True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-01-04

of 1t as would bill two WheelDarroWs lald
around them, and this is sufficient to keep
the ground moist, loose, and free from
grass during the whole summer If any
remains at the approach of winter, I have
it drawn from about the trees, as it then
becomes injurious and harbor for ground
mice and insects, and, moreover, excludes
the frost, which is natures agent for loos-
ening the soil, at that season. This plan,
as far as my experience goes, answers all
the purposes of cultivation, often inconve-
nient and always troublesome and danger
Gus to the trees.
When lands of good quality and proper
friability, can be tramped, without being
poached, have no doubt clover and wheat
are both benefited by it, in the spring of
the year, and it may be made with flock
of sheep proportioncd to the size of the
field, equivalent to rolling But it must
be done quickly, by a large flock, so as to
allow of no time for nibbling. Cropping
the wheat, as they pass over it, will, in
many instances, increase the yield by ma.
king it tiller, and prevent its running to
straw and they will not injure clover,if
not kept on it long enough to destroy tho
bud, on which its vitality depends, and not
on the root, as in grain and many grasses
But the difficulty is in having this tramp
ing done at the very nick of time, l. c.
when the earth is of proper consistency
neither too moist nor too dry, and disposed;
to be consolidated by the hoof, rather than
to receive indentation from it. This is
more frequently the case with alluminous
soils, than with alluvial, though to the
last, if done right, tramping is of even
greater advantage, from its greater DISPOSE
tion to heave up, in frosts, and to leave the
roots of plants exposed when it sinks from
them, under a milder temperature.
am frequently under! the''necessity of
turning large focks of sheep on my wheat
fields. in spring, for want of pasture formy
yeaning ewes, and if the soil is in proper
condition, have reason to think the yield is
augmented by it. Their manure, too, dis
tributed, as it is, evenly over the field, or
only in greater quantities on poor spots,
selected by them to lie on, is certainly Of
advantage, though my ncighbors cry out
against the practice, which, they say, will
turn all my wheat into cheat, but I have
never found it to do so.
began to plaster, last spring, a clover
field Of 80 acres, put in with oats the pre-
ccding season, by the way, pretty heavily
stocked, so soon as the grain was removed
AS early as it showed green. 1t had on
it frequently 500 sheep, and erless than
25O, with horses, COWS, cattle and oxen,
ad libitum. Finding it to gain on thcm,
removed the stock for week or two. and
then moved six acres of it, which gave me
as much hay as I could find room for in
sheep shed GO feet long, 90 feet wide, and
5 high, and had still left an abundance of
pasture for heavy stock, including hogs,
until winter. | saw it yesterday, and it is
a perfect surface of green It. is of alluyial
soil, and am confident, owes its yield to
consolidation, by tramping in spring, as
clover has often failed with me, on similar.
soils, without.
Another field of al'uminous character in,
wheat, which looked badly, having been too
thinly seeded, and which surrendered to a
pet flock of some $50 ewes, until it was
pronounced ruined, turned off "irst rate
crop" of grain, instead of straw, the GER
tain and Improbable consequence of too
few plants on strong soil.
In seeding clover on wheat, it is of great
advantage to turn on large flock of sheen,
to tread in the seed, and answers as good
purpose as narrowing. frequently resort
to this cxpcdicnt for restoring meadows
that have got thin, and which don't wish
to break up. allow the seed to rioeu
before the grass is cut, and so soon as this
IS removed, put on heavy stock, that
E they may tread it into the earth. When
| have time, harrow the meadow before
[ turn on the sheep, and it makes it Gas
good as new" One of my meadows, of
4O acres, which cut so poor crop last
summer, | was half disposed to break it
up, promises, under this mode of treat
ment, a fine crop for the ensuing season.
Gcymant0vn Telegraph.
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