Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-11-21
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Timely Hints for the Fall Months,

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From the Maryland Farmer, for Octo
ber,-a very valuable journal, devoted
to Agriculture, Horticulture, Rural Econ
omy and Mechanic Arts, and published
monthly by S. SANDS MILLS & Co., Bal
timore, Nd, for $3.50 per annum,--we
Gull the following hints, which our agri.
cultural readers will do well to remember:
PLANTING OUT Fruit ORcHARDs.--ln
preceding numbers Of the Farmer we
have inculcated the proprety of planting
out a young orchard wherever one has
not been planted or the old one has died
out. We have so frequently given all
the requisite directions for planting that
a repetition here is useless. One or two
suggestions may not, however, come
amiss. Make the holes wide and deep,
preserve the top soil for the roots-cart
away the subsoil and fill up with rich
earth drawn from any available source
and mixed with small quantity of lime.
Do not plant deeper than the crown of
the roots, and in choosing trees Sc :ct only
fruits of the best quality.
BARN YARD CoMrosrs.-No time should
now be lost in forming composts either in
the barn yard or the field. The proper
ton. of barn yard manure to rough vege-
table fibre, marsh muck, woods earth,
scroninos of roads and bitches, the turf
of hedge rows, &C., &C., is as one to three
that is to say, one load Of barn yard
manure to three loads of composing ma
terial. In making up the compost heap,
layer by layer, let the lower layers of
barn yard manure be the heaviest, grad.
uating off the thickness of each layer rs
the heap increases in height. When fer
nentation sets in watch it closely ly-cry
the heat thrusting stick down into it,
and as soon as the fermentation commrn-
ces to expcnd its force, break down The
heap-mix the materials well together,
and let it stand ready to cart out into the
field. If III, heap is made in the field,
cover it well with earth, at the top and
sides, to moderate the fermentation pro.
cess and preserve the gases.
CATTLE SnEDs.-Providc the cattle
with good warm sheds for protection
throughout the winter. Cattle SO housed
will require much less food and will 60
through the inclement season with ordma
ry care il! fine health and condition.
WET LAxDs.-If there are low moist
meadows to be drained the fall season is
the best to do it in. Even the most natu-
rally fertile meadows fail to bring good
crops of the valuable grasses if they are
wet and springy. Let them therefore
ditched and drained so as to carry off che
surplus water. See in stoning the drains
that the stones composing them are placed
below the reach Of tho plough.
FEycEs.-Sec that these are in good
order, and wherever they show signs Of
diapidation, let all the necessary repairs
be at once made.
FALL PLorGr1Sc.-Strong stiff clays
are improved by ploughing them deeply in
the Fall Of the year, and suffering the fur
rows to lie rough throughout the winter,
so as to expose the largest amount of soil
to the amcliorating and disintegrating
effects of the frost. Under no circum.
Stances, however, should such soils be
ploughed when they are wet. Where
they are sufficiently dry to crumble before
the plough, seize at once the opportunity
for breaking them up.