Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-14


Lay off burrows with long shove
/ pillow, on level, seven feet apart. Com
mence at the opposite end, with longer
shovel, and open up the same furTow.
The reason of this is, you get up the trees
and stuTnps, and make better finish 81
the ends. This furfoH should stand open
seven or eight inches deep Whether you
use compost, cotton. seed or guanos, let
each hand have its three foot measure,
I ane deposit the manure in the bottom of
the furrow, just three feet apart Then
drop the corn within three or four inches
of the manure, one or more grains, as is
your custom-dropping on thenear side of
the manure as the dropper goes; then,
| with very light harrow, cover the corn
/ one and half inches deep The harrow
should go the same way the dropper
goes, to prevent from pulling the manure
on the grain"
Low planting, but moi deem covering, it,
viii be perceived, is the rule, and we are
able, from personal experience, to en-
dorse, to the fullest extent, the principle
| involved, though we have not been accus-
toned to make our burrows quite so deep
as Mr.. Dickson does. To cover deep,
however, is to lose the advantage of low
planting, for the corn viii, in all cases,
throw out its roots near the surface.
WORKING THE CROP.
Mr.. Dickson says that he is opposed to
earthing the corr. as soon as it comes up.
In the latitude of Middle Georgia, he usu-
ally finishes the first working from the Doth
of April to the 10th of May.
For the first blowing he uses a heavy,
twenty-five inch sweep, with its right
wing so set that its back end win not be
more than one inch above the ground.
This is to run near the corn and should
fill the furrow within one or one and a
half inches of the general surface. He |
breaks out the middles with the same
sized sweep, with the back of both wings |
turned up. If the blowing is well done, |
four burrows will finish out-four hands |
completing fourteen acres every day.
For the second plcWing, he has the |
wing of the sliding sweep turned little |
more than half up, and runs close to the |
corn, leaving nothing for the hoe, for if |
the plowingi is well done there is no use |
for hoe. He breakes out the middles, |
with three burrows, to make good place |
to plant peas. He plants peas from the
LIST to the goth of June, in his latitude |
This is the way he does ii: After the sec
ond blowing he runs a shovel furrow iD /
the middle between two corn rows, and /
drops one bushel Il peas TO every eight /
acres-say six TO eight peas TO the hill
Sixteen acres per day can be planted, and
will use two bushels TO each plow. He
covers with a harrow
For the third and last blowing. putting |
one to side the corn and the other to side
the peas The hand that sides the corn
uses twenty-five inch sweep, right hand
wing well up, and runs close to the corn
not going more than a half inch deep,
and thus cutting no corn roots. The left
wing should be nearly fiat The hand
that sides the peas uses a heavy, twenty
six inch sweep, with the right wing set
at medium height, runs it near the peas so
as to fill the pea frTrOw entirely up. The
left wing should be up, to push the dirt
near the corn. This is the last blowing,
and should leave the field smooth and
entirely free from weeds and grass
For manure he uses the Dickson com
pound, described in the October number,
and on his pine land (some of it very
poor and seventy years under the plOw) |
averages from twenty TO twenty-five
bushels of corn TO the acre, never failing
TO make crop, be it wet or dry. What
is the secret? Deep breaking up; liberal
manuring; shallow, level culture These
are the means by which a good crop of
corn can be made every year. When our
farmers have all learned this simple les
son, land it shall not be our fault if they
do not learn il, there will be 10 more
failure of the corn crop.-RU'dl
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