Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-06-10
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Goodale, near Augusta, Ga.
From the Cotton Planter and Soil.
PLANTATION WORK For drNE.

THE corn crop Of the planting States
the Importance of which, to our success in
plantation economy Of the country: it is
impossible properly to estimate-is this
month to be disposed Of by what is usually
termed the work Of "laying dy." This is
always critical period to this very vaIua-
bic crop, from various causes. the most dis
aStrous Of which, no" ever: is the work it.
self Yonr corn on land that has been pro-
pery prepared and judiciouSly worked up
to this time, is growing thriftily and doing
we'll. and is Beginning TO shade the land to
considerable extent. 1t is now proper
that you stir and pulverse the surface soil,
destroying all Young grass and weeds, and
thus ':lay it by That this last working
OF corn is often delayed TO too late period
3herc is no question. There is 4 great di-
vcrsity of opinion among planters on this
subject, lnany preterring to work their corn
even after It has commenced silking. With
all proper Difference to these conflicting
practices, from well tested experiments,
,dcr various circumstances, We urge Il
more economical aud profitable practice in
the management OF this valuable crop We
have insisted on il that the seed should not
be planted until nature has clearly indicated
the opening of spring. Thus secured against
the contingency Of serious injury from frost,
your corn grows of readily aud rapidly.
and where it is properly cultivated, should
be "]aycd by" carly IN June; at any rate
before the corn begins to silk and tasScl.
..Io,I1 br With -,
plcmen;, that will simply pulverise the sur
face, destroy the yonng weeds and grass.
avoiding by all means, the cutting or man
Cling the roots. Whatcyer may be your
theory and practice in "root pruning" du-
ring the early work in your corn, withhold
your pruning implements now! is the func-
lions Of every root, the stalk now has, are
required to fill up and make plump the
grain Of corn. No truism, in plantation
economy. can be better established than
this, ani it is therefore most clear, that all
work in the form of blowing, should be
withheld after the truiting season coinmci-
ccs. On new land peas may be sown broad
cast at laying by" they will do well and
shade the ground early; it is: however, a
waste of seed on old, exhausted land; they
should have been planted in May, in order
to have received the benefit Of this last
working of the corn There can be no
doubt. however, but that it is better for
both your corn and peas, that they be plan
ted on land separately. Peas are quite us
injurious to your corn rs would be the same
amount of weeds growing among it, but we
submit to the injury thus sustained by the
corn. in the benefit obtained by the stock
from the peas.
Corrox.-Up to this time the cotton has
received comparatively little attention be-
yond planting. 1t is true, the cotton gcll-
orally has been barred and chopped Out;
but this work, entirely unnecessary to the
interest or prosperity Of the cotton plant
with the time consumed and labor expended
might easily have been economised and
saved in the important operation of plant
ing; when, as we have shown invariably,
for the last twelve years, the planting is
thus performed, the cotton comes up a per
feet stand, and each hill occupying the exact
relative position of the bed or row that
YOU should desire or have intended. Nor
are YOU subject, in thus planting, to losses;
first, of barring down your beds; next,
tho time consumed in this labor of injury,
aud again the impossibility of q perfect
stand or any reasonable approximation to
d, invariably produced by careless hands
chopping after task. 1t is however, now
too late to discuss this subject; the beds
are now barred down and the cotton chop
ped out to such stand as it may be, and
the work proper in the cotton is now conn
mencing. So soon as the corn is gotten off
of hand, the work in the cotton may be
prosecuted vigorously and uninterruptedly.
In the May number Of this journal we