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p nvoiv lip. nils Tinvnr lison mifinn ins h!irfv ns ra umvhnnt no nnw rrvn- neighbors who have, think it. lessened, zcg extensively and makes mdre wheat:? tlieir crops ot clover and, grass; but 'it but, quere? ris he uses guano Tnay'iiot may have been 'owing to the drouth of the increase be attrilintabloto that?;C ' the last two seasons. - Speaking of Tobacco and Lime above I think, 'Mr. Editor, you will concur tidewater, Air. Wi tcher, of Pittsylva witlune, in tho opinion that all this is nia, said, as for as lime had been tried very well except the iclose grazing. I in his region, itliadW efect rwliivteyer. . know of no lands inNortli-Carolina lie once scattered eighteen or twenty lhat would bo benefitted grazing at bushels otslaked lime ofican area of 40 : all, except, perhaps, by sheep, whose feet diameter, which lias never prcduc dnngJs very rich and not so liable to ed any Visible effect whatever. Mrv deterioration by exposure von the sur- Peter Ilairston, of North Carolina, said face. On the contrary, grazing impov- he had tried lime without any visible ' erishes our soil,by taking away more effect. The lands in hissection werq Hian it restores. It may do good, by naturally good he knew; a-ifi trampling and compacting soil, like had borne grain every year ' since the ' that of Mr. Douthat, so light and dusty revolution, without manure, that will as.to be u blpwn away with the March now produce from ten to ififeeen bush windfc;" but it will not answer, as a ays- els. They make as fine tobacco as any tern, generally, with us. lam decided- lands in the world. Three brothers of ly in favor, however, of providing high- Caswell County, N.C, had just sold ly mamircd irrass and clover, lots for theirjerops of tobacco in Lynchlnirg, at papfnring milch cows and calvcsmaresv35 to 35J per hundred, and tho man-' and coltswith moderation the ani- 'nfacturers said it sold for half its value, juials to bo regularly penned or stabled It had been grown on thin land, worth yery night, ior shelter and to save ma- now 25, formerly 10 to 12 dollars per nure. These fields should be so divid- acre. It was mainly manured with gn cd, that part may be mowed for hay, and ano, 200 lbs to the acre more made , n part grazed. This may.be done with thej)lalit too coarse. The brothers made advantage every way,"withqut interfe crop, and cultivated 12,000 ing with the general systeiri of groping, hills to the hand;' at 4000 hills to the a -But to return to our neighbors Jof-thc ere; afid 5 or 6 plants to the pound, tho Old Dominion: Mr. Dulaivy of; Loudon sales would amount to 700 dollars to thinks it better to cut xff elovcr than to tlio hand. This is above tho average, .graze it. An experiment proved tliatbut a plenty will sell at 25 dollars per land from which the clover had :becH""cwt. cut, yielded 20 per cent, more whetit The largest crop of tobacco per hand, than that which had beep grazed. Mr. he had ever known, was 3,500 lbs. Xesbit,4 an eminent English chemist, f Col. Knight, of Nottoway, said lime thinks it better to cut oil two erbps is totally valueless on the chocolate and than to graze one, because the cattle grey lands of his region; but produced dipping oil the budding leaf, would pre- u good effect on the pipe-clay land. On Vent t he development of that much these lands, when put in moderate con root; whereas in cutting off the full dition, clover grows finely, .grown stalk and leaf, the root has had A gentleman in Prince Edward cul-1 time to dcvclope in the land, and so in-Jivated. with 15 hands. 200.000 tobacco f urease the nutriment in the soil. But lulls, 100 acres in wheat, 60 acres in r, uiu mrmura in iuikc wouiunot graze oats, ana ou acres in corn. ; their clover. Mr. Harvie, of Amelia, Col. Cocke, of Powhatan, raised his did not graze at all for sixteen yearsv plants on laud not burned, arid found The land, under that system, was much that burning was not necessary i sites more productive in corn, oats and to- vereselected where a thickbed of Jcave.9 .
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