Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-07
Aerieultural Departn,e,,t.
PREPARED ExHREssLY FOR THE ENQUIRER" BY
 T.S. GOLD. West Cornwall. Ct. To whom all Communications should De addressed

I T. s. GOLD. West Cornwall. Ct.
 To whom aH Communications should De addressed
 PRACTICAL FARMING-THE HAY | CROP.
 We will give in detail, from time to time some account of our own farming, not for { model to others, but that comparisons may bs made and all obtain light to do better. Few are willing to expose their common doings and We have only reports of remarkable crops or the most successful management. These isolated cases of success are very often the re- suit of an accidental combination of happy cir cumstances, rather than of skillful farming, and though strictly followed as detailed. fail to I produce again the same results. But tu the hay Crop.
 The crop of grass this season has been heavy and from the amount of fine growth very diff cult to cure. Some portions were ready for the scythe very early, while others remained green and growing to the very last. We now be- tween ninety and one hundred acres. It is nearly all upland, but half of it or more has never been plowed, but has always been under the scythe since the forest was removed. The rocks and stones have been cleared from about one half so as to fit it for the moving machine and partially from the remainder. The mead ows all lie convenient to the barns and the carting is handy.
 We always keep notes of our having aud our other labors. and from these minutes we con- dense the following facts:
 We began picking out near the house June l2tb, and finished Aug. 23d. We had six men besides myself. but there were corn and roots to hoe and grain to harvest, so that we did not work steadily at the having. The men had to milk, so that the scythes were rarely ground and the men in the field before seven or eight o'clock, and we quit about six. The men did Q74) one hundred and seventy four days works and myself about thirty. I used Buckeye machine with poor pair of horses, ninety-six hours, hitching on thirty.two times, and moving from forty-6ve to fifty acres, which yielded Q7O) one hundred and seventy large loads, we usually carry from the best meadows as large as the barn doors will admit, (twelve feet square) and smaller when it is rough. raked and raked after with Daley & Treats Horse Rake, about two hundred loads, and did my share of turning. cooking. hand raking and spreading. The men performed the rest of the labor, carting the whole amounting to (287) two hundred and eighty-seven loads, filling seven barns besides lofts and sheds. A very little would cure sufficiently in one day, we had much extra labor in cooking and spreading It again The moving machine has relieved the men of much heavy work, as generally they did not have to mow after 10 o'clock, but often be- gan to cart as soon as the dew was off. We must have about two hundred tons of hay, we will take some early leisure day to measure the mOws and give the number of cubic feet they occupy.
 THE WONDERFUL LEG.-Wedgewood had a cork leg, wonderful imitation of the leg he udu lOSt. 1t ID bOlu Ol ulul tuaL Ou Ouc OCCa- sion, when discussing the effects of boiling wa ter upon the nervous system, he laid bet with one of his guests that he would hold his leg longer in boiling water than any other man in the kingdom. Tubs were produced, watches were drawn cut. stockings pulled off, and legs dipped in. Wedgewood quietly set his cork leg in the smoking tubful His guest followed his example. Wedgewood did not wink his guest howled and wriggled, and his leg grew redder and redder. The potter looked on with smile. amazing the company with his calm composure. At last the scalded leg was drawn out in agony, and Wedgewood remained mas ter of the match. Five minutes, ten, quarter of au hour, and MT. Wedgewood smiled and looked composed. Feel it, pinch it, do what you will to it, quoth he; it's the best leg have, though only of cork.'-IEtan.
 TIE Cool OF THE EvENING.-Sidney Smitt I -n-s n