Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-17
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Iry, When the grouno is 10 gooo con-
diton, SOW your grass seed and run
harrow over it. Alarge harrow is the
best. 1t will mako the wheat look a
little barely at first, but in the end the
wheat will be benefited. Follow the
harrow, if you can, with the roller.
Last week | seeded a field in winter
oats and followed Immediately with
Timothy and orchard grass l would
HAYES own clover seed also, but could
not purchase them at the time
Farmers are kept poor, not by what
they fail to make, but by the less Of
what they fail to save. Upon our
grain fields at harvest we leave more
wheat upon the ground than we put
there in the fall 1t seems almost im-
possible to have your wheat taken up.
| have fused enough to make the best
saint the biggest sinner without avail.
have determined hereafter to have
extra rakers TO follow Immediately as
cleaners. and whose wages shall de-
pend upon their getting up the wheatI
shall have the rakes made stronger
than the ordinary rake. If.in this way,
| succeed, | shall avoid the eDtangleS
ments OF the SO called raked wheat, and
stop big leak in the crop. If | fail
then I will feel acutely, IS | shall then
be convinced entirely Of the imper
Reliability OF all human endeavor. |
am sure that you will esteem this arti'
Gle sufficiently long, but desire to
say further, that it is not written by
an experienced farmer, but by an
amatuer lawyer farmer, who does not
attach any great Importance to his
own opinions and methods, and hopes
no one will take them for more than
they are worth on change.
Coz. WIN. NJ. CABRLL, Buckingham
I cultivate the Fultz wheat, and have
preferred it, but propose to discOntin-
ue its cultivation; it seems to be more
liable to smut than other varieties.
The red wheats suit this section bet.
ter than white. From three pecks to
bushel is the quantity usually seeded
by me, broadcast, on an acre of land.
If the wheat is put ID from the goth
Of September to the 10th of October,
so as to allow tillering, three pecks is
ample of the small grain varieties
for the larger grain varieties more
would be required. harrow in my
wheat, SOW clover or timothy seed on
the fresh land and roll the land. have
found fall seeding of clover and timos
thy more certain than spring seeding.
Tho grass seeded IN the spriugis too
delicate and weak to stand the hot
spell usually following harvest. Orr
chard grass, SOW in the spring. l
harrow my wheat, SOW the seed on the
freshly narrowed land and roll; the
seed are very light and require either
to be rolled or brushed IN. The best
stand of grass have ever had, l pro-
cured thus: laid my piece of corn
with Batemen's cultivators. II consist
ed Of ten acres Of alluvial bottom land.
One gallon of timothy seed per acre
was sowed in one direction; another
gallon was sOwed in the opposite d.
rection. The laborers went through
the corn With hoes choppipg ont the
steps, breaking every clod and cutting
down every weed. 1t was quick and
easy work. The corn was cut down
close to the ground and removed in
October; the timothy was then three
inches high. the next season l cut
about two tons to the acre. This is
best lot of grass own l do not use
commercial fertilizers, unless agricul.
tural lime and plaster may be SO cons
sdered. Commercial fertilizers have
proved the bane OF this section. l do
not think the crops made have paid for
the fertilizers bought. This is a dry
section of the State: which may have
had something to do with the indiffer-
ent success of commercial fertilizers
l am engaged in mixed husbandry. |
keep cattle aud sheep on my thin lands,
cultivating only those that are rich or
can be made rich with domestic ma
nures. No man can afford to cult
vste poor land with hired labor The
farmer outlook, l think, is favorable.
The d,ligent and judicOus farmers are
doing well.
VIZ. r: DUKE, Esq; Albemarle
seeded Fultz wheat, one bushel to
the acre. This wheat was seeded
with drill, sowing from 800 to
400 pounds at Allison Il Addison's
w heat Manure to the acre; on half of
it, and "Raw Bone" on the other half.
AS soon as the wheat was sown ] seed
ed the land with orchard grass and
clover, enc bushel of the former and
one gallon Of the latter to the acre. A
good deal of the wheat was winter-
killed by the extremely hard winter, as
were the orchard grass and clover.
About the 18th Of March again seed |