Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-24
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thought it paid well In the wheat, and
better In the grass I am fully satis-
fed that on the light lands of my
neighbordood bone is the fertilizer TO
ase, aud that it will pay well. have
always been afraid of the superphos-
pilates, 1t is in my estimation, too
much like giving labOrng man big
drink of whiskey, and no breakfast
when you want a good days work
done.
Col. WIN. I. ScorT, Charlotte:
I have successfully cultivated the
Fultz variety of wheat for the last FIVE
years. l only SOW my tobacco land in
wheat, at the rate of one and a halt
bushels per acre. as soon as practical
bic, in the fall, after the tobacco is cut,
and rpefer to SOW from the 10th to the
20th Of October, after thoroughly pre-
pairing the land by blowing, and the
use of the McGiunis' harrow, which |
consider one of the very best inple-
meuts for fine pulverzation Of land
and preparation for the reception Of
any kind OF grain or seed. The first
year sowed the Fultz wheat upon
such land, it yielded 10 bushels to the
acre; second year 2O3 bushels; third
year 239 bushels; fourth, which was
last year, l5-not a very good season
and this year it yielded 2Oa bushels
per acre, which we consider to be
very good results in this section of
Virginia, where tobacco is and has
been our staple crop. | do not use
the drill, but SOW broadcast both
wheat and oats, and follow in the
spring with clover and grass seed, then
follow with an ordinary (rig or MCs
Ginuis' harrow, used as a smoothing
harrow, and then, to be more certain
to get a stand of grass, 90 over with
wooden roller, a round log that two
horses can conveniently draw. | SOW,
about the last Of March, or the first of
April. 8 pounds of clover or 6 pounds
of clover and bushels of orchard
grass to the acre, and generally sues
coed IN getting good stand Of grass,
excepting such seasons as sometimes
occur when no preparation will sue
coed. I use no fertilizers at all upon
wheat, as | said above. l only SOW
my tobacco land, which, however, is
and ought to be very highly MANFRED,
for poor land will neither bring tobac-
co or wheat,or any other crop worth
harvesting, not even peas. | have
sown but little corn or fallow land in
wheat since the late civil war, and
have failed in making a crop every
time, although III every instance l US
ed liberal application of some highly
recommended fertilizer, and for the
last 9 or 10 years | have only sowed
my tobacco land in wheat. My to-
bacco lots are MANFRED chiefly from
the manures made upon the farm,
which ought to be nearly double what
is now generally made by our best far
mers. | usually stop my tobacco land
where my domestic manures are ex-
bausted, and never use more than one
or one and a half tons of commercial
fertilizers. on all my crops, of every
kind, together with one ton of salt on
tobacco land and two tons of plaster
on tobacco and grass. As | use no
fertilizer upon the wheat crop, only
sowing my tobacco land in wheat; it
Will be proper for me to give a short
account of preparation for tobacco.
My land is divided into four tobacco
shifts, one of which is cultivated CIV
cry year and followed by wheat, which
is succeeded by clover and grass. All of
these tobacco lots are about the same
size about II acres each. | first sub
soil the lot intended for tobacco before
Christmas, If l can, or as soon after as
possible In the spring pillow it
again, and get it thoroughly pulver-
lied with the harrow; I apply all the
domestic manure made upon the farm
broadcast, and when | bed the land |
for planting, about the first of May, l |
sow broadcast about half ton of plas-
ter, and | generally make a fine crop
Of tobacco, and such crops OF wheat
as | have named above. l have no
'aith whatever in The use Of commsry
,iOl fertilizers in the improvement of
and when used alone, and only have
confidence in them when used in con.
unctiOn with domestic manures and
he grasses, upon the successful rails
NJ and cultivation os which depend ,
he future prosperity of Soubside
Virginia.
DR.. r. WooD, Amelia: l.
Since the war, have had experience ,
q sowing two kinds of wheat only.
soon after 1865, l commenced with
he Boughton, or Tappahannock, and q
ontlnued to SOW i, until the year 1876, #
8 it always yielded equal TO any other Z
ariety in observation. In the fall of t