Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-09-28
WINTER GRAIN, &C., &C.

grain, which the farmer will doubtless
have improved. Nothing should he neg
lectcd by the husbandman, in preparing
his ground for future use.- Frequent
ploughing in a wet season enriches.the
land materially, and rye sowed early in
the present month is much better, when
the season is suitable, than that which is
sown late in the autumn, when sufficient
time is not allowed for the grain to
become we'll rooted before the ground
closes. uo Haa
Grain sown at this season generally
does better than that which is sown in
the spring, especially when the land is
such as will not allow the water to stand,
while it is frozen, and thus kill the roots,
and generally speaking, the seasons in
New England are more agreeable for
the winter, than for the spring-sown
grain. 3>'- taft
The well-cxperienced farmer will select
such land for the different crops, which
he intends to cultivate, as will be sure Of
affording the greatest yield, otherwise
his labor will be lost. When the right
spot is selected, no labor should be spared,
TO render that ground wellftted to receive
the seed. The greater the variety of
crops on a farm, the better. The land is
not so soon exhausted as when approEri-
ated to one crop for asuccession of seasons,
much less manure will be required,
and the yield will invariably be greater.
During the greater part Of September.
while waiting for the crops to ripen, much
time can be usefully devoted in preparing
land for the coming season, such as clear
ing off bushes, which are continually
starting in moving land, and by the road
and cross fences, which are very distaste-
full to the neat farmer, draining the low
lands that the water may not be permit
ted to remain during the winter. Much
grass is destroyed in this way. Where
the the land is too low, for crop Of ev-
erything but grass. the present season is
very favorable for ploughing such ground
and sowing grass seed, that it may have
time to take root before the winter closes
in. Such ground should be often plough
cd, It will pay to do so as often as once
in three to FIVE years, depending much on
the seasons, and nature of the grounds.
The crop of grass for one year, will more
than twice pay the expenses.
Farmers generally have been too neg
lectful in regard to grass lands where the
soil has not been suitable for any crop,
other, than grass, they have suffered it to
remain, and entirely run out" only by
neglecting to plough, and SOW in seed at
some season in the year, when the land
is in proper state for them to do SO.
Land that has not yielded fourth of a
ton hay to the acre, and hardly worth
moving, has been made to yield two tons
of herds grass, with trifing expense be-
side the ploughing, and seed. We have
often been panied to witness such waste
of ground, year after year. never fit to be
planted in season for crop; thus it re-
NAMED wet till the middle or last of
June, with here and there spire Of grass
or few bushes. Such ground ploughed
and sown to grass in such season as the
present, would yield heavy crop, with
suitable drainage for several years, which
would be much increased by being often
repeated. altt II I'LL
There is no crop that pays better in
this section of the country, than the hay
crop. If the excessive yield puts down
the price for one or two years, the price
is sure to come up. 1t costs but little to
keep over year or two's yield, and the
farmer may be sure, with this prscaution.
of an average priS Of about $50 the ton.
The hay crop, with little attention, and a
small comparative expene, might be very
easily doubled in N. E., and what other
crop would pay 50 well ?-Mass. Plough-