Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-02-12
Rotation Of CrOpS.

In forming plans for the future improve
ment of the farm, good portion is of the
first Importance. The neglect of this is ruin
ing the virg IN soils of the West Continued
wheat cropping has diminished the wheat
yield one-half or more. States and counties
that once averaged twenty TO twenty-five
bushels to the acre, do not now average more
than ten or twelve The rotation in the grain
districts of Pennsylvania is convenient, sim
pie. and has borne the test of long experience.
Ii keeps up the yield of wheat to twenty-five
/ bushels to the acre. and corn to forty fifty
/ lie is as follows LIST year, corn pom sod,
lined in the early fall, and turned over in the
/ spring, or turned over either in the fall or
/ spring, and the lime spread upon the inverted
sod II year, d crop of oats, or summer
\ tallow, with all the manure spread i'll the fall !:
Sd year, winter wheat, with SIX quarts Of
timothy to the acre, at drilling, and six
pounds of clover seed, the following March !;
J 4th, year, Il crop of clover for hay, and a
second crop for seed; 9Th year, timothy for
one, two, three years, according to the
strength OF the land The aim is to keep up
/ the land t. u productiveness of two tons Of
| hay or more To the acre, and if it falls below
this. it is an indication that more lime and
Inauure is needed
A common rotation in Canada is LIST,
wheat; I'd, clover for two years Sd, fallow :;
4th, wheat 9Th, oats; 9th, peas; eth, a
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crops of wheat in eight years. But the land
runs down under this treatment without ma
nure, and this must come in part Of rOta-
ton in anv improving system. upon ordinary
land. And even upon the pralrles and bot
toms, where they get forty bushels Of corn in
constant succession, it would pay better to
use manure, and get eighty or ninety In
the older states, where grain is raised with
less profit, manure is still more important.
and is the foundation of all successful hus-
bandry. Manure should accompany every
hoed crop, or be used in large quantities,
once in rotation of five years. Hay is a
very valuable crop, and with sufficient top
dressing or irrigation, land may be kept con
stantiy in grass. 1t always needs more
manure when it falls short OF two tons to the
acre There is handsome profit in raising
this quantity of hay to the acre, but one ton
IL very poor business. In any system OF
rotation for Eastern farmers. potatoes, oats
and hay, should have place.
Inc UAIRY-The variations III the yield OF
milch cows caused more by the variations
in the nutritive element of their food than
by change Of the form in which it is given.
- \ cow kept through the winter on mere
straw says practical writer on this sub
ject, g will cease to give milk and when fed
in spring on green forage, will give fair
} quantity OF milk But she owes the cessa-
ton and restoration of secretion to respective
w the diminution and the Increase Of her
nourishment, and not at all to the change OF
form, or of outward substance, In which the
nourishment is administered Let cows re-
ceive through winter nearly large pro-
portion of nutritive matter az is contained In
the clover, lucerne and fresh grasses which
they eat in summer and, matter in what
precise substance or mixture that matter
may be contained, they viii yield winter s
produce of milk quite rich in casein and
: butyraceous ingredients the summer s
produce, and far more ample in quantity
than almost any dairyman with old-fashioned
notions would imag inc possible.
We keep too much stock for the quantity
or god and nutritious food which we have
for it and the consequence is, cows are, IN
nine cases out Of ten, poorly wintered, and
come out in the spring weakened, if not in
deed, positively diseased, and long time is
required to bring them into a condition to
yield generous quantity OF milk
1t is a hard struggle for a COW reduced in
flesh and in blood to fill up the system with
the food which otherwise would have gone to
the secretion of milk but, if she is well fed,
we'll housed and well supplied with fresh
water, and with roots or other moist food and
properly treated to the luxury of a frequent
:, carding, and constant kindness, she comes
milk under favorable circumstances
LARGE CROPS OF CORN.-The Rural Nsio-
Yorker states that the premium crops of corn
in Woodbury., Ct, were III shelled bushels
raised by j. N. Atwood, of Watertown; 100
bushels raised by G. D. Minor, of Woodbury.,
| and 90 bushels by NJ. W. Barnes, of Water
town. The first was MANFRED with forty
; loads to the acre, planted in rows four feet
apart, and one foot in the rows, thinned to
two stalks in the hill. We have no doubt
, that this large product was at least twenty
bushels greater than it would have been had
; the crop been planted in hills at equal dis
tances both ways according to the principle
! which we have repeatedly stated On other
occasions. The next crop, of hundred
bushels, was, we infer. planted according to
the last mentioned mode, as it is stated there
| were four kernels to the hill. If this was
the case, then it is probable that by adopting
the first mentioned plan, the first premium
might have been obtained by this second
, crop, as difference of more than seventeen
bushels per acre should be expected. The
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