St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-12-06
ST. CLOUD DEMOCRAT,
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pHURSDAY,o 1 DEC. 9th; ~ 1860 6,
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.11sFfom the North Western Farmer. -,
Dxpetiel1oe In Breaking Prairie
BEST Time to Do It. i 1t "a

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No breaking ought to be done after the
10Th Of July. None should have been
co6msnced prior to the l5th, Of May, Or
at FEAST before the grass had we'd started, !
have seen great difference; in two
patches of breaking that was done at peri
odsIof four days apart. - A man had a
small patch Of AZ acre and a half; the half
oftwhich he broke the list Of q May
Four days later he broke the remainder,
and planted the whole to corn. Through.
QUIZ Tie summer the earlier break Hfg WIS
full Of grass and weeds, and the latter
breaking almost free. There had been
warm showers and hot weather in, that
interim Of four days; and atheog grass had
ydts,a good start, and when the plow turn-'
cd the sod over, the new roots which
made up the whole energy Of the grass
were scorchcd in the sun, and the grass
all died, likewise the weeds. .4!x>.T ~.
June breaking is the best Well, now for
the reason: [ am not sure that know
the reason any more than does the s'man in
the moon" Well, suppose none Of Us
know the reason. l believe we all know
it isa fact. It is our business and our
duty to warn newcomers not to injnre
their land by blowing in the fall or very
early in the spring Several have fooled
themselves in that way, and now since
they have become better informed, they,
rsgret that the people did not tell them
Of it. Suffice it to say, that I know Of
several pieccs-some were broken in April,
some, in September, October, and even
November not a, piece o. them all
is as productive as they should be. Some
of them have been broken three or. four
years.. and the sods are not all rotten yet
suppose that after series of years
the land would acquire as much, fesrtili-
ty as the surrounding land broken in better
season but we cannot afford to lose our
labor for one year or five years; through
ignorance, 'or want of little information
on the subject. -, $50, :, >:.,. - = : :"
Four years ago broke a little the latter
part Of May, aud some the latter part Of
August. Next year the crop on the lat
tor: was only about half that on the earli-
er breaking. = :, H.
Three years ago broke . quantity in
the latter part of May and the early
part of June, which has ever since borne
excellent crops. Two years ago, I broke
forty acres for another man, commencing
in April, and finishing about the Goth Of
June. That which was broken in April
and the LIST of May, produced last year,
II bushels Of wheat per acre, and it was
the poorest crop in the neighborhood.
The wheat on it this year does not look
half 50 we'll as that on the land broken in
June. -, %:...,....,..., .
Last year I broke for myself few acres
in the early part Of May. I have wheat
on that strip this year, and it is not near
50 promising as that broken in June.
Thus have I honestly come to the con-
clusion that prairie I do not mean hazel
brush land or grub land } should be bro
ken between the 18th Of May and the
10Th Of june. I believe the same princi-
pies which apply to this subject would al
80 apply to tho breaking Of timothy Sod
L. N. 'CouNTnYMAN, Mninger; Minne-
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