Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-12-05
(trom the Nv York farmer)
PLANTING CORN For GREEN FEED

| l1tAH III 'i64N L 1}lt httlisS ED.
NJ. flffr,-Sr Every aetut xperncntwldcl
results faeorably te agricultural Improvement will
| | presume be considered worth communicating (,
| the public In this view lay before you the fol.
| lowing.
Fortwo or three years past have experienced
difficulty Ia keeping up supply OF green feed Il
Ut for III. cattle III the hot and afY months of July
August and September; \ TO ohyiate ths difficulty
adop the plan ofplentos eonfo eot up and ieed
| s,reen, instead of gas.
Ny method wastlis -
In April | nanlrcd about an ar Il furf land
| winch lad been pastured for three toar years
With aboal fifty can't loads Of course manure, this
5Ioaghed under as dep as the soil wound admi',
2lough.us aidr1ow, and then ra5ing III the ma-
| nufc, 50 as 10 completely cover the whole the
soil was lght loan ON a sand or erarey bottom
that admitted Of ploughns from to 10 inches
deep.
= vas lien well narrowed threa or four Times
rolng would have helped It but | had not
the convenience OF roller at handy and fur
re&ed enc Wy only, the USUAL width for planting
j coul
1hcn plant. IN the ii,rfows hills oftwoor three
grams, every ion u or fifteen inches
Early IN july | comG,.acea cutting, taking out
iHee hills and Ieayn oae this finally Jeff about the
a;na. crop Of corr GA ',a aera.
From the corn thu. cut out ndby topping part
tit when | Ill fn,. 81 entag on, fed three
COWS and horsc through the mouths Of July,
Augls' aed September, anamy crop Of rpcncd
corG un tic ,fae aere Is about eigEfv bushels of
gooi sound cafs, have hished ami measured II
peri Oft.
Ii will be obvious that my torn could be- riouehed
only one way. and IN faet 1t was poughed only once
and hoed once partly for want Of time and the soil
beng good, and season favorable, found it grew
we'll without further care.
perhaps ought to have promised that for four
years past | have kept three cows horse and two
hogs an acre ami quarter Of Grass land TO nov.
aud about two acres ofpasture II range for tho
cows.
This season commenced feeding green feed on
the second day OF May, and orre and quarter
amply fed the horse, cows and hogs till | commenc-
ed cutting the Green III July, and in addition
to their feed, Imade upwards of ton OF excellent
hay.
The horse is kept constantly in stable and the
hogs III pen; TIE hoes are fed regularly, three
times day, same as the cows, with green feed,
and viii MAKE ateast twenty loads ofcxcellent ma
nnre, and Whit Is more, give my neighbours no
trouble
II England where highly cultivated aud inn
proved soil and a Consistent M DISTURB and GOODNESS,
adapted to grass, afford aconstani supply of green
feed smiling. as it IS termed, IS attended with no
Inconvenience in the heat and dryness of our sum
mers a substitute for grass must De found this |
think IS found IN our invaluable corn crop and on
the plan adopfedb by me, we not only have the green
feed through the months of July August, and Sep
TENDER, but we have good crop of ripe corn TO ga
Their.
Most ofmy grass land is moved three times,
and some of the best of it fopr times in the sea-
son.
The union ofthe two crops, grass and corn, is
doubtless the best possible plan Of obtaining the
greatest aud mostresu!ar supply fgreen feed, and
probably yields the utmost possible value that land
can be made to yield in the pasturins ofcahle.
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