Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-07
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sowing Il io'- sould soon find
very M Dent in the apz
the q mia, is, we 90 we'find
a sfountry, yoor, and very
coarse three 1fy farmers seem 7
to maxi troos D. f:taking care OF
fieldt ae' taioss,.or other an
nual 90" 1ttlss.york as .'back-
handel. M. s3anisr would who
shouldhas on ITO hr,nd a house, or
make of the -ae OF ldrniture Quito
undref which IT, and, then attempt TO
parts se last together. - =
Thas, and .ket gardeners. have
learnet half highest success in the
cult!yso large ss !. =, crops can only De
tho fuit will, repared. not only by high
maj give suf- It by repeated blowing
and n half. :, and with impleme nts
suited work. Coarse turfs,
stones, "a .taid Jumps of loan or clay
are not allowable in any, good market
garden, and they should not
be in ordinary farm fields.
Nor is there half the necessity for
rough, coarse farm work that one might
infer from the too common practice Of
the aver age american farmer. r 1t is
not nece5 sary to grow a half crop. in
stead of full crop. Neither is there
any need of having one-haf the pro-
{ .;ict of our lands returned to us in the
Ehape of worthless weeds. It costs no
more to grow a pound of wheat or corn
than to grow pound of weed seeds,
and it costs no more to keepa held clear
of weeds than to keepIit half clear, pro-
|, vided one takes hold of the work, at the
right end. and at, the right, time, l,In-
rather than wastes ats it, Just as COOL work
in any other industry proves econom 4 cal Al
in the long run. '7''7'a'i y, % '''F, 20
No one need travel far in the coeau1nn--
try at this time of the year. te find
planted fields that were SO rough and
coarsely worked during the early part
Of the season. as to require a great deal
of 'patence, as we'll as hard work. in
their cultivation during the growing
period of the crop. All the worknei
the present seems to have been done
poorly, and far too much left for the
future. The blowing having been but
half done, the harrow failed to do its,
part of the wor.l of pulveiization. The
surface being loft rough and uneven.
the rows could not be planted stra ght,,'
nor could the seeds be covered, at all
even depth, nor upon uniformly level
surface. The rows being crooked, and,
the hills coming at various heights. the
work OF the harrow or cultivater must
be far from complete .n ga 81 .als i
.'uiWe have seen, in once instance, q
farmer going four times through each
row in bis cornfield with his cnItivator,
before he could get the soil in any kind
of condition for the hand, hoe. In
other instances. less amouns of team
wo1 k has left the ground SO thoroughly
titled t;sat little or no hand labor was
required Good farmers are learning
that II ore than half the effort usually
expended in tending hoed crop
might be saved by a proper previous
preparation of the soil. To DO this,
we should first pillow thoroughly. II
the field is sod land, the sod should be
turned completely over, and in burrows
VI Nv MIL Stno oCptus SA4O UIlt
depth hould be sufficient to allow of
making mellow seed bed upon the in
verified throws without turn ng back
inches deep in some places, and only
two or three inches deep lin other
places, or, il the burrows are partly
turned and let upon their edges this
me. low seed-bed without turf or sods,
VIII be impossible to obtain, and the
subsequent work OF tending a crop will
be extensive and annoying. 80 ~"
Good blowing is OF the very high
est Importance in the preparation of a
cult waited fed, and unpn 1t depends
very largely theEcost and perfection of
all the subse. uent work of t ,llage, and
the care. of tn crop. = 4 may be too,
late, in the season Row to. app ly the
principles We have laid down, so far as
the blowing is concerned, but it Is
not too late to observe the di +ererce
between the cost of tending "a crop
where the; prey OTIS prepa atipn has
been what il shout be, .5znd wharf the
work has been but Halt .dofle..s 0, if
ii any. of the readers OF the Farmer
find themselves about this tifneI strugHl
Cling with fields that are tough, rough
and cloddy. as so weedy as; to render
their culture doubtful as to profit, let
them look into the matter. carefully.
and see if there has not been some fault
in their previous management, which,
if properly guarded against would
have removed all such doubt, anti left
them in a far happier state of mind.
The time has come when the cultiva-
ton OF the soil here, and in al the older
States, 1ndst be done by the most,
economical methods possibids that our
labor may be fairly remuneratise. We
can no longer afford to spend our time
killing weeds chiefly by hasd labor, or
by the use OF crude, ineffective inn
.ple1nents, We must Get ON rounds
in snch condition. bygooi ploNfng, and
good sharrowingT before thegcropslare
put lin, THAT. the latter work will be
comparatively easy and Inexpensive ~
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