The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1867-11-20
Wheat GROWING.
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- ,s.. UNDkRDRAYSISG.
Iaths practice Of better system OF !arm-
Ing. the first Thing 60 be attended to is un.
'dtrdraiuing. After the midse. the greatest
dinicultyin successful wheat culture In
Western New York, ia the excess OF water
lathe soil. and which can only be removed
In this way Wherever wheat is at all
likely to freeze out on land otherwise emit.
able to its growth, it,is strong evidence that
tAsisnd needs Undertaking.. Where It is
not frozen out, an exees, Of water In and on
the land Is q decided dsnl,ga u the crop
Thoussnds OF acres have been badly inired
by the very vet weather this Spring. while
slsrgs share Of this wheat is 30 much de-
lsyed in erowtl, and forwar'iness. that Il
win be very liablo to he injured 10y the
,uidgc Wheat on all land that. needs
draining Ia moro liable to injury. as what
ever re.ards the gro Nth and ripening of the
srsrs renders Il more cxpcs-ato the ioeect.
Q 0as reason Why wheat often fails ON land
thstfarmerly produced good crops. Is, that
as land gets worn and worked down hard.
it;tskes up more waller paa holds L, longer.
When new It was comparatively light and
: dry, and was notso much affected by wet
weather. But by the ordinary course Of
farming, large amount Of such land has
,hesn brought into condition In which IL
can only be made cure for wheat by undrr-
draining. II is only 10 this way that Il can
{ Ie brought through the winter and spring
In good eondition. aud mads Sufficiently
early and vigorous to escape the midge, and
q giye.s good yield. 4
- Draiaipg also puts the soil in condition
to work much sooner AFTER rain. Last
fall awet spell. commencing on or about
the 9Th OF September. serieu.ly delayed
2 wheat seeding, making large share very
lat. for this section, while many fields were
not sown 1t Is safe TO say that Il all land
!: intended FOR wheat last fan had heeu nstur.
ally dry, or thoroughly drained, there
would have been thoussndsni acres more
wheat sown. aud In reality saved or gain.
sd--as such land has been too wet TO work
this worry wet spring--whils m,ny ,hon
saads more would yield from twice TO three
times the amount that will now bs gather.
ed All this difference could have i,sen
made by putting the land into condition
to work much sooner after heavy rain
thus giving chance Tor better prepare
tiua Of the soil. as we'll cato SOW between
tho stofns
) d, NOTATION or cacrs--ctoyxa.
81 There Is no crop grown here that is NOR,
benefited bye good rotation than wheat
! Ectcnly isit much the best when growr
sftev an entirely dissimilar eror. like pea
or clover. bat the growth OF these crop.
and especially clover. appesrs TO have
very bene6cia. effect on the sueceediuz Gro,
I, Of wheat 8. W. johnson says: When :,
: : eloyersisy Is broken up and, Gown to wheat
this graln may yield well, because the De
eaying turf And roots AFRO . ready source a
every kind OF plant food. And "a Nor
folk Farmer" (co. C1sSr.,Pe 7. 4 lse7) say
tsamAnarcd clover stu6bIe. where. a rspi
,growth Of aftermath forms thick svsrd
= bthe best Of all preparations far wheat
IS This shove the great ad adyaptage Of adop.in
? some course, ike the Norfolk syssesl. n
which wheat can be grown after. clover
The experience of many OF the best whes
growers in England, as we'll as here, ay
pears 70 show that good wheat msy s
20 mora easily and ohesply grown after clov.
&, thar sftcr any other crop, while tits we
Z undsrstood that It is uot good policy
grow one cereal crop after another, for tg
three az four year,, sshsd ofren been Il
practScs here For inssanee 70 hloliov ~,