Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-27

MOrristown, May 10th, 1868.
MANUREs AND HOW TO APPLY THKM-At a
discussion before the Farmers Club in Bed
ford. \. H.. the chairman said that after
trying several ways, he prefers breaking the
sod early in the fall, not less than seven in
ches deep. In the spring drawing out the
manure from the barn cellar, after it had
been forked over, placing it in heaps, max
ing five heaps, from cart body full, five
PAGES apart each way, spreading 1T and har
rowing 1t under to the depth of three inches
If to be planted in corn or potatoes, chain
it both ways, and drop the seeds on the
squares If to be sown for fodder, harrow
in four bushels of oats to the acre, and
cut in the milk, which makes superior feed
for mich cows, nearly equal to herdsgrass.
After the oat crop is harvested, plow the
stubble under across the burrows. The next
spring, harrow haul from the barn cellar
the same quantity of manure was applied
to the oat crop, about twenty-five loads to
/ the acre, spread as before, and cultivate or
harrow it to the depth of three inches sow
on three bushels of barley, eight pounds of
clover and twelve quarts Of grass seed har
row with a light harrow and roll. You will
then get good crop of barley, good catch
of grass, and moving field that will give
You good crops. But do not fall feed unless
you wish to spoil your moving fields, and be
obliged to take them up in three years
Mr.. G. suggested the addition of two
bushels of salt, and three bushels of plaster
per acre, immediately after the manure is
spread, to be narrowed in with it, to keep
the ammonia from the manure escaping.
MIR. r. had doubled his crop of grass by
the use of one hundred bushels of leached
ashes per acre.
At the close of the discussion the club vot-
ed, twenty to one, that manure should be
applied to the sod after it had been turned
over and as near the surface as it is possible
to cover it, not over three inches in depth
NUMBER OF Stalks IN A HILL OF Corn
One of our correspondents writes us that he
has lately had a conversation with neigh
Dor, who has the reputation of being a very
observing, sound and sensible man, in regard
to the question in the caption above, and that
it was the firm conviction of this man, that
in the case of Dent and of all kindg which
grow to large size, a larger amount o.
sound corn will be obtained, when there are
not over three stalks allowed to grow in eacf
hill, than when there are four, or any num-
Der over three, other things of course, being
equal He said that he had observed repeat
eddy that there were usually two good sizeC
ears of such kinds of corn on each stalks
when there were only three stalks of less in
hill. whereas, when there were four or fv
stalks, there was seldom more than one ca
on each, and of these some would not be un
: frequently small, and at harvest prove moth
ing but soft corn or nubbing. He furthe
stated that it was his belief that more de
, pended, so far as the amount of good sount
corn was concerned, on having but a fey
u stalks in hill, than on having the hills a
the distance of three and half or four fee
2 in the rows and that he had obtained bel
ter crop from corn planted in drills, wit
8 stalks about one foot or little less apart, i
b one direction, and four feet in the other, tina
!, his neighbor in an adjoining field had frol
: the same kind planted in the usual way
Cultirdtor-
SOMETHING FOR THE SIcK.-A correspondent
writes: frequently we find sick poop
. whose stOmachs reject all kinds of nourisl
ment until conditions follow that in man
instances terminate fatally. In twenty il
stances in which have heard the popula
l sick-bed nourishment prescribed and rejecte
/. by an invalid's enfeebled stomach, l ha,
: never known the simple saucer of parche
, corn pudding or bowl of Cruel refused. III
corn is roasted brown, precisely as We roai
coffee, ground as fine as meal, in a coffee mil
and made either into mush, Cruel. or thi
> cakes, baked lightly brown. and given eitht
warm or cold, clear, or with whatever dres
ing the stomach will receive or retain
Parched corn and meal boiled in skimme
: milk, and fed frequently to children sufferin
: from summer diarrhea, will almost Away
!, cure, as 1T will dysentery in adults, and,
believe, the cholera in its earliest stage.