Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
Meeting OF Farmers Club.

FENCES. s. Wales-lt would be
beneficial for all farmers 10 divide their
farms into lots. Every farm should be
composed of four to six, or even more
lots, so that when one is cleared the stock
can be turned in to secure the wasting
feed and eat up the foul seed. Has
sometimes thought it would be well if
more roads were run through farms
thus compelling farmers to divide their
farms.
Mr.. Strahl-Argues with Mr.. Wales
as to the number of fields, and thinks
much moro pastarage should be provid-
ed. Timothy may be better for hay, But
clover is best for pasturage. Clover is
also good as gre n manure. 1t Goes not
seem to be good logic to contend that it
returns more than il extracts, but the
fact has long since been practically dem.
onstrated. Clover draws largely upon
the atmosphere.
Mr.. Hutchinson-Favors light seed
ing for moving or growing, but heavy
seeding for manure. We can raise clo-
yer and timothy seed cheap. Has raised
40 bushels of clover seed on ten acres.
Six quarts will SOW an acre. Seeds early
in the fall for timothy, and early in
spring for clover.
DR.. Davis-Is not farmer, but has
an interest in farming directly and indi-
rectly, since farming is the basis of ali
true wealth. The success of any enter
prise depends upon how it is conducted.
People before us have ma le mistakes,
and we need not repent foolish expert
ments. Timothy rapidly destroys the
producing elements Of the soil, while
clover absorbs gases from the air, and
enriches the soil. The seed fos corn and
all small grains should be saved while in
the milk. The crop will be earlier and
more luxuriant. For all garden vegeta-
bles, seed should be mature.
HOGS.
Ct. W NicHoLs on Chester Whites
Had tried one and was satisfied. Bought
it when pig, but he soon dcvowered all
he could get for it, including weeds,
corn stalks, etc. Fed sweet corn in his
ear. The pig would eat three pecks
three times day, and never got TO be
good pork.
Mr.. Cox-Iiai tried pork raising for
several years. 1t hai cost him % to
40 cts. per pound. A common hog
through fa:ting season, would eat bush
Ell Of meal, worth one dollar, IN four days.
Pork is made by farmers with The waste
from the house, IN the itain, and every
farmer, as well as any. body else, should
raise bis own pork. But it could not be
made profitable TO fat,en pork upon
grain exclusively. lie selieYed that to
be the staple article of their country =
Nothing else could be raised for export
which would return rs much more, and
money we must have from something
Corn is failure about four years out of
every five, and we could do nothing with
any more than we could use here. The
wIuters are to long to make dairy profit
able, and we could not afford to keep
sheep for the wool while there WAS no
demand for mutton. And (by way
Of joke) he was directly interested in
wheat raising because he wanted to grind
the wheat and sell the bran.
Mr.. GILL-Would inquire if is fact
that we now raise less wheat from the
same amount of new ground, than form.
erly! and ifso, Why's Is it true that
the native elements of our soil communi-
cate through the atmospheric And is
it fact that the old wheat fields have
really extracted anything from the un.
broken soil?
Mr. NIcHoIs-Thought the best
wheat land was the first broken.
Mr.. WIScHEsrER-A large share of
our best soil is still unbroken, but, doubt
less, other causes have combined to les
sen tie amount raised per acre. 1t N ight
be well to change our seed entirely, and
bring it from a foreign country.
Mr.. BARKER-W ould admit that the
fact existed that not as much wheat was
grown on the same amount of land as
formerly; but if one neighbor's wheat
field had been robbing unbroken prairie,
an action might lie for damages. 1t
was his opinion that this differenc, is
wholly owing to a careless manner of
farming. Seed should be changed often
but wheat should never be brought from
the south. A few years since New
Hampshire farmer who moved to Star
Prairie, raised leo bushels of wheat on