The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1867-11-22

INNS farmers arc becoming conS1hc-
VA ogsAis. High prices are = great
inccntsve ro Improvement. we can
nm WI that ii onr farms were 10 CON
,l,,ion. we can.I make money, was
~, 4 f.rs,. the other day, where thel .
,rl-ar crop went 31i bushcl per acre,
I'M beinr yery clean and nicc, WAS
Ma sa.a W the neighbnrs for seed, a
$50 p4r hasA-l. Most N ~, On
land natnralls lnsi a. good only raiss .
w bnShs,s p.r acre, and that not o.
tie best Qaal.iy. In a ride o. some
twenry-tive miles. through two q the
he.t towns ia this county. ia search
~ some good seed wheat, this was
Tie only wheat | fond that was clean.
I,rsy be that did not happen 70
fall in with the right men. One iar-
,ncr. who has always been noted ior
careful culture. aud who was tod.
would have clean seei ii it was 70 be
found. had wheat no better than my
own. II have had such dirty wheat.
he saii. aud do not doubt II, tor.
III going 10. the barn. where he had
l,4en cleaning some thirty or forty
tnshels tor seed. there were lying onl
the fco. i've or six bushels OF strlcSenl
Grains and tout st0tf that had been
cleaned out. This was on one OF the
best wheat farms ln the State. Tn
fortunately such cases are not rare
Where one farm has improved during
the past five years, ten have run down.
Unccrtainty in regard 10 future prices
and tie scarcity aud inethriency Of
laborers arc among the Chief causes
OF this dcylorable state OF affairs. !
did not see during the whole ride q
single clean piece Of corn. Most OF
the corn was cat up, and in every
case tie rows could be traced by weed
running to seed. and not unfrequent-
" the whole land was covered with
weeds from six inches to three teet in
hight. Ia dry season, like the pres
ent. il il no. easy to understand how
land could get 50 fou,, where even
nothing more than ordinary cnitiva-
zion is employed. Next spring, this
land will be sown with barley, fol
lowed by wheat in the fall. l. IL 70
he wondered at that clean wheat is o.
scarcei Many farmers plow their
land twice Tor wheat after the barley
i Of. and harrow. roll, and cultivate
their land very nicely, in order 70 &c
Il clean and mellow. But this doe
comparatively little good. The tim'
70 clean land for wheat is while il !
II corn. Ii it cannot be made thor
ouchly clean with one corn crop
plant il two years in succession, an
cultivate il every week or ten day
from the time the rows can be trace
Tin the corn i set. lou will the
have clean wheat.
There are two objects in workin
land. First, to kill weeds, and SEE
ond, TO enrich it by promoting ds
composition, aud rendering It caps
lie of absorbing ammonia from III
atmosphere. These chemical chang'
require time. II you have two heal
Of manure piled up last spring, an
one heap has been turned over tire
times during four or five months, an
the other has not been turned at al
the one would be well rotted, and
fine condition to put on the land. viii
the other would most likely be lumT
with some parts heated too much, a.
others not fermented at all Now the
ii You should make spasmodic 9
tort 10 get this last heap into zoe
condition, and should turn It over
few DAYS before you wish 70 usc
three times or even six times, DO ys
suppose the heap would be a. fine. az
IS well rotted, and as rich as the OF
er. So far enriching the land il co
cerned, string it over 3 or four tim
in as many days, does compar alive
little good. Such treatment may
necessary to get the land ready for 4
seed. bnt by doing the work all
one time, you lose one ofthe Chief, a
vantages Of working the land.
should be understood that decompo
ton or oxidation in the soil or in
manure heap Is kind OF slow col
bustion. Now, any good housw
who bakes in an old fashioned bri
oven proceeds in strict accordan
with scientific principles. She tur
tha ia Frr,y, ana ada in fila oven