, 1861-07-18
agriculture.
a Word for Huckwheat,

frosty mornings when the cakes are baked
and the door was opened to call us in to
breakfast. don't know what some Of my
neighbors would do without it. We live
in rather wet district, and it takes our
land until late in spring to drain out enough
TO plant corn, except in fields where We
have put in the pip's for it to run through,
as the Agrieuiturist has recommended.
When the season is very backward, it is
Of little use to try to put in common kinds
Of corn. 1t comes up as yellow as it was
put in, aad never gets over the jaundce
enough TO bear half crop. | suppose its
owing to sleeping so long under wet 6lan.
ket and feeding On cold, sour stuff in the
soil. Sometimes il happens that plowing
can't be done until the right time for plant.
ing is gone. unless one is willing to turn
over stiff wet soil that cuts like cheese,
and falls in great dead Jumps, which might
answer for building walls, but are no better
than bricks TO uOurish corn roots. So when
. man gets behind the times for corn plant
ing, OF his yellow corn makes the prospect
for crop look blue, he waits until July and
turns all such land over for buckwheat.
have thought this arrangement a little too
convenient for thrifty farming, because some
take little pains to push their spring work
ahead, calculating to cover up their neglect
with large patch Of buckwheat; some
farms In this neighborhood will be pretty
well patched in that way this year.
But | find good account in raising few
acres Of this grain as Q regular crop. It
pays 10 manure the ground well, and to
swerk 10 1oar kaf.,ro sn,-;unr TIL. Z. L..
like knitting work, TO be done at odd spells
between first and second corn hoeings in
June and whenever nothing else is pressing.
During the last Of June, or early in July,
the ground is narrowed thoroughly, and the
weeds are som roasted out by the hot sun.
Then, IL possible, just before :ain, | sow
about three pecks Of seed to the acre, har.
row it In, and II the season is favorable, by
the middle or last Of September, there are
twenty-five or thirty bushels per acre to har.
VET, and sometimes even more than this.
think crop or two Of buckwheat, followed
by corn, one Of the very best remedies for
Canada thistles, daisies, wild onions, and
such troublesome weeds. The blckwheat
starts 90 quick and shades the ground so
completely, the weeds get discouraged, and a
well titled. h0ed crUp finishes them. Of course
iana 90 treated must be well manured-you
0nt get iat cuts from lean fields.
UnnEULuEss or Soof.-This article Is Of:
ten wasted, being thrown into the ash heap,
or dumped on the ground at the back.door,
end no use made Of Il. Both science and
experience show that it is valuable manure.
u used = etopdEessing TO grass, i produces
annrked eaect When sown broadcast, some
of ~ ammonia become. yolatilized, and Is
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