Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-01
For the Delaware Republican.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IN REFER
ENCE TO THE WHEAT CROP.


| First, as to time of sowing :--Farmers in
this section (and agree with them,) are de.
cidedly favorable to sowing early--say from
about the 18th Of August to the 18th ci Sep
TENDER.
Nothing is Of more Importance than getting
the young plants fairly and firmly embedded in
the soil. Late winters have fully proven this.
Those who seeded early last fall, in this Sec
ton, with few exceptions, lost little
wheat by the severity of the winter, while late
sowing was not only injured by the frost, but
was equally devastated by tho ay. Tho most
desirable time have found is about the 10th
Of September for oat stubblo and the first for
clover sod.
The safest and most reliable manure for oat
stubble is that taken from the barn yard, COM
posed of rotted wheat and oat straw, hay, iod-
der, muck, &c. When thoroughly decomposed
and literally applied it will seldom fail tafsrp-
duce a fair crop. Our farmers differ much in
opinion with regard to the condition of the
ground when spread. Quite a number are be-
Cunning to spread it after blowing, and, as
TOP dressing, specially when heavy rains follow
IL acts more Immediately, since il gener-
ally permeates the soil in a LIQUID state AYE
nave little confidence in the effects of guano !;
having applied it in all possible ways for three
successive seasons, and ii there is any marked
influence it is of an injurious character to the
soil.
The old proverb "plow thorough aud deep,
While sluggards sleep, and you will have corn
TO sell and to keep" does not apply TO wheat.
we have seen excellent wheat raised from
merely Swimming the surface Of the soil. II
you plow much deeper than usual you bring
up a subsoil, the constituents of which may be
really poisonous TO this CROP tft
a writer in the American Farmer some time
ago, gave the result Of an experiment of this
knd' He had very large field and which
was plowed eight or ten inches deep, and p,,t
very large coat of manure on it. The whu.s
grew remarkably we'll for a timo but OWN y,
10 the iact that the roots never reached Nv
manure, (Which was plowed under, ~ haryeM
MS wheat was not worth cutting. We consid-
er iour inches deep enough, and would not
pillow over six if our soil was 4 foot thick.
A field OF 30 acres on this farm was drilIe5
IN wheat between tao 10th and 10th OF Sep.
tember. Dat stubble upon which liberal
coating oil barn yard manure was spread, and
plqweo under TO the depth OF AZ inehes..-i
Tho ground was narrowed three times and
rolled previous TO seeding. Soil stiff cav
loan, one and three-iourtls bushels 20 the acre.
In addition, We have six squares, con-
sisting of acre each, fronting the road. with
the following fertilizers applied respectively
70 them after plowingi LIST, Guano at the rate Of
oUo IDS. TO the acre. I'd, Concentrated blood
manure, Can English preparatory admins
tered In tue proportion Of 100 lbs per acre.
~, super Phosphate of Lime (irom Allen and
Needles,) go lbs. 10 tho acre. 4th, Salt 10
bushels per acre. 9th, Barn yard rnanure-
an acre. 9th, Nothing. Depending on AR.
ram, Snow and whatever else may come from
the regions above. Drilled on 10th of Sep-l
TENDER. Soil clay loan IL bushels per acre: q
A fertilizer called Conclyine liking Orabs,)
taken from the coast in the vicinity of Cape
May, has been imported here. Farmers in
Hundred arc trying it pretty
extensively. 1t costs % oil 30 dollars per ton. |
and must be used more literally than gnano, |
say 800 pounds per acre,
They claim that its effects are equally i'm.
mediate and much more permanent on the !
soil.
We would therefore advise those unfortu- |
nato agriculturists who are not yet done |
seeding, to get bag of it price Si26,) from |
Allen and Needles, No. % South wharyes, |
Philadelphia, and try the experiment by SOW |
ing on plowed ground and narrowing unaer. |
Mr.. Coursey says he has never noticed a crop |
seriously injured by the fly that was sowed |
between the 9th and 10th of October. i have
leVer ito my certain recoliecton,) noticed a
,rop that was not seriously injured by the
rost, smut or rust which was sowed between
hose periods. Therefore the enemies in the
after case are three-iold greater than the haz-
lrd OF early sowing. Any one desiring my
lame can have it by applying to the Editor.
MoDoSoUoH, DEL. d,