Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-02-18

+ Without order on the farm, peaco :
OF mind, success and profit are impos-yb
sible. Watcffulness and care are insd.
Piled in this forcibIe word, order. .
Who is the farmer who does nos 3
know OF serious accidents happening &
to animals and crops for want 81
proper care! Some farmers are neg =
hgent OF their animals when al grass.
as II no accident eoald happen. We
once knew most excellent horse to-,
get on his back in the furrow Of a.
pasture held that was'tseeded downs
with grain crop grown on .sIandssssa
or ridges. = 30 sz gs97 ..Bl
Sheep of good quality CaBd what q
farmer would grow any other) are -
liable TO meet with similar accidents;
SO, too, 10 be injured by dogs, &C.,
and Tor which care seems after all the
experiments that have been made, to
be the best remedy ~
/ lie farmer should NOT allow his
cattle that are used in his farm work -
10 De scattered indiscriniinately over %
ms helds. Ia the most busy season it,
often happens that a great deal Of q
time is lost in catching working ami TO
mails that are lea out on pastures while
the men eat dinner. In the heat Of
hot day, as at noon, horses and OK -
en- would do much better in the sta. "a
bles it supplied with green food. For
such purposes no farmer should be
without the necessary quantity OF =
clover, to be used as soiling. We do 3
not refer 10 thai grown ON meadow 81
land heavily uaanured.. Such cfower n
VIII be succulent, and while il furn@Es
ishes highly nutritive feed for work.
ing animals; it prevents them from
having a desire TO consume large 70
quantities of water. 2" e fs'sS~ ~
Glover grown in this manner " ouId
produce tire second season three
crops. After each cutting il should !,
De heavily top dressed. If the pas 81
lures are bare from being over-stock-aq
ed, or parched by the heat of summer, ,ss8
The cattle should be fed with clovereis
Or other soiling. The value of il for 81
Increasing the quantity and quality
of milk and butter will soon be un.
ierstood by any person who pursues
such course.
This system Of practice has its in
tuence in saving time. II the fences
ire bad, or that cattle roam i'm the
woods, by the feeding of special green
ood IN particular place, thus cans- 10
ng cattle to come in search oft, much ss
lime may be saved. We know of O a.
'hiftless, disorderly Earrner-and per-s4
laPs there are others az well as ho--sa6
who drives his cattle miles TO be milk
I'd, often when above their knees Id
mud. he has several horses to spare
md milk cans growing rusty for want =
't use. He does not estimate the
oss arising from such practice. His
;attle travel in coming home twice e.
lay to be MIXED, and returning to =
he pasture, four journeys; when the
Dads are muddy the labor is much in&sas
reased. The feet of the cattle be- aa
eme subject to disease; while travei-aw
ng they are not feeding, and conse-
uently not supplying the raw ma
erial from which to make flesh, milk
II butter; they dung on the road and
is manurial effects are lost to the pas
ure; and in addition TO these losses,
rising from carelessness or want Of 4
'order upon the farm" the time Of -
nan or boy is also lost in making -
he journey referred to.--WOrking
farmer. tG eas .sssai7aE a1ss&