Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-09-06
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44.p a@~A& 8 WHEAT. ~ a.aS.s.

sBREAD is THE STAFF OF LIFE"
"By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat
bread" There is no good living without good
bread. Wheat bread is used almost exclusive
ly by very large part of the human family.
To supply bread requires care, toll, thought,
perseverance, Judgment on the part of the
farmer.
It is easier to raise forty bushels of corn
than twenty bushels of wheat per acre. Corn
grows best in light, rich, sandy Soils. Wheat
requires compact, heavy clay. Whenever
we plough for either crop, we should turn up
part of the subsoil. Our subsol is rich in
potash. Isaac Motter, one of our farmers,
several years ago made thirteen hundred BUSH
els of wheat on forty acres of land. His fields
were ploughed say to inches deep, and
SUBSIDIZED four or FIVE inches deeper He is
very careful and attentive to bis manure bank.
Twenty, thirty, forty bushels of wheat per
acre cannot be made on thin, poor exhausted,
badly managed fields. If the farmer wishes
to make good crops he must make his land
rich, put it in good order, and sow in proper
time.
Clover is the crop to prepare the land for
wheat. 1t has been asserted that there are
two to three tons of clover roots per acre on
a we'll set field.
Lime gives life and energy to all soils and
to all manures. Ours is limestone region
the limestone projects above the surface at
many points. But lime is employed here as
fertilizer, and is becoming more and more
popular.
Barn-yard manure gives the wheat good
start, protects it from the winters frost, and
hastens the process of ripening. .....
Liebig says, "where there is no phospboric
acid in soils wheat cannot be made" The
tendency of repeated farming is to exhaust
the supply in soils of phosphates and other
fertilizers. Good farming consists in ineTeas-
ing the fertility of the soil by returning these
constituents. > The cheapest and most reliable
application Of phosphates is ground bones
To wheat regions there should be bone mills,
where bones could be ground for agricultural
purposes. We have been sending bones to
Europe for many years. The English farmers
think they cannot raise turnips and wheat
without bones
Plough for wheat early after harvest. APP
ply manure after ploughing. and harrow again
and again if necessary. / harrow twice al
ways. Partially rotted manure, straw or lit
ter applied after ploughing, screens the wheat
plants from the keen, bleak winds of winter.
Wheat sown before the 18th of September
will escape the rust, but may be- destroyed by
the ely" Wheat sown after the 18th Of o.
tober may be, and often, is destroyed by rust
Fly and rust are great obstacles in the path Of
the wheat grower.
The "Hagerstown drill" is favorite imple-
ment in our county. 1t saves seed and does
the work of three or four men. In rich land
one bushel and peck of seed is sown to the
acre; in ordinary land one and half bushels
10 poor land two bushels. Formerly, when
We ploughed or narrowed in, two bushels oil
seedswere applied to the acre. ~azs
Land to be sown in wheat ought to be 10
nice order, free from clods and stones.
Our farmers have been using lately home
made phosphate: ~.....s -a..ts.a
Ground Bones......t.....500 pounds.
Oil Vitriol, sp. or. 66o...l60 pounds. "
E10Stcf ......................... DUShG1S.
sat. y bushels.
- Sulphate Soda............--100p pounds.
Rich Earth OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Sbushels.
as - ons
Directions tor. making homemade Phos-
phate.
Moisten box by feet with water
Put in 115 lbs. ground bone and Is lbs. sui
plate soda; mix well with two gallons water.
Then add two gallons oil of vitriol'; stir quick
ly and thoroughly while the heat and vapor
is escaping; then add two bushels of earth,
and stir well then add two pecks Of salt and
two pecks Of plaster, and proceed to make a
second lot. The materials cost here about
twenty-five dollars per ton.
It costs SO per acre to cultivate land in
wheat. Interest on $50, So. The fourth
bushel for cutting and putting in mill, $3.50
ploughing fallow 81 so; drilling Is cts har-
rowing twice $3.50. There is no profit tc
the farmer in crop of ten bushels an acre
fifteen bushels per acre gives profit of five
bushels; twenty bushels per acre gives pro.
fit of ten bushels. Therefore land that will
yield twenty bushels per acre is worth twics
as much as land that yields ten only.
Rnle /. Make your land rich by clover
bam-yasd manure, by proper rotation, by
lime, by phosphates, and by other fertilizers
2. Plough deep enough to bring up some
of the subsoil early after harvest, and harrow
and roll thoroughly. H
8. Apply guano and phosphates by The
drili. A less amount in. this way will accom-.
plish more. #st1s
4. Remember that ammoniacal manures 10.
crease the growth of straw's phosphate ma.
nufes perfect the grain.
85. Sow wheat the last week in September
and the first week in October.
O. 6. The art of farming consists in making
ample supplies of good manure and in using
h properly.s.a THOMAS MADDOX.