American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-04-13

huS lOtu' VI Julys Twin 10 the SCytHSSJ
tour acres, leaving the Millet cut to lie in swarth
for few hours In the afternoon of the same day.
lit was carefully turned over, and the next morning.
after the dew off, it was bound in sheayes, and
in the course of the day it was hauled to the
barn loft aid put away. During the whole of this
process the weather fine as could be desired.
The remaining acre, which was intended for seed,
was Graded on the Esd. of July, and left in swarth
| till the next day without turning it, when it was
bound n sheaves and set up in small open shocks,
with the heads to the sun till about p M. of that
day, when it was hauled to the barn ard packed a.
| way. The whole crop was cured OF fine green
colour, and although the stalk appeared in the field
to be strong and stiff, it became in few days after
II was housed, nearly as flexible as clover timothy
weighed the sheaves taken indiferently from
some of the Wagon loads. and in this way satisfied
myself that the product of each acre about $500
| lbs. Having entertained from what / had read on
the subect) very sanguine expectations of the pro-
duct OF this piece of ground. expressed to my fore
man my disappointment at this result. His obser.
Vatlon was, that he presumed that those who had
gathered larger crops had probably moved them,
whereas the stubble left on the ground, in conse.
quence Of the cradle having been used, would have
added 20 or 25 per cent. 10 the quantity. I then
went over the field and found the stubbe to be about
halflcg high, and in many places much taller but
the protection which it afforded 10 the ground, and
the benefit which presumed would derive from
being turned in for the reception of small grain, de-
ltermined me in future to pursue the same mode of
cutting, believing that the sacrifice of part of the
| hay would be more than compensated by the i'm
provement on the land, and the increased product of
the succeeding crop of grain. Another advantage
IN grading seems to be, that the hay, by being
spread, can be more easily removed and put away
than it it were moved and treated as timothy or
| clover.
! The Millec cut from the last acre, OH the esd. of
July was carefully threshed in the autumn, and TO
| my great disappointment, produced only fifteen
bushels of clear good seed but, then discovered
| from the quantity of chat and light grain thrown
away by the fan, that had cut it much too early
for seed. Had it remained on the ground until the
seed were ripe think it highly probable that the
quantity would have doubled, or nearly so. The
Niiet was generally from six to seven feet high,
through the lot, and the heads from five to six inches
long, and well filled. Judge Peters says, that he
\ has raised very fine crop of wheat on the milet
sabble, when, in the same year, his crop was indif
ferent IN the oat stubb!e, under the same circum
stances
/ On the 9th, of May, five bushels of MiIlet seed
we're sown on four acres--on the 5th, of July, the
crop hauled, and estimated at four tons per acre
have obtained, this season, forty tons from sixteen
acres, OF which four only had been manured-the
remainder could not have borne good wheat crop.
l have generally used large quantity of seed as
rally sown, vegetate. Whilst my oxen consumed
Mlet in its green state, they performed their work
with more spirit and vigor than they had done be-
fore, or have shown since, except when fed with
grain. My cattle Of all ages, prefer it TO both the
lred and the white clover meadow hay. All kinds
OF birds are very fond of it, and not more so than
the different species of poutry-an invaluable food
for iatteniDg them. The seeds in the upper parts
of the stalks, generally rpen first; therefore cut
it when the upper parts Of Of the heads contain
seeds which are hard. All my observations have
conrmed in the belief that, in this stage, it a
fords fodder more nutritious, and more easily made
than any sort of hay. would recommend Met
mot merely for its value food but for the means
it affords of making clean the land, without sum
Imer fallows or drill crops. Deep ploughng at pro
Iper seasons is, conceive, the basis of all good far
mng.--Such crops as shall enable the husbandman
to extipate weeds, and obtain large supplies of od
Il der without much exhaustion, should be the great
objects OF his aim. When Millet is cut down with
cradles TO the scythes, considerable quantity of
vegetation is left on the ground and the general
opinion is, that is sufficient TO prevent any exhaus
ton of the land--such has been the result OF ex-
periments by the most udicious farmers"
Ertract of letter from John Hare Po,cel to iona
than Roberts, President Of he Pennsylvania
/ Agricultural Society.
"Milet succeeds best on light land, and requires
las much strength of soil is necessary to produce
Iheavy oats. / have not seen, either in Europe or
Il America, any green crop which largely rewards
accurate tilage and plentiful supple, Of manure.
have sown it from the LIST of May, to the 10Th of
L June and have invariably obtained more fodder
than could have been had from any grass under SINH
lar circumstances.
4 The celebrated Cashmere goat has been recent
lily introduced into France by Messrs. IernaaG and
IJaabeTt, and Promises the most satisfactory in
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