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FOR THE PLANTATION, THE GARDEN AND THE FAMILY. CIRCLE
VOL. A:xvi.
See GovCi: Terms, &e.
WM. A W. L. JONES, Editors and rnontiKTous.
I). REDMOND, Augusta, Ga., Corresponding Editor
. Agricultural flcptinnit.
MGISk FOR r riftl£ .MONTH.
Rate coni will be laid by this month. r i’he last work
ing should be very carefully done—the plow furrows
run so close to each other that no irregulaiity of surface
can l)e seen—and the hoes should follow and kill every
sprout, weed or spear of grass ; the corn needs every
thing in the land to enable it to develope its grain. Re
member that its roots are now to he found everywhere ; be
- careful not to cut them, when the intense heat of the sun,
acting upon its full grown leaves, is causing an immense
evaporation of moisture, which must be supplied through
the roots. All are familiar with the experiment of Hales
on the evaporation of water from the leaves of plants.—
He'‘planted a sunflower in an air-tight vessel, the top of
which was sealed hermetically, by a leaded cover. This
cover was pierced by two holes: one for.the passage of
the stem of the plant, the other for the introduction of
the water necessary for its growth. For a fortnight, the
apparatus was regularly weighed, and our ingenious ex
perimenter found that the green parts of the sunflower
‘threw olf about twenty ounces of water in twelve hours of
the day< The evaporation was always increased during
dry and warm weather ; moist air lessened it; during the j
night season, the evaporation was sometimes no more than
3 ounees,and it occasionally happened that it was nothing.
Such facts point out the necessity of giving plants, that
develope in the summer, plenty of elbow room to enable
them, in dry weather, to gather moisture from a greater
breadth of land—of deep plowing in tile preparation of
the land, to enable them to gather moisture from a thicker
Stratum of soil—arid at this season ol the year, of stirring
only the surface, to avoid cutting the roots, which mu-t
ramify in every direction to collect the scanty supply. —
The oftener the surface can be stirred the better, in «.s
much as surface soil retards very much
ATIIBCNS, «A., JULY, 18«8.
j evaporation of hater from that surface. All that has
. been said about corn applies to sorghum also, the two
crops requiring the same general treatment. Except in
the rich alluvial lands, of the West, cotton is still small ■
enough to demand frequent plowings and hoefngs—these
should he continued as long as no injury results from
breaking off of limbs, Ac. Tney should be repeated fn
</uent/f/} to insure continuous , steady growth, so essential
to the retention of itw fruit; nnd here again, wo urge
shallow plowing—all that is needed, is a pulverised sur
face,.to admit air and gasdfc, and to prevent too 'rapid
evaporation. With cotton, it is more important, even
i than in the ease of corn, that not a bunch of grass re
main unkilled. For the management of the sweet po
tato crop, consult the articles published in previous
j numbers' of the Cultivator, of this year, Tn the warmer
parts of the South, where the seasons are long, slips and
j cuttings of the vine may still he planted, with good
prospects of making roots. In the more northern and
elevated regions, they seldom produce much, when put
out later than dune—with very favorable seasons, how-
I ever, they may succeed. Wheat should be threshed as
i early as possible, and thoroughly dried in the sun—the
thorough drying not only prevents destruction by insects, .
but adds greatly to the value of the flour produced from
it. About noon, when the wheat is hot, burn out bar
rels or boxes, bv setting fire to a little straw Irk. them
and whilst they are still h-% store away the wheat in
them. ’r* %
Sow down with peas broadcast, oriu drills, the land from
which wheat and oats have been taken, either for turning
under as a green crop or for hay. He -veur We drilled peas
upon an oat Hold, running one furrow U pping the peas
and listing on tfiem with. u rroWjL Jioutany further
plowing or hoeing, gathered oof vines for
hay. Remember that reCeiindicate this
month to be one of the best for'OfcUwKffinafaer to make it
last well. If opportunity offer all the posts, Ac.,
that will be needed next %*.£,■ r, one tell us \vheth->
er rails split at this scuttojf last4*vtlC*i it ill those, split iu, .
w inter i ■
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the heart is in flower, its bloom and oeuuty pass to tip*
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