The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-06-20
THE TRIBUNE.
FARM AND GAREEN.

wrong to cut down every forest tree anc
leave the country barren, has been reiter.
ated a thousand times, but the why's and
wherefores we have never seen more
plausibly stated than in the following from
work by Hon. Geo. P. Marsh entitled
imam and nature:
AT one season the earth parts with its
warmth by radiation to an open sky---ie-
ceives, at another, an immoderate heat
from the unobstructed rays of the sun.
Hence the climate becomes excessive, and
the soil is alternately parched by the rig
or of winters Bleak winds sweep unre-
sisted over its surface drift away the
SHOW that sheltered it from the frost,
and dry its scanty moisture Ihe.pre-
cinitation becomes as irregular as the
temperature. The melting SHOWS and
yernal rains, no longer absorbed by Il
loose and bibu sls and vegetable mold,
rush over the frozen surface and pour
down the valleys seward. instead of fill
ing a retentive bed of absorbent earth,
and storing up supply of moisture to
feed perennial springs. The soil is barred
Of its covering Of leaves. broken and
loosened by the piow. deprived OF the fl
orous rootlets which held it together, dri-
ed and pulverized by sun and wind, and
at last exhausted by new combinations
The face of the earth is no longer sponge,
BUT dast heap, and the floods which the
waters of the sky pour over it hurry
swiftly along lis slopes, carrying in sus-
Denslen vast quantities OF earthly parti-
elcs which increase the abrading power
and mechanical force of the current, ard.
argumented by the sand and gravel of
falling banks, fiji theabeds OF the streams
divert them into new channels, and OBJ
struct their outlets The rlvulets, want
ing their former regularity OF supply. and
deprived OF the protecting shade OF the
woods are heated, evaporated, and thus
reduced IN their summer currents, but
-swollen.to raging torrents In autumn and
In spring. From these causes there is a
constant degradation of the uplands, and
consequent elevation of the beds of wa
Ger courses and of lakes by the DISPOSE
zion of he mineral and vegetable matter
carried down, by the waters. The chan
saels Of great rls ers become unnavlgable
their estuaries are choked up, and har
bors which once sheltered large navles
are shoaled by dangerous sa,edbars. The
earth stripped Of its vegeta bic giebe
grows less and less productive, and con-
seauently less able to protect itself by
weaving a new network OF roots to bind
cts particles together, new carpetlng of
turf to shield it from wind and sun and
scsarging rain. Gradually it becomes al
together barren The washing of the
soil from the mountains leaves bare ridg-
es of sterile rock; and the rich organic
mold which covered them, now swept
down into the dark low grounds, promotes
a luxur;ance of Aquatic vegetation that
breeds fever, ana more Insidlous forms OF
mortal disease by its decay, and thus the
earth is rendered no longer ut for the
AabILation of man.
The Kai,ae Farmer says: To what ex
tent, and IN what way can our farmers
adopt some method of preserving hay,
SO as to continue to their stock IN winter
the natural and superior food furnished
thein by summer pastures W hen we
remember what wet nay seasons We oil
zen have, and how much hay Is damaged
by being improperly cured, Oh account OF
u long succession Of rainy or moist days,
during haying, the matter becomes one
worthy of serious consideration. Let rs
see what suggestions there are OF value
to all farmers. We think the following
lst-That we do not cut cur hay soon
enough by several weeks.
2d-That hay, by oar present mole Of
curing it, loses large part OF lis most
valuable constituents.
3d-ThaJ TO be De properly cured, it
should, when this operation is performed
resemble dried grass is much as ppssb bic
and that to accomplish this it only needs
to remain exposed to the air long enough
after cutting, to have the water dried out
without being ali burnt up by the sun.
4th-That the right time for cutting
grass Is when it contains the largest
amount OF matter soluble in water, and
not after this has changed to woody mat
ter, as it does when its growth is passing
anto seed. ANY farmer OF practical know
ledge and observation can determine with
sufficient accuracy when this period oc-
ours.
FEyERs VS.. uIT.-Let's have a. little
talk about orchards and dardens, as life
preservers. Many farmer thinks he
can fuss about garden with vegetables
aud small fruit in ample variety, hardly
about an orchard, especially beyond APP
pic trees. SO he goes to weighJIel mat
tiers OF grain, or stock. or dairy, AM. eats
potatoes, wheat bread, pork and salt beef
all summer long. No fine variety of
vegetables, no grateful berries, no luscious
peaches or juicy cherries.
by October fever comes, or bowel COM
plants of some kind or some congestive
troubles most likely He is laid up,
work stops month, the doctor cones,
and he ''drags round ali winter, and
the doctor bill drags too. The poor wife
i,
has fever, too, perhaps, ana she Just
Tney don't know. poor souls Would
they build hot fire in July and shut the
doors? OF course not-in their rooms;
but they have Just done that in their poor
stomachs. How 50? They have been
eating all summer, the heat producing
food, nit for cold season, bat not for a
warm one. \ Greeniander can eat
candles and whale fat, because they ere
ate heat In january we are up toward
Greenland in climate
= Clover differs entirely from the
cereal plants in this respect. that it sends
ats nam roots perpendicuiarly downward
when no obstacles stand in the way, to a
depth which the fine, fbrous roots of
wheat and barley fail to reach. the nrin-
cipal roots of clover branch off into creep
ing shoots, which again send forth fresh
roots downwards. Thus clover. like the
tea plant, derives its principal food from
layers below the arabic surface soil: and
the difference between the two consists
mainly in this-that the clover, from Its
larger and more extensive root surface
can still find sufhciency Of food in fields
where peas will no longer thrive: The
natural consequence Is. that the subSoil
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