Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-04-17

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sants of the hOr-
At 0&lla III rdinary hundred
DELAWre will be some to
WITILL promptly attend ng sOWs and store
sasssa = taoF aF vOur them greedily.
viii se given e prastis be Of rich soil; we
ne cohesion i.- q eoqsiay to gravel, and clay
&c oesee- would be best. It should
very deep with a subsOil
and made dry then il should be
nanured. The cultivatOf ought to be
fifteen or twenty inches in depth. In
this way, although only one acre is plan
ted, yet nutriment and growth equa
to two or three as ordinarily eultiva-
ted. are got. A yield of ten or twelve
hundred bushels annually will result,
and perhaps the farmer viii learn such
a lesson about the effects of high cUl-
ture az will benefit him tOthe extent OF
thousands of dollars IN other branch
es offarmiug. The method of culture
is simple: plant in drills not more
than twenty inches or two feet apart,
use special cultivatOr-the subsOll
plOw run between the rows is very
effectual when the ground gets a little
hard and dry-thin the plants in the
rows, and in digging use a plOW to
throw the dirt from the roots.
Another minor crop, which pays
very we'll to grow for fall and winter
feed, for COWS, hogs, and fatting sheep.
is cabbage. An immense amount Of
this food may be prod Iced on an acre.
When the grass is frost bitten and
short in fall, cabbage saves hay and
helps out nicely. Little pains need
be taken in storing it if fed out by the
middle of winter, 1t will keep we'll
piled under a shed with some straw
thrown over it. Quite hard freezing
will not injure it for feeding purposes.
At least the vacant spots in the corn
field, made so by grubs or other de-
predators, should be set with cabbage.
Ten thousand plants may be set on one
acre, and all will make feed, though
not solid heads. Very often a quanti-
ty of the best heads could be market
ed at prices which would make the
crop average. two or three hundred dol
lars per acre. Some growers il New
Jersey cultivated forty and fifty acres
in cabbage.
Corn s0wn for fodder is oftentimes
very profitable; by dev0ting q few
acres to this much less hay need be
cut, OF if fed in the summer time less
pasture will be needed For horses
and cattle it is especially valuable. and
when summer drOuths burn and brown
the pastures, it is refreshing to draw
the green juicy corn, and see the stock
fill themselves. We should prefer
sowing it thickly in wide drills, just far
enough apart to admit SLOW walking
horse and a narrow cultIvatOr. 1t
harvested for winter use, cut early and
tie up in small shocks until cured.
Cut and steamed, with.ground grain, no
food excels it for milch cows.
There are many other minor farm
crops which repay time aud labor spent
on them a patch of buckwheat might
often as well be grown as not on pla-
ces which otherwise would produce
nothing and peas might preeede wheat
on clean sod land, instead of summer
following. o. a well organized farm
no land should be idle, and no opportu.
nifty should be lost to produce some
thing which shall augment the aggre-
gate of food. 1t is a rule which has
hardly an exception that the farmer
who produces the greatest average pei
acre, makes the largest profits
MoOre's RuraI WelC Yorker.