Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-02-06
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rrom The Germantown Telegraph
Useful Sugges stions.


The number of the Pennsylvania Farm
Journal. for the past month, is very
excellent one, containing many weil-wrlt-
Ten and useful articles upon the all-lm-
portanl subject of Agriculture. We DO not
know what better service we can olier 10
our agricultural readers, this week. than
TO give the spirit of the principal articles:
CHANGE OF SEED.-Dr. A. l.. Elwyn,
of Philadelphia, has 4 strong article on the
subject of the frequent changing oil SEED,
and thinks that often the failure OF crops
NAV be directly attributable to imperfect
or unproductiye seed.
Seed he SAYS. designed for sowing or
planting, should be perfectly ripe or ma
iured, and then carefully preserved, so that
1t may not suffer the slightest deterioration,
before being put into the ground. Imperfect
or badly matured seed, unquestonably
tends to disease He thinks that were
the rule always observed, of sowing and
planting the best, the same as in breeding
animals from the best, there would be
less necessity for the frequent change of
seed, which is now considered almost es-
sental.'
SHALL AND LARGE PoTAToEs FOR SEED.
"A correspondent recommends large,
over small potatoes for planting. He
says Small potatoes are very frequently
OF second growth. 1t is well known to
those who grow potatoes, that the first
growth is always the most vigorous and
decidedly the largest, so that the second
or small potatoe growth, does not seem to
possess, in as great 4 degree, the repro
ductiye properties requisite to the perfect
lon of the plant rs the first Besides,
he considers that the second growth al
ways affects the first growth and causes
them to rot. He therefore selects his po-
tatoes for planting before the second
growth takes place, and is satisfied that, by
so doing, he insures himself perfectly
against the rot
WHEAT CULTURE.-The Hon. Freder-
eek Watts, contributes a good article on
this subject. He thinks that when the
land intended for wheat is to be enriched
by turning i'll clover, it should be plowed
IN before harvest to allow it time to fer
ment before the ground is again stirred
previous to sowing. He thinks that anv
green substance turned in at 4 later period.
would heat and sour the soil, and operate
TO prevent a healthlul germinatian of the
seed.-The time of sowing should always
be regulated by proper condition of the
ground, 1t being neither too wet nor too
dry, Dc, &c. He continues:
Wheat, with us, is now almost uni
versally put in with drill. It's sufficient
10 say in commentator of this mode that
all the seed you use is actually planted
and covered just at the depth which the
exigencles of your soil and your own
judgement dictate. The implement, if a
good one, places this subject entirely with
IN your own control. But there is another
advantage, of which our experience en-
ables Us TO speak, that of narrowing
wheat IN the spring as early as the con-
dlton of the ground will allow. We
have pracuced this for several wears with
decided advantage, not only because of the
benefit which the growing wheat derives
from 1t, but of the admirable condition in
which It puts the ground for the reception
OF the clOver-seed which is usually sowed
at this period. If the ground be narrowed
the cloyer-seed be then sowed, and roller
OF considerable weight passed over the
whole, II will be an extraordinary and un-
favorable season, if your stubbe after
harvest be not well set with clover
lie uses the improved double harrow
sor this purpose, and says there need be
no fear OF injuring the wheat crop. The
common square harrow he condemns as a
very. inefficient implement, for this or any
purpose.
CORN vs.. WHEAT f. H. Of Ian.
caster county, argues in favor of cultivat
lng corn instead of wheat, as being more
profitable. He thinks that so bushels o
corn per acre should be raised by all farm
efs, and the wheat be put down at % OF
~; the difference in the cost of culivat
ing the corn over wheat, he suppose,
would not be as great as the profit the
other way ; but knows nothing positively
HEDGING-SrALL PAsTURIxG, &c
" I. L. r. gives his views about fencing
hedging and stall pasturing, or soling. H
advocates hedges for fences, but we canno
lind in his experiments anything worthy 0
attention. Hedges, in our opinion, neye
will be adopted by the farmers of thu
country. As to stall pasturing, he says
Instead of turning my cattle into past
uFe during the summer, keep them il
my cattle yard, where sheds have beer
erected to protect them from the heat o
The sun, and the rain, &c. Twice dav
morning and evening, a sufficient amour
OF grass IS cut and carried into shed
from which II is divided out to the cattle
The advantages are two fold. First
saving Of paslnre. as | GnA l.. -