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l n" - -Agriculture is' the great art which every Government otigH to protect every proprietor of land topraeltcet tnd tV " i every inquirer into nature to improve.-! ous&ox ' v 4t EALEIGH, DECEMBER, 1856. NO. IX. i NORTH-CAROLINA AllATOK. ; :. - ' By TnOS'J. LEMAY, Editor & Propiiiktor. !'f t ' v.; ..at ONE DOLCAU a Year, invariably in advance. w;V ,ArrAdv!rti3cmcnt3, not cxcccdtnc twelrc lines .for each and every insertion, one dollar containing ' more at thcsamc rates, '.I'"1 11 1 1 " L t V iff 3 - ' 1 4 t For tlie Arator. Mil Editor : Agreeably to promise, :Ihpv, 'proceed to give you some cxam ile of airipvovement wit! lin ray own ; iaiawledge, aiidto show; that our pco V v rr nlo-will (io better to hold on to tlieir jv'v - homesteads . and improve them, than i' ' " to Koll aiid remove to another Stnte. - . ., W W - - T- - - .- W - - W : . 1. My. neighbor A., a very plain man, v. V-V 111 moderate, circumstances, blessed with , good hard :scnsc nlo that important fl': r . iacultv called order, and that .no less iV-.,fcoeded;,boybiid all'-expectation,' by a .... i,;v lwhcn ho commenc9d, would -f not pro f duco more than five busliels of corn to 1 i-; V Ilis first step wasto ditch and under 1 ; I ' 'drdin-his wet lowVlaiuW and hill-side r;v if VA . - -rV :. ditch and horizontalize his rolling fields. Ho had but two hands at first, to help him, except such as he hired to aid in ditching. r His next care was his stable, cow and hog pen manure, lie kept his stables well supplied with straw, leaves and other trash, and when cleaned out, hauled it to a place in the field, where it was to be iised, and mixed it, with alternate layers, at once, with rich woods . mould or swamp nlud, five or six loads to one of stable manure leaving tho heap thickly covered with earth and - , tun; always taicing care to spnnKio his stables with salt and water or pow dered charcoal, just before cleaning buti to prevent the escape of ammonia. , Thus lie 5;raiSed from three horscsj a-: largo.;ampunt-: Ho took gf6at . pains with hiqw- -J pens, always locating ' tliein on j jpbts witli a view to improvoithe glacesand to make also manure to haul awayvr? Hetlierefbre, kept the p6n 'well littcn ' edirob the . jump, - witlr l(ye,ratra and stalks, and woods "mouldfe gularly,broke nptho peivwith a furriV n ing plow tho ; last SatUrdaiiiv' month, scraped np4ho;manure liiilea ahdjiaolcdat out to tlib 'ficldnshc lid ' tlio:sfSllc maiiure, mixing it in the 1,., . k.' v"- i"' f i 5 f I r jit 1.
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