The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-01-12

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climates md conditions and yet there
NJ aome things NJ veil settled ~ the
experience " Gnf most INTEL gent
Hnd successiul sgficultuHsts, repeated
through many years, on different sIiif.
and in different lOcalities, that We feel
warranted IN commanding them a. gen.
efll practice.
One Of thee things which We consider
pretty we'll settled, Is the policy u piow.
Ing land bat once Tor wheat. IL used 10
he considered very important 10 plow
mmmer-fall0ws two, three and some.
times .four times for wheat. " sod
4 ground vas to be broken, instead Of wait.
log for the gas to get ~ to q good
height, and blowing under o good growth
~ stem, a. we'll as roots, farmers com.
menced breaking ~ early ~ possible in
June, while cattle or sheep were turned
on to crop all the grass that might start
before the sod was inverted, that nothing
might be lost.
To keep down the grass and weeds that
started on the fallOw, sheep and the har.
row were the main dependence. After
harvest, the second piowing commenced,
and the sod was turned up again before
It was fairly rotted, the harrow being re.
lied on to tear the partially rotted turf
IN pieces. Then followed the third plow-
ing, and sOon after, the fourth if the fl-
low received SO many. All this was ex.
pensiye, although less so than it would
be now, for time was less valuable, but
it was considered necessary to form a
fine, deep, mellow seed-bed for the wheat.
Now, the course approved by our best
farmers is to let the grass or clover get
ats full growth, and then turn it under,
or else NOW it, and.after the aftermath
has made a good growth turn that under.
That grass or clover is left undisturbed
by pillow or other instrument until the
wheat is harvested, and il becomes adj
visable to pillow the land for another crop.
Instead of trying to make the soil mel
low to the entire depth of the first plow-
ing, many of u best wheat husband
men prefer to have the under three or
four inches become somewhat compacted,
while aiming to make the upper three or
four inches fine and mellow. Some argue
that If the surface is kept mellow, ana
1t becomes compact underneath, the
wheat will form its fall roots near the
surface, and in the heaving of the upper
crust by frost, and the subsistence in the
thawing, the roots will rise and fall with
the crust and remain uninjured, whereas
if the bed is mellow the entire depth
the roots will strike deeper in fall, and
the heavings Of the surface will break
the roots in twain.
To mellow the surface, they depend
mainly upon the wheel cultivatOr, the
harrow, and, in some cases, the gang
pillow. With these implements, covering
several times as much surface as the
pillow, they can cultivate their fallows
until they are clean and mellow. II
they wish to apply a dressing of barn
yard manure, they do so when the soil is
in good filth, and partially mix the
manure with the surface by means of
the harrow.
IT wheat is sown on stubble instead of
tallow ground, the stubble is cultivated
quite shallow, Immediately after harvest,
to cover the scattering grain and promote
its. termination, and then, when the
grain has come up and made a little
growth, it is turned under to a good
depth, and the surface cultivated alter
wards the same as a summer tallow. We
think that this course is pretty we'll
agreed upon among good farmers, and
would only be departed from in excep-
tional cases.
Another principle which we consider
settled, is the expediency of sowing
timothy seed with the wheat in the fall.
BY so doing you almost insure a catch of
the seed, and such a growth of the next
summer rs to almost smother and crowd
out weeds, whereas if the seed is not
ssown until spring, there is about an even
chance of its failing entirely, or, il it
succeeds, it has a desperate contest with
weeds for the possession OF the soil.
These two things we may then consider
settled that land should receive but
one deep blowing for wheat, and that
timothy seed should be sown in the fall,
and that is enough for one day.-Amert-
can Rural Home.