Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-18

are much better and clover best OF ell there
fore we advise IL the soil is thin and Door
TO plough under crop OF peas during the
summer, then In the fall. say Hast OF Sep
tember or first of October, plough again
and pulverize we'll with the harrow. then
broadcast from Eve to ten hundred OK
fertilizer TO the acre, brush over again
with harrow, then SOW eight quarts
red clover and one bushel each tall meadow
oats and crchard-grass, roll down OF run
over planker 20 finish up. Most any land
in this locality with an ordinarily far season
will produce from two to three tons OF
clover hay the following summer. Then
top-drega the next winter with stable ma
nure If you have it. II not give dressing
of commercial fertilizer early in thespring,
say FIVE hundred or more--all You can at
ford. This will insure the second seasons
cutting OF a large crop OF mixed nay.
Then the following spring turn under
the sod Just before complaining time,
then plant to corn and give handful OF
compost at planting to each hill, or. top
dress before hoeing with commercial fer
tilizer, and If the crop is properly tended
fine yield will be the result. Next take not
more than one more crop (not corn from
this same ground, giving little fertilizer
of some kind to it, then seed again as be-
fore, thus keeping up rotation OF crops
anu bctuiD- Iurt Win liAtAC QCORSA WV
horse ploughing (not one horse) each year
your land will grow more productive and
you can increase your stock, thus make
more manure each year, and possibly after
the second seeding with liberal
top-dresslng you can crop three years
without reseeding the same piece. When
such rotation of crops is established we
recommend using stable-manure as O. top
dressing on the grass-ground and applying
IL 60 80 40 has, YnAaoitla ON
plenty of plastering sprinkled in the drop
behind the stock and about the stables to
absorb and retain the ammonia. Another
mistake, we think. made by many in this
locality is TO keep too much stock. One
animal we'll housed and fed will return O
profit, whereas half dozen stunted, half
starved animals are only kept at 8 loss, and
then the feed you give an animal the richer
the manure; therefore, we would ADVISE
to keep stock we'll fed and sheltered in
stables or yards during at least five months
of the winter and spring, thus save the
close cropping and tramplilg OF meadow
grounds, which is injurious TO grass roots,
and thereby you will accumulate pile OF
manure which when applied to. growing
crops will enrich the soil and produce
crops that will be of three times the value
of what they can pick while ranging the
fields or tethered out during this season OF
much butter or rich manure when fed on
broom-grass or moldy corn-stalks, but
give the animal plenty of hay,
some corn. OF cotton-seed meal and
she will return q profit, both
in the cream-pail and manure pile.
With these few disconnected thoughts,
which is all that time will permit me TO
present, the subject of fertilizers is but
barely touched upon. But allow me TO say,
in conclusion, study up this matter from
scientific as well as experimental
standpoint, and each year make some care
full experiments as to the value Of differ
emit fertilizers; get experimental station
reports; get out of the old ruts of your
fathers. This is an age and time of rapid
progress and sharp competition, and the
farmer who does not keep pace. with adj
vanced thought and modes Of culture is as
sure to get left as the professional man OF
the man Of business in other departments
of labor.