Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-09-09

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FIBER, In this region. few turnlps may
also be sown for an early crop, but will
be hot and stringy unless the soil is
very rich.
Corn salad is often sowed at the end
of this month. 1t does not do well in
damp soil or low situations. Gardener
Monthly for August.
The Cultivation Of Barley.-The ex-
traordinary demand which has sprung
up of late years for barley for mailing
purposes, renders it's more general pro-
duction advisable wherever the soil is
adapted to its growth and the climate is
not too hot and dry. Barley is re-
markable hardy plant, is subject to few
er diseases than any other cereal, and
will stand without serious injury long
er drought than any of them. Good
mailing barley will always command a
ready sale and high market price. We
mention these facts at this time for the
purpose of suggesting that it should, in
light soils and favorable situations, take
in some measure the place of oats in the
rotation of crops. The soil best adapt
ed to barley is light sandy loan. To
grow good crops the soil should OF
course be rich, and should be deeply
plowed and completely pulveriged by
frequent borrowings and rollings. When
strong clays are used for the production
of barley, the previous crop should have
been hoed one, as corn or roots, and
the first blowing should take place late
in the Fall, the land being left rough
during the winter season, SO that the
frosts may render it friable before
Spring. If plowed again in the Spring
and we'll narrowed, cross-harrowed and
rolled, excellent crops may be obtained
, even on the heavier kinds of soils. AS
In the case of wheat, it has been found
that barley. when drilled in, yields a
much larger number of bushels per acre,
and a much more certain crop than when
sown broadcast. In favorable seasons,
forty bushels per acre may be very safe
J ly calculated upon.-Ma'yIand Farmer.
FaIl.Feeding Breeding Ewes-The
ewes on weaving their lambs should be
put on short dry pasturage, until then
milk dries off, and then on feed which
will rapidly restore their flesh. They
do not as much as lambs, require shell
ter and extra feed before winter, but
there is no doubt that they amply pay
for it in condition, especially ewes that
( are getting old and are beginning to
lose their strength. Strong middle
aged sheep, however, demand no Other
8 extra feed than hay or corn stalks until
, winter sets in. ''Sheep well summered
are half wintered." To let them be-
come thin before winter, renders it diff
cult and far more expensive to winter
them safely and well; they are moi
as likely to take the ram, and
their product of wool is diminished.
And If quite thin there is absolute peril
! of their lives if the winter is an unfavor-
able one, however well they may be ta-
ken care of. The danger is the greatest
: to the quite young and old sheep.
These, sometimes, will not improve,
: but begin to run at the nose and eyes,
: gradually lose their appetite, grow
} weaker and weaker, in some cases exhib-
it costiveness, and in others obstinate
diarrhea, and perish miserably. When
they commence going in this way, med
icine and care are thrown away on them.
: Randall
Thinning Root Crops. In an interest
ing article on the slater stages of root
crop culture" the Scottish Farmer in
sists upon the importance of careful and
thorough thinning out of the surperfiu-
Gus plants. To the proper performance
of this operation it ascribes much of the
difference between good crop and a
bad one. ssThese points, at least, de-
mand attention: first, the strongest
plant, if possible, ought to be left,
while the weakest should be cleared
away; secondly, each plant should have
the maximum space of soil to develope
its bulb in; and thirdly, no two plants
should be left together to interfere with
the individual growth of each"
Fall Plowing. is plowed for the
purpose of loosening and pulverizing
the soil, and exposing it to the action of
air and water, and the various acids
found in them, that its organic elements
may be properly decomposed and its in
organic elements converted into food for
plants. Frost is q most valuable and
potent agent in effecting this work An
agent which the thoughtful farmer will
not be slow in calling to his aid. If land
is plowed in the fall, these natural
agents, air, water and frost, will be ST.
lently at work all winter, enriching the
soil, and mellowing it better than could
be done by any work of man. 1t is
claimed by many that sandy soils do not
receive so much benefit as injury from
fall blowing, as it is believed that by ex
posture to rains and wind the light, sol
liable manures are exhaled, or washed
out, and they receive little compensa-
tion for this waste in any fertility they
derive from the atmosphere and the &C
ton of frost in return.
| With clay soils, however, this objec-
ton does not apply. There is o strong
attraction existing between the clay and
those gases that are furnished by the
atmosphere, SHOWS, rains and dews.-
The clay being thrown up and coming
in contact with the ammonia and car
bonic and nitric acids, which in the air,
seizes upon them, and holds them for
the future use OF crops while the great
affinity of the ammonia and acids for
manures effectually prevents the waste
of such as are in the soil. The burrows