The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-03-27

WlOS ~ eaCh lbIOuSi suu alSeI Aus AAst
or second working it will clean a row in
going up or down. and will go over about
Eve acres day. Use your judgment about
the number of workings. Strive to keep
the crop clean and the surface mellow
You viii observs that your heavy blowing
is all done In preparation. If 1 had the
| space, could explain each and every rea-
son for the formula recommended Il is
based on strict principles, and is praeticed
| by the best farmers in New York and Penn
sylvania. Don't think of blowing less than
l2 inches deep in preparing for corn. A
crop thus put ia and cultivated rs I have
/ described, will never fail on account Of
drouth or bad seasons. I have msde the
calculation. aud found that This is not only
the most rational. but The cheapest meth
cd to work crop. Figure it yourself
The big ploW viii break two acres a day,
hence the following for one acre : break
ing up, man and three mules per half
day, s %; Narrowing. man and two
mules one-ffth per day, 25 Planting, 25;
horse hoeiDgs, ] man and mule one
day, IS; hand hOeing, 25 +; total cost Of
cultiyating an acre, SO IS.
Now, insist that it can't be done as
cheaply in the ordinary ''one-horse2 way.
Your work will be tedious at first, but il
will all be over in the cool spring weather,
when both man and beast can stand hard
work. Don't be afraid to venture, strike.
out and go deep. Follow your corn crop.
with wheat, about which there is plenty Of
time to talk yet. On your wheat SOW red
clover, to stand two years aud then be broke
again for corn, and so Oh around. This
you see, indicates four year rotation ::
Ist CoFn--next wheat-next two grass
Hence, if your land must be divided (not
necessarily fenced off into four fields, you
can get ell the manure you can make
Study this matter WE'LL. No land viii bear
having the same crop put upon it from year
to year. Il must be shifted. Now have
started you fairly for this year in making a
crop. Yet there is very impo rtant mat
ter you must always see to that is ma
nure. Have large shed constructed say
40 by 90 feet, with posts 8 feet high. IN
der this depositall things animal and veg
etable. Keep yo1rstables well Uttered with
leaves from the woods. aud as they accu-
mulatc, place in your heap have your
COW lots and hog pens always clean, and
make the pile bigger. Every time yout
team is not well employed on the farm,
have it on the road hauling from town.
And recolIect that ii you can get black
mud from a creek or pond. put two loads q
it to every one of stable manure, putting
, 10 regular layers. finishing the heap with
mud. No ashes or lime should 60 in this
heap. They must be spread upon the ground
separately. Whenever you tell ne that
you plow the deepest and have the bigges
manure heap. III tell you that you are tn,
, best farmer in Maury county, old OF youpg
big or little. s-s ..
AS you are beginning, it win not be pos
, sible without. waste, to go upon your rota
! tons at once, hence 1 would adopt the fol
? lowing, numbering the fields for convent
d ence,sl. z. 3, 4. In 1868 pu, and i
# corn 2-to be put in wheat 10 the faIls sh
a seeded with clover. Put 3 and in eat
. and seed with clover. In 1869 give ! a
Il the manure and put in corn, to be folloWe
u By wheat aud clover; il 10 give 8 all tn
It manure. break the clover-sod and put
v corn, to be followed as before in III 20
II come 10 4, a3d IN '79.to 2. and SO you g
II Give attention to fruit-apples especially
a as stock feed. Ofapples, have good sup
a ply of best winter sort, tested II you
3 neighborhood. Get no Northern one. Gt
:. also a lot of Rad June. Red Astrachsn, Eal
q " Harvest, yellow Horse, GrayeBsteiF
/. Late Strawberry, and the winter sorts. Th
d kinds named are sumner apples. or peach
!. es get HaIe's Early, Early Tillotson, CraW
p fofd's late, George w., Grape Migneun,
}, Chinese Cling. Heath. 0fpesTs get Bar
1; lett. Duchess D'AngouIeme, seckel, Loni.
. Bone de Jersey, Vica Of Winfield. 9,
Ie some standards and some dWaffs. In yot
:, orchards plant beets and carrots but .
% grain or grass. Give much attention
E. raising large crops ofroots. You can Gal
a / 900 bushels of lurnips or Beets from 4
u acre at less cost than you can prod uee &c
le bushels of corn. Send to r.. r. Crowel
in Hammonton. New Jersey, for Wilson's A
h bany strawberry, They viii cost. you S
70 per 900, which viii be piants enough 4
ar you. Plant them by 2 feet, in we'll mai
n ursd aud deeply plOughed OF spaded LAM
n Keep them clean. and al runners elippe
* of as they appear. On the approach
r winter cover the ground deeply with LEI
in yes, and lay on cornstaIks to hold the LEI
ar vesin place In spring renew the cove
e. ing, to keep the grass from coming. and
! any does appear have it pulled ont.
is I viii send you ia the fall some other v
at rieties. The books 1 recommend will Z