Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-02-24
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Having on former occasions detailed most
fully the experience OF others in relation te tho
advantages arising from deep surface and sub
soil blowing, will not recapitulate that ON
this occasion, but will simply call attention to
conversation which we overheard few days
since between two farmers, who certainly SEEM
ed to be extremely well pleased with each
others views.
They were looking at the long lines of plows
of different kinds, embracing all the best knows
patterns, at an agricultural warehouse in New
York. To avoid offence re shall denominata
them as A and B. A remarked to his friend
B, "Wel here is a lot of plows; and what on
earth can people want with such great nonsen-
sicaI things? My father was as good farmer
as ever lived. and raised crops and brought up
his family as well as any other man, and don't
believe there's a single plow here that he would
have used. What ken be the use of disturbin'
the soil so deep as to bring up the yellar earths
everybody that knows anything about farmin's
knows you can't grow crops in sich stud
What l want is to jist keep the surface stirred
about depth of four inches and keep turniu'
it over as often as you kin, so that every time
the weeds coine ttp they ken be covered, and I
rather guess it'll bother anybody to git better
crops better than git, by sich plowin'."
His friend y fully endorsed what he said,
and "was sure that deep blowing was very we'll
in books, but he didn't want anybody to plow
his farm any deeper than he plowed it, but he
rather guessed, if a man was born and brought
mp on farm, he ought to know how deep 10
till it. and he didn't see any use Of dragging
great big plow, when little one would do just
is well,'
This was the opening to d general TRADE
against book farming, deep blowing, Iabor-sat-
;n% tools, etc.
y asked B if he ever raised carrots?
well" says r, Il have tried to; but I tel
YOU what, made up my mind that the wcedin'
cost more than they are worth, and | don't be-
icvc that theirs anything hettet to feed horses
and COWS, than good old fashioned hay aud DATA
and have got plenty of land, and can raise 4
ton OF hay to the acre, reg lar, and git as good
oat crops as anybody, and guess my horses ID
| in as good order as anybody elses. As to COWS,
have got old fashioned cows, that give good.
rich milk. and one of them gives ten quarts n
day and when l hear these stories about
twenty quarts, and thirty quarts, know there
all nonsense. for my COW is as good cow "a
anybody has, and she won't give more''ti ten
quarts, but its rich and makes good buttef.--'
Did you ever try carrots ?"
"Yes," says A II was fool enough once 70
try to raise EN-, and about half of EN- never
come up and the other half got choked with
weeds, so that when l came to weed 'em, 1
found that it cost more'B it came to: dont
believe in raisr' carrots they aint good for
nothing after you have raised EN-, and ! agree
with you that they Nint no use, and cost morn
they come to-"
Have you ever tried understanding snys
B.
NO." answered A my land suffers good
deal from drouth.'
$50 does mine," says B 'and some Of these
book farmers have fried TO fiSke me believe
that these under-drains would prevent the
drouth but anybody that knows anything
about land, knows that If it is too dry already,
it can't do it any good to put in under-drains
, to make it dryer"
Then followed long TRADE in favor Of hili-
ing corn high; hilling potatoes having good
long poles for Lima beans, and variety oI
, other axioms, which would have appeared danti-
quated in the time of Arthur Young. Moons
1 solitary position was taken by either of thess
D wiseacres, that has not been fully contradietct
S by modern practice. These men, had they lived
: half a century ago, would have carried theii
0 corn to mill in ono end of a sack and ston'
e in the other.-H Working Farmer.