The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-21
THE FARM.
For the stapdard.


ted during the last two months, while the
1 fall-planted oats are generally standing we'll
! and are full of promise On cultivated,nG-
/ n,ired land wheat is very fair for the season,
4 The slightest coating of almost any Kind of
4 manure works astonishingly in the lands Of
those countless Having travelled extensive.
I ~ through the Eastern and Middle States,
/ as far. West as Illinois, through, the Can,
| adas from Huron to Quebec, over Maryland.
| Delaware and Virginia, / ami able to speak
/ from personal examination, and I AM pre-
pared to affirm, that in all these regions no
| land can be found which seems so indiffer,
ent to the kind or quality of fertilizer en-
| ployed, which will show its effects so soon,
so obviously and so long Almost every
kind of manure will do good service for five
years, and the stronger fertilizers Q much
longer period. Land which was merely.
I scratched in the Fall after an exhausting
Summer crop, as insduty bound, presents
| sorry showing of wheat Itmay come for.
ward so as to duplicate the seed, but, even
that is result hanging in gloomy doubt
How much better to raise, as did d gentle
man in Lincoln county two years. ago, So
bushels of wheat from twos acres well culti-
4 waited, than to CLEAN from ,briars, weeds and
/
scratched land 2 It has been said of a north
elm farmer that iwhen it commenced raining
/ he was accustomed to say to s. his hands,,
"Come boys it rains. let US leave off gcork
| and go to setting cabbage plants 1t would
add millions Of dollars to the crops of Wes-s
| tern North Carolina, if the farmers would
say to their hands when it rains, and, lead
the way, "Let US leave off work and go to
L. ,,1; LIZ
tance from him, ashes mari and leaves be-
come one ofour best manures. The con-
temptibleio practice of going to market in
the raip,, destroying the roads, injuring the,
| teams more in three days. than in three
! months labor in suitable weather, will soon
be abandoned by all except lunaties and
idiots The roads drymuch sooner than the
fields. Every man can go to market upon
good firm roads after q severe rain, before he
~ can, with safety to his land or crops, stir an
acre of the soil his fields. Extensive pre-
partitions are being made for corn, cotton
and sweet potatoes, andSsome are talking OF
of buckwheat as a fertilizer, as we'll as lu-
crative crop for the table, the. stick and the
market ~ o"' ~ 'A'N'H . NJ d. L. f''i
7sr THE CHINESE NORTHERN YAM, a ndtipe
+, of the Northern limits of the temperate zone.
VIM. r. Prince, Nurseries, Flushing, New
York, has just published in pamphlet form,
n a complete history OF this, great Chinese es-
culent, which furnishes the most nutritious
, food for over $50 millions of people who
never eat meat. There are more than fifty
varieties, comprising every form--round,
oval oblong and very long; and are of diff /
/ ferent colors-snow white, pale straw, yellow
,iply VIC ,,,1
crops without replanting. He thinks it is
destined to entirely supersede the potato in
our Northern, Eastern and Western States,s
and in all other Northern counties of the
earth. The following constitutes its princi-
pal claims to universal adoption: ~ 'AF
1st. Its great hardihood, and the capacity
of withstanding the cold of the severest win q
tiers, In the open ground 5,e.fslr..,,,i I'm NJ
Cd. Its facility and simplicity of culture,
its adoption to all soils, and especially to
such as have hitherto been deemed barren
and valueless. sh7.HGgSaB nG aYIu4n. loa -
90 3d.. Its uproductiveness and cheapness,
which. far exceed the potato the crop being
800 to 800 bushels TO the acre.
4th Its nutritious and farinacious quail
ties, COMPRISING; all the essential constituents
OF an esculent of the highest alimentary char
Ill,
gives to it a most distinctive character.
equivalent to meat and wheat combined, and
thus rendering the use of meat, as food, en- L
trely unnecessary. ~ >, t,,..lr -... -. r.:
5th, Its unexceptional excellence of flavor
and freedom from all insipid taste. 9iis
9th. Its long Keeping and freedom from
all rot or decay, in the ground or out of it, :
and its retention of its excellence for more
than a year.
9Th. 1t isa purifying and highly nutritious
constitutional food capable of developing p
the muscular power of man to its fullest ca > /.
pacity. % i.I.sns. roe,s,l .l,... .,i.,.. ,,,,.
9Th. The root being perfectly hardy, the
crop, when so desired, may be allowed to
remain during the entire winter, in the open
ground. liuI -li-F qii-Lasj!f .anosIsc ifq .,f
The price of the Pamphlet, History of the
Yam, is 15 cents. ,.....
8 DRAINs.-Turn that drain-the one that
runs out of the barn yard into the gutter I
by the highway. 1t don't make much diff
ference which way you turn it, so that it
discharges its contents on some part Of the
farm. A leak like that is far more expen-
sive than one in your vinegar, cider or syrup
barrel! Turn the one from the sink spuut.
A good spot to lead to is in the location of
some grape vine or. apple tree. The roots
of the former will take up everything So
luble in il, and will give you clusters Of
grapes instead, while the leaves will dispose
of most of the volatile and offensive gases
that will arise, We. know an old farmer
East who said he made his sink spout pay
his taxes every year. He had in enormous
russell apple tree planted within few yards o
of the kitchen. B On its roots tho dish water