Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-12-28

cattle and dairy productions her chief
business, and hence raises but small quan-
titles of wheat, rye, barley, &C., as the Gen.
sus Of 1850 shows. (See Ag Rep. 1S4s,
p. 669; 1850. P. 1858; 1851, P. 14s-62;
1852, p. 132-i6)
| 4. MASSACHUSETTS ROTATIONS.
In Worcester county the most common
rotation seems to be: l, Corn on a grass
sod, we'll manured 2, Oats with clover
and timothy seed mixed; 3, Clover or
grass from five to eight years without ma
nure. But some prefer having: l, Po-
ta.oes on grass sward; 2, Corn; s, Oats,
and 4, Grass from three to five years, and
manure their grass lands with wood ashes,
plaster, lime, &c. In Hampshire county
the rotation with some is: l, Corn ma
nured in the hill, with guano or compost
Of wood ashes, plaster, night soil, dove and
hen dung; 2, Broom corn or potatoes for
one or two years manured; 8, Rye, wheat
or oats, with clover, timothy and red-top
seed, and 4, Clover or grass, thus making
a rotation of from four to six years. With
others, again, the rotation seems to be: 1,
Corn or wheat on a grass GOD; 2, Broom
corn we'll manured in the hill; 8, Oats
with clover and timothy seed, and 4, Clo-
yer and grass until it produces but one ton
of hay per acre, when it is ploughed up
for corn again. But if the ground is too
low and wet for corn, it is ploughed up
Immediately after hay making, in August,
and top-dressed with compost manure, and
sown with a peck or half bushel of timothy
seed, and nicely narrowed and rolled down,
and the next year it produces q crop Of
hay greatly improved in quantity and
quality. A good many SOW wheat after
broom corn. In Berkshire county rota-
tiou with some seems to be: l, Corn ; 2,
Oats, and 8, Clover. With others: /,
Corn; 2, Barley, and 8, Oats; and with
others again; l, Corn; 2, Spring wheat,
and 8, Clover or grass. And in Bristol
county it is corn, potatoes, and other vege-
tables, with hay.
The chief crops Of Massachusetts, are
the same as those of Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, and for the same
reasons. And hence she raises but small
quantities of wheat, rye, barley and buck
wheat, as the Census of 1850 shows. (See
Ag. Rep. 1s47, p. 352-62 1913, p. 669;
1s49, p. 93-6; 1850, P. 1876, 2Gs-7I,
429; 1851, P. 1929; 1852, P. l5O-62
1858, P. I'D
5. RHODE ISLAND ROTATIONS.
l am unable to state the rotation Of
crops adopted in this State, but 1 presume
they are like those in the adjoining States.
The principal crops Of Rhode Island are
corn, grass, hay, potatoes, oats and rye,
for she raises but little wheat, barley and
buckwhcat, as the census of 1850 shows.
(See Ag. Rep. 1919, p. 96-9; 1850, P.
32s, 475-s; 1851, p. 1863; 1852, P. l47)
6. CONNECTICUT ROTATIONS.
In Hartford county the rotation usually
pursued is: l, Corn on worn out or de-
clining grass sod, deeply ploughed down
and we'll manured with stable manure; 2,
Oats with clover and timothy seed mixed,
or timothy and red.top on moist soils; 8,
Clover or grass from FIVE to eight years, or
as long as it does well, after which it is
ploughed up for corn again. And the
same rotation prevails in the counties
of Toland and New Haven. In Groton
county the rotation is: l, Corn on grass
land, we'll manured with fish and stable
dung; 2, Potatoes manured; 3, Rye or
oats with clover, timothy, and red-top grass
seed, and 4, Clover grass for hay for seven
years, when the rotation begins again. In
Windham county the rotation seems to be:
l, Corn on green sward ploughed seven
inches deep few days before planting;
2, Oats with clover, timothy and red-top
seed; 8, Clover or grass for FIVE or six
years we'll manured with barn-yard manure
and plaster in April and May. But some
prefer having potatoes on the grass sod,
and then barley instead Of oats, as oats
upon potato ground is found to produce a
short, rusty anu miserable straw. In
Litchfeld county the usual rotation on
worn n-out lands in order to renovate them
is: l, Rye sown in September and we'll
manured with iue baru-yard manure and
seeded down with from six to eight quarts
of timothy seed per acre, well brushed in;
2, Clover seed sown in the ensuing April,
or as soon as the frosts have disappeared,
at the rate of from two to three quarts of
seed per acre, and dragged in with a
heavy bush o. harrow, and plas.ered about
the 1st of May, and annually thereafter,
SO long as the ground remains in grass,
with one hundred pounds of Nova Scotia
plaster per acre. And they who have tried
this mode of renovatiug the soil, say that
this, so far from injuring the rye or timo-
thy, will decidedly improve Tho crop, and
that lands treated in this way will, if not