Nebraska advertiser., 1858-04-22
Farm and Garden.
mai. DickinsOn's Penn-Yan Address.
cUAEo AND sOOT NAY DO ELsEwHERE.

cUAEo AND sOoT NAY DO ELSEWHERE.
Mr.. President desire 10 say but few
words on foreign or manufactured man.
ures, as the class of men am addressing
is not one likely to be caught on a hook
baited with guano at sixty dollars per ton,
however much It may do for some south
ern lands or worn-out Long-Island soils
There, fancy. ii only enriches the land,
as neIghbor of mine gets rich two or
three times a year-the whole expense
Of his outlay IN his case not exceeding a
peck of rye, and that not well distilled.
And because some farmer has accomplish
ed much IN Ireland from SCOT, there is
good common sense here enough to know
that the SCOT made from burning bogs Is
very unlike ours. and that there IS sufi-
eient material for renovating the soil Of
Yates and the surrounding counties, on
our own farms, except plaster, the expense
Of which IS so trifing we can use 1t freely.
BIS VIEWS oS TURSIPs.
The turnip crop, either the Norfolk,
Swede, or ruta bagas, are exhausting
crops IN this country. Yet they furnish
a large amount of food, and if fed to cat
tie or sheep on the same land, VIII Zurich
instead of impoveriShing 1t; but take them
Of for several years IN succession, and
the soil viii be very much reduced. En-
gliShmen say they draw much of their
nUBriShmeut from the atmosphere. Il Is
,,r,= O., -, ehTs resr-1or, r1.r,- ~ 4ha g-1oy,
tifc farmers of the day to the contrary
notwithstanding. England has. a soft
moist atmosphere, while ours at the sea-
son they need care and nourishment, is
hot and dry. There Is, indeed, no more
mistaken notion prevailing than that tur-
nips do hest In wet weather. They re-
quire moisture but not Wet; they have a
long tap-root, and no plant cultivated is
more easily drowned or injured by excess
Of water.
AGRICULTURAL PAPERS AND MACHINERY.
The machinery on exhibition is exceed
ingly good, and hardly know from
which the agriculturist has pro6ted most
for the last eight or ten years, the agri-
cultural journals Of The day, or the labor
saving machinery that has been invented
and put IN operation. Many. farmers
! fancy thai if they have moving machine
and a reaper, II is all that IS necessary
but let me say here that these implements
are only so many more reasons for In
creasing the care and taxing the ingenui-
| ty of the husbandman, for they neither
run themselves, nor will they permit the
unthOughtful or the wayfaring man tC
| profit much by their use.
CARE AND ECONOMY ESSENTIAL.
/ There has never been time when il
was more important that the husbandmar
should do his work well, and look closely
to his seed Of every description, than the
present, since the. time of the black death
The seasons have been 50 derauged from
what they formerly were, from warm tC
cold, and from wet to dry, that more care
and protection seem TO be every where
required. On your soil where wheat un.
I'll the last few years grew luxuriantly
and the failure of crop was almost un'
known, you could afford TO sow lime
broadcast at the rate of fifty or hundred
bushels to the acre In the present un.
certainty Of the crop yoI cannot afford 81
p ofuse an application, however lime L
indispensable in the growth of wheat
Most of your other crops are not benefit
ed bv its use, as Is the case IN portion!
of PENNSYLVANIA and New Jersey. ash
YOU to bear with me while / tell you of Z
much cheaper and equally beneficial mode
of applying it: half pint Of tar IS suth
CienI to put coat all over every kerne
of q bushel, sufficient to fasten bushe
of lime to that quantity of wheat, which
would be as beneficial as fifty or an hun
dred sowed broadcast, as the one bushe
would be brought into immediate contac
with the wheat. He who Will take tn
trouble to test my practice for three years
ity giving both a fair trial, viii follow
my advice thereafter, ] viii give all th'
particulars 10 prepare the seed for sowin!
as there Is no seed that farmer can af
ford to SOW or plant without first tarrln!
and then applying the very thing or thing
his soil lacks. Iwogld just as soon thin
of farming without tar. lime and plaster
as | would of keeping house without arni
ca, camphor and sticking-salve.
rHE MODE OF APPLYING TAR, LIME, sc
Il is very simple. yet there IS 'knOV
how to everything. | VIII tell you ho1
YOU can put coat OF tar over all kinds G
seed as evenly as painter could put
coat Of paint over board with his brush
An iron kettle is the best TO mix the tar an
wafer. Have sufficient boiling water to CT
the tar; mix it with hot water; then pOU
IN sufficient cold 10 make It near bloc
heat. Have sufficient water to STIR whal
ever grain you put in, that the water an
tar may come into contact with every pal
! and particle; II VIII then be coated evenl
) and Is ready TO be taken out Shovel
INTO basl1et-for economy the baskG
may be plsced over tight barrel to cato
the water; as soon as II is done drainin
throw into tight box, where you can nj
and put on whatever your soil lacks
wheat or barley, you need not fear to al
ply lime and salt II eats, corn or bucl
: wheat, plaster and salt. And on h
soils of Yates county 1t would be behef
r Cial toall Of the abUTe-named grains,