Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1846-05-14

soak your corn therein Tor twelve nourS
.hcn as you want To plant II each day, |
mmerse the quantity wanted IN n tar
hath prepared thus put two gallons Of
boiling water aud n pint oi tar
into n bucket or Tub, D,cp sur
mig tall the tar is thoroughly dis |
solved then put IN your corn, STIR 1t
about until II is coated over with TAI :
liquid strain of the tar and dry ,hc
grains of corn in plaster or ashes or n
of both, when IT'S 81 to plant.
No more corr should bc taken out
each day than eau be planted.
Just rs tho corn IS IA about coming
up, mix up as much plaster aud ashes
as will allow one bushel of tho form
er 10 FIVE OF tic latter to onch acre, and
LEI careful hands give 10 cnch corn hill
about q gill OF the mixture.
The great art al corn growing IN
our opinion Is keeping it~rican from
the period when it is tit tc be worked
until II is laid by. But Y = ilovo al
N, Stat the pillow should never be used
after the plants attain n height of II or
fifteen inches, and from that period the
culuvntor should be uScdin It's stcadas
we believe that great injury is often
done by the former implement III the
laccratlon of tltt corn plants. .ff
SCARE CHOW suspend bright
sheets of tin on tnIl poles, at proper
distances, through your corn fields aud
the crows Will not disturb your corn,
as the least wind causes reflection
that will prove just as lrghtful TO them
as an explosion of ouupowdcr or the
.c,ort a qua. we hN, tined ths
p.an Tor several years. and never with
out success. - Amer. Farmer.
SMALL FARMS, Anagcd and intel
ligcnt farmer pointed out to us, the o
thcr day, his well kept fields, aud SAID
Only farm is not very large: 1t IS bu'
third of what belonged To my father
but | sometimes think lralSc as mucI
from my sixty acres rs he did from two
hundred' And our old friend IS right
A very general error prevails ms to tho
superior advantages of II large tarm.-
Because three hundred acres lndIflcr
entity farmcd will produce more thar
one hundred acres tarmed in the SAINT
manner. II does not follow that II j
cheaper to farm three hundred acres IN
differently than TO farm one hundrc'
acres well. The fact is the very re
verse. ANY man who will sit dow
and make the calculation, can 500
convince himself that the capital lal
-e.a IN buying the three hundred
worse applied than if part of II had bee
used to improve one hundred acres
good farm, in first rate condition,
worth more ''ou poor the "cgIcclc
farm. though the latter cover, twice, {
even thrice the area Of the former
Agriculture is like every othcrpursu,
That is the cheapest in and long rj
which produces the same, with les e.
. penSc and labor. And on this prime
Die it can be- demonstrated that It sma
3 and well kept farm IS better than OF
so large that ii cannot BE- iaTncd tho
oughy.
=, Take farm Of fifty acres for lnstanc
In the Eastern States such a farm, If
, arabic land, is rs much rs one man ca
!, attend to: in fact even fifty acres
more than any ordinary farmer ca
: farm thoroughly. We scarcely know
!, indeed, IN this country OF what lat
i is capable. A garden well handle
Il and carefully mauurcd produces twlc
=. as much acre for acre, rs field, hoy
y ever well cultivated the latter may |
= Now this is a practical cXcmpliiica,lC
= Of the advantages Of small farms; al
u centuries hence, when the populate
{ IN tins country becomes very dens
u like that Of China or Flanders, AZ
s. when small farms will be n matter
necessity. andnot of choice, the soil
u tho United States, subjected TO the q
n dcn-ikc cultivation OF tho Flcml
re provinces, will return thrcc-fold
J. present weld Whenever small farT
g. lave lc." prop. j. 'rr' they ha
proved that such would be tc case.
II The spade, for instance, IS preferable
v the plough; stall kept cattle pny bet
II than cattle put to pasture; and llqu
G. manure is cheaper, and Of more val
ID than any other kind Yet not ono 4
e, mer in ten keeps his cattle IN the sta
ne and not one IN three millions uses {
u, spade or can afford to, except III ms 2.
den.
h The great error Of agrlculturnhsts
n IN aspiring "a own too much land.
OF soon as a former saves some money
&c buycs more land, when he ought RAJ
o. cr to spend his gains IN improving I
O. land hc already has. He now I'm
OF himself the posseSor Of a noble lar
n when told IN acres: but MS hc has
I'd money 10 hire proper help, or proc,
ur sufficient manure, his land does not ?