Let Us take
corn 70, our example, aud the season equally
applies 10 cotton aud all other products, and
your observation will make the application.
Corn is generally planted in March, aud
continues its growing stage through all Nav,
when the bearing or iruiting stage cnmmen.
crs and continues through June and July.
The obser,ant planter will then see the "a.
lpidity of the sh0oting aud tasscling and push.
Ing out the young ears, and If he takes the
hoe he will see, Just under the surface, in
Vulnerable thread like white roots extending
in all directions from the guard roots aud
others to the distance OF eight or ten feet;
then is the time that the land should be in
fine order aud the manure IN lis most pow.
erful aciion. These rOots are in search
of food and bearing il TO the corn. and should
not be cut by the plow or hue, as il will be
too late 10 renew for use.
In June and Jnlt il Is iu iull bearing, and
wants all the elect Of the manure aud rams
aud on this. mure than on the size Of the
stalk, is the yield dependant. AL that cas,
ui manures that come irnm listing in aud
covering where grown the rubbish aud sur
lace suIl, and the litter Of stable and cav
pens or compost heaps, as well frum ths
J want Of time a. the necessity Of the co-np
Grafton Of the earth in rotting. reducing ant
preparing il for The fuud of plants, must b.
applied before the crop is plan'ed, and le
this be - present. The manures 1 partitu
larly allude TO are cotton seed, guauo ant
the sulphates, all powerful in themselves an,
, requiring 50 little time in application, aud
! think ! may add, 0i short duratlon, 10 III,
homeopathic dose usually given. The prac
tiee ! complain Of Is the usual one of throw
ing out the cotton seed As II Is ginned, wher,
flUm the size OF the bulk, il heats, sob., an,
lis essence and value passes into the air Az,
, is lost. In this evaporation its udor tells ID,
. nuse IL Il has not informed the understand
= ing. that i Is wasting into the air. II i
perhaps, correct 10 say that more than une
half its value is lost, aud without the poo
excuse ol is being too busy time. Let th
coitUn seed be hauled OF TO the field to b
!, manure,l before IL accumuatts into muel
. bulk. 10 small heaps in the cUnicai shap
as drawn irun tue wagons, !; will not he 10
jured by the winter rains. II you fear injur.
TO y0ui hogs ur from your stock, few tail
) adequately protect the supply Cor four acres
at une place: ur Il may be put into cunica
!. heaps as drnppr,l lrum the wagon 10 an en-
closure at the clubhouse. The seed Is 10 b
killed after the corn Is planted, and not be
iUrc, aud LET some trusty hand, with eight o
ten young people or other inferior hands un
der him, upen the tops oI the piles with tw
,sur mcre deep chops Of the hoe, aud the youn
|. hands pour ~ bushel Of water. more o
!, less; on this let be placed two hocs lull 9
dirt to retain the moisture, and cover u Wit
9 the seed. 10 this state. cspcciall, u done a
rainy time, Il will soon heat aud the sege
lating principle be killed. which il general
n the case IN three or four weeks. This shuul,
: be dune in March or early in April, aud II
application to the cnrn 10 May. or when th
corn is knee or waist high. u is well :
scatter the seed in the furrow, near the corn