Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-05-22
agritultural.
FIXED FACTS IN AGRICULTURE.

FIXED FACTS IN AGRICULTURE.
Somebody has got up the following list
Of ''fxed facts in Agriculture, and for
once, in a condensation of this sort, has hit
the nail on the head, in most of them,
They are for an Eastern latitude : and no
Western Farmer need trouble himself about
what is said of manufactured manure, at
least till he has learned to use his stock fur
nished from the barnyard. Prairie Farm
en-.
L. All lands on which the clover or the
grasses are grown, must either have lime in
them naturally, or that mineral artifcially
supplied. It matters but little whether it
be supplied in the form of stonelime, oyster
lime, or mari.
2. All permanent improvement on lands
must look to lime as it's basis.
3. Lands which have been long in cul-
ture, will be benefited by the application Of
phosphate of lime; and it is unimportant
whether the deficiency be supplied in the
form Of bone-dust, guano, native phosphate
of lime, compost of fresh ashes, or that of
oyster shell lime-or marl-if the lands
needs lime also.
4. No lands can be preserved in high
state Of fertility, unless clover and grasses
are cultivated in the course of rotation.
5. Mould is indispensable in every soil,
and a healthy supply can only be preserved
through the cultivation of clover, and the
grasses, the turning in of the green crops,
or by the application of compost rich in the
elements of mould.
g.. All highly concentrated animal ma
nures are increased in value, and their ben
efts prolonged by admixtnre with plaster,
salt, or pulverized charcoal
7. 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 eminently conducive
to increased production.
9. All wet land should be drained.
10. All grain crop should be harvested
before the grain is thoroughly ripe.
II. Clover, as well as the grasses, intend
ed for hay, should be moved when in bloom,
12. Sandy lands can be most efectually
improved by clay. When such lands re-
quire lining or marling, the lime or mari is
most benefcially applied when made into
composts with clay. In Stacking lime, salt
brine is better than water.
13. The chopping OF grinding of grain
to be fed to stock, operates as a saving of
at least twenty-five per cent.
A. Draining of wet lands and marshes,
adds to their value by making them to pro-
duce more and by improving the health of
neighborhoods.
15 To manure or lime wet lands, is to.
throw manure, lime, and labor away
16. Shallow ploughing operates to i'm
-poverish the soil, while it decreases produc-
tion
II. By stabling and shedding stock thro'
the winter, a saving of one-fourth the food
may be effected; that is, one fourth less:
food answer, than when the stock may be
exposed to the inclemencies of the weather.
Is. A bushel of plaster per acre, sown
broadcast over clover, will add one hundred
per cent to it's produce.
19. Periodical applications Of ashes tend
to keep up the integrity Of soils, by supply
ing most if not all, Of the organic substances.
90. Thorough preparation of lands abso-
lutely necessary to the successful and 1uxu-
rant growth OF crops.
21. Abundant crops cannot be grown for
a succession Of years, unless care be taken
to provide an equivalent for the substances
carried off the land in the products grown
thereon.
%. To preserve meadows in their pro-
ductiveness, it is necessary to harrow them
every Second autumn, apply top-dressing.
and roll them up.
%. All stiff clays are benefited by fall
and winter ploughings; but should not be
ploughed when wet. If at such ploughings
the furrow be materially deepened, lime,
mari, or ashes should be supplied,
"a. Young stock, should be moderately
fed with grain in winter, and receive gen
erous supplies of long proyenders, it being
essential to keep them in fair condition, in
order that the formation of muscle, bones,
&C., may be encouraged and continuously
carried on