Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-11
Agricultural
How Shall We Meet the DeGcien-
cy.


IL seems to be decided that we are to have
hut moderate crop OF English hay this season
The grass Is growing up thin On new ground
a good deal is vInter-killed- What Is not win
TERRIFIED will be pretty good. Ga old ground
the crop will be light, making the whole crop
less than an average. Now, it Will not do TO
say the crop Of hay will be small, and shall
have 20 sell off one-fourth or one third OF our
stock in the fall. We must set about meeting
the deficiency in good earnest. But how?
In the first place cut the meadow hay early,
while it Is tender and sweet, and the cattle, es-
p=cially the dry stock, will eat i up clean, and
thrive upon it, and good fodderIng put before
the milch cows al night will disappear before
morning
2 Plow up peice of moist pasture land
md put on what manure you have, harrow il
in and SOW Southern corn or sweet corn broad
cast, and harrow again, and you will get good
crop of corn fodder, the very best thing, il well
harvested, for the mich cows. TREE tons OF
this to the AGREE, when the grass crop Is light,
is no trifing matter. Do this the fist dull
day, for that is the very best time to SOW the
3. | have known very good crop OF pota-
toes harvested from seed planted the fourth o
July. Your horses and oxen have made con
siderabIe pile of manure since you carted i
out in May. If you have bu hel two OF
early potatoes, plant them, putting the coArs-
manure in the hill
4. Now is the time to SOW ruta bagas. You
have doubtless reserved piece of land and a
heap of compost for this crop Sow all you can.
1.-THE compost falls short, send right away BY
the express man and get few hundred pounds
OF superphOsphate or zone -four, and sprinkle
into the drills. and report WIG. does the best
that or the compost.
5. SOW a plenty of fiat turnIp seed IN your
eornfieds at the last hoeing, and in all the spare
corners that you have. Plow up piece of old
pasture, SOW on some ashes or superphcs phste
and SOW turnips | nave observed for severa
Years past that the cows or sheep whose owner
nave a thousand even five hundred bushels
Of turnips are in better condition than those
whose owners have none. Any time before
the goth of July will do to SOW turnips.
8. Take pains in harvesting your corn-stovei
10 have 1t bright and sweet. think it best &c
cut the stalks and get them into the barn Is
fast as they are dry. BY long exposure il
stocks in the field they become black and lose
their flavor When they to be fed out
they should be cut into pieces OF not more thar
an inch long, together with wheat or oat straw
If you have II, and pu. into the feed trough. anc
we'll sprinkled with water, in which handful o
salt has been dissolved, aud remain a few hour
10 become moist and tender. The cattle vii
then eat them up clean. The corn butts anc
husks should be got IN as soon as the corn il
ripe, and not suffered to stand In the field I'll
ali the goodness is bleached out of them.
/ think it good practice to sprinkle sal
u,on the husks as you pack them away, afte
husking. This keeps them from moulding, ant
from growing hard-and the cattle will ca
nearly the whole, and will ind nourlshment II
them.
Now there is work IN all this But 1T Is bet
ter than to sell of your stock, or pinch then
next winter, or to be worrying lest YOU shoult
not have hay enough to carry them through
Whatever you do, brother farmers, IN this Of
rection, you must do quickly; and those VIII
Who Immediately attend to it will find whel
The enows Of another winter have melted, AM