Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-19
DiCksOn's Agricultural Proverbs and
Observations.

All acknowledge the Importance of
turning under green crops for the ammo
MIA. have made money by giving my
land one year in four 10 gather ammonia
and humus. Ammonia is the foundation
Of English agriculture.
With a little ammonia we can gather
large amounts every year, and put it at
compound interest.
l believe in natural laws, sturdy ma
ture; trace all things from cause to effect
and from etfectt0 cause.
There are just as many ways to improve
land as there are to waste it.
Nature helps to waste, and helps to re-
store and return.
Providence intended the earth to i'm
prove in fertility as it increases in pOpu-
lation.
The richer you make the land the more
plant food you can draw from the atmos-
phere.
1t the guano N In contact with the
seed the farmer will have u bad stand.
RotatiOn-First, rest; second, cotton;
third, corn; fourth, make grain; then
rest. Cotton after resi-. corn after cot
ton ;small grain after corn, aud rest after
small grain.
Every thing made on the farm, after it
is used or eaten, except the lint Of cotton,
must be returned to the land.
AL NG2GldUlC 4iuNbCA DA0Oth Oh 1OA /
fields may, in due time, be made to
turn to corn, cotton, or other field pro-
Ducts.
Handle manure as lightly as possible,
but handle a good deal OF it. Manure
loses every time it is turned over and
piled.
OF all mauures ammonia is the cheapest
and best crop grower, and does not exhaust
the lands.
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ing corn is ten days before planting,
but the rule is, commence in time to
break it.
In about one year in seven, fall blowing
is the best for the crop, and Improvement
of the land.
When the winter is warm and the rains
abundant, late blowing is best by % per
cent. in the crop.
Land must be well broken before
planting. Commence in time to do it, but
the later done in this latitude the bet
ter for the land.
Plant corn from the 10th of March to
the 1st of April.
Aman only gains bard work, and more
of it, by very early planting.
Lay of corn rOWs fleet apart, with a long
shovel, and open out the burrows with a
longer shovel.
The corn row should stand open 8inches
deep.
Drop the manure 3 feet in the bottom of
the furrow.
Drop the corn within 3 or 4 inches ofthe
manure, on the near side of the manure,
as the drOpper goes.
Cover with a harrow, II inch deep,
the harrow going the same way the drop
per goes.
First blowing use 22-inch wing sweep,
the right wing turned down a little, four
burrows to arOw.
Second blowing use same sweep with
right wing more elevated. Split middles
with same, both wings up; five burrows to
arrow.
Third blowing side the corn with 22-inch
sweep; the peas with a 26-inch sweep; sid
ing the corn first, then the peas.
From 1st to 10Th June plant peas. Run
shovel furrOw in the middle. Drop six to
eight peas every two feet and cover with
harrow.
Mr.. Dickson first used Peruvian guano
in 1916. He vas the first man in Georgia
who used it.
Now, 1886. Georgia farmers use more
than a hundred brands Of commercial
fertilizers, and call them all guanO
Stern's superphOsphate, manufactured in
New Orleans, is called guanO in Georgia.
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