. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. ; and there is no better manure than wood ashes. So fit are ashes tofertilize tobacco, that a plant bed is generally prepared by burning brush,and sowing the seed in the earth lightly, inixed with the fresli-burnt the finest quality of tobacco we would select, in old land, a light loam,and manure it by the Connecticut ru
. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. ; and there is no better manure than wood ashes. So fit are ashes tofertilize tobacco, that a plant bed is generally prepared by burning brush,and sowing the seed in the earth lightly, inixed with the fresli-burnt the finest quality of tobacco we would select, in old land, a light loam,and manure it by the Connecticut rule, with all we could get. It willgrow well, as a general rule, upon all soil that is really good for Indiancorn, by following the preceding rules given in this article. In Connecticut, the plants are set June 5 to 15, and good crops have beenmade when they were set as late as July 5. Some cultivators set theirplants on a ridge, instead of in a basin, as recommended in the article aboutFlorida. This is for the purpose of using a horse-hoo in the first plants when set on a ridge arc less liable to be covered up. The soil ofthe seed-beds must bo not only rich, but very carefully worked. Sko. 60.] INTRODUCTOJi OF HEMP CULTIVATION IN AMERICA. 965. SECTION PLANTS-HEMP AND FLAX-HISTORY AND CUL-TIVATION OF HEMP-COST AND PROFIT OF FLAX CULTURE. JE are aware tliat neither hemp nor flax should rankas Southern crops; but they seem naturally con-nected, and are therefore treated of in tlie samesection. Hemp ranks in America as a Southerncrop because almost exclusively grown in slaveStates—that is, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri;though in Europe it is cultivated largely in higherlatitudes than our most Northern States. There ap-pears to be a prevalent opinion that hemp reallybelongs in the South, because none of the NorthernStates grow it as a staple crop; yet the Stateswhere it is grown are not southern, nor is the cropa Southern one, any more than Indian corn.
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