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Domestic News
November 4, 1887
The Democrat
Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina
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Agricultural advice urging farmers to plow and fallow land before Christmas for soil improvement, winter protection, and to advance spring work.
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Fallow Your Land this Side of Christmas.
The very best work you can do from now till Christmas after building your cattle sheds, is to fallow. Plow up all the land you expect to cultivate next year. By so doing you give all the vegetable matter time to rot ready for plant food next summer. You turn the top soil under and protect it from the winter, and turn your subsoil up to the snows and freezes of winter, which will thoroughly pulverize it and take all the sourness out of it. Besides these advantages, you put your spring work at least one month ahead. You do your heavy work in the fall with your team and next spring they are in a better condition to make the crop; and your land broke in the fall is in so much better condition in the spring to receive seed. Just put one, or two, or three plows according to the size of your farm to plowing and keep them at it. Keep one cart or wagon all the while hauling straw in the lot and stables; and our word for it you will never regret it.
The very best work you can do from now till Christmas after building your cattle sheds, is to fallow. Plow up all the land you expect to cultivate next year. By so doing you give all the vegetable matter time to rot ready for plant food next summer. You turn the top soil under and protect it from the winter, and turn your subsoil up to the snows and freezes of winter, which will thoroughly pulverize it and take all the sourness out of it. Besides these advantages, you put your spring work at least one month ahead. You do your heavy work in the fall with your team and next spring they are in a better condition to make the crop; and your land broke in the fall is in so much better condition in the spring to receive seed. Just put one, or two, or three plows according to the size of your farm to plowing and keep them at it. Keep one cart or wagon all the while hauling straw in the lot and stables; and our word for it you will never regret it.
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Agriculture
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Fallowing
Plowing
Winter Soil Preparation
Farming Advice
Cattle Sheds
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Event Date
This Side Of Christmas
Event Details
The best work from now till Christmas after building cattle sheds is to fallow by plowing up land expected to be cultivated next year, allowing vegetable matter to rot for plant food, protecting top soil from winter, exposing subsoil to snow and freezes for pulverization and removal of sourness, advancing spring work by one month, enabling heavy fall work with teams in better condition for spring cropping, and improving land condition for seeding.