Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-12-05
From the American Farmer.
NOTICES ron 4 YOUNG FARMER

NOTICES FOR A YOUNG FARMER.
Be particularly careful in expanding,
as you should be provident III raising,
every species Of provender for your stock
of borses, cattle and sheep. A variety
OF food, and an orderly distribution Of it,
are more promotive Of health and vigor
/ in your domestic animals, than lavish
Expenditure Of any one species. Such
as require previous preparation, should
have ii bestowed both Cor profit and econ
lomy. Cut or chaff your hay, straw, corn
Itops and blades. and even your stalks,
with a powerful Straw Gutter, aud you
will save great proportion, which is
otherwise wasted, or passed through the
sniDai, without contributing TO its Hour.
Iisbment. One bushel Of chsffed hay at
a mess, given 10 trough three times in
ltwenty-four hours, is sufficient for a
horse, OK or COW. A bushel OF chaffed
| hay, lightly pressed, weighs from to 81
Ipounds. A horse, or horned beast, ihrives
more on IS lbs. thus given, than on "a or
rs lbs. as commonly expended (including
yaste) 10 the usual mode Of feeding in
racks; to which, tronghs properly con-
lstructed, are far preferable. This prac-
Itice has been now fairly tested by expe-
Renee and the result accurately proved.
This, and other great improvements il
feeding their domestic animals, have been
orced on the people of Europe by neces-
ily. Salt Your clover aud other succu
lent as well as coarse hay. But over
sailing diminishes the nutrimeut. More
THAN peck to a ton is superfluous. Hall
that quantity is often sufficient. Ten or
fifteen pounds is usually ample allowance,
Steamipg potatoes has been long prsctised.
Boiling ur scalding prnventler, commonly
given dry, is found TO be highly beneficial.
The Turnip culture, on an extensive
scale, succeeds better there, than it doe
among lis. The Scarcity root is ihara
cultivated extensively, for dairy COWS
and ewes in milk; also for fattiDg cattle,
with oil-cake occasionally, as change.
II supplies succuient food. in the season
when such food is the most scarce. This
root ihrives we'll 10 our country. and
should be more generally attended to, for
swine and cattle particularly. For the
latter it is important at all seasons; lis
leaves 10 summer being as valuable, as its
roots in winter or spring. Carrots NAV
also be profitably cultivated. They are
rot only highly nutricions, but preventa
lives against some diseases, and remedies
FOR others. (asthmatic diseases particular
w. in horses or cattle. High prices
aud scarci.ies Of bread-stuffs, will compel
us to initiate European examples in sub
stituting esculent roots for grain in feed
ing our live stock. OF Potatoes we know
so much. both as to their culture and
uses, that it seems unnecessary 10 mention
what is commonly practised 1t has beer,
the opinion of many, for long time pasI,
that they are exhausting, and that unless
additional manure is bestowed on the
land on which wheat is to follow them.
he wheat crop will not he abundant.
This opiuion is not confined j. our coun-
try. Many believe potatoes are best in
dry soils; yet it is asserted by an intelli-
gent writer iD England (see Bath Papers,
vol. IA, page l47) after actual experiment
for 10 years, that potatoes will never
be mealy, If not grown in tolerable moist
ground !" and drained DOGGY earth is
preferred TO all others. In this Kind of
earth the Irish potatoes are generally
cultivated. II is fortunate, that this root
win grow in almost any KIDD of soil, aud
the advocates for different opinions may
respectfully indulge ia taking their own
course. Potatoes are generally planted
TOO late. Early planting admits of the
crop being gathered in time for sowing
wheat, by those approving that practice
Contrary to common opinion, it is now
said by some practical agriculturalisis
that young or uuripe seed potatoes, are
most productive.