Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-07

three bushels per acre. If he had not
barnyard manure enough, he preferred 10
spread il over the whole field, and apply |
the lime and salt mixture before the wheat |
wac drilled, and over all the field. He
considers common salt as an excellent top |
dressing for wheat on his land, but cannot |
speak for other soils. He has sowed FIVE |
bushels Of common plaster instead of the |
ten bushels Of air-slacked lime, and thinks
the effect was about the same in both cases.
lie has used salt for various crops not now
under consideration with like success, but
would not recommend il for all sofia.
Another member had experimental 10
the manner Of applying barnyard manure
| TO wheat, and reported the result as fol-
lows: His usual plan is to pillow twice, but
/ year before last he was pushed for time and
short Of help, and not expecting to have
time 10 pillow twice, he hauled out his ma
! nure and spread il on the oat stubble in
the usual manner and plowed il under TO
the depth Of about eight inches. After the
field was all plowei, finding that he had
some spare time, he set his man and team
to blowing a portion (about two acres) a
second time, which was done about an inch
deeper than the first blowing. The manure
Of the two acres was, when it was applied,
in the state in which manure usually comes
out Of the yard in the spring, and had been
plowed under about two weeks before the
commencement Of the second blowing. The
manure was not in the way of the second
blowing, and there was no more left upon
the surface than upon the rest of the field
where it was plowed but once. During the
spring and summer the wheat upon the
part Of the field twice plowed looked better
and Of a darker green, and at harvest
yielded the heaviest and best filled wheat.
The grass on the two acres is quite as good
AZ the other, but TO all present appearances
the artificial grasses (clover and timothy
will be crowded out by the natural growth
sooner on the two acres than on the rest o.
the field.
He had tried blowing the manure on
3 the same field under, at different depths,
( | of six, seven, nine and ten inches, and
. found his best plan to be TO pillow down his
stubble TO the depth of nine or ten inches
Y This surface soil is about eleven to twelve
4 inches thick, then haul out and spread
=, the manure, and after pressing it down with
heavy roller, turn it under to the depth
: Of but FIVE or six inches. He has raised
: fine wheat by sowing his seed on the ma
nure and blowing it under as above. Had
also tried spreading the manure upon the
) surface after the wheat was drilled in, and
0 could not perceive any difference in effect
One season his finest wheat was about q
half acre for which he had not barnyard
manure, and instead covered the ground
after the wheat was soWn with thin layer
+ of dry wheat straw on this patch tbs
wheat was heaviest, and withstood the bad
effect of dry season much better than the
4 rest Of the field. The grass seed took bet
, ter on the half acre than on the balance Of
; the field, but did not yield as good crops Of
' hay and was sooner driven out by the natu.
] raj ones. Since then he always manures s
= small patch of rye (sown for the straw in
this manner, and thinks the straw of the
P rye is better for his purpose (tieing corn.
! fodder thaDif he had used barnyard ma.
, nure.
The President thought that many Of our
practical farmers sowed too little grass seed
< ! with their wheat to insure a good crop Of
], . grass; the usual amount is four Of timothy
=, I and about the same of clover he usually
sowed four of timothy and about seven OF
"a eight Of clover, and had always a good
d crop Of clover for moving the FIRST veal
!, after wheat; he thought this extra clover
seed enabled him to cut at least half tor
{ more Of hay to the acre. His plan was TO
d SOW timothy before the drill when putting
q in wheat, and SOW the clover in the spring
when the ground was freezing at night and
thawing during the day, say about the first
Of March, or the first week in March.