The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-21
Winter Flowing Rough Drafting

Ordinarily by the middle of November
the crops are all harvested and from that
time to Christmas, while the soil is in
proper condition, considerable progress
should be made in the way of the first
blowing of corn land, and especially when
there is much stubble land. 1t is very
common nowadays, where farmers have
secured a satisfactory horizontal and
have established bitches at intervals, to
maintain the run of the old rows by lay
ing off in the middles and bedding out so
as to plow up the old stalks in breaking
out the new water burrows. OF course this
is well enough where hoed crops follow
hoed crops. A well ordered system of
farming implies a considerable area of
stubble land to be plowed every year
land on which grain has been grown and
which has been allowed to grow up in
weeds for the sake. of accommodating
humus. Soon after the first of Novem-
Der preparation Of this land should begin,
and the most expedition and altogether
the best way is as follows: With a good
turn shovel run the first row as near the
horizontal as possible and
come back on the bar side
of this furrow and leave unbroxen just as
much land as can be well broken open
with large round shovel. The 2-turn
burrows thrown together are to be regu-
lated by the width desired for the rows
the next year, running closer in the case
of feet than in the case If 4 feet is the
desired width IL is not expected to
break the soil between the ridge left by
the two bar side furrow, but merely to
cover the grass and weeds so as to hasten
their decomposition, With a sharp welt
shaped turu-shovel a fair plOwman can
run these burrows so as to make
rows of uniform distance apart, whether
it be three feet or four feet. 1t is very
rapid work and perfectly adapted TO the
purpose of covering most of the vegetable
matter on the surface. The final prepar-
alton later, in February or March, will
be made by splitting the ridge left be-
tween the bar sides, applying the fertiliz-
er if any is used and building back on this
furrow. If one adopts the list or sliding
furrow plan of manuring the fertilizer can
be applied to these double burrows before
the ridge is split. 1 hope | have made it
plain for it is a good plan and we know of
only few farmers who
have adopted it for the
first blowing of their stubble land Few
farmers yet and no one or two horse
farmers have adopted sulky plows, with
which they can make one ''land' of
a field and rapidly and effectively turn
under their stubble fields. The plan sug-
gested is almost as expeditions as sulkY
blowing, so FAR as covering the vegetable
matter is concerned, and it leaves the land
in fine shape for final preparation. 1t will
rarely get so dry as to prevent its
being plowed. The decaying vege-
table matter so near the sur
face will keep the soil friable
Where the weeds are rank and tall
they will not be covered, but where the
dirt is thrown against the stem they will
soon rot off at the surface and fall over
and will be covered over at the second
blowing When the weeds are very rank
all over a field it is better of course to re-
sort to a sulky pillow or even a 2-horse
walking pillow and make one land of the
field and lay it off horizontally afterwards.
Undoubtedly a great deal more blowing
should be done in November and Decem-
Der than is usually done. Fix the
fences, make the compost and
get up the wood when the soil
is too wet to pillow but between times
when the soil is in good blowing condi-
tion speed the pillow so as not to make the
work come with such a rush in the
spring, when dry weather, or perhaps
wet weather, may become an obstacle to
it's being well done In proper time The
mechanical condition of clay land especi-
ally is very greatly improved by ridging
it up in December and exposing it to the
influence Of freezes, not bedding it out,
but simply listing so as to give it a CORFU
gated or fiuted appearance and present
ing as much surface as possible TO alter
nate sun and frost. A. b. G..