The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-03-03

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shucks, wheat straw, half rotted hog
beds, wood pile litter &C., should be
plowed under, but rich stable ana
barnyard manure, slaked lime'or nahes
&C., should be narrowed in, all haV-
ing first been made fine. In the cul-
tivation Of corn, | have found the
greatest benefit from manure by using
tin the following manner: Throw the
rough manure broad cast and plow it
in, then run off the land both ways
ready for planting, (this is to be done
before planting time) then put II
small quantity Of fine manure by each
hin, on tho same side Of the inrrow,
and but little TO the hill is wanted to
make it produce n good crop, If not
worked too late in dry season; when
the time comes for planting run a bull
tongue pillow in the old furrow, BY the
side of which all this manure is pla-
ccd, then drop the corn and strike the
hoe in both earth and manure, and
cover with the same, but not too deep.
know there nrc conflicting opinions
on this mode of planting, but will offer
one argument, which | think will
suffice: lest than one fourth Of the
manure broadcast necessary to make
a good crop, will make i, by putting
il near md in the hill; and By this
mode four times as much land will be
advanced as will be by throwing It
broadcast, and your land thus mat
nurcd will make twice ns much as "
would have made without IT; so you
ret rs much corn by putting the ma
uure Mt the hill ns you DO by pIowlng'
planting, and completing the crop;'nnd
although the land is not made good
YOU have q good crop ofcorn on iou'
times as much land as you would have
had, had tho manure been thrown
broadcast. And in the fall when you
mt wheat in the same land, put tint
! stable manure, rich b%arnyard manure
slnkcd lime, or ashes, thrown broad
east. and harrow them in, care bcln!
taken TO spread the manure over a
much land as will enable you tt
make Il full crop Of wheat; after TINS
your old land will pro luce grass nn'
weeds. either of which, if pIoWcd ii
preen, will tend to make a soil, hnt
thereby you will pat " larger "moun
of land in state Of reproduction aht
enable it to begin its own redemption
When old land shall have been s
improved BY manure as to onaole
to produce n crop Of clover, or "hcr
thc land is Of sufficient strength &
nroiucc clover, the farm should b
divided into four fields, onc OF who
should be cultivated in corn; two, 4
small grain; one in clover, every year
AZ follows: The clover field should b
Moved in autumn with n largo turn
inp plow, and at seeding time, tn
whrat should be sown on it and hal
rowed in with Il straightforward Ia
row. fthe fall scascn should be S
drv that all tho field cannot be ploWc
in time for wheat, tho remainder q
the field should be pIowed i'll the win
ter. and sown in oats which should b
narrowed in with care, leaving tn
clover as much under ground MS pos
sible. This field will DO prepared IL
another next spring or the spring 10
lowing the next winter. AS the prcc'
ding wheat or oat crop will 50 destro
worms of tho land, ION which Glove
has been standing) ~ 20 enable I'll
farmer to have "a regular and oar
stand of corn, which is doubtful whcI
corn follows n good crop of clover;
outumn tho corniiclI should be SO"
in wheat, in the spring following, Il
clover seed which had been burit
below terminating depth, will no
spring up and stock the field vii
clover again. and in this way, pr
, parc for another crop of vcgctab
, matter. | regard tho above as Il
most successful mode Of farming,
; the land will be getting better eve
/, wear and tho crops regularly incroa
=, inr. There is II great difference
: the quality of grasses and their ten
ency to enrich land. Among these
=, think red clover stands Superior;
!, has much leaf and but little stalk, Il
:, near the ground, and is not liable
. evaporation by frost and winds.
i, addition to this, it has u large a
branching root, ofconsiderablo wcig|
, all tending to gil the earth with We
, table matter. Clover roots extel
deep In tho earth, reaching to t
A clay or subsoil, from which the CT
: is produced, and tho crop is then {
. posted on the surface, which the Il
mer can plow under at any depth