The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-06-09

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The difference in the amount oil
products between land that has been
thoroughly titled and that which has
only undergone an apology for lillase:
must have at times arrested The at
tention of the most careless farmer.
land adequately manured, deeply and
finely pIowcd, and properly seeded,
a alone be relied on as a source Of
profit to the %cultivator; yet how few
farms around Us, where these dcSira-
BILE things are carried out TO their fail
and proper extent. The carth is bare
ly SKINNED in blowing what sailors.
call a wide birth given 50 the stones
and stumps-tlle seed is put Oh une.
qualIy and sparingIy and then the far
mer affects to wonder that biz crop is
no better. We do not conduct our
business as we know it might be
done; we undertake more than can be
performed well; our manure is not APP
piled TO the crops, aud in these vari.
Gus ways nearly one.haIf our labor
mny be said to be lost.
The garden is that part Of The farm
where the effects Of thorough blowing
and mnnuI;ng are seen in the Incrcas.
ed products and profit Tor labor be-.
slowed; though our gardens are too
often only the shadows Of what they
might be, and should be, if cultivated
properly. The farmer pIows his gar.
den deeper and finer than the rest OF
his premises, and manurcs it better,
scarcely seeming to remember the field
crops required the SANE depth AMI the
SAINT care for the free expansion oil
their roots, and the same richness Of
sol. TO promote their rapid growth,
that is required By vegetables oIjhr
garden, Let II farmer examine the
extent and depth 10 which the roots OF
corr in a loose aud favorable soil viii
spread, and he win cease 10 wonder
at the failure Of u crop where the
depth oftlrcc or four inches has new
or been stirred hy the pIow, and over
the hard-ran Of which the tender IL
brcS OF the root vainly wander IN
search Of proper nutrincnt, and as
iruillcssiy strive to penetrate.
In loamy or sandy soils, the roots Of
trees have been found to penetrate 10
the depth Of ten or twelve feet, aud
the roots OF the BanaGa thistle have
been traced SIX or seven feet brloW
the surface. Wheat, npIanlcd in Il
mellow rich soil, will strike lis roots
three feet d~oWnWards; and r@longatcs
much further horizontally. The roots
Ofoats have been discovered at cight-
cen inches from the stem, aud the long
thread!llic roots Of grass extend still
further. The roots Of the onion are
81 white, that in n black mound they
can be easily traced. aud in a trrncd.
ed or spadcd soil, tl"y have been fol-
lowed to- depth of two feet. The
potato throws out roots to the dis.
tancc of fifteen or twenty inches, and
The tap-rootcd plants, turnips. brcts, ,
carrots, &c, independent Of the per.
pcndicular roots, spread their hLrcS
to Il distance which equals if it docs
not exceed the potato. Il is per-
absurd to expect to succeed
with roots o! this class unless the
ground is 50 mellow as to allow them
10 penetrate in our garden smooth
and straight, which exceeded twenty
six inches in length, yet the soil, when
first applied 10 the purpose Of It gar
was lar from being deep OF pcnctra-
Bile. Land cannot be- considered in
good iilth, unless by blowing the
earth il has been mixed with vcgcta-
bic or animal matter to the depth OF