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 FARMERS' REGISTER, 



[No. 10 



stances of sheep farms ; and it does not invalidate 

 the freneral principle, that liay is best produced on 

 the cuhivated meadow. 



One other method. indetHl, of producing: natural 

 hay free from all objection on account ol ilic waste 

 of manures, is yet to be con^sidered. This is irri- 

 palion ; but irrigation applies to the production of 

 h^rbaffe as well as dry forage, and we may there- 

 fore firt^t consiiler the management of land in the 

 Blate of perrennial herbage. 



(To be Continued.) 



BENEFIT OF LIMING, AND GREEN MANURING 

 WITH PEAS. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Beaufort co., N. C, Oct. 11, 1839. 

 I learn by your communication to me sometime 

 since, that it is your wish that 1 should let you 

 know my plan ol' liming, and also that I would 

 communicate the same lor the Register. 1 would 

 cheerfully do so, but that 1 am a plain, and fain 

 ■would be a practical farmer, and have never writ- 

 ten any thing of the kind. But, however, for the 

 eaUe of being of any benefit to agriculture, if any 

 benefit may be di^rived I'rom the few hints that I 

 may advance, I will now attempt to comply as liir 

 as my ttje'ule eilbrts are capable of doitig. 



When 1 took possession vl' my liirra, 1 found it 

 in a very poor and wurn out stale, so much so that 

 I became almost, discouraged, and would have 

 emigrated to some oiher one, had I the means lo 

 have done .so wuhnut making a sacrifice ; and not 

 willing liir that, I came to the conclusion that I 

 would remain where I was, and see what I could 

 do by way of improvuig my poor and worn out 

 land, which I commenced by raking and scraping 

 all the manure I couKi fall in with ; and coming 

 across a treatise in some one of your volumes upon 

 liminir, I lell upon tliat to see what I could do 

 Willi it. The first pari or cut ol' my field that I 

 commenced limimr, was of a kind of sliiT and sour 

 soil, subject to almost (^1 may say) every kind of 

 insect ; and it was with great dilHculty I could 

 ^el corn lo stand on it. iiut as soon as I com- 

 menced liming I Ibund that ther« was a great dif- 

 liTcnce in the nature of the soil as well as the 

 quantity of the grain, which' imluced me to pro- 

 cure all" the shells 1 could get, ami put them upon 

 my land ; and 1 can now say that 1 have improved 

 my land, from limiui.''and other manures, of which 

 liiiie is the prominent part, from '25 lo 50 per cent. 

 My plan is to burn the shells jusl so that they will 

 cnniible. 



I [irefer pulling ihein out on the land in the 

 sprinti', s.iy the last of March upon land that I in- 

 tend pullmg in corn; spreading the lime broad- 

 cast ; auii about the last of June, or by the first of 

 Jaly, 1 sow ihe same, land in peas, which is the 

 l)si working I give my corn. As noon us the corn 

 will d >, 1 take the lb Ider ofi'. As soon as that is 

 got through with, I i)roceed to weed all down be- 

 tween the rows, [)eas and every other vegetation, 

 which as soon as done, i proceed to rrather the 

 corn and sow wheat upon the same, taking care 

 to run a furrow each side of the ridge in llie row 

 with a smgle horse plouifh belbre sowinir, so as to 

 cover the ridije up as ne ir as possible ; the balance 

 of ihe row I break u|i vvith the same plough. But 

 before 1 sow my wheat 1 soak the quantity 1 want 



for seed in strong lime water, say 24 to 36 hours ; 

 afier which i strain it through a basket or colan- 

 der, and as soon as that is done, I roll it in slacked 

 lime until every grain is perlectly saturated with 

 lime, so that it parts, in which state 1 let it go to 

 the ijround, taking care that the seedsman uses a 

 litile grease of some kind on his hands to prevent 

 the lime Irom injuring them. This process I think, 

 and am certain, is a preventive from the smut; 

 and pultiflg it on limed land 1 think is an obstruc- 

 tion against the rust, or at least 1 have not been 

 troubled with either since I tried the soaking and 

 liming. The quantity of lime I generally put on 

 my land is from 40 to 50 bushels to the acre, after- 

 wards sowiiii; down in peas as above staled ; and 

 I can say this year that I never was more grati- 

 fied ; for I never saw a more flourishing crop of 

 wlieat on the ground in all my lile, (and my neigh- 

 bors certified to what I now say,') lor I raised 25 

 bushels to the one sowed ; and I had the same 

 piece of ground in wheat three years ago, and I 

 am certain I did not raise ten to one. 1 am now 

 preparing the same hnd, and am in hopes to be 

 able to have it ready by next week; and if the 

 season suits, I am certain to get ihirty lor one, as 

 I shall have my land in better order; besides 1 

 have another coat of manure upon it. 



I have tried the cuttings (or slips) of Irish pota- 

 toes U'hich I saw in one of your numbers, and find 

 that good ones can be raised i'rom the tops. I cut 

 a l(?.w this summer alter they hud got up about a 

 foot high, and planted them crosswise ol' a small 

 ridge I luad made (or the purpose, and they were 

 almost as large as those I planted, which I ob- 

 tained from the north. 



A Friend to Agriculture. 



THE MOUUS JIULTICAULIS MARKET. 



If we could still believe printed and apparently 

 fair statements, we might now copy reports of 

 large sales at high prices, made at the north since 

 our last publication, and thereby exhibit indica- 

 tions, (which could not be doubted, if they stood 

 alone,) of a continuing high market value. But 

 we do not quote any such, because we have no 

 confidence in them. Though we have heretofore 

 warned the public of the tricks and falsehoods 

 used to raise prices, we were ourselves to some 

 exieat deceived by them ; and thereby induced to 

 believe that there was more solidity and perma- 

 nence in the early prices of this summer than 

 has since appeared. But if prices were before 

 raised by the tricks and deceptions of some spec- 

 ulators above their intrinsic worth, they have 

 been more lately sunk as much below that worth, 

 by the tricks and deceptions of others having a 

 contrary interest. So it is, that the market is now 

 flat — the liictitions appreciation and speculative 

 value at an end, for the present time at least — and 

 the trees should now be held at their intrinsic va- 

 lue, for pro[)agalion and for feeding silk-worms — 

 and lor that legitimate use, they are worth much 



