The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-08-12
Aeritultural.
DOS'TCULTIvATE TOO MUCH LAND.

DON'f CULTIVATE TOO MUCH LAND
We have on several occasions call
ed the attention of our farming
friends to attempting to cultivate too
much land for their force. This is a
very important matter for whole
crop may be endangered by it. New
er undertake to cultivate more land
than may be worked well, and kept
all the time free FROM grass and in
good condition. Cultivate enough 10
get over in ten days and the rsSal.
will be wonderful if the land Is good.
Never cultivate an acre that will not
pay for labor, interest and taxes, and
cultivate none that viii aot pay 8
profit in addition. Such land Is Kill
not do this, should Be- rested 81 taa
nured until il viii. Large and prot
liable crops can only be obtained by
applying suitable quantity OF good
manure. Remember that good land
will be made doubly profitable by adj
ditional manuring, and one will be
surprised to see the difference. Ii
an acre is already good enough to
make bale Of cotton, it will not
take a great deal of manure to make
it yield two bales. The increase is
in compound proportion. 1t is
good policy to make on the place all
the manure that is possible. This
can be done at times when little else
can be done. Use all the waste
about the household. Put it into a
vat or heap and deodorize it by dust
from a road, all the bad smells will
go into this dust and be retained by
it. Put with it all the manure from
the hen house and privy. The whole
will be valuable for corn, cotton, or
put any ofthe grains. Ifthere are hogs
all the manure in vat or watts and
mix with it liberal supply of muck
which can be got on most farms, and
put leaves with it, raked from the
woods, to absorb any excess of fluid
matter This makes a good manure
for most crops but especially for corn.
Muck is a valuable absorbent to be
placed in COW stables, or pens, and
should be used without stint 1t
may be proftably used with stable
manure. We give a receipt for com
posting muck as follows Forty bush
els of muck, five bushels of unleach
ed ashes, one hundred pounds of
bone flour, one hundred pounds of
plaster. Throw all into a heap and
in three months it will be fit for use.
The mixture will be worth as much
as twice the quantity of COW manure.
If the bone flour is not used, substi-
tute for it five bushels of unslacked
lime. The lime and ashes decOmpose
all the vegetable matter, libcrate the
salts, and eXpel the acids, fitting it
for an excellent and active plant
food. 1t may be used with fine ef-
feet for corn or potatoes using Il pint
or even a little more for the hill OF
corn or potatoes.
\ few bushels Of hen manure may
be added with fine effect, if that
much can be procured. Experiments
have been made with this formula
showing that land almost unfit for
cultivation, yielded from six to ten
dollars per acre above all costs. Used
for two or three years ON the same
land, almost worthless at first, made
it as rich as the best land on the
place. These views, about the above
receipt, We shorten from an article
in the Country Gentleman, but our
statement contains every essential
particular. Every farmer can readi
~ obtain thc materials. The charac-
ter Of the paper fully commends the
article 10 the confidence OF all farm
ers, and We are satisfied justifes our
commentator Of it to our readers.
But few things could accomplish
more, for it makes "A good crop the
first year on land too poor for cult
walton, and in two or three years
makes it equal to the richest.