The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-08-29
80 - From the American Farmer.
Work for the Season.

l. =sals,s,.. From the American Farmer.
Work for the Season.
SETTING TIMOTHY MEADOWS
who may intend to set timothy meadows,
should, before they undertake to do so,
consider first whether their land is fertile,
and secondly, if it be not very fertile, make
up their minds that it is fallacious in them
to attempt to grow large crops of timothy
on such lands without treating them to
large dressings of nutritive manures.
They should consider too that a crop
which from the time it will occupy the
land requires the most accurate plowing
and thorough pulverization; and that, in
order to give to the roots of the plants
ample pasturage, the plowing must be |
deeply executed, so that in case of dry |
season they may be enabled to derive the /
moisture from below. Indeed, so well
are we impressed with the efficacy of
breaking the earth deeply, that if the
ground on which we were about to set
timothy meadow was not wet, we would,
beside plowing it. 8 inches in depth, sub
soil some or s inches more, and we
should look to be reimbursed for the cost
Iof the extra labor by increase in the pro-
Iduce of hay. ~
As TO THE SoII.-The most approved
opinion is that a moist-not wet-clay
loan is the soil best adapted to the cul-
ture of timothy, though it will grow on
any fertile loamy soil, and indeed on stiff
tenacious clay, provided the previous prep
aration be thorough and perfect In this
latter opinion we speak from our own
personal experience, having grown luxu-
rient crops of timothy for several years
upon lot, the soil of which most people
would have concluded was only fit for
making bricks or to be used as pulling
clay; but which by dint of thorough prep
aration we converted into as prolific
timothy meadow as the eye of man ever
beheld. On porous, gravelly soils, as well
as on light sands, the timothy plant does
not grow in luxuriance, nor is it lasting.
PREPARATION OF THE Son.-Under the
general head of setting timothy we have
spoken upon this subject very freely, but
we will here remark that lands intended
for timothy meadow cannot be too thor
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