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THE AKATOIt ?72f ;lias kept, the grass from, growing and guano,bo applied at the rates, of 1000 lbs per acre. The plants should thus bo sown rather late. Several other gentlc nicn liad raised plants very successfully 'in the samo way Mr. ditcher had a neighbor who burned his plant bed on a .wheat stubble,, plowed under, and therf covered with com stalks, which made as good plants as he ever saw grow. One year the suckers of his new ground crop ripened and scattered their seed over the ground, 'which, after it was plowed, came up, making the en tire field a.plaut bed; he drew his plants from around the stumps, and they pro duced as good tobacco as he ever saw; showing that the sprouts will make as good seed as any; h it was said sprouts drawn from cabbage stalks and planted will also make good cabbages. The best-tobacco was always a little under sized for the quality of the lantL - To bacco inspected inKichmond sells bet ter than that inspected in Petersburg, because it bears a higher price in fo reign markets. In regard to Corn with Peas, Mr. 8e gars, of Southampton, said he hud known lands cultivated annually, for ten years, in corn with peas sown a moung it at the last working ; and the land became better and better. With respect to Do Burg's Super phosphate: Several jjentlemen had tried it to their cost; having found it totally worthless. If such conversations among the far mers of North Carolina, were frequent ly held, reported and published, much valuable practical information now bu ried in the minds of comparatively few would bo brought out for the benefit of the whole reading public; and, my word for it, Mr. Arator, nothing would moro thoroughly arouse the spirit of improvement, nor better direct its ef forts, than the well authenticated facts 'thus, in familiar and friendly style, com municated. I am, to such information, . , A DEBTOR. Our correspondent is right. The valuable abstract and remarks which he has furnished above, in . a very small compass, contain usfcful information, qii the subject of rotation of crops, gra zing, the cultivation of ; clover, -wheat, tobacco, com, peas, and the uso of cer tain fertilizers, which wilt better servo the inexperienced : agriculturists than volumes of untried theories. We do not believe the worth of such informa tion is appreciated; nor can it be just ly estimated under the existing supine ncss of our agriculturists. They-do not appear to have observed the fact, that in all other branches of business and departments of human society, social intercourse, intellectual attrition, and minute examination, are the indispen sable means of advancement; and re main lamentably ignorant of the fa;t, that these are as essential in the success of all our rural avocations as any other. If our people were convinced of their importance if those among them - mi who arc alivo to the necessity of im provement but saw -and felt it as they should,, every county in the State would have well organized agricultural socie ties, holding their regularmcetings, im parting light and heat to their members, spreading convincing facts among tho people, and accelerating every where, in their own farms, the farms of their neighbors, and the farms throughout the State, the peaceful and glorious tri umphs of the plow. Lot every one read attentively and seriously consider the matter here laid before our readers. En. Akatok. For the Arator. I consider putting in manure and co vering corn well in the drill, require the exercise of considerable skill and care. When the ground lias been previously plowed deep and close; I find the fol lowing a nice plan: Run oft" j'our rows four and a half to five feet a "part, open ing a deep and wide furrow, in winch shovel vour manure as bountifully as possible; then list it, turning one furrow on each side upon it; split the ridgo shallow, for plantinting, with a small plow, with a mouldboard on each side. i
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