New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-08
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY NOvEMBEB 3, looV'

fully "a il ia very liable 10 heat. may be cured 10
the suu or spread upon the bsrn-hoor, or on ioft
With q very open floor; and il must be frequently
stirred 20 az to give it air.
s,netine. the brush is cured with the seed edherng
~, !, 4. mot IA well as il Ia more dicut to cure the
brn.b well and Il il bulky and heavy to handle, and
Ii :, che end ,eoures good deal more labor. IL Is
said also that the dry brush scrapes much haroe VIA,
when frs. cnt and certainly the brush ia more Aoe 70
Re injured For GENE work the brush must be cut Snu
cured quite green, before the seed is ms'ure' Ano
lie scraped of and fed out at once 1t OF soou. sO0
same value as hay. The ripe seed, cured LOT wiu'e'
feeding ia considered by nearly equal IN vaiue
oats We have never been satisfied that 1t was worm
half az much. Perhaps II would be If ground. Inc
stalks are not considered anything like az valuable @
Indsn-corn stalks. II neat cattle are turned INTO the
field after the brush is cut they viii pick of the leaves,
but never eat the stalks So they viii If the stalks are
cut and cured and fed ont in the Winter. About the
best MSS that the stalks of broom be put TO is
to litter yards in Winter 10 give cattle dry beds They
may slso be used 10 make temporary shelter, or wind
breskers for stock for covering root piles or pro-
testing more valuable forage from the weather. They
are not valuable for manure and would probably be
the most 20 as mulch II is the most common practice
to let the stalks stand till Spring, letting the stock
pick and trampe what they like and then cut and burn
the remainder on the field.
Screaming eff the seed is lsbo1ous job. machine
has been extemporzed for this purpose and H described
as follows:
"Tske an old tanning mill "a new got OF wheels In
a,,ono frame 40 that Won could balance wheel,
woud be better pat on two plank wheels IN place OF
the fans then take ats Of the length you Wlsn 10 make
your cylinder three inches wide and threefourhs OF
an inch thick hollow them little at the ends 20 as 70
~ the wheels drive eight ten wrought nails through
each slat and nail them to the wheels with the points
ont in moh way that the nails will not be In stralRut
rows around the cylinder, but brstlng all over one
70 turn the crank pretty snsry one to hold on the
brush in hsndfuls and boy to hand II up VIII scraps
two or three wsgon-loads day .,
The value Of the crop is the most important consd-
Grafton TO hoae who may be tempted to embark IN the
business We have seen various estimates OF the
amount of produce per acre. We think that tun OF
brush frc three acres pretty fair esmss, aud this
viii sell at from 800 to $780, will make up about
one hundred and twenty dozen brooms; aud any man
of tolersbe skl az farm lsborer can soon learn how
10 make good Irvine or wire brooms. There are ma
chimes used by broom-mskers which greatly facilitate
the werk. They cost about s35 each.
The quantity Of seed grown upon an acre we have
seen rated as high as sixty bushels. We don't be-
lieve that one crop in ten viii give that The writer
Of an article low before estimates the value OF well
rrened seed for horses sheep and poultry higher than
oes The stalks when left TO pen the seed are OF no
value for cattle food The seed is more valuable, but
TIE brush s not that ia most valuable when cut green
ard when the straw ia fine, and retains bright lively
color.