Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-25
{ AGRICULTURAL.

PRACTICAL HINTS FOR FARMERS
The extra land required for a worm fence
would pay the interest and principal of
the cost of good fence in five years.
To stop the potato rot, plant the seed
and start new varieties. The first crop
wilH be about the size of quails' eggs,
the second will yield about fair sized
seed,while a third will enable you to se-
lect good new variety that will be free
for a time from disease siiss7S 81 aa.ssr
The great secret of success in raising
good horses, is to keep them growing in
good health and spirits and this can
only be done BY proper feeding and gen.
eral care. They want warm, dry box
stalls to stand in during winter, from
which they can be turned out doors in
pleasant weather for exercise-for this
is needed as well as food. siis
Instead of earth against the house for
banking up, rotting away the wood work,
use evergreen branches, hemlock or white
or yellow pine. After snow has been
blown in among them they will keep out
frost far better than banks of earth. The
labor Of banking with brush will not be
half that of using earth, in most cases,
and they are altogether cleaner, while
being more effectuai.5 712fa' 10 sneizs1- Y
If any of our farmer readers have barn
yards or COW yards or corners, where cat
tie have lain for several years, we con-
jure them to dig out about a foot Of the
earth before the ground freezes, haul it
upon the grain fields or meadow and ELL
up with sods, for the purpose of receiv-
ing the manure during the winter. This
will afford an immense addition for
spring use, which will tell largely in lib
erals ears ofwell matured corn. 50 -.
DEEP AND SHALLOW DRAINAGE.-In
reviewing his experience in drainage for
"a years past, Mr.. Mechi expresses the.
opinion that for very humid climates
system of close and shallow drains is
most effective, if /" combined with deep
A or 5 leaders at reasonable distances,
say so feet. The shallow drains, not
less than feet in tenacious soils, per-
mita more rapid escape of the water,
when you have successional rains at
short intervals; the deeper ones drain
the whole area in time, but are longer
about It. aH - ~
On friable soils it would be absurd to
have either shallow or close drains. On
my mixed soil my drains are more than
four feet deep and sixty feet apart. All
these remarks apply to surface water
indicating with waters rising from be-
low, drains should never be shallower
than four feet-fve feet is the better
depth with shallow drains capillarity
would overcome gravity, and SO render
the drains useless. - 1t is
thus quite clear that the depth of drain
age even in the very stiffest soils, is most
important. Every additional foot places
1,200 tons per acre of porous earth for
the use of the roots of plants; and 1
know that wheat and most plants will
end down their roots four or FIVE feet
eep, where the land is drained.
MICH the portions of the country
where these depredations are to be fear
ed, or near strips of grass where they
would be likely to harbor, special pains
must be taken to protect young fruit
trees from their attacks. The best way
to exclude them, is to make small, very
Compact, and smoothly beaten mounds
of earth about the foot of the stems.
Trees, thus protected, are perfectly safe;
but where the ground is now frozen can
not be done. The next best is to watch
for the first fall of snow, under cover of
which the mice make their attacks. I'm
mediately tread the snow hard about
the trees, and they will be unable to
reach them. Avery efectual protection
may be made by raising the snow slight
ly about the trees, and pouring on water
during cold snap, so as to make this
snow SO hard that the animals cannot
get throughsit it. A pump. well or stream
Of water near by, will enable man to
do hundreds in day.
To PROTECT CORN FROM THE Cur
Practical Farmer says an
excellent plan to keep off the cut worm
s to drop about tablespoonful Of coarse
alt on the top of the hill soon after
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