Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-09-25

the responsibility of failure. Perhaps.
we usually work our corn too late in the
season, and thus cut the roots at the
critical periods of tasseling or shooting.
We may plant too wide apart, in the
stronger lands particularly, and lose the
benefit of shading the soil, which checks
the growth of grass and protects the
roots. We should break the land deep
at first, since the roots will not spread so
much if they can descend, aud will be
less apt to be cut,' will gather more nu-
trlment when manured in the hill, and
suffer less in dry season, provided the
surface has strength to impel them to the
clay subsoil where moisture is perpetual.
We should plant early, since it always
increases the grain, and it is equally i'm
portant 10 gather as early as it can be
preserved, for here likewise the grain is
augmented. In short, by careful expert
ment and judicious reflection, ] have no
doubt any i'll effects of climate, may be
overcome, and this Invaluable plant grown
in its utmost perfection on our soil and
under our sun; and that, from corn alone,
sold in the grain, or manufactured into
sugar, or fed quay and sold in meat, euery
planter soiA soon make 1t, as all should do,
az inparia5ly rule TO pay'du his ptanta-
ton and family expenses.
=. But we have other products to aid in
'su6sisting our people and stock, which
have attracted our attention to some ex.
tent, yet they merit at this crisis more
serious regard. Our climate and soil are
we'll adapted to Turnips, and they may
be grown as successfully here as any
where in the world. One of our. mem.
bers estimated the yield of a. single acre
of his land at near 1000 bushels Of bulbs
This is equal TO the highest produce in
England, where turnips are an important
crop, and its amount grestly increased by
spade cultivation, which is proved to be
the best. Twenty years ago, to 600
bushels to the acre was counted an i'm
mense yield there, whereas Is to 1900
bushels per acre is by no means uncom-
mon now. By adding to the ordinary
mode of COW penning, large quantities of
peat or dried mud saturated with the
drippings of the stable and. 20 Or 80
bushels per acre of pounded bones, am
convinced that we can equal in amount of
turnips anything on record. Bones have
indeed become SO highly appreciated, that
in the German States, tariff is imposed
on their expectation Consisting largely
of lime and phosphoric acid, they are
valuable Likewise for corn and cotton, but
the supply is too limited to make it more
than an object to collect and pound or
grind them for our turnips.
The Jerusalem Artichoke rs also CAPT
tai food for cattle, but especially for hogs.
1t is planted and cultivated precisely like
corn, and in good land from 500 to 900
bushels of tubers per acre is not unusual.
The leaves make equally as good fodder
as those of corn, and about as abundant,
and the stalks likewise are as good absor
beuts for our compost heaps. 1t has been
asserted that single acre of them will
furnish food for twenty hogs for four
months. Like corn and the COW pea, it
would be highly useful in restoring land,
and being easily destroyed with the plow,
would never become troublesome to other
crops.
T1ne Sweet Potatoc is too generally
planted, to do more than allude to it as
excellent food for our laborers as our
stock. 1t is one fourth rs nutritious as
meat itself, or three lbs. are equal to II
ounces of bread, and 5 ounces of meat
1t certainly merits more extensive cult
vation.
Wheat and and Rice might be grown
for our own consumption, and when over
supplied at home there are Foreign mar
kcts for them both which are never glut-
ted. Our heavy loans and strong clay
lands would yield fair crops Of wheat.
Seventy bushels have been gathered from
On acre, and Sc bushels averaged on small
fields in England; and an extraordinary
yield on a small spot properly prepared
and drilled at intervals of six inches, at
tanned the enormous amount of 800 bush.
els pro rata per acre Seventy-eight
bushels have been cut from an acre in N.
York; GS from an acre in Ohio, and 64
bushels have been averaged on large fields;
and it is believed at the North that drill.
ing and judicious culture will turn out on
good land in this country 100 bushels to
to the acre. AS with respect to Indian
Corn, We are far behind these results
but when we turn our attention strictly
to wheat, see no reason why we should
not reach the average production of any
other region. Our climate cannot be an
obstacle, since in warmer countries in
olden time, in Egypt, Chaldea and Italy,
immense crops OF it were made, and the
then known world was mainly supplied
from these sources, in the periods Of their
prosperity.
Rice, it is said, will grow wherever
corn will, and it is remarked also, that
our up-country rice is larger grained,
whiter, and more nutritious than that in
the tide-water region. Planted in our
richer drained land, it would yield fair
crop, and although the grass would be
difficult to kill without flooding, still the
cultivation would well repay us the labor
Its consumption is increasing
everywhere, and its great productive re.
gions- are mainly confined, at least in
America, to the low country Of Carolina
and Georgia.
Some of our planters are already wise
ly turning their attention to Tobacco.
This weed, while bitterly rcviled by ma
ny, is yet esteemed by a large majority
ot' those who have access to it, as. one Of
Heavens choicest gifts to man. To mil