Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-10-01

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, scooter. Put fifty bushels cote
seed on one half acre-sowed Il
peck of wheat down with the cote
seed, on half acre narrowed all
with two horse harro W, iron loot
This wheat ripened the Goth
June. 1t took rust about the 2St
of May. OFF the half acre, 1 cleare
up nine bushels and one peck-ver
nice wheat; a little shrivelled froI
the rust.
For the wheat crop for the presen
season, l made two blunders, which
if they had been avoided, the peel
on the half acre would have brough
sixteen bushels instead CT min,
bushels and one peck. l will stat,
the two 6Iunders l made, in thu
management of the half acre.
LIST. 1t ought to have been sowr
the 18th of October instead of the
Sd day of November. Sowing 30
day of November gave US twenty
days rust.
I'd blunder. 1t ought to have
been plowed in with scooter or bull
tongue plow-not narrowed. This
half acre was q medium quality of
up land.
l sowed in another field z acres
100 n. which is 8 acres, less 80 %.
This little field we turned over deep
with two-mule steel pillow (Collins) /;
sowed one bushel to the acre
plowed in with bull-tongue. Did
not manure, except 2 acres. Sowed
4th of November. 1t took rust
very slightly, ten days before cut.
We did not get it out very clean.
Threshed with one Of the old chaff
pliers; cleaned up off of the piece
Of ground III bushels. l MANFRED
one acre as heavy as could, and
off that acre we cleaned up % $500
bushels-nearly 90 bushels.
My brother, B. P. Griffin, put
about 20 bushels cotton seed on
acre of the same field, and
sowed on that acre what we call the
red wheat, and off that acre we
cleared up 81 bushels and 3 pecks
Of the incest wheat l ever saw.
| sowed on another piece of
ground acres, after a crop of
)eas; sOwed down the wheat, and
,lowed in with Avery No. s. Very
title of that wheat was worth cut
ing.
| have submitted these state
nents, because they 60 far to salts
y me, that we can make the wheat |
rop pay. Plow thoroughly, sub |
oil deep, put in the wheat according !
o the best methods, and manure |
Vhat we can, and the crop will yield |
IS from y! to % bushels per acre,
ere in DeSoto county, Mississippi. |
will close with some other facts,
hitch will go still further to show
hat it will pay to put in our wheat
18th the best preparation. Wheat
] our county, that was soWn last
Ill and plowed in, or just sown on
be grass and not plowed, generally
ielded from 3 to Z bushels per acre.
IN the other hand, wheat in the
ounty, that was put in after
borough preparing of the land,
ielded from 10 to 81 bushels. l
ill give some figures outside of my
wn crop in my neighborhood, all
which are encouraging to those
no want to raise their bread at
ONE. Mr.. Polk of my neighbor-
God, measured l acre, and weighed
le wheat-10 bushels and trac-
on. D. w. Bristol, 3 acres
acre, % bushels and a fraction; 2
,res IA bushels and a fraction
.ch-the acres making nearly
) bushels. l think the whole
mount Of manure put on the 3
,res, was 80 bushels of cotton
led. w. F. Henly, on 4 acres,
ell plowed, made so bushels good
heat, and made q bushels and
fraction on l acre. Samuel john
IN made % bushels and fraction
D l acre, mainly the result of
borough preparation. U. 5. john
)hn, % bushels on l acre, mainly
he result of thorough preparation
9th Of the Johnsons manfred to
)me extent. D. NJ. Garrett, l acre,
Lade y bushels and fraction
le result of thorough preparation.
7. z. Gray On acre, thoroughly
and MANFRED, made 81
ushels and q fraction--medium
pland Also, w. L. Gray, on s
eres, thoroughly prepared, with"
ut manure, made 123 bushels per
ere.
All Of which facts and figures, l
lbmit to our cotton farmers
trough the medium of the Culti-
ator, to encourage wheat growing
home, and to encourage it in the
ost profitable way.
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