Address on the Means of Opening New Sources of Wealth for the Northern States: Delivered on the 19th October, 1821, Before the Agricultural Society of ... and the Public Attending Their Proceedings - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821. Excerpt: ... it is one of the surest and most profitable crops, as the plant is subject to Do disease, nor is it liable to be annoyed by any insect; droughts do not sensibly affect its growth, and it is in uo danger of being destroyed by cattle. From two to three bushels of seed are requisite to the acre; twe where the soil is not the richest, and from that allowance up to three io I hose capable of affording greater products. The seed must be of the year next preceding, as it quickly loseB its germinative powers. A ton of hemp, when dressed, may be raised from two acres of land of the highest fertility; but in the bog meadows of Orange county, in this state, where the culture of the crop is mostly attended to, the usual product is about a ton from four acres. There, the crop is cultivated several years successively on the same lands. Whether the manuring of those lands with upland ea'rths, particularly those of a saudy composition, has ever been put into practical operation, I have not understood; but it is believed that no manure, so cheaply afforded, will produce equal effects, on lands of that description. But as uplands, or (hose of alluvial formation, are the soils to which cultivators will be found almost exclusively restricted in the culture of (he crop, except in that comity, I shall confine myself more particularly to its culture in soils of those descriptions. Where the land is to be sufficiently enriched by fresh barn-yard manure, the better way perhaps is to break up the ground in the fall; in the spring following cart on the dung, say, at the rate of fifty loads to the acre; plough this under, with a deep furrow, and cultivate the ground, for that season, with some hoed crop; the next spring mellow the ground effectually-with the plough, lay the furrows ...

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