378 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 

 North-Carolina Farming. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 9:205; July, 1850] 



[June ?, 1850] 



When is the Best Time to Soiu Clover at the South? — 

 Mr. Henry K. Burgwyn lias tried some experiments upon 

 his plantation on the river Roanoke, in North Carolina, 

 by which he thinks three quarts of clover seed to the 

 acre, sown in the fall, will make as good a stand as four 

 quarts in the spring, or rather in February, which is the 

 usual time of sowing. The only objection to fall sowing 

 is, that some think it injures the wheat. Mr. T. P. Burg- 

 wyn is of this opinion. On the contrary, Mr. H. K. B. 

 thinks that the clover, that is cut with the straw, will 

 more than make up any loss in grain, as feed for cattle 

 and increase of manure. 



Broad Wheat and Clover Fields. — Mr. H. K. Burgwyn 

 has 500 acres of wheat now growing, 315 of which is 

 sowed in clover, herds' grass, Timothy, or rye grass. Be- 

 sides this, he has 220 acres of clover and grass from last 

 year's sowing. Some of the clover sowed with wheat, last 

 fall, grew two feet high. His brother, Mr. T. P. Burgwyn 

 has 700 acres in wheat, and sowed in February 70 bushels 

 of clover. He has good clover that was sowed in May. 

 He says his brother's fall-sowed clover clogs the reaping 

 machine. I will give facts — let others draw conclusions. 



Deep Ploiving. — Mr. H. K. Burgwyn has plowed some 

 of his land with two four-horse plows, one after the other, 

 followed by a three-horse subsoil plow in the same fur- 

 row. Seven horses to one furrow is a common practice 

 of both these gentlemen. Do you hear that, ye surface 

 scratchers ? R. 



Mr. Robinson's Tour. — No. 19. 



[New York American Agricultiirist, 9:206-7; July, 1850'] 



[June ?, 1850] 



Sea-Island Cotton Planting. — Edisto Island, one of the 

 largest of the South-Carolina group, about thirty miles 



'Reprinted in Southern Cidtivator, Augusta, Georgia, 8:115-16 

 (August, 1850). 



