Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-08
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Prom the Ohio Farmer.
Valuable % Farmers.-NEr. JOhnsOu's An
svver to MY. Laid.
Rotation Of Crops--Halus Of TIE Draaisg-How Z
make Maaars--l8ola to apply it-Tims Of SOwiHg-
Hon 10 EastSn he TsDelf1gef Rhsgt PasNe Of SAX
a. Haaurs-Sait preUsnts rust and mildeiD-OR-
dsrdraiaiHg hastsas maturity and prevents Aiags
Rotation Of Crops.--Aly rotation for wheat, pre-
yious 10 nv land being all drained was to keep the
dfiest and best wheat land in wheat and fallOw al
ternstely. Some Of the fields we're 60 treated for
thirty years. 1 soWed clover always in spring
among the wheat; and generally sSWed plaster after
the cloverseed. When the wheat seemed likely 70
produce heavy straw, i did not put on the plaster
till after harvest. IL the clover was good in the
fall and not intended for hsy the following year,
psstured il With sheep not good did not pas
ture until May and June plowed again for tallOW
generally made manure enough from clover, hay,
and straw buying bay when cheap % manure from
fifty to seventy-hve acres of wheat. Ihemanure was
put in large heaps each containng from zOO 70 500
loads and turned ct least once during damp and
rainy days in heying and harvest This plan con-
tiDued from 1S22--the first of my farming in this
oountry-uutil 1885. This course Of farming enabled
me TO pay for my land and all the buildings then
erected on the farm. But during the FIVE years pre-
vioHs 20 1885 found this course was enriching the
land too highly for wheat, that is, there was TOO
much straw. and no increase in grain. then began
to raise and osts, applying the manure 70
these crops and the me&Q0hbt eAJenuAuS me 4dA0
soWn in wheat 70 seventy, eighty, and over ninety
acres annually. In this way and by applying the
manure, Of which 1 made q large quantity and OF
rich quality, as not only fed all the corn and Oass
raised but often bougbtfrom 600 to 900 bushels
and fed also. In that way kept up the productive
ness Of the soil, and even increased IT,
Previous to 1885, met with several severe losses
by the wheat freezing cut, winter killing, IS II IS
called, but sDriRg killing should be the name had
been reading for several years Of tue wonders WORK
ed on land in Scotland by tiledraning, ana IN 1000,
sent for few tile from that country IN order 70 nave
some made here: but it was not until 1888 that
could find man that could make them. In that
year and again In 1913, ], along with others, had
the misfortune of losing the whole Of my crops BY
nail This crippled my effort IN draining yet
still continued doing considerable as Hound that
the excess ofDo crops oHld aOays pay back the cost,
and on Of the Wettest land even the excess Of
the first crop would do great deal more then pay
the whole expense Of drsining. There VasHo 1PTf1g
killing the drained land.
MaHurs.--My manure made in sheds and yards,
and either taken to the fields in the spring and
heaped there, heaped in the yards, or part both
Wsvs and thoroughly pulVeriZed by rotting II not
rotted sufficiently, it is turned in the summer. 1t
is applied to wheat land which intend to raise
corn next season, and is spread in September or
early in October The land is not plowed until
next May. l often manure land in the fall that in
intend TO fallOW for wheat the next season. Long
experience in this way Of using manure has con
WINGED me that 1 get far more benefit from 1t IN
either corn or oats aud much in wheat although
year is lost in reaping the benefit from the latter
By laying spread for six months, all seeds
of weeds that Nesting did not destroy viii vegtate,
and are ploWed down and destroyed. Manure taken
from the yards in spring, and applied TO corn,
oats barley or potatoes, is worthless for the first
crop; so have always found it; on other kinds Of
soil it may act differently.
SopiH Wbsat-I prefer sowing wheat from the
10Th 20.h' Of September, but cannot tell how much
high manuring will hasten its ripening. Very high
manuring will reiard the Tipening, but the applica
ton Of $50 to 300 lbs o. salt II hasten the matur
ing a. least four days, besides giving bright,
straw, Gnd more plump grain, and finer sample eve
ny way, and think that 800 lbs per acre might pay
still better. l use much salt and think it is pre-
vents in great measure rust or mildeW.
Under Draining. Thorough under draining hast
ems the maturity Of wheat wonderfully which there
by escapes the nudge. Before my neighbOrs
drained their lands have their crops iDju-
ed by this little insect that they did not have more
than five to seven bushels per acre, while would
have twenty eight to thirty three and over, and
lost some by nudge.
Salt as a HGRufe.-I sailed IA acres of wheat last
September; il now sUrpssses any have seen, and is
much superior to eleven acres in the same field on
which no salt was sOWn, both being sOWn the
same day, and faloWed in the same manner. !
have no doubt it will mature at least four days pre-
vious TO the eleven acres and those four days may
put it out of danger Of the nudge. / get better
results from salt when dry weather prevails for
sometimes after il is sOWn, and sometimes SOW 70
barrels in one season. buying it at wholesale at the
mandatory. generally SOW it Immediately after
the wheat is soWn, but if was to be guided by the
DRY, l would say SOW It before, and harrow in with
the wheat. 1 have often thought about trying 1t in
this manner, but have not done so.