Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-02-06
LOT No. 1.
LEXINGTON, Davidson Co. N. G. I

October, 1857.
To the Ezecutioe Committee Of the State Agricuttu-
raj Society,":
submit concise statement of the various parti-
culars respecting the cultivation and product of the
Lot No. l, in Wheat in 1867, submitted to the Exc
cutive Committee of the State Agricultural So
ciety
LOT No. 1.-At my Trenthams Place. This Plan
tation was bought in 1928. The Lot named had
been entirely exhausted and had not been in cutiva
ton for a few years. and constituted part OF
grazing Common, and would not have repaid for
cultivation it then was. It consisted Of 8 acres
and SO hundredths, and was set apart for grazing
lot, if it could be made to produce clover.
After cleansing the land of stones, which were
put into underdrains, in low fiat part of it, and
grubbng up the sassaras, old peach trees mulberry
shrubs persimmon bushes, &C., it vas cultivated in
corn and oats to cleanse it and test its remaining
powers, with very poor returns. Eventually 1t was
broken up seven inches deep and sowed in oats at
the rate of bushels per acre, and they turned I'M
der in the milk state the last of June, l843. Light
ly MANFRED all over the next Spring and put in
corn. The result, good crop followed, with the
next year a good crop of oats and stand of Glow
err from spring seeding. The rotation has been
since, mainly corn, oats, clover The latter grazed
tivaton of Wheat The rotation has been an rregu-
lar one-mainly wheat, corn, wheat, clover, clover.
The wheat crop now submitted, followed the last
crop of clover in this rotation and grazed very
close. In August the lot was cOuered Is inches
deep with three horses, 10 inches apart in the fur
rows, and grazed in the mean time. Fallowed the
last of August and first of September with three
horse turning plows, to the depth of inches-har-
rowed with heavy three horse harrows. The Fall
being very dry, and the following being
the coulter furrows the ground broke up into very
large clods upon which the harrows could not have
much effect. The clodcrusher (made by R. Sinclair,
Jr, of Batimore) was then introduced and passed
with much effect over the whole, and repeated ov-
the cloddiest portions. On the first week of No.
vember the Wheat and Guano was sowed--two
bushels and one-eghth of the former and 25Oths of
the latter. Flowed in with one morse sharp, shovel
plows, narrowed, and then rolled with the clod-
crusher. The use of the harrow seemed most effec-
tive in tearing up and bringing to the surface the
manning clods, which most beautifully reduced
by the codcrusher. The field was brought into the
most beautiful, fine and we'll pulverzed condition,
and left until the 10th of last March, when it
sown in grass seeds. viz: quarts of clover seed,
and one bushel of orchard grass.
The wheat (white Etrurian) was cut on the 2lst of
June, with three horse reaper, (nade by Obed
Hussey OF Batimore,) and was saved very clean
1t could not have been cut with grain cradles with
out great difficulty and loss. 1t stood very thick on
the ground and much Of it five feet six inches IN
height.
The yield, forty.six bushels and sixty -four hum
dredths per acre-of 60 lbs to the bushel.
This lot, l omitted to mention, was frequently
dressed, when in the clover part of the rotation,
with leached ashes and Plaster of Paris at the
of 10 bushels per acre of the former to bushel OF
the latter.
The soil, deep, heavy, red clay loan The nat.
ural growth on adjoining and similar lands, red and
white oak, gum hickory, dogwOod and wild grape
vines. The largest yield heretofore an adjoining
lot, was IS bushels per acre, without Guano.