Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-08
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is waste. If I raise 80 bushels of corn per
acre, and my neighbor raise hut 40, al
thou gh my neighbor may think ne does
well-which he does, and better than IS
commonly done-yet it requires double the
amount of land to equal my yield. This IS
a loss of interest anditaxes. on! half OF my
neighbor's land, or virtually SO much waste
land. The difficulty is, his land is but half
fed. It, therefore, can do but half the work.
But, usually, land does much more than this,
and can be made to do more in the other
case. This shows what an enormous waste
there is. Really, over two-thirds OF our
land is; idle, the Interest. taxes and repairs
lost, and this loss constant drain. And
vet this is not the worst; farmers, instead OF
disposing of some of their lands, or work.
ing to it's full capacity what they have,
grasp after more, thus increasing the waste,
and too often decreasing the profit, with
sometimes loss of the land in the end,
which is usually relief: L. you mention
Improvement to them, they know 1t all,
and will even assume to instruct you,
assuring you that some land is "too poor
to do anything WITH" and pleading a
lack of manure, or the too great cost OF
enriching the land with purchased man
ures. And yet it may be that round about
them are those who neverlacafor manure,
growing large and profitable crops, on land
originally as poor as the land they COM
plain of.
Good tillage and home made manure are
the most successful means of raising full
and profitable crops. The management
must be to prevent not only waste in the
land but in. labor, in manure, and in many
other ways that seem small, but in the ag-
gregate amount to much. This must be
done, as the average profit per bushel or
pound of produce is necessarily small.
Economy is valuable aid here as in every
thing else, and the farmer cannot well prac-
tice It too much. Besides, he must have
knowledge and experience, not only in a
general way, but as directly applied to his
own land. He may grow large crops-the
largest, if you please-that will cost more
thar they are worth, as is often the case
with premium crops, or with corn grown
for the silo, or particularly where CONNER
cial fertilizers are used. The ground, very
highly and deeply enriched, will lose some
of it's manure before it can be appropriated,
taking wears to do it, with loss of the in
terest and the risks which accompany over
grown crops. Less manure might, on the
Whole, have grown as good crops with less
loss. The best way is-and this expert
ence must largely decide-tO use manure
enough to grow full crops, or such as will
secure the most advantage, all things con-
sidered, in which case there will always be
enough manure left in the soil to favor the
next crop, which may not need additional
fertility to grow it, depending upon what
is grown, some crops requiring less manure,
and to some extent Of a changed character; !;
but there should always be enough to tax the
full capacity of the soil so that the greatest
profit, all things considered, may be realiz-
ed. What is more than this is a waste, to
some extent, of manure; what is less is a
lack and implies waste in land.-F. g., IN
Country Gentleman.