Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-05-08
lYDJ PARK, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY. MAY s. 1867.

| luuCH Cicdu "oUl lounco III mduuidCtuIluR!
Clean secured wool, 20 to 25 per cent iu
stocking yarn secured ready for knitting
For heavy cloth or cashmere, pretty we'll
fnishcd, about 25 to 80 per cent. Far
mers are very apt to think their wool
clean. when through securing and drying
it will show loss Of 20 or rs per cent.
A great mistake is made in raising
sheep whose wool is so greasy and gum
my as to loose more than so per cent in
securing, for some of the finest feeecs that
have handled have not lost quite that
much, while there are some feeces that
will loose rs or SO per cent.
Correction In last weeks Club R =
ports, Siiver's patent broom is mentioned
as being similar to others. Without adding
that it is generally improved, hence the
proprietors do not sell the rights, but
make the brooms themselves, though af-
terward the farmer can make his own
brooms with the cap aud screw when the
old one wears out.
Letters to tie Club The Reporter
still has large number Of letters on hand
which will be noted in time, and in the
order received
Club Memberhip.-Severa inquiries
are made as to how one shall become q
member Five dollars elects one as a
member of the American Institute. Three
dollars are to be paid every year. This
entities one to the publications, and to
admissions to the fairs. The meetings of
the club any one can attend, and be at
liberty to express his view without
charge.
Besttime tor Sowing Spring aoheat.--
H. G, Neal, Davenport Iowa. after an ex
perience af some Is years in farming on
the prairies in this country, propose the
following rule as to the time for sowing
Spring Wheat, which am satisfied if a
man follows strictly he will have no cause
to regret: The ground is we'll plowcd in
the Fall. As soou after the 10th of
March as the frost is sufficiently out and
the land dry enough, SOW the seed and
cover well. "ln the morning COW thy
seed, and in the evening withhold not
thy hand | had been told by man of
large experience in wheat raising, that
two acres sowcd in March, was worth three
sowed inApril. In the spring of 1865, I
commenced the Sd of April, the top of the
ground had thawod barely enough to ad
init Of narrowing, with a large snow
drift on one end of the field, had to leave
about half all acre and plant in corn,
sowed the first Is acres with Red River
wheat: yield "a IL bushels to the acre.
Next Gu. off the cornstalks, raked and
buried them, narrowed tie land, sowed
broadcast. from the 10Th to the Goth of
April, 20 l-S acres with Canada Club !;
yield, 80 . 8 bushels per acre. In 1856,
sowcd from the 9th to the 10th of April !;
yield, 81 bushels per acre. In 1857,
Spring very backward; commenced har-
rowing for wheat April 23d, in the eve
ming, the ground too hard frozen in the
morning to admit of narrowing, and six
inches below the surface was still frozen
as hard as a rock From the 23d of
April to the 4th of May, inclusive, sowea
73 acres sod g.ouud yield, 22 IL bush
els to the acre the breaking was done
lengthwise and the sowing crosswise of
the piece the first breaking very heavy,
gradually becoming shorter in the straw,
and thinner on the ground, as the break
ing was done later, until on that broke
idst theic Woo uot uiVio bDdu itoIu oDt'
half to two-thirds IS good as that broke
earlier, but the quality was all No. /.
Finished breaking July % In 1858,
failed to record the time of sowing, prob
ably the fore part of April, Spring very
wet, sowed in the mud 65 acres put on
l20 bushels No. |. wheat, harvested 1877
bushels by measure (Which weighed 40 to
so lbs per bashel, from about one third
Of the piece concluded the balance would
not pay for harvesting. In 1859, sold
my farm and raised no CROP. In 1860.
sowed from the 18th to the Goth Of March;
yield 26 67 bushels per acre. In 1864.
so~ed the last week in March, and lst
week in April; harvested 27 bushels
per acre. Average yield for the six years
named. about % l-2 bushels per acre
only two years out Of the six | sowed as
carly as March, aud think no one will
deny that the yield was very large av-
erago one. Leaving out the great failure
of 1853, and the average would be 26
bushels per acre for five years; and three
years out Of the five sowed in April and
MAY. Let the advocates Of sowing
Spring Wheat in January and February
show better yield for FIVE years out ol
eight, and then | an ready to admit tina,
there is some defect in the rule / have
laid down, and not till then.