The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-07-23

be encountered in its cultivation and
preparation.
The revenue derived by our farm
efs from its culture is paraded in the
millions, but we believe there has
never been time yet that did not
witness an utter loss from its growth
although it was of character not to
be noticed. If tobacco is to be made
standard crop the soil must not
only he made rich but kept up in
its fertility; and yet there is no
doubt of the fact that either corn or
wheat would do equally as well with
the same labor and expense.
GREEN MANURING-ITs VALUE-It
is surprising that in localities where
manure is scarce more attention is
not given to green manuring. 1t is
eminently practical remedy. Those
Who teach but do not themselves
hold the pillow, nor ever did, make a
make a point to deride it, and time
and again we have had to read hui
morous essays on the use of "acidu
lated waited as green manures are
termed. The value of green manure
is indeed chiefly known to those who
have tried it and none others. That
it not as common as it ought to be
arises from the extra labor involved,
as well as the loss Of the land while
the green msnure is growing. All
these are objections where manure is
to be had tolerable easy, but it is nol
in these places that we would recon-
mend the practice. Still the labor
question is a serious one, though less
SO in light than in heavy soil. New
Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and Dele
ware have many sandy tracts just
suited TO this way of manuring. lie
land is easily plowed, it is on the
sander soils that blowing under d
green crop as a fertilizer has been
found to have the best effect. Atthe
beginning of August there IRE many
who have had a summer crop
that might very well be sown with
buckwhcat or any other plant that
would sprout at once and make rap
id and thick growth before frost sets
in and just before this is plowed
down to remain all winter. Broken
up again for spring sowing, it would
be found that no other manure was
necessary for fair crop.
There would be temptation per
haps to let the buckwheat remain
for seed, but there is no crop that so
robs the ground Of its fertilizing
qualities. Unlass manure is put in
before or after crop of buckwheat,
the ground is reduced to a miserable
condition. Perhaps it is this fact
that makes buckwheat so good as a
green manure. 1t has the power of
reducing the mineral constituents,
and these returned to the soil by the
blowing down process, give back the
the clements in form which other
plants can take up better than is
drawn from the earth direct By them
selves
Clover is often used for green ma
nure crop, and it would no doubt be
the best were it not so slow grower.
The best things are those which make
dense growth in a short time, and
for this purpose there are many rough
things that no doubt would be found
much better than many things now
commonly employed. When a crop
of clover will not be in the way of
some other crop of more value, it is
no doubt the best to grow for blowing
under. In the great Genesee Valley,
sixty or seventy years ago, we see it
stated that clover was generally re-
sorted to for this purpose and regard
ed as the most valuable of all the
green crops for glowing under.