The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-26
ANTicWl t Mral.

Rye for Feeding sheep.-A writer in the
Illinois Farmer thus relates how a friend Of his CT.
capped his financial difficulties:
Rye is one of the most valuable of the green
feeds for sheep. A friend Of ours, an amateur
farmer who has his means all locked up in real es-
tate, but who is determined to make it pay his ex-
penses in spite Of the hard times for all the real
estate spectators, inclosed four hundred acres,
which he rents out on shares, the most Of which
has been cultivated in since the crash Of 1857
Beginning to fear that the third of the corn cro2
would not pay his taxes on sorle thousand ofacres
of wild land, with his other expenses, he applied
to his arithmetic, which convinced him that q thou.
sand good mutton sheep would help him out; so
after the corn was laid by he persuaded one Of his
tenants to allow him to sow some thirty acres of
rye among the corn His thousand sheep we've
purchased in August, herded wherever he could
find feed until the corn was ripe, when they were
turned on the young rye, which was their prilci
pal feed until the first ofJunc when it vas turned
over and planted to corn. portion of the crop
was well fed down, but had it not been for the
standing cornstocks, reasonable crop could have
been harvested from part of the field. Here was
the larger part of the feed of thousand sheep for
seed and about the same Cor labor, and returning
the land in far better condition than it was be
fore, no doubt to the extent of the seed and labor
We have never seen lot of sheep and lambs ar
this season in good condition as this rye-fed
flock.
The flock is now on the prairie and will remain
there until his meadow is sadly to turn into when
the rye pasture will be repeated. He will clear at
least teen hundred dollars the first year in this
operation, the result of brains in farming.
Crnnberries.-1 What soil is best adapted TO
the culture of the cranberry and how should if be
prepared
z. Is a cranberry moadow likely to prove dura-
bic after the vines are regularly rooted
5. Can cranberies be successfully transplant
ed
a. Does the sell need enrching, as in the case of
other vegetables?
The answers to these questions will perhaps,
meet the points of inquiry so often repeated in the
course of few weeks. To the first reply: Tint
low, wet land is The best. 1t must not. however.
be too wet-the surface water, if any there be,
should BIO removed by drains and where the va
ter has not been deep as to prevent the forma.
WIN ~ 'NNi Nou1 IL " III nc necessary 10 OIL
the sod a sufficient depth to remove all grass roots
A sufficient number of drains should be cut to dis
pose of all redundant water and not nore-for the
ground should be moist. l think well to close up
the drains in the fall and let the water spread over
the meadow during the winter. 1t will do the
plants no injury, but will be likely to prevent
weeds and grass from taking root, and growing,
which would soon prove too much for the plants
In question. The sod if snugly piled, will soon
iulnlsh an excellent compost for fruit trees
The ground thus Invested of its sod and surface
water, prepared for the plant. The first thing in
the OF transp!anting, is to open shallow, par
alell trenches, and One-half or two feet apart
into these trenches plant my vines-varying from
one to eight feet in length These cover slightly
every six or eight inches, when the labor of trans.
planting is done The plant, now left to the secret
operation of natural laws will weave its ligaments
into the yielding soil and sends its slender tendrs
outward, until, in the course of two or three years,
1t covers the entire surface-and from the first year
OF its setting, it will reward the labor and time Civ
en- to 1t in greatly increasing ratio. April and
May consider the best time for setting plants-ss
those set in the fall lab lie to be raised out
by the freezing Correspondence Rural
New Yorker.