Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-09

meadow will mol bear the cattle, il is bet
ter 10 spread out the mud evenly upon its
surface. 1t can do no harm there, while II
may help TO bury and kill Ike meadow
grasses.
And how, when the bitches have been
dug aud their contents disposed Of, how
shall we proceed No general answer
can be given. Ii the plow can be made
TO run without very great difficulty or in
convenience. put the plow in and subyert
The meadow grass. This being done. you
may plant and manage the meadow as
your upland. But in many meadows, the
boys or hassocks are TOO numerous and
tough to admit of blowing. Such mead
ows are good, though hard towork. Cut
off the Dogs or hassocks with the most
convenient tool for the purpose that you
can get. The best we have found is a
sort of adze, with long shank and twisted
eye. which lets you strike at your side,
and yet have your blade horizontal.
When these are removed, put on loan,
clay, gravel or sand, as is most CONVENIENT,
one or two inches deep. and sow grass
seed.
Ii the surface of your meadow is loose
and will not bear a.team, the sod can be
broken up whit the hoe quite expedtiously,
and when this has been done, you may
plan, ana till, and year or so only will
be needed before the team will 60 very
well there.
On these reclaimed lands, where there
situation and texture is such that you will
probably wish to plow them occasionally
and till them, we do not suppose it import
ant to carry on large quantity of sand or
clay. Thoughsa generous mixture Of
these with the vegetable matters of The soil,
will unquest;onably be of great deal of
service. These give both frnness and
lenacity 10 the loose surface, and they con-
tain siIicales in which the meadow mud is
deficient, and which the plants want
When meadow is 10 be graveled and
grass seed sown, we do not think il advis-
able 10 put the gravelson very thick. The
! drainage will do more to keep down the
wild meadow grasses than the gravel
coat jus: thick enough to receive and start
the English grasses, is all that we would
apply at first, and as the ground should re-
quire top-dressng in future years, we
would have that dressing composed main
ly of sand, clay, loan or the like, and IN
this way would gradually increase the
coating. This course has all the good e.
fects Of deep travelling at first, while il is
less expensive. The best dressing for
these lands that we have.seen used, is
mixture of sand and ashes. Stable ma
nures do well on these lands, but general
y are more required on the upland. Com
posts containing more silicates are quite as
good on the meadows, and will be, more
lasting in their effecls-N E. Farmer.
CRAYBERRIEs-In some parts oil
/ Michigan, in northern Indianp, and in
Wisconsin, about the Wisconsin river,
great numbers of this fruit are found
I growing wild. Those brought from the
Wisconsin river are the finest we ever saw.
We doubt whether so large product with
so little trouble and expense, could be real
lied from any other source as from this
fruit. Considerable attention has been
given to cranberry cultivation in some
parts Of Massachusetts, and with great
success. Patches OF land good for moth
ing but frog pasture have been rendered
more valuable than the best adjoining
lands, by this means. This is "a fruit With
which there is little danger of gluttlng the
market The appetite for them grows
with what it feeds upon. - Paalras Far.