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
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EALEIGH, DECEMBER, 1856.
NO. IX.
i NORTH-CAROLINA AllATOK.
; :. - ' By TnOS'J. LEMAY, Editor & Propiiiktor.
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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
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jv'v - homesteads . and improve them, than
i' ' " to Koll aiid remove to another Stnte.
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: . 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
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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
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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
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