The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-01-25

: scrapings and earth aic laid 10 kccl
4 manures from wasting. Tie does no
believe in keeping his iusnnres uhde
cover, saying that In that condition
liz would become light aud powder,
v and Of but little value comparatively
{ If his manures were to be placed un
der cover II would bo necessary I,
keep a pump going with water, whicl
would be labor thrown away, sine,
the same results were obtained b,
piling in the open yard. lie is feed
ing this year 900 sheep, but has hay
sufficient for 100.por and 8 or II
cattle. Timothyscut&hen ripe he re.
CARDS as worth no more for feeding
than straw. Wheat be would cut
when just out Of the milk--thc early
cut wheat has the thinncst skin. The
richer the land for wheat the later il
is ia ripening. lie believed that in
sowing wheat'too much seed is gener-
Ially used This fall he had put a
bushel aud lbs. of seed to the acre.
There was danger of getting the seed
covered too deep, VIII rendir-
ed it liable 10 winter kill. lie
would sow just as shallow as possible
When land was very rich he had sown
a bushcl and n half of seed to the
acre, but one bushcl would have been
abundant. his year he had used
light harrow over the ground, after
the wheat was drilled, for the pur-
pose of reducing tho ridges and throw.
ing tho clover seed between. lIo had
tried rolling, but il was not cfIectual.
lie thought there was more necessity
of pulycrising the soil now than for
morly. He had been trying an ex-
pertinent this fall on wheat, with
i,awes' manurcs powcd brouacest With
Seymour : sower at the rate Of 2iO lbs
per acre. 1t was applied on three
strips of land in such a way that re.
suits might be noted. Had usually
raised from % to 50 bushels Of wheat
per acre--in 1859 the crop was Al ]
bushels per acre. lie would not plow
deeper than q or Z inches for corn,
and Tor barley not very deep, but for
wheat he did not care how deep the
soil was workod--l2 inches or more
if practicable. For all spring crops
he would plQw light. trsra
lie manurcs literally for corn, fol.
lowing that crop with barley aud then
with wheat, when tho land is seeded
DOWN. lie thought he should hayc
to give up raising corn. Tic can find
no profit in raising roots on this soil,
the labor costs too much to make
| il profitable. Some of his grass lands
will cut three tons to the acre, From
32 acres this year he has cut eighty
tons. M 45. ..
In stock he gives his preference to
theShort Horns or Short Horn grades
saying that the animal when done for
milk can be turned to good account in
beef IIe thinks tho Short Horns
quite as valuable for milk as the AYR.
shiress We went out and took look
at the wheat field below the house.
and then up the east road so as to got
a sweep of the whole farm. IL lies
spread out in gently undulating fields |
md IN the distance the sheep were at
'asture. Before us lay the lovely
axe, and to the right tho beautiful |
'Mpse with its spires and cupolas,
and here was the great praotieal fir.
mer, who hrst broke ground IN. ,nsI
drammg in America; aud so We walk.
cd back to the house thinking what a
splendid record farmer johnson had
made, working out with his own hands
results Of such vast Importance to the
agricultural progress of the ago. But
for him VIC might now possibly have
been back decade on the road of
aud immense sums in the
aggregate lost to the State and Ma
ton let him havethc honor which
his works have 80 richly merited.