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VOL. IV.
Cj)t Sou%rn Agriculturist
IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT
Savannah and Augusta, Ga.
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lor inserting advertisements for ub at our lowest
cash rates. Advertisers in that city are reques t'd
to leave their favors with either of the above
houses. *
Guano for Cotton.
Our Agents arc authorized to sell
our Guanos, payable in money or cot¬
ton at option of planter, on the basis
of fifteen cents for Middling, de¬
livered at Planter’s nearest depot by
1st of November.
This is a great inducement for
planters to use Guanos, as they are
guaranteed a good price for suffi¬
cient Cotton to pay for the Guano.
Give in your orders at once.
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.
APRIL,
Putting in Wheat.
A crop of wheat is often half as
large as it should be, from the faulty
preparation of the ground. Manure
and lime arc supplied as abundantly
as may be, but the land is supplied
in such a manner that the surface
water is always about the roots
of' the wheat, and the frost
heaves out the plants. It is too com¬
monly the case that fields are plowed
from the outside to the center, leaving,
as the consequence of.a few years’,
plowing, a high bank around.,the
fence,, and a hollflw in the center of.
the field, with four diagonal hollowa
meeting there. . This gives no
chance for the water to get away ;
it lies and saturates the surface. Now
let the field be plowed in lands, say
fourteen spaces or twenty-two feet
wide ; there wUl.be a dead furrow,
causing drainage at least six inches
deep at each of these spaces, which
will biing the surface-water at least
below the level, of the wheat. Be¬
sides, there will be a number of water¬
courses, which will carry off the sur¬
plus water, and by means of a con¬
necting furrow it may be generally
conducted away from the field al¬
together. However much it may be
advantageous to underdrain land, in
many cases, from want of the teccs
sary capital, it cannot be undertaken,
Then the best possible . substitute
must be found. Surface drainiug by.
means of ridges and open furrows is
the best substitute, and if this style of
plowing is , properly performed,
where the subsoil is not remarkably
retentive, the ground may be kept
dry enough to prevent throwing out
during wiuter. Above all things, the
fashion of plowing around fields
should be abandoned when wheat .is
to be sown. It . may uuswer fur
Spriug crops, but a better and neater
plan of plowing, and one leaving the
ground iu a better condition, could
be easily substituted. Generally,
it may be concluded that the ridge
and furrow system of plowing is in
all cases better on undrained land
than the flat system. Where the
hind is underdrained, a swivel plow
makes handsome work, and entirely
avoids the bad effects of plowing Agri.
arouud the field .—American
Experience with Orchard
Grass.
In the various articles that have ap¬
peared in the Rural New Yorker on
the subject of orchard grass, I have
not noticed any allusion to the time or
best manner of sowing, or-tbe quanti¬
ty per aero necessary for a good seed¬
ing. I have made considerable inquiry,
but found no person that eonld give
mo any information. ■ * I had a piece of
four aores, new land, adjoiuing a
marsh medtdow, elewated enough
above the marsh to lose the muck,
and to consist of a sandy, gravelly
loam. I planted in the Spring to
corn, and decided to seed down
among the corn to orohard grass and
red-top'grass for pasture. I obtained
two and a quarter bushels—one-half
of each—and sowed after my last
cultivating, the l*2th of July. The
season has been so dry it has not
done very well. On the lower por¬
tions of the ground it has shown some
growth, and appears about thiek
enough. Whether it is the best to
sow in Fall or Spring, and whether
the quantity is sufficient, I would
like to learn.-— M. Parke, Kalamazoo,
Mich.
Last April we published a state¬
ment made by A. W. Chcever, Shel
donvillc, Mass., who says orchard
grass should bo sown thick ; he does
not think two bushels per acre too
much. Ob neb, moist land, it is as
sure, he says, to yield three crops in
a year as red top is to givo one ; and
yet it stood the hot dry weather of
1870 bettor than any other grass
with which he is acquainted. He
docs not state at what season of the
year he sows it. We happen to know
that it succeeds, whether sown in
the Spring or Fall. It we could
choose, however, we should prefer to
prepare the soil well and sow iu Au¬
tumn. It is the time nature sows
grass seed, and it is as good a time as
there is. It should be sown, whether
in. Spring of Fall, on gronnd in fine
tilth and covered very highly. For
meadows, not less than two bushels
should be sown ; for the pasture it
should be mixed with other grasses—
timothy, Ted-top, etc .—Rural New
Yorker.
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Milk Cou s ae Long as PossiMe.
A-1 have in several instances injured
cows by trying to dry them two or
three munths before calving.—
Bunches have come in their bags*,
and the milk became curdy and thick,
apparently the same as in cases of
garget. To save cows from being
spoiled, I milk them twice a day
clean and dry as long as the milk
comes into their bags, even to the
time of their calving.
As to Mr. Kimball’s neighbor’s
cow being spoiled by milking too
long, I think it was because she was
not milked enough. From my ob¬
servation, 1 think many good cowsand
heifers are injured and sometimes
spoiled by not milking them before
they calve. I have one cjw in my
barn, fifteen years old this Sprfng,
that [ have owned eleven years. She
has given milk the most ot tho time
since l have had her. Sho has never
been sick a dav, nor gurgety except
once when I tried to dry her two
months before her calving ; nor does
she have small calves. I have a
four year old cow, one of her calves,
that girths over six feet, and a steer
calf brought up on one half of her
milk, that will be one year old on the
28th of this mouth, and kept since he
was weaned same as I keep tho rest
of my slock, that measures almost five
feet.
Now, iu conclusion, my advice to
everybody that keeps cows, would be
to take good care of them, Summer
and Winter, with plenty of good
nourishing food, well sheltered from
the storms and cold, and be sure they
are milked regularly and dry, as long
as they have milk in their bags,
whether it is up to the time of their
calving or not— Ohio Farmer.
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To 1 Pull S/umps .—Cut the
largest TOots of the stump after dig¬
ging round it, lay one end of a log thir¬
ty five feet long and nine indies thick
against the stump, fasten it there with
a chain, attach a yoke of oxen to the
other end and pull away. Tut* stump
being the fnlcrom, is bound to come.
Draw round iu a circle and twist it
out.
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