Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-02-25
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You need not not say you don't under-1
stand writing well enough. 4 If your own
hands are too used to the hoe or plow TO
write easily, you have daughters, sons, or,
friends, who would be willing to write as
you dictate to them. -lasl vsroes
Now, | don't mean to preach what,l
don't practice. My lands are from
coarse gravel TO peat-meadow and to
begin, cart clay 10 my gravel lands and
gravel to my peat land, and think it is
of great benefit, aud the work is done in
winter. r.ss,
plow my clay lands in lhe. fall and
lay the furrow slice at an angle, and let
frost work at it. nj f.a-.f
Gravel lands are Plowed in the spring,a
and the compost, for use it for every.
thing, } spread and Plowed in, deepening
the blowing each year.. s-aa
My meadow land is drained so that the
water is low enoug h to prevent the growth
of the old water er-grasses-put a pin IN
there : you would seldom hear Of re-
claimed meadow going back to bull-heads
and water-grasses, if they drained it lows
erin the first place. =
My compost for dry lands, is meadow
mud, leached ashes, and cattle manure
for clay lands, long manure and peat
for low land, night soil, loan, horse MAJ
nure and sand. rs. is q
can get 400 to 500 bushels of onions
per acre. Manure, Z cords compost of
leached ashes, cattle manure, muck, and
20 bushels bone-dust, plowed- in the
spring. Sow as early as possible. OF
carrots. 20 tons per acre-manure the
same. Cabbage, 80 tons, or 1000 heads
ofabou, Is pounds each-manurc, with
the addition of little night soil is The
same as for onions. Corn, | get 80 BUSH
els per acre-same manure, narrowed
and plowed under. -lfi
Potatoes plant on the low lands, and
when they don't lot, get about us BUSH
els per acre.
Come, brother farmers, here is rough
outline, perhaps | may sometime go more
into particulars. II any thing is Of uss
10 you in it, | am very glad, and in return
give US all the methods Of your own man
agement.-R. Danvers, 4ass. mi
We thank our correspondent for the
above, aad hope he will favor our read.
ers with further and more particular de-
tails of the modes by which he produces
such crops. While there is, perhaps,
some justice in his remarks on agricultu-
raj reading, we are little afraid he for
gets that the great principles Aqt must
undsrlie all good tdrming are Tie same
suhsrsvsr IL is praetieed. Drainage, rota-
ton of crops, maBures, and a clean and
well-filIed soil are alike essential 10 il in
Europe and Americas a general rule
the exceptions being confined TO new
lands and rich river bottoms, as yet. unde-
prived of their original and almost ex-
haustless wealth of plant food: Hence a
knowledge OF the practice OF good farm
ers among the Belgians. Germans or.
French" is likely to give Yankee the
clue &c. successful practice at home, il
understandingIy used, as if The transac-
tions OF which it consists had taken place.
in his own immediate neighborhood. We
have learned much of our best farming
from the systems Practiced in Great Brit
ain, and are constantly learning MOLE
To carry Off the surplus moisture of the
soil, and keep it so that the roots of plants
shall easily penetrate it, and the moisture
of the atmosphere be absorbed by it in
seasons Of drought; economize and most
economically apply the manures of the
farm; to select the best soils for pastiees.
ular crops, and 10 cultivate them in the
most profitable way, are all subjects on
which we can yet profiably consult trans
atlantic experience.
But it is necessary that the farmer,
should exercise power Of generalizalion,.
If we may call it so, by which he can
separate the details from The theory of
practice elsewhere, whether in another.
county, another state, or another conti-
neni. He must think and judge for him.
self as TO how far the experience of an.
other man will suit his own soil and cli-
mate. There is one thing certain, that
we shall never have Compendium of
flaming for every farm in the country,
and so long as this is true, so long viii it
be essential to success to think out, every
man for himself, at least 10 some extent,
The ,ray IN phich he shall individually ap-
ply the great-rules we have shown to be
in all enlightened agricul-
lure. zaarL4
Meantime, to elucidate these principles
md bring them to the knowledge of all
farmers; to induce them by degrees 10
improve their pre..ent modes Of practice,
md to place before them in the strongest
ight the advantages of doing so,-these
ire Just the reasons why, with our cor
we invite them all to "teli
heir own stories''in our paper, and for
hsse reasons also, that we ask their aid
n circulating it. and sn drawing from
'thers their ideas and modes.-Al6any
Country Gentleman. - e7s7, = i---Ls