Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-04-18
PREPARATION OF LAND FOR CROPS.

Next in Importance to manurng land liber-
ally, is TO pulverize it thoroughly. Let not
haste 10 dispatch your spring work prevent
your giving your land faithful blowing, har-
rowing, and il for grain or grass faithful roll
ing. Your success with your crops depends in
material degree, on these conditions in the
preparatory treatment Of the soil.
If your ground intended for crops this spring,
was plowed last autumn, il will need less prep
aralion than if the case were otherwise: still, il
should be thoroughly stirred and powdered be-
fore putting in the seed.
Where you do pillow, by all means plow deep
harrow both WAYS, and let the roller follow.
II you have never pursued these practices here
ioiore, try Them now, and we predict you will
never be disposed TO abandon them hereafter.
Do not distrnst the utility OF these measures
without giving them a trial.
The benefits that result from deep stirring and
pulverzaton of the soil, and from the use OF the
roller, have been, comparatively, but little ap-
preciated, because but little known, from actual
experience. Lumps of soil, or soil and ma
nure, may lie in the soil inert, from the time Of
preparing the land for the crop, till the time of
harvesting the product, whereas il a little
pains were taken to pulverize them, they would
contribute to the sustenance Of the crop, or by
chemical action, to the Improvement Of the SOIL
II you intend to set out an orchard this spring,
u
cess and promote your interest, than to sUbsoil
pillow the land where your trees are to stand,.-
and we would strongly recommend the same OPP
Grafton on all other land intended for crops
The concurrent testimony which is horne in
favor octhe subsoil plow by all who have tested
its merits, renders the recommendation Of its use
perfectly safe. Experience with il has fully
confirmed what theory advanced in its favor
that il is second in Importance 10 no other agri-
cultural implement Of modern invention.
Many farmer who proclaims his inability TO
afford the expenditure of dozen or fifteen dol
lars for subsoil plow, spends full this amount
annually for things which are not only ol no ser
vice TO him, but which are sheer foes. We
never knew man who had used a subsoil pillow,
who did not reply in answer 10 aqueslioD upon
the subject, that he considered the cost of the
pillow was fully repaid him by the advantages
resulting from the first years use oft.
~ Z. Farmer.
A THRILLING ScENE.-In Frankfort, ON
the banks of the Penobscot, in Maine. gentle
man lost his wife by death. Three days after
her interment he had some business with d
young physician Of that town. Calling at his
house, he was informed that the doctor had
gone out, but would soon return. He conclu-
ded 10 wait, and to pass the time more agreeable,
as he thought, wentinto the young physicians
Studio, and there he iound student with soap
el in hand in the act of disseciing dead body.
He started back at first view, as people general
~ do when SUDDENLY coming into the presence Of
the dead. Recovering from his surprise, he step
ped towards the corpse which the student was
cutting, and, horror of horrors, found the dead
body to be that Of his wife, buried three days
befnre. His feelings may be imagined, but can
not be described. The husband Immediately
took legal measures against both student and
doctor They were examined and bound ovei
70 answer for the crime Of carrying away and
dissecting dead bodies