Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-06-17
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! gestf0ns, We mink, cannot be dttermined
on at 100 early period. The first crop
of corn, Tor green provender, should be
sown broadcast without delay, and so with
The oats, at atleast second crop of corn
should be drilled in about the 20th Of
June for fodder, Carrots and Parsnips
should be in, by this time; and it the
ground is we'll sub-soiled, they will stand
considerable dry weather. The rutabsga
turnip-which has become quite a valu-
able crop-should be drilled in about the
26th Of July. Millet, as a crop, should
attract more attention than hertofore, par
,icularly as supplying subsistence for ami.
mails at season when, In dry summers,
'he ordinary crop have partially failed.
Germantown (Pa) Telegraph.
We do not pretend 10 be weatherwise,
but those who do, say that animals, birds,
and some other things, in their late move.
menls, prognosticate dry summer. This
is likely 10 be the case, and the only rea.
son we can give for it is,tha. one extreme
usually follows another. The spring thus
far has been very cold and vet-,he sum.
mer consequently may be very hot and
dry. This would prove highly calami-
tous to the laboring classes; for drained
as the country already is Of its products
by the grea. demand of Europe the past
six months, a long continued drought
would add considerable to the present pri>
ces, which are slready very exorbitant
The corn of the south has suffered ma.
terially by late frosts, and in many in-
stances has already been planted the Sec
ond and third time. This looks bad for
that quarter, which Of late years has be.
come large grower Of corn. A short
crop in that region would materially affect
the price throughout the country.
Yet whether we have great drought
the coming summer or not, the farmers
ought to be well prepared for it. Let them
remember the dry summer of 1852, and
the great loss to them in half starved AMI.
mails that ensued. Hundreds and thous-
ands Of ca..ls were sacrificed to the butch-
er and otherwise the following winter.
merely for want Of fodder TO carry them
through till spring.
The best and most reliable substitute
for grass and hay, which We can cult.
vate, is Indian corn in drills, aed cut just
as the grain gets lift for roasting ears,
or boiling for the table. Five to seve n
tons Of dried fodder may easily be pro.
duced from an acre. Every farmer ought
to raise at least three months supply for
his stock, Of Indian corn fodder; and a
four months supply would be still safer.
1t is bes. to get it now as soon as posi-.
BILE. The stalks Of the sweet varieties
are much the most nutritious and palate.
able, although they do not produce SO
great growth as some others--yet they
are enough better to pay for this differ
ence of production,
Next to Indian corn we would res
commend growing oats, to be cut when
the grain is in milk, and fed unthrashed.
We consider that either the oorn or oats
thus raised, and fed with their grain on
the stalks. equaI-ton for tonic the best
of hay. The stalks should be cut up fine
by machine, previous TO feeding. tits
matter of economy to use the straw
ard corns,alk cutter, even WREN the oats
and corn are Gu. and fed green from the
field in the summer.
Millet is somewhat cultivated south Of
us. though farmers generally at the north
are unacquainted with it; but from the
few experiments we have made with it
as substitute for hay, we would place
it next after oats. l, may be sown broad
cast, ond cultivated the same as oats, tho
to sow in drills six inches apart is better.
1t will yield two " four tons per acre.
The fourth best substitute for short
crop of grass and hay, is roots. such as
the sugar beet, carrot, parsnip and turnip.
which We value in the order we have
placed them. Potatoes, on sccount OF the
prevalence Of the rot, are uncertain to be-
calculated upon. Cabbage and pumpkins
are very good for partial feed during the
autumn months. a@