The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-09
Agricultural.
From the Germantown Telegraph.
NiKING 1 POOR FIRM RICH.

Some twenty five or thirty yea.Is ago,
d bought a farm containing about one
hundred and twenty acres of land. 1t
mad been managed badly for many years
preceding sale of it. Fence rows, where
hundreds of loads of stone had been
hauled off the adjacent fields, were from
ten to twenty feet wide and We're filled
with ccdars, cherry trees, aiders, sassa-
ras, briers, rotton rails, &c. Cutters
& Were washed in various places, exposing
barren, stony soil that looked like any
hing else than desirable farm land
IAN old farmer, on the day of sale, re-
marked, in reference to gulleys in fields,
hat it mattered but little if all such
lands were swept away. The buildings
were old and dilapidated. and needed
Immediate repairs, to render them at all
comfortable for man or beast. This
property had two redeeming traits, row
ever-it was well wooded and well wa
tered
As 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 hard work.
This had to be done, and he had to do
it. Wood had to be cut and hauled to
ne kiln lime had to burned, hauled and
spread, fence rows cleaned out, fences
hade, &c. [ put one thousand bush
els of lime on two ten acre fields, in the
Dali, hcfore possession was given. These
fields were pIoughed in the following
spring, and put in with corn, which
yielded, when husked, not over fifty
bushels Of sound corn altogether. From
Pne Of them however, [ got one hundred
bushels of buckwheat, having sown some
feed among the sparse and punny look
ing stalks Of corn about the middle of
gulv.
The next season both fields were put
with oats, averaging forty bushels
per acre. [ sowed clover and timothy
bn the oats, and rolled them all in to-
gether. The season was favorable, and
Feed took well. [ Imowed these fields
two summers in succession, and had
very good crop of hay. l then put five
hundred bushels of lime on one of the
heds, and in the spring planted it with
Form, which yielded me four hundred
bushels, without the offal. No manure
Whatever was used for the crop in addi-
FlOn TO the lime, excepting the corn was
Rlastered in the bill Oats, wheat lma-
fured from the barn-yard) and two
Props of grass followed. The ground
was then lined again as before, and I
Ea'hered the ensuing season sixty bush
lS OF corn per acre. The other fields
pm the farm have been worked as this.
%i'h ABOUT the s3me results, excepting
ne corn, which | think has not been
q"aiied since. There Were but two
ie'es oi wheat Oh the place when
'ouSii' II, as AL the manure made would
o' cover greater extent than this, at
fe' ,SutSeleiit was taken out for potato |
Ja''h and garden. Two horses and |
nfee cows constituted about all the |
Vock. Now there are five COWS and |
NJ P"aras ct twenty head Of cattle kept.
"e manure they make is sufficient for
"el'y acres OF groEnd annually. By |
,o, ns increased ; productions Of my farm, I
s a't ''eeh enabled to pay my debts,
ec1 new buildings, and give nv chill
'iSh good, seupd education.
30 'Nuch for lime: without this fertili.
[old ro eou'd not have lived. have never
~ nofe p4o than three ar four loads of
baJ. Do, bought more than three or four
xhoat oI 'hapure- Several times the
10 ' tbo .lP onoP bss yielded thirty bushels
arn, ua'e ; acEH, lpaid sl3 per acre for nv
~ gI &n" have refused $llO.
en5 "'e written this to show that moor
'bcrea{ ,na{ be made good by lime and the
IN co"' eei amount OF manure obtained
Fwo wp"seqnence 's Of liberal application
We're sn'.I III horses and yoke of oxen
arn' ne a all the working stock used on the
MiIi i'll do Iof several years. Young farmers
bo aS w wei to remember that oxen will
brain mueh na. work as horses, eat less
Ean , h. REQUIRE less expensive harness
hanage5 Sasea area In half the time, can be
Fine, are re- Drofse r,4se safely by boys, and, in
preferable in many ways.