Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-03-19


ADVANTAGES OF RorATIoS IN CRoPs.
II. Each crop exhausts the soil of certain
elements. Continuing the same crop for
many wears consumes these elements. The
soil will not produce that crop longer. An
othcr crop consumes another clement
and will flourish when the first will not grow.
Q. Each plant, while growing, throws off
certain matters which are not favorable to
the growth Of successive crops of the same
plaut. Plants in this respect are somewhat
iike animals, which always avoid their own
excrements. Now other plants may use
these matters. Hence rotation is profita-
bic, because ono crop may take up what an
other throws off.
5. Certain crops have certain insects that
prey on them. The cultivation Of the
same crop for many years, favors the null
tiplication of those insects. Change the
crop, and you diminish or destroy them.
i. Various crops furnish various kinds Of
manures, which are found profitable on
farm. He who wants this variety will find
rotation the simplest and easiest way to Sc
cure il.
S. A rotation in crops results in some
great social advantages. Among these are
the following. A community which pur-
sues good rotation will be moro independ-
ent Of foreign supplies. 1t will pass through
a season of scarcity With less suffering. Its
farmers will be more intelligent, because
their experience will be more varied. Their
prosperity too, will be moro equal, as it will
not depend on the ups and downs Of sin
gle crop Ohio Farmer.
RAISING Oars WITHOUT PLow1No OR
HARRowISe.-I will give your readers some
of my experience in raising oats. In March,
1855, had small patch of ground, which
had been used several years for a garden,
which wished to seed down TO grass. l
therefore gathered some grass seed in chaff
from the barn floor, in which was small
quantity Of oats, and sowed without plow-
Ing or narrowing. During the summer
the grass and oats grew well. l
thought that if oats will grow on small
scale without plowing or narrowing, why
not on larger? So concluded to exper-
iment still further. On the llth of April,
1856, I sowed eight bushels of oats on four
acres corn and buckwheat stubble, that had
not been plowed since June of the previous
year. The oats grow, and were heavier and
better than those sowed in May in the usu-
al manner
Again on the first Of April, 1857, sowed
Eve bushels of oats on two acres of planted
corn stubblc, with no blowing or narrowing
since the corn was taken off the ground
My most sanguine expectations were more
than realized. They grew largely, aver
aging from three to five feet in hight at the
time Of harvest; and of excellent quality,
being heavier by the bushel, than oats /
sowed a month later on plowed ground and
narrowed in.
think have accidentally learned that
oats may be grown to advantage without
plowing the same year, or narrowing at all
--on clay ground that cannot be worked
early in spring.
II you think the above can benefit any
one, you are at liberty to publish the facts.
Iwonld say to those farmers that wish to
try tho experiment, that they must SOW
carly before the ground has done freezing,
and look out for their chickens and all 9th
or fowls Correspondence Of Ohio Farmer
GRIsDme FEED.-Experimental farmer,
have long urged the importance, and ever
necessity, of chopping or grinding hay, a.
we'll rs other feed for cattlo and horsos.-
The lazy drones have had hearty laugh
over the idea, and called it "Book Farming.
Now the theory of chopping and grinding
food is based or q principle which lies a
the foundation Of animal physiology. Res
Is essential to the accumulation Of muscle
rs well as fat. If we wish to increase al
animal in flesh or FAT, We do not work him
Now COW wants ono thirtieth of her oSr
weight in hay day, to keep her in gooc
order; land VIC may thus calculate the amount
of labor required to masticate the food, ant
ct it for the stomach. The labor Of chop
ping or grinding twenty-five pounds of hay
q day, IS no small item. This excessive Ia
Dor is performed by ono set of muscles
the jaws---bnt by sympathy, affects all the
other muscles; causes the blood to circulate
quicker, the breath faster the consumption
Of food is greater and still the growth Of the
animal is retarded.
II machine was invented TO grind hay
the gronnd article would approximate, inv
sses 70 unground oats, in producing fat anc
muscle. Choppipg hay and stalks is valn
able just in proportion as il approxinates Il
grinding and relieves the animal Of the Ia
Dor Of grinding it. An animal fed OF
ground or minced food, may perform al
amount OF labor equal to grinding il fl TO
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