The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-21
LUPIYS FOR FNRICUINC I,Nn

IL.
In Aprll we gave cut of the lupn and recon-
menaed Its trial on the poor light soils of the At
iahtlc S'ope as green manure. The London Marx
o"e E.PresS, ior April 25th, contains an article on
tnls SUBJECT, from an "English farmer in Belgium. y
which fully confirms all that we have said of tbe
value OF this plant. We make few extracts
-Genesee Farmer.
I'm Germany there are whole districts of the
very poorest sands. For some few wears mast on
these soils the agrculturists or rather the nrnnra
tors OF these miserable lands, have been mucb i'm
pressed with the immense advantages to be derived
from the II elbow Lupin,' as a green crop to be
IN lt is so effective that, where it has
Deen followed up, as in Pomerania, Saxony and
brandenoourg, those estates, which before were
worthless, now produce splendid crops Of rye and
iuplns, without any manure being EMPLOYED bnt
that which arises from these crops.
cit is not high-growing plant, but very leafv
ana branches much; consequently it NAV be driIed
thlnly at eighteen inches, and hoed or not as Won
please. 1t Is sort of bean with spotted skin sown
IN the spring at the rate of two bushels per acre
and ploughed in when in full flower The pround
may be then sown again with it, and that cr0n also
buried. should say after the first frost; but in
Germany they sow it after harvest, and turn II
down in the spring for rye or oats, and have TINS
obtained white crop and this manure cron for
three or four years together on the same land.
II 1T would stand our winters it is lust what we
want to occupy our stubbl 5 from harvest to Feb
ruary, and 1t is well worth trying There are many
s sentleiheh In the north OF Germany who grow as
many as one hundred and twenty to two hundred
acres OF this plant annually, the farms run LARGE
Ihey grow it for corn, and only occasionally cut II
Tor nay The grain ripens in August; but it is diff
hcult to harvest because the plant itself ie ca
culent, and the pods do not ali ripen at the same
ume 1t is mown in swaths, and, after layipp few
days, Is set up in single sheaths as we do some
times our beans, with a bean stalk twisted round
near the top OF the sheaf the lower part standing
out like an umbrella. Another difficulty is. the
pods are so liable to open, and shed the grain But
there are ways to meet all this. One man made
small stacks OF 1t, with alternate layers of oat
straw; 1t heated little, gave the out straw fla
Vor, and dried itself without nuring the grain.
sit might be made into long stacks of only two
sheaves in width, and the height of long noies set
IN the ground on each side at intervals of a dozen
yards to keep them up. | have seen this done Will
the cammene oil plant; but cannot see wbv the
French plan of round shocks of a dozen sheayes
with three hood sheaves should not answer. and so
let them remain out some weeks, till thereby dry,
and then carted home in wagons with old tilts ai
the bottom to catch the shed lupins
"Another man had it half thrashed in the field
iads going round and giving each sheaf half dozen
knocks with stick, and shocking them. This is
good plan, as the pods dry long before the iucv
stalks. Jay
''The feeding property of the grain is about the
same as common beans.
"lt likes deep cultivation. The land is never
sick OF 1t, and where grown annually as manure,
Tor some six or years, it has turned the soil
a dark color, from the quantity of decayed matter
deposited.
"lf mown for hay, in full flower, it is considered
quite as nutritive clover; but should doubt
that. 1t should always be mixed in the Gonpl
stack with layers of straw. April would be the time
Tor sowing it, and thicker than if intended to pro-
duce grain: 1t has grown two tons of hay per acre.
1t is good for all animals, but COWS must not be al
lowed too much of it, or it will give taste to the
milk. On soils that suit it, (and any will do ex-
cept chalk, it will grow yard high, deeply
ploughed and subsoiled.
"lf sown 20 be folded off by sheep, tares must
be mixed with it, and they will then readily eat it;
but not so well if sown alone.
Ihe above is sufficient to give an idea of its cul.
tivation and use. But | should think its greatest
value to US would be as green crop, to be sown
after harvest on all soils, and ploughed in as ma
nure or on our poorest lands as means of ma
king them worth cultivation, and which are now
almost worthless. For this purpose, the first two
years it should be sown twice year after which,
the four crops having been turned in the soil, we
might expect it to be in a sufficiently productive
state to be cultivated in that course the owner NAV
think best. Perhaps that would be to lay it down
TOR sheep-feeding, as it is stated small farmer in
the village OF Dusenan, having for some few wears
ploughed in his lupins in full flower in the spring,
and then sowed rye, he found the field began to be
covered with wild, white clover-it was white
sand, and had been turned qui te dark from the
quantity of humus left in the soil.'