The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-10

OF ATTENTION from every farmer:
1. All lands on which clover or the gras-
ses are grown must either have lime in them
naturally or that mineral must be arti6cially
supplied. 1t matters but little whether 1t
be supplied in the form of stone limeI
oyster lime. or mari.
2. All permanent improvement OF lands
must look to lime as its basis.
3. Lands which have been long In cul-
ture will be benefited by application Of
phosphate of lime, and it is unimportant
whether the deficiency be supplied in the
fern Of bone dust, guano. native phosphate
of lime, composts of fish, ashes, or that of
oyster she'll lima, or mari, if the land needs
lining also.
state of fertility unless clover and the grasses
are cultivated in the course Of ration.
8. Mould is indispensable in every soil,
and healthy supply can alone be preserved
through the cultivation of clover and the
grasses, the turning in OF green crops, or by
the application of composts rich in the eie-
ments of mould.
g.. All highly concentrated animal ma
nures are increased in value, and thsir ben
ehts prolonged, by admixture with plaster,
salt, or pulYerized charcoal.
z. Deep plosghiug greatly improves the
productive powers of every variety of soil
that is not wet.
8. Subsoiling sound land. that is, land
that is not wet, is eminently conducive to
increased prod
6. All wet land should be drained.
10. All grain crops should be harvested
before the grain is thoroughly ripe.
IL. Glover, as we'll as the grasses, iu-
tended for hay, should be moved when in
bloom.
IL. Sandy lands can be most effectually
improved by clay. When such lands re-
quire lining or marliDg, the lime or mari is
most benefcially applied when made into
compost with clay. In shaking lime, salt
brine is better than water.
ID. The cbopping or grinding of grain to
be fed to stock operates as a saving of at
least twenty-five per cent.
II. Draining of wet lands and marshes
adds to their value, by making them pro-
duce more and better crops, by prod
them earlier, and by improving the health
of neighborhoods.
Is. To manure or lime wet lands is to
throw manure, lime, and labor away.
16. Shallow ploughing operates to i'm
poverish the soil, while it decreases produc-
ton.
II. By stabliug and shedding stock
through the winter a saving of oue-fourth
the food may be effected, that is, one-fourth
less food will answer than when such stock
may be exposed to the inclemencies of the
weather.
Is. A bushel of plaster per acre, sown
broadcast over clover, will add one hundred
per cent, to its produce.
-. Periodical applications OF ashes tend
to keep up the integrity of soils, by supply
ing most, if not all, of the organic substan-
ces.
20. Thorough preparation of land is alb
solutely necessary TO the successful and
luxuriant growth OF crops.
Il. Abundant crops cannot be grown for
succession of years unless care be taken to
provide an equivalent for the substances
carried off the land in the products grown |
thereon.
%. To preserve meadows in their pro-
ductIveness it is necessary to harrow them |
every second autumn, apply top. dressing
and roll them up
%. All stiff clays are benefited by fall |
and winter pIoug hings, but should never be |
ploughed while they are wet. If at such |
ploughings the furrow be materially ripene
lime. mari, or ashes should be applied.
"A. Young stock should be moderately |
fed with grain in the winter. and receive |
generous supplies of long provender, it be- |
ing essential to keep them in a fair coudi |
ton in order that the form alton of muscle, |
bones, &C., may be encouraged and con-
tinuously carried on.
70. Mich cows, in winter, should be |
kept in dry, moderately warm, but we'll
ventilated quarters, led and watered three
times a day. sailed twice or thrice a week,
have clean beds, be curried, and in addition
to their long provender, should receive sue
culent food merning and evening.
70. Full compliments of tools aud nipple |
ments of husbandry are intimately connected |
with the success of the husbandmau.
~ Capital is not only necessary to agri- |
cultural success, but can be as properly used !
in farming as in any other occupation.
28. Punctuality in engagement is as nec-
essary to an sgriculturist as It is to mer-
chant.
20. Every husbandman should carefully
read and digest matters connected with his
business; his success being as dependentup-
on q full knowledge of its principles and
details as is that of the lawyer or physician
with knowledge of the science of the law
or physic.
30. Wheat, rye, oats, and barley should
never follow each other in course of rota-
tiop; there should always be an intervening
hoe crop between them.
81. Weeds should never be permitted to
mature their seed on farm, but be pulled
up or cut down as often as they show them.
selves. such being the only effectual mode
OF graduating them. To insure this result,
the ground should be planted in corn, and
that kept clean.
80. Time and labor devoted to the COL
lection of materials to be converted into
are the most fruitful sources of
profit in the whole range of farm economy.
The orchard. to be productive of good,
fair fruit, requires to be fed. as much as
does a field of grain. The soil OF each re-
quires that the substances distracted by the
crop shall be restored. The soil should be
Kept clean and open to the meliorating 10