Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-06-29
Agricultural.
From The Providence Republican Herald.
Go to Work the Right Way,
ADDRESSED TO FARMERS.


am sorry there is so much need Of the adj
monitions am about to give. Depend npon It,,
you do mot D0rk it right or you would make
your farms Just twice as valuable as they now
are. Many of you farm too m"ch You would
find it much more profitable to farm twenty a.
cres, WELL, than forty by halves. The last sea-
son | made my grounds produce at the rate of
one hundred bushels of Indian corn to the acre
Is this not much better than common crop of
thirty or forty bushelsl You will certainly say
it is, and with the SINE breath ask how | man
age to make it produce so plentltully! My land
being much infested with ground mice, or moles,
and overrun with grubs and other vermln, put
on, early in the month of March, about seven
bushels of salt to the acre, which thoroughly de-
stroys all kinds of vermn, being an excellent
strong manure, and plowed and narrowed the
ground over and over until it became completely
mellow; l then had every corn hole filled with
long manure, and after dropping my corn, (Which
had previously been soaked i'll warm water,) |
scattered a pint of lime over every hill, and then
covered the whole with little mellow earth. In
about a week the corn began to come up pent-
fully. after which | nUrsed it with the plough
and hoe. everv other week for eight weeks, at
which time it was as high as my head, and not
spire of it was destroyed either by FROST grub, or
birds. NY other things | MANFRED equally well,
and have been amply paid for all my extra care
and trouble as | raised more than twice as much
per acre as any of my neighbors, and did it in
much less time. | mean got all my harvesting
done two or three weeks before many others
This is accomplished in great measure by re-
deeming time; rising between three and four o.
clock in the morning, then if the day be sultry
and hot, lie by from II to g. and rest, | then
feel refreshed and able to work till quite dark
This call acorking it right whereas should
lay in bed until the sun be up and shame me,
haunt the tavern at night drink too much viii
skev, but half manure, half plough, half plant,
half nurse, half harvest, and do every thing by
halves, | surely should not 'toOrk it right nor
get half crop.
shall now conclude by giving you, for furth-
err consideration, few excellent observations,
from wiser head, perhaps than my own, and
hope that every brother farmer will do likewise.
4 often say to myself what pity it is our
farmers do not w0rk it right When | see a
man turn his cattle into the road to run at large,
and waste their manure during winters day,
say that man docs not U0rk ii right. Ten loads
of good manure, at least is lost in season, by
this sovenly praetice-and all for what! For
nothing indeed but to ruin his farm.
&c. when see cattle late in the fall and early
in the spring, rambling in meadow or moving
field, pounding the soil and breaking the grass
roots, say to myself this man does not oorh it
right.
So, when see a barn yard with drain to it,
say this man does not rOrk it right, for how
easy it is to make yard hollow, or lowest in the
Al, Ill
ofthe sides which will thus be kept dry for the
cattle The wash and moisture of the yard mix
ed with any kind of earth, or putrid straw, is OK
cellent manure, yet how much do not our farm
ers lose by negecting these thngs,-in fact they
do not acork it right When l see farmer, Oft
en- going to retailers store with bottle or jug,
or loungng about tavern or wrangIlng about
politics. or quarrellng with and defaming his
neighbours good name am certain such man
does not ecork it right
AN OLD FARMER.