The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-05-14

"1s4-s 1900 ~ etA B4S@h
RESULTS OF ISDUsrsT ASD IsTELLlCrScE.
MR. BATEHas.-Ia compliance with
your request. ! viii now give your Iea.
.lers some sccounI Of my substitute for
hay, during The past summer aud winter.
And first, @
S0wED CoRS.-Early in the spring |
sowed about half an acre 0f corn Iar the
purpose ol soiling my rows during The
dry weather aud short feed Of the latter
part Of summer. June Isl, sowed an.
alher hall acre for the same purpose.
lbo.h Of which I had finally 10 save for
winter fodder J July let, gave up all
hopes Of nay crop, aud on The 81 aud
Am, turned over two acres OF sward land,
and sOwed one 10 corn, two anil hall
bushels. n would use more rather than
less seed.) and the other 10 Millet hail a
bushel Of seed. The first corn sowe1
was cut down Two or three times with the
frost. Alter that, all grew well. Sept.
LIST. 1 moved the FIRST acre, and let il lay
on the ground nine days, turning il once
in the time. II was then raked up and
carried in. Il seemed TO be well cured
had no rain on H. But ia The now il
heated lillle, but not 50 as u prevent
cattle from eating il, but so a. 10 turn the
leaves brown and probably mase IL less
nutritious. Soon alter. cut the last are,
lsowed in JuIy) with sickle. bOunI ii ia
small bundles. aud shocked il up imme-
dialely. These shocks slaod ia the field
TIL November, ,hen we're carried in and
stood up all over the barn. The fodder
was we'll cured. and remained bright aud
sweet all The winter. IT,.
The 6isl sowed was very much injnr.
ed by neighbours hens. There was no
estimate made Of the amount of fodder.
can only say there were four large cart.
loads. The last acre was examined and
estimated by number. None put IL at
less than seven tons when fully cured.
My own opinion was that il was above
that amount. l, was an exact measure
acre. ~@" ri @ rs
MnLET.--As stated above, Isowed one
acre Of Miilet, July 4lh. on sward land,
turned over once. Owing ~ the extreme
drought, il was impossible to plough the
land well, and the seed both cora aud
MIlstl was sown Immediately upon the
lurrow, and covered with the harrow.
The Millet grew very rank. tall aud coarse;
il stood some seven feet high on an aver
aye. Ii was cut with cradle; and ham
died like wheat latter laying few days.
There we're between three ard four tons
Of fodder we'll cured. II stood in the
shock sumo four weeks after il was bound
up.
RooTs.--About the middle Of June, !
sowed in drills a piece OF land three rods
wide and ten rods long, TO sugar beets and
mangel wurzels. The land was well ma
nured with coarse stable manure, and
ploughed four times at intervals Of about
two weeks. Il was very mellow aud
fine, fsse from weeds, &c. One thorough
hoeing and thinning the plants was all the
attention il had after planting. | ought
10 say though that the thinning continued
most Of The summer, and consisted in taxi
ing up wheel barrow load twice day,
which made fine food for milk cows, and
kept increasing the distance between the
plants as they needed. Probably | thus
went over the whole piece once in ten
days. The beats were harvested the Sc
cond week in November, They kept on
growing till then and from This piece Of
ground, had nine wagon loads. The
inangel wurzle were much the best. n
have always found the mangel wurzle Il
do the best in a dry season. and sugar
bees in we, one. usually sow both
and never fail Of a good crop Of one a
least.
Now for the result. With this fodder
and 70, 8 and ssiaa II gin. mot Il
day 90 Eio horses
one I'd Ilnee cows. and three
vouiy 4 ugh the winter. tn,
horses Me5- : have worked more thai
half the time. And all are in first rat,
order this spring. None Of them ha,,
seen lock Of hay, and never had cat
lie in better plight in the spring. Thi
| count a very favorable result, seeing tina
the snow covered the ground Novembe
20. and the winter has been unusually Sc
we're; have not had TO buy a penny
worth of feed. My cattle were very fon
both of the corn and Millet, and seem /
eat il as well as they ever did the best Q
hay. .@# 9>@.s aa8 II IS
The great cost OF the corn was in III
harvesting. |. took ten days labor to Sc
cure the acre we reaped, aud i. was har
labor too. II knew OF some better wa
(easier and quicker To harvest it, shout
coun, 1t great relief. Blu. At all events
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