The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-13
agricultural.
From salisbury. n. @. Malehman.


ALI ABOUT THAT WHEAT"
Mt. lJLLA TOWNSHIP, Sept. u, 81
NJ. EpIroR-ln answer to Young
Farmer, in regard to the soil, | have
variety of soils: some red clay
some a dark clay very bad to shift
from pillow with very tight red
CLAW subsoil, some sandy with light
CLAW subsoil. This is my worst wheat
land, although have had as good
wheat on this as any | have. Be-
sides | have some land that seems to
he mixed with some sand clay and
loan. have in my red and dark
land alluvial fate, which are the
best spots for wheat, as the land y
here better. In regard to the 90
acre field which this year made 3i9
bushels Of wheat, it is mostly the
dark clay with some spots OF red
CLAW. This field ten or twelve years
ago wonld not actually have made
three bushels Of wheat per acre. 1t
was literally worn out. have seen
it in oats when they did not get a
foot high. Immediately latter the
surrender | turned this field out tor
three or four years to get rid OF the
sassafras sprouts with which it was
almost covered. At the end of this
time / gave it slight coating OF
manure and sowed it to wheat. 1t
made nearly ten bushels to the acre,
as we'll as | remember. | sowed 1t
to peas after harvest and the next
wear made about the same amount
of wheat, having turned the peas be
fore sowing. The next year plant
ed about one half the field in cotton
and the remainder in peas. The
cotton made about five or six huns
dred pounds OF seed cotton per acre;
the peas made vines, but no peas. !
then sowed to wheat, turning under
nes vines and manuring all | could.
From this | reaped about 10 bushels
per acre. | sowed it to clover that
spring and let it lie in clover the
next year, moving some of the best
spots one time. That fall | turned
the sod and sowed to wheat, using
$50 or l75 pounds Peruvian guano
per acre. This yielded me % bush~
els to the acre. ] then let it lie
another year in clover, turned 10 the
fall and sowed to wheat, using the
same amount of Peruvian guano,
and made % bushels to the acre. |
let it lie in clover then two years
and pastured. In May 1880 | haul
ed out so loads of manure (mostly
COW pen) which went nearly over
the field. then sowed it in peas,
using over one bag of guano on the
part that was not manured. About
the 1st of September, / turned or
rather tried to turn the peas uLder
they were waist deep. let them
lie four weeks and turned again, fol-
lowing 10 same furrow with sub
soil oIow-the Murfee and | think
got it we'll broke ten inches deep.
used two horses all the time in
turning, and for the last six or eight
years have used a No. II Dixie
pillow. | also used two horses to the
sub8oiI pillow. prefer to turn the
clover sod in August. After sub
soiling narrowed once or twice |
usually harrow once after breaking.
| then put on about $500 pounds
salt and 5000 or 1000 pounds
Stacked lime Oh the 81 acres. This
was doue the Dist day of October,
1850. The 22d Of October | sowed
it in wheat, using 81 bushels seed
(Fuilz) and H. 100 pounds Lobos'
Peruvian gusno and 1000 pounds
Star Brand, Allison IL A idison's
guano, and this year harvested 3l9
bushels, or a fractioon over 374
bushels per acre. And | would here
say believe if h d not used the
1000 pounds Star Brand it would
made as much wheat. Some of the
wheat tangled considerably while
other spots were cut short by dry
weather, the heads just getting out
of the shot>blsde. I would also say
that ] sowed the wheat with a drill
for the last three times and put in
guauo at the same time. mixed
the salt and lime and put in with
drill sowed only 10 bushels peas
on the field, putting in with drill.
The whole cost of tho last crop of
wheat, including the three plough
ings, peas and all the work and
guapo was about $50 per acre. l
had also q > acre field will not
go back to tell it's bistory-which
did not cost over SD, so per acre to
plough, BOW and fertilize which paid
much better than the above. 1t
made so bushels per acre, which
leaves III bushels wheat profit,
putting wheat at S to pay oxpens,
es; while the other only gave 121
profit. But the s! acre field i.
worth $40 per acre more than il
was before it was sowed in peas in
1880.
1 would also say that everything
should be done thoroughly, aud thai
will rot De done unless you see il
done, and then some times it will be
necessary for you to do it yourself.
never have sowed wheat with d
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