The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-06-18
Wheat i'm the Cotton ReIt-

1t is a great mistake to suppose that
wheat cannot be grown proftably in
Middle Alabama, or any where else in
the cotton states above the thirty-first
degree of north latitude. We believe
it to be, under ju6icious management, a
more certain crop here than it is in
either Tennessee, Kentucky or Virginia.
In this latitude (thirty-two degrees)
it is not SO often "winter killed" as in a
more northern climate. Rust, how
ever, is more apt to appear in wheat
here than further north; but for this
disease we have a simple, safe and sure
preventive
Common salt Chloride of sodium
is not only a preventive of rust, but It
is at the same time fertilizer. It acts
benefcially in several ways, not now
necessary to explain. From personal
experience and observation, we feel
safe in recommending the following for
the cotton belt of country: 1. Select
your highest and driest land to SOW
wheat upon. If the land be thin, put
on it, in October, one load of cotton
seed, and pillow in with a turning pillow.
following in each furrow with a long
diamOnd-pointed scooter pillow, not more
than two inches wide. Sow broadcast
from two to four bushels of common
sa,t-six bushels of salt may be used,
provided the land has been very highly
MANFRED.
Prepare your wheat in the usual way
by soaking in blue stone, OF as follows,
viz: Take a tub, filled half full with
water, dissolve salt in the water until
freshly laid egg will float, showing a
space the size of nickle above the
water pour in wheat, about equal in
bulk to half the water, stir and skim
off all the wheat that rises to the top.
Continue to stir as long as any wheat
will rise to the surface, and feed the
scum to the stock. As soon as all the
defective wheat has been thus removed.
take out the sound wheat, and repeat
the operation until all the wheat de-
signed for sowing has been in the brine.
Sow one bushel to the acre cover by
dragging harrow or very heavy brush
over the land. The yield will be very
much increased, if in January a barrel
of land-plaster (gypsum) per acre be
scattered broadcast over the growing
wheat.
In the spring cut that portion of the
wheat designed to make flour before it
Is hard, leaving that which you design
for seed to become thoroughly ripe.
After the wheat is cut off, SOW one
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and in the summer, or early in fall be-
fore any of the young peas have ripened.
turn all the vines under. IF this is
done four years in succession, you may
expect, for the second crop, twenty
bushels of wheat per acre, for the third
from twenty to twenty five bushels, and
for the fourth thirty bushels. On some
lands the yield will be greater than the
figures given.
Prof. Ltebig cites a case of land,
which produced but four bushels of
wheat per acre; after the removal of
crop the land was sowed with the cow
pea, the crop plowed under in the fall,
wheat again sowed, and the process of
alternating wheat and peas repeated
until, in four years, the yield increased
to forty bushels per acre, without the
use of any other fertilizer.
All that is needed to make this the
best country on the globe is an enlight-
ened system of farming, pursued with
energy.