Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-05-24
AGRICU 1 T UR E.
From The asrmautown Telegraph.

From The 0ermAutown Telegraph
hAKIua Poor FARM RroH, AND How n WAS
years ago I bought . farm containing about
one hundred and twsnty sores Of land. Il had |
been managed badly for many years preceding |
the sale Of II. Fence rows where hundreds OF |
loads Of stone had been hauled OF the adjacent
fields were from ten to twenty feet wide, and
ere filled with cedars, cherry trees, alders,
sassatras, briars, rotten rails, &c. &c Cutters
were washed In various places. exposing
stony, barren soil that looked like uythinG
else than desirable farm land. An old farmer
on the day Of sale, remarked in reference TO
the gullies Ia the fields, that 1t ,mattered bat
little ii all such land were washed away
=. The buildings were OLD and dilapidated and
needed immediate repairs, TO render them at
all comfortable for man or beast. This prop
erty however, had two redeeming traits; 1t was
well wooded and well watered.
A. was the farm, so was the farmer-poor.
To better this state of things was the aim of
the writer, which could not be accomplished
without much hard work. This had TO DO
done, and be had TO do II, Wood had to be
cut and hauled TO the kiln; lime to be burned
hauled and spread; fence rows cleaned out and
fences made, DC.
put one thousand bushels OF lime on two
o ten acre felds-fvs hundred on each--iu the
, fail, before possession was given. These fields
Z were plowed in the 10 flowing spring, and put
: In with corn, which yielded when husked, mol
over City bushels Of sound corn altogether
i From one of them no wever, l got one hundred
q bushels Of buckwheat, having sown some seed
Il among the sparse and puny looking stalks Of
! corn about the middle OF July.
The next season both zelda were put In will
!. oats, which did we'll, averaging forty bushelI
Ut per acre. sowed clover and timothy on tn
oats, and rolled them all In together. Th
season was favorable; the grass seed took well
9 l moved these felds two summers In success
= sion, and had very good crop OF hay eAc
o time.
then put ave hundred bushels of lime o
:. one of the fields, and in the spring planted
III with corn, which yielded me four hundre
40 bushels without the ofal. No manure what
10 ever was used for the crop ia addition to th
ao lime, excepting the corn was rlastered 10 tn
ne hill.--0sts, wheat (which was nanured frol
70 the barnyard,) and two crops of grass. follow
ed.--The ground was then lined again as bs
Al fore, and we gathered the ensuing season six
az bushels OF corn per acre from 1t.
40 Tho other Acids on the farm have bee
no worked as this, with about the came resul
70 excepting the corn, which think has not be-
o" co ualed since. There were but two acres
ne wheat on the place when bought H. as Q
In the manure made would not cover = great
extent than this, after sufficient was taken "
ne fer potato patch and garden.
| AWo nuIttb hna tnEto CoWh
nis the stock. Now there are Ave head Of hors
ng and upward of twenty head Of cattle ke
The manure they make Is sufficient for TWEEN
iu' acres Of ground annually.
~. By the increased productions Of my farm
ma have been enabled TO pay my debts, erect n
! buildings, and 10 give my ohildrena 90
~ sound practical education.
tho So much, Mr.. Editor, for limei without
fertilissr could not have lived. have mel
son sold more than three or four loads of hay,
not bought more han three or four loads OF 4
him nure. Several times the wheat crop
:. yielded thirty bushels per acre. paid thi
MT: one dollars per aero for my farm and have
81 ! fused one hundred and ten.
ks ! have written this to show that poor Ii
not may be made good with lime and Tue incre
eing ed amount of manure obtained as the cor
IND qrence of its liberal application.
ans Two good horses aud q yoke of cattle "
ANA all the working stock used on this farm
several years. Young farmers will do wei
Vent remember that oxen will do as much werl
not horses, eat less grain, require less expeu'
ne harness, can be geared in halt the time,
was be managed mere safely by boys, and In
III are preferable in very mary ways.