The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-10-08
FALL PLOWING.

Why is not the thick coat of weeds
and grass which has grown up on our
wheat and oat lands turned under whilst
green? The answer which comes, for
not making all other needed improve
ments on the plantation, is ready. Our
cotton is now opening finely, and you
know that cannot be neglected. This is
true, for we should gather our cotton as
fast as We can, when it opens, for it Is
then cleaner, and therefore better than
1t viii ever be afterwards Is it not then
a great misfortune that the cultivation
of cotton prevent the farmer from pillow
ing under weeds and grass upon his
grain land, when they would do much
towards building up the productive ca
pacitY of the land by the rottjng of the
vegetable matter now LIFT to dry and be-
come almost worthless as a fertilizer
But this is not all we loose by failing to
pIow up our lands in the fail The earth
is a great laboratory, and when the soil
is loosened by the plow, and the frosts Of
winter crumble the hard particles con
tanning valuable mineral qualities, the
air has a chance to diFuse itself through
the looseued mass, and the great lab0ra-
tory seizes upon, appropriate. and forms
valuable chemical combinations Of the
grasses upon which plant life so much
depends To fail to do fall blowing is
to loose this, ard much more than can
be said in a short article, the subiect of
which would require treatise. One
acre broken up in the fall, lover and
beyond the enricbing effect of the green
crop turned under) derives twice as
much plant food from the air, as au acre
that is not broken in the fall, and which
lays all winter hermetricalIy scaled to
the enriching effects Of both air and rain
water The deeper land is broken, the
deeper land is fortified by the agencies
above mentioned in quietly appropriating
during the winter months the rich sup
ply of plant food for the coming spring
and summer.
do not advise against raising cotton.
1t is one of the great advantages we have
in production over mora Northern
climate. But we should contract his
area; put him on none but level hnds:
manure him highly with stable manure
or some of the fertilizers which viii ma
mare him rapidly, and make on one acre
what we now mako on two. Give the
ground we have saged in the reduction of
the cotton area to grasses and grains, and
pIow under all the subbls land we car
/ deeply with two mules before and after
fodder pulling time, and cur perishin9
soils viii soon Loose their close bIicl
/ dirt appearance, and in graft ude fol
the good heart in which even this mcasr'
feeding has put them viii give You II
return full barns and big hay stacks, Ii
much of the farming land of tbs entire
country, from the Southern boundary o.
Kentucky to the lakes, clover and tht
grasses have been pulliRg down ammo
MIA from the atmosphere for the last s..
months which is deposited on and in Tia
soil in decaying leaves, and stems and
roots. All that our cotton stoned land
get is little (and very small quantit
at that hauled out in the spring f.ou
4 well lsached manure heap. One fOurtl
of the balance of the arabic lands in tn
belt IF country mentioned above IS nos
broken and being broken up deeply t,
prepare it for next years crop. All tn
labor saving and improved implement
in farming is then adopted
They realize according to the season
of 1870 on their capital invested in faru
ing, six per cent, and ther lands are in
proving in fertility and increasing
value. We realize one per cent on gu