Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-03-17
A gricultufal.
Practical H'arlning'in Illinois.
nY onARLEs ". MuRrrELpr.

The following is a brief abstract Of the
premium essay on Practical Farming, read
before the State Board at its recent meet
ing in Springfield
Mr.. M. advocates mixed 'husbandry.-
Corn should be the great staple. Draining
is essential. Recommends rotation. New
lands broken in June or July-in middle
Tor Southern Illinois should be cross plow-
led and sown to winter wheat at the rate Of
one and a half bushels per acre, ifpossible.
la Northern Illinois the same ground per-
pared as above should be sown to spring
wheat at the earliest possible pesiodin spring
no matter If frost and snow occur after
sowing, if the ground be in good order
when the cropis putin. Tile best Of wheat
raised in SO and 80 was put in early in
March, and we had both snow and frost at-
Ter that
The best time for sowing fall wheat is
from August 28th to Sept. 10th and 5th.
The next crop should be corn. For this
crop the land shotiid be broken in inch or
two deeper than ever before. Break in
April, harrow well, and If designed to be
planted in squares, lay off in rows 81 by 4
feet. using marker for the first, and sim
ole shovel or eight inch clipper pillow for
the last marking. Plant Immediately after
the plow, so as to have the seed, three or
four kernels to HILL fall in moist ground,
when it will speedily terminate.
Drill in the corn, cultivating one way is
his fayorite method. Plants foot apart in
the row have better chance to mature
large ears, standing in the same placeor hill
Has seen one hundred and fifty-three BUSH
els grown on IN acre. Plant in rows 81
feet apart, and plants 10 inches apart in
row. Uses tho roller on corn and wheat.
Wheat may be sown again, or rye sub
stit Led; next oats and then timothy and
clover; or in Southern Illinois, blue grass
and red top. Sow of rye l bushel and /
peck per acre; oats d and bushels; corn
bushel (the rows four feet both ways) to
Z or acres; timothy and clover clover
and Z timothy--8 to 0 quarts per acre.
Nov one year, and pasture the next, if prac-
ticable; NOV CT years; top dress with
well rotted manure each year, then break up
again and rotate.
Recommends blue grass for permanent
pasture.
Does not regard headers and machines
that cut and thresh the grain at the same
time, any advantage, if The wheat IS cut
when it should be. Grain buyers giIl tel
Iby the touch, wheat that has been hayest-
ed with 4 header. 1t has suffered by the
sweating process. Would cure the grain il
shocks well capped, and stack in s or &c
days, if the weather Is fine. Grain tliresh
led green or when freshcut. put in a bin viii
4 brick for every 6 bushels, will be prevent
ell from sue nag.
/ Grain cit green affords more and better
flour F'lintY wheat may be prepared 81
milling. bY adding bushel of water e
bushels Of wheat, put IN box, stirred, 4
! Woad sow buckNleat 2Gth Of jung,
Ibushel per acre, aud harvest soon after th'
/ first light frost.
/ White Aa.ns should be planted goth 9
May in rows feet apart, 3 pecks seed Pc
lacre, cultivate with 4 shovel plow. Whei
ripe stack round stake, firmly set Thresf
when cured.
! Stock enter into a system Of mixed bus
bandry. Breed for apurpose. If farm
horses are wanted, breed fro large, com
pact, well made mares, and stations tina
are nearly or quite sixteen hands high
weighing from IL to Ia hundred pounds
/ If roadsters are wanted try the Morgans
Black Hawks, Messengers, &C..
Breed for a purpose in raising neat stock
for beef, Durhams and Herefords and thei
grades; for milk Alderneys and the choic
common stock.
/ OF sheep, If for wool, the Spanish Meri
mos; if for mutton, the South Downs Q
Leicestels.
! Keep poultry for both profit and pleas
lure. Half breeds of Asiatic kinds, latel,
introduced, are best; dark colored turkey
are hardest.
Keep some swine; Essex or Suffolk.
i Plant fruit trees obtained near home, an'
selected because Of adaptation to locality.
/ The best fence is wire, 4 OF 5 wires No
Z or 8 annealed wire; posts, Ia feet apar
with one spring post between. Ii well con
'Istructed, it is best. The worm or rail fenc
lcosts most. Recommends hedging witt
i Osaqe Orange. Would havelaws requiFin!
every owner Of stock, to keep it fenced leay
ling the grain fields a common. Prair
Farmer.
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