Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-07-07

winter; and right here let me say
word about preparing stable manure.
Every farmer should buy few hun
bred pounds of gypsum or land plaster
in the fall, to be kept in or near the
stable, and every few days scatter some
over the manure heaps and in the stalls,
if manure is allowed to accumulate
there: for without this precaution,
much of the most valuable part Of the
manure, the ammonia, will escape and
be lost.
The manure heapshould beprotected
by some sort of shed or cover, be itever
so cheap, as manure exposed to the
storms of winter, is not near so valua-
BILE as that which is protected. Make
all the manure you can, and six or
eight weeks before planting you can
buy for each acre to be planted 100
lbs gypsum, 100 lbs. pure fine ground
S. G. phosphate rock, 100 lbs. kainit
or German potash salts; costing about
50 per acre. Now haul up to your
yard or shed enough earth from ditch
banks or any convenient place and
spread it out ten feet wide and six
inches deep, and long enough to hold
your manure, piliDg it six feet high.
Now spread on layer of kainit, then
layer of manure, then the phosphate;
another layer of manure, then the
gypsum, SO continue until you have
the manure all in heap. Then cover
it all with good coat of gypsum, and
], over this three inches of earth, and
whiten that well with gypsum. Yor
now have heap in which rapid decom
}, position will take place, without thu
t. loss of scarcely any fertilizing maternal
and in six weeks will be in capital con
dition to apply to corn ground, anC
should be applied broadcast after pillow
ing and dragged in. This ought t,
l give good crop of corn, if the field j
! well teded and the field will be lief
! in condition to turn out a good crop 0
% oats, which should follow the corn.
u Plow the corn stubble under in Nc
t. vember or December, and SOW oats il
y February or March.
e Immediately after harvesting tn
J oats, SOW a bushel of black peas pc
j. acre on the stubble and plow them III
le der three Or four inches deep. TIL
y peas are to be turned under the earl
III part of October, and wheat drilled
ie with some good commercial fertilizer
help the wheat and insure good cate
~ of clover, orchard grass and fall meac
We ow oat grass, which should follow IL
ne wheat, and completing the rotation.
1t 1t will be noticed that by this syste
RI there will be five fields in grain crop
re viz. peas, wheat, corn, oats whea
D. and five in grass if you have ten field
Oh four if you have nine, and three if VI
nd have eight, which is the least numb
he the farm ought to be divided into,
on each field ought to lay in grass at lea
nd three years. You will notice also th
Ill three green crops are plowed undt
he two of peas and one of rye, which W
ed furnish the nitrogen in abundance-o
of the most costly ingredients in
in fertilizers which we buy. l cannot r.
lrd ommend five.feld system, as l cam
A see how he can raise paying crops a
Is; at the same time improve his land wi
md out laying it down to grass, and Ike,
ass ing stock to make manure, unless
one depends largely upon commercial f
tillzers. We must raise more era
ing "There is millions in it" for the far
the ers. Ring it in their ears, MIR. Edit
until every field not under the pie
18th shall be clothed with rich green t
ing trod by thousands of sheep and cat
TT bringing prosperity to the people {
200 wealth to the State.
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