Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-09-10
september-Labors for the
Month.

The long aud sultry days OF summer
have passed away, and tho rolling year
has brought us again to view the tints Of
autumn.
Haying aud harvest are at an end. -
The barns are filled with pew-wown hay
and golden grain, and now we begin to de-
cend into the vale of dreary winter.
September, is usually the month for
putting in winter grain,and stocking down
fields for meadow or for pasture. There
fore we shall pen few thoughts abou.
PREPARING THE Soil FOR WINTER
WHEAT.
the soil is at all inclined to be wet
and has not been we'll underdrained, it will
be time and money poorly spent to put in
the soed for crop Of winter wheat, winter
barley or rye.
Our most successful farmers who raise
winter wheat, have found that this kind
Of grain requires light sprinklng of well
prepared manure applied to the soil about
the same time, when the grain is put in,
whether it Is drilled in or rsowed broadcast
And they find also, that the nearer the
manure can be kept at the surface OF the
soil ,and still be covered with little earth
The better it will be for the young plants,
For this reason, barley .stubble and oat-
subble, where winter wheat is to be pu,
in are plowed but oDce. And then the
manure is spread and mingled with the
soil with two horse cultivator. or gang
plow, which covers it from three to four
inches in depth. Then the soil is rolled
ifitis at all lumpy-and the grain drilled
in, instead of sowing it broadcast.
Some farmers also plow up clover
sod during the last days of August, or the
first days Of September, and run the plow
no deeper than the super-soil extepds.-
Then about the 10th, or as soon as the
10Th day of tho month, harrow the ground.
and spread the manure, and work it in
with the culivator, and then drill in the
grain.
The roller should be used If it we're
used at all-before the grain is put in, in
order to leave the furrows (which are made
by the drill-tubes, open as much as they
can be, for the purpose Of leaving the soil
in the best condition for the autumn rains
to wash the earth down around the roots
of the young plants, which tends to keep
them from being lifted cut by the frosts
Of winter.
The manure should be kept as near the
surface Of the soil as possible, where the
roots of the young plants may be nourish.
ed by it, as soon as the seed begins to
throw out roots.
PREPARING LIGHT Soil FOR WHEAT.
Every farmer, who has bad only lin.
tied experience in raising winter wheat,
knows that this kind Of grain succe eds
best on compact soil. Therefore when
the soil is deep, mellow soil, composed
mostly of muck and aluval from the more
elevated portions OF the surrounding ter
ritory, il the soil is now in stubble, the
better way will be to loosen the soil with
wheel. Notwithstanding a double team
to the depth of four, or at most five
inches, working in thin coat of well rott
ed manure, before the grain is drilled in
We say this is better way to prepare
the soil than to plow it eight or ten inchc.
deep.
We will give our reasons for it. If the
soil is plowed deep--it being very mellow
porous and full of vegetable matter-the
roots Of the whea. plant strike downward
entirely through the soil. Consequently
when the surface of The soil is lifted by
the frost the roots will be separated be.
tween the frozen and urlrozeu ground
But il the soil has been stirred for only
lew inches in depth, and manured q
little the roots of the young plant will ,fol
The most part, be formed within this strat.
um OF soil that has been stirred by the
eulnvator And more than this. the roots
will be so nearly in a horizontal direc-
tion, that they will all rise and settle back
again in body with the soil when it free.
yes and thaws. We are well satisfied
that every farmer ,wbo has light soil of bt
kind just alluded to, will fnd this theory
entirely reliable and correct, with refer.
ence to winter grain. The Country Gen
uemaa.
Never Prop up a Tree loaded
with fruit, to prevent the branches from