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THE SOUTHE 



RN PLANTER. 



close you my subscription and arrears for 

 the past, and have endeavored, as far as 

 I was able, to fulfil the three duties which 

 you seem to think devolve on every farmer. 

 Yours, very respectfully, 



Hugh M. Nelson. 

 Clarke Co., March 13, 1347. 



P. S. — I would state that I got $[ 05 

 per bushel for my wheat, that I sold about 

 8,000 pounds of pork, $120 worth of 

 mutton and wool, $130 worth of beef and 

 cows, and have about two hundred bar- 

 rels of corn for sale of the last year's crop. 

 I made also about four hundred bushels 

 of oats H. M. N. 



ROTATION OF CROPS. 



There is living in Northampton county, 

 Pennsylvania, on the bank of the Lehigh, 

 a very aged man, whose success in falling 

 upon a system of rotation, by which he 

 could obtain the greatest possible yield of 

 wheat, in a given term of years, has 

 caused it to be generally adopted in that 

 fertile region. It is called Sheimer's sys- 

 tem, after the discoverer, Jacob Sheimer, 

 whom I had the curiosity to visit at his 

 most substantial homestead some years 

 ago, and from whom I obtained the fol- 

 lowing account : 



When a young man with a large fa- 

 mily of children growing up around him, 

 and dependent on him for support, he 

 plainly perceived that under the rude prac- 

 tice then existing, he would not be able 

 to maintain them. He often thought over 

 his difficulties while following the plough, 

 and at length determined upon his plan ; 

 which followed up without faltering, has 

 conducted him in the decline of life to 

 ease and affluence. 



When I saw him he had resigned the 

 active duties of his farm to a son, who 

 was following in his footsteps; after hav- 

 ing himself practised his system of rota- 

 tion for thirty -five years, with a constant 

 improvement in the quality of his land ; 

 which indeed had the unmistakable stamp 

 of fertility upon it. 



The farm contained one hundred acres, 

 which was divided as nearly as possible 



into eight fields of twelve and a half acres ; 

 each of which was carried through an 

 eight years' rotation. 



Commencing with a fallow field, he 



1st year. Manured and limed; ploughed 

 three times, in May, June and August; 

 harrowed and seeded one bushel and three 

 pecks per acre of wheat, which was 

 ploughed under. 



2d. Clover seed sown on wheat in the 

 spring, six quarts to the acre, which was 

 pastured after harvest. 



3d. Plastered clover in the spring, one 

 bushel per acre ; cut in June, and ploughed 

 under second crop, and seeded again with 

 wheat. 



4th. Wheat — same as No. 2. 



5lh. Pastured early in the season, 

 ploughed under second crop in August, 

 and sowed wheat. 



6th. Wheat again, and rye sowed on 

 stubble. 



7th. Sowed clover seed in spring on 

 rye. 



8th. Ploughed under clover sod and 

 planted corn ; and next season recom- 

 menced. 



It will be observed that there were every 

 year three fields in wheat, one with rye, 

 one with corn, two with clover, and one 

 fallow. The produce had one season 

 reached as high as 1,400 bushels of wheat, 

 600 bushels of corn, and 300 bushels of 

 rye. — Hon. Morris LongstretWs Address. 



From the Cultivator. 

 REMEDY FOR THE BLACK WEEVIL. 



Editors Cultivator, — I see by the last 

 number of the Cultivator, that Mr. Clark 

 Rich, of Shoreham, Vermont, has been 

 trying many experiments without success, 

 to remove or destroy the black weevil, 

 which is so destructive to grain, and so 

 troublesome in mills, granaries, and barns. 



They are likewise very destructive to 

 rice. I will furnish the public, through 

 the medium of your estimable publication, 

 a remedy which has thus far stood the 

 test of experience ; hoping that you may 

 deem it worthy of insertion. I have ne- 

 ver failed after repeated experiments, for 



