The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-29
To improve Poor Soil.

man NAV toll bard 10 accumulate
,;+rlA fortune. and invest it in ira lie or man
,,f,c.ures; his business may fail and he
lo.e all hard earnings, but if he will apply
bic time and talent to improving himself a
Tar, his investment will not deceive him;
- oo,,rot be consumed BY fire or stolen.
I'D is ever ready t. respond to his wants,
IS Thomas D. Baird il the Southern Cut-
,,-otor We receive no worn out land
com nature. but in our hands the soil be-
comes exhausted. We should follow a
t,,-a ard adopt system which will fill the
coil with vegetable matter to improve or
restore fertility. From NV experience, be-
1iova no other crop tier adapted to i'm
,,rove door land tina rye. Ia all clImltes
rotbing will make so fair growth on Door
s,H Rive sown in the fall is ready to pillow
Under bv MAY. This takes no plant food
from the soil. Much nitrogen, carbonic
aci1 and some potash have been distracted
from the soil and air and stored up in the
easiv decaying substances of the rye.
Turned under in bloom, heat aud moisture
vill iberate the plant food to be appropri-
o+od nv the roots of corn. When to be had,
turning pow with a revolving coulter is
hest for turning rye or any other green
cron. Fasten chain to the double tree
and to t e belm Of the pillow, give it slack
enough to keep st ahead of the coulter
watch ill cut the straw loose from the
main land and the pillow will turn y endeT
nicely. believe that green crops turned
nnder must have crop planted upon it
oIe ,,N,,o OF "a ma ,YIrjal
value will be lost. Ammonia is formed by
the decay Of organic nitrogen in the s)il,
and il consumed by the growing crop in
stead Of escapi g. Rye can lie followed
with sown corn or buckwheat and this
turned whe three feet high, and followed
NV wheat and Sown to clover next spring.
Thus we have poor soil filed with pl mt
food until clover, a more fertilizing crop
csn be grown. The clio er will make one
or two tons of hay, which with the wheat
hiram will feed m re stock, and thus make
fine lot of manure to DE spread on the
soil to feed green manure crops on other
fields.
Flowing under green crops is one of the
cheapest and easiest methods of manuring
the sill may be read ly admit d by most
farmers, but the difficulty is that they i'm
agiue they make sacrifice # clover or
a8y crop simply to grow another, perhaps
of less value A green crop of rye is con-
sdered by some when turned under to be
equal to forty tHo-horse loads of manure.
Green manuriug is more evenly distributed
through the soil, and Is thus more eff couaL.
When green manurlal crops are plowed I'M
der the maturity of the crop is not neces-
sar7. and hence the land is not deprived
Of those subs ances which enter into the
composition of the seeds and which are
more exhausting than any other part of the
crop. If, however, a crop of clover is de-
sired for hay, it may be cut and the second
crop turned under later in the fall as a green
manure
cen manurial crops are not confined to
food crops alone; evel the weeds may be
utilized, provided they are not allowed to
seei before being plowed under, and by
sowing lime owe the land after each plOw-
ing there will be no acidty of the soil,
while the lotting process will be performed
more speedily, and thu benefit increased.
Greel manuring no5 oaly increases the fer
tty Of the so |, but reduces it to a me-
chanical condition far superior to hat ef-
f7cJel by implements, and it is safe TO as
sert thai during the period of growth the
shading Of the soil adds largely to the ad-
vanta@ea secured by the land from the
gowth Of ma ural crops.