Litchfield enquirer., 1858-10-21

we'll in dry seasons Carrots are but little grown for cows in our county. It is a ques- tlOn whether the same expense will not produce more good in corn than in carrots.
 Dr. Gold.-I find carrots excellent food for horses. l have seen carrot tops blighted, but no disease in the roots. A fair crop is 500 or 500 bushels :; an extra yield is l,2OO or l 400 bushels, and that believe has been made in Litchfeid County.
 Dr. Ring of Hartford.-I think that con. tinual cropping will annihilate white clover. When hardhaek bushes appear in land, you may be sure that something is wrong in the manner of treating the land.s I dig drain ditches three feet deep down to point, aud lay down stones inclihing toward each other, and fiat stones over them, and fill ill small stones on top.
 Mir. Upson of Sonthington.- is fact that Connecticut pastures are deteriorating, and less suitable for dairy purposes, and less capable of sustaining cattle. By appropria- ting few acres to soiliag crops, find great advantages, and I get great increase of ma nure. find that nlillct, corn and surghum, increase the milk enough to more than pay the expense l think the most profitable farming is that which will increase the capacity of our farms to keep stock. This can be doue by soiing to the best advantage.
 Mir. Weld, of 1He Homestead-Mr Bag. ley, of New Haven, speaks highly of the Stow ell evergreen sweet corn for soiling He com menced cutting the middle of July and took ont ninc-tenths of his stalks, leaving the other to riponathe ears.
 | Mr. Hart-Lands that have been plaster ed are producing white clover and other sweet l feed
 Mr. Osborn of Fairfield County-We think that we can keep our pasture land in good condition by sowing bushel of plaster per acre each year. A piece that had run out, and was thus restored by pastering, will grazc bullock to two acres I would give my stock the whole range of the farm, instead of confniDg them in separate pastures. and chan wet soil, with hard-pan subsoil. A pasture lot wants as much care as cultivated fields.
 Mir. Seward of Southington-I have tried salt on poor pasture, five bushels to the acre. The effects were good. The lot was previous ly nearly useless until salted, when it became good pasture. The soil is poor, light gray ely loam.
 MT. Day of Brooklyn.--I planted five or six acres with corn and potatoes, manured, and some adjoining land with buckwheat, and seeded all next Spring, and sowed plaster on the buckwheat land, and it produced as well or better than the corn land l used some cotton-seed meal, 250 pounds per acre on oats, sowed on old-feld, exhausted so and got a fair crop of oats, followed by fine growth of clover The meal cost $25 a ton. If you seed buckwheat land with grass seed and plaster, it does we'll
 Mir. Weld.-There are many places in this State where poor land has been brought into good condition by starting with 100 pounds of guano per acre.
 Dr. Riggs.--I dislike the practice of wear ing land down for the sake of bringing it up with guano or any thing else.
 Mr. Osborn of Fai:licld--I want to know whether we cannot make land rich with ma nure, cheaper than with guano.
 MT. Andrews of Waterbury.--A field that had been run down till it would produce little pastnrage, have restored by getting it, little by little, as had manure, into corn, then sow Eg oats, and seeding down with herdsgrass and clover. My land is loam, on hardpan, and in fourteen years, since l have had it, have more than quadrupled my stock, and had hay to se instead of buying it, as 1 had to do the first year.