Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-29
Agricultural Items.
How TO RAISE RoOTs AND HOW TO

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them first. Plow the land when your
teams are at liberty, because it is too
wet to prepare for any other crop;
harrow and roll a day after a heavy
rain, as the surface will look fine, and
the packing of the subsoil with the
horses feet will not be noticed at the
time take long, raw manure from the
homestead and pillow in, for it will
save the expense of having it turned
over in the heap once or twice; drill
or SOW seed that has been kept in
store for few years, and don't hoe
till the plants get good size.
To be successful. the farmer must
give precedence to every stage Of
preparation; must pillow only when
the land is dry enough to prevent the
most remote approach to smearing,
and the cultivation must be performed
all through every operation when the
soil is in dry and healthy state. If,
from previous bad management, the
subsoil is a hardpan of earth, &c,
subsoil pillow should follow the COM
mon one and if the manure used has
been hauled out and thoroughly turn
ed and shaken up, so that it has be
come in such state as bona tide
19a G 3eget T9 afR2 the lar
has only to put on literally, and hoe
as soon as the plants are in their sec
Ond leaf, to secure fair average crop.
If he desires several tons more to the
acre than a common crop, he may reck-
on upon an extra ton Of either swedes
or mangolds for every additional
ton of good rotten animal farm-yard
dung.
Should manure of this kind run short,
superphosphate of lime, if genuine,
will pay one hundred per cent. better
on light land than for any other crop.
| have tried it, and bone dust, on many
hundreds of acres, and seen the effects
on many thousands of acres; for my
employer in England had bone mill
of % horsepower waterwheel, with
which we ground great quantities.
In the winter season, when our teams
were at leisure, | used to send to
Cheltenham, bennington and Biz
} mingham for bones, which were col
lected by rag and bone men, and we
: had a quantity brought by gipSies.
5 with donkey carts, &c. Being farm
manager and superintendent Of all ap-
| pertaining to the estate, | witnessed
t the effects Of what we sold, (abOut
$4,000 or $1,000 worth , and as, the
last few years Of my sojOurn there,
much of it was converted into super
phosphate by the aid Of sulphuric acid
and ashes, | saw such crops of turn
5 ips and swedes on poor light land on
h. and around the Cotswold Hills, as
Y proved beyond doubt the adaptation
Il Of this fertilizer for roots-shOwing
effects far more striking than wher
.. used for any other crop whatever.
4 have Just thought Of question
Y asked in the Country Gentleman {
Ie few weeks ago-how to get up piece
of land into condition, which has beer
thoroughly exhausted. and where
i, there was no means OF getting ANNA
- manure? In England, the universal
= custom is to get heavy crop Of turn
y Ups, and put large flock Of sheep OIL
= and pen them of, which has an amaz
ing effect, especially if plenty Of ha.
and some grain are fed too.
70 FEAR OF BEEs.-Eds. Co. Gent. =
4 Some persons have as much fear of
n. honey bee as Of mad dog. l hav
k seen them in passing through my api
10 airy, turn up their coat collars an,
If step double quick, and in their hast
d they would run against bee, perhap
10 returning home with a load of honey
ID and they would imagine themselve
10 attacked, and strike out right and left
e. which act would be great insult, an
ID be quickly and justly resented, and
ns the person was not Stung, he wOul
be driven out of the yard swearin
that he never did like bees, and bee
II never did like him; but at the sam
vs. time he would be free to own that h
a liked honey. I have kept bees for
% number of years, and have never yt
worn bee hat, gloves, or veil in IN
~ apiary, and | very seldom get stun.
Ii pinch bee, he will sting, while
on is as it should be. | nave no nor
ut fear in handling bees than | have
rs handling grain OF any kind. In ira,
. cling along the road one day toward
ne evening, some three miles from hom
to | saw swarm of bees clustered on
to fence by the road. | thought | woul
ne take them home, and to do SO | wan
ad ed box to hive them in. | went I
to a house not far off to get one; | sa
of the woman and told her what | ha
mt found, and that | wanted to borrow
nix box Of some sort to put them in, an
ny that | would return 1t again all RICH
lat She had no box, but was "dreadf
glad" that | was going to take tt
bees, for she said that there had bee
pS swarm there for three or four year
eu and that they had stung their hors,
so badly they could hardly get the
-e' to work in that lot. | had a ha
ny bushel basket in my buggy, and l 9,
III short board to put across the to
-: Then | scraped up a handful of be,
'lc and put them in the basket. The
~ soon began to hum, and the rest SOC
ny ran in. then put some leaves ov,
i - the top, took the basket by the handl
~ got into my buggy, and drove HON