Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-10-06

Nlck sWaTu, composed OF heruSEraSS, red-tOp,
and white clover, Yielding the best raSturage
The color of this field i, 80 deep green, as to
make it at once distiuru~hable at as great
distance as the eye can discriminate shades of
color at all.
The next land visited was q field belonging to
my friend, Richard Bradley, ESQ. 1t was pow-
cd up year ago la,, November. and in the
following April planted with potatoes, mlnur-
ing them with a shoyeful of compost in each
hill. The compost was made Of muck and
ashes. Last April, the land was plowed again,
800 pounds of bone dust sown to the acre and
narrowed in, then twelve quarts of herdssrass
ono buShcl Of rcd-top. twelve pounds of red,
and four pounds of white clover seeds souu 10
III acre, and the field rolled. The grass has
made grcath SrowtN. and full swarth might
bp moved.
Then came smaller lot Of Nlr. Bradlcy's.
completely run down W prc,io1s owners. with
shallow blowing, and frequent crops of rye.
The course Of cropping had hccl 10 plow The
land four or five Inches deep, as often as it
would bear five - eight or ten bushe uf grain
to the acre, eow it with winter rye. but emitting
grass seeds, and after harvesting the rye, lusv-
ing the land tu cover itself with such vegetation
as it could whenever it could. Last y,lr ut
this timc the land was covered mostly with
moss, with here and there few bushes end
feeble grasses. Last NoVoml cr it was pioNed
a foot deep with The sod aId sab. il plow. and
an entirely new soil brought mp to he surface,
tinc-g grained and silvy. In April last, it was
dressed wth.jDD pounds Of bone dust Der acre.
together with 200 pounds OF Peruvian guuuo,
to give immediate action to the ncwly-juyncd- up
soil. then narrowed fine. and sowcd with one
and a half bushol Of orchard grass, rcyN Of
herd>graSs, half bushr Of red-top ci-ht
pounds OF red. and tpur pounds OF white clover
seeds to the acre, and the surface mad" smooth
with tn roller. Here, too, is superior catch
Of grass, giving the Land very different APP
pearance from what it had a year ago, and
showing that much can at once be done for the
improvement OF such land.
The last field examined was tract of some
six acres. which Mr.. Bradley j, now powing.
This land has also been much reduced by shall
low plowing, and tqucut crops of rye. The
sod and subsoiI pow, drawn hy four oxen, is
turning the land ten inches deep. bringing up
different soil from the old surface one that has
never before been exposed to the day. The
plowing is done in capital style. 10 bualks or
mperfecions of iurrow being anywhere allowed.
About the first of September, Il ton of bone
dust to eacl acre is to be sown on the furrowS,
and also about one and hilf bushel of winter
wheat per acre, and the two narrowed in toycth-
er. The sod and Subsoil plow prepares very
level, mellow suritcc and so cracked and OPEN
ed wlthal, as to make q very superior sccd-bed
i'll which the bone dust and seed wheat can be
well covered by the harrow Then one and a
half bushels of orchard grass, peck Of herds
grass and a bushel of red-top seed are to bc
sown to the acre, an the land rolled In the
spring, the land is also To receive red and white
clover seeds-the design being to secure a thick
sward OF various kinds Of grass. The land
lNpU bipl with "a p,n1.r,,..l,.