Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-12-14


ally have little to sell. Therefore, L
would pillow pastures and not use the same
land for pasture all of the time. There
would be considerable expense IN getting
the land in order and the fences built but
after that it would cost no more than now
and would pay. think in time we shall
nlow almost all of our land. l know 1t
is net in favor here now, but in old coun-
tries they pillow much more than we d.
and we shall have to follow their exam
pie. | would pillow almost entirely IN the
fall
A. r. Bailey. The best farmer In your
town to build up grass land was W. ii.
Powers. and he hardly plowed an acre per
year.
W. S. Thorpe. Mr. Powers was my
next neighbor. He kept his cattle up
nights all summer and scratched and
scraped all he could of manure everywhere
and put it upon his meadows, and think
robbed his pastures to do it, which does
not pay.
A, r. Bailey. His theory is to top
dress pastures as well as meadows.
G. f. Small The blowing eff of sur
face soil has been spoken of, and will
say for the information Of the Club that
never lost 10 cents that way in con-
sequence of fall blowing. | lost more
from one gust of wind last summer than
from the results of all the fall blowing |
ever did.
l.. u. Woodwork. 1t depends a great
deal on the soil when to pillow. One year
with another, on sandy and gravelly soils,
| have got the best crops on fall plowed
land. Clay soils should always be powed
in the fall, so as to have the frost act upon
them.
Pastures are getting so that they must
be renewed in some way, either by the
pillow or by getting out the brakes and the
bushes. have had good results from
changing part Of my COW pastures to
sheep. They kill all the briars and the
bushes.
d. N. Farrand If | could would
pillow my land, say or 5 inches deep just
after haying, again in the fall deeper, and
again in the spring before planting or
sowing.
| believe in stabIng cows IN summer
do not think my pastures run down in con-
sequence would not pillow a great deal
but would top-dress literally.
w. s. Thorpe. On my farm a piece
we'll stocked will bear good crop of grass
or 10 years; There is one piece on it
which has borne grass neal ly 20 years and
bears a good crop now. | would pillow all
my land if | could do it, and thcu use it
for meadow, pasture or cultivation altcrn-
ltely as | wanted it.
s. Harris. On my farm it docs not pay
to pillow much. my farm is a grass farm.
I know a number of farms that have
been run down by too much blowing. The
produce was not all fed on the farm, many
potatoes AMI oats were sold off. | had
best success in fall blowing. especially for
wheat. | had piece of wheat land Of
which ] acre was planted in the spring,
and the crop was not nearly as good as on
the adjoining fall plowed land. put my
pillow in deep and work the land over as
much as | can.
My land is underlad with hordpan, but
not very hard at from 8 to "a in. from
the surface ....
A. G. West When Mr.. d p Noyes
built his house in this village, the dirt
from the bottom of the cellar was spread
over the surface of the yard and it bore a
very heavy cropof clover with no manure
that proves that there was some good
ness in that soil as deep as that at least.
II. Stafford. | heard Mr.. llendee tell
how L. Bundy managed piece of pasture
which he owned for % years. He plow-
ed and sowed it to oats once in 3 years
aud drew off the crop, putting on no ma
nure, and said the pasture remained in
good condition. l never thought that
good way to improve land.
A. G. West. That pasture is not as
good now as formerly.
A. R. Bailey. | see some here speak
of Horace Greeley; perhaps there are
some of his style of farmers. here, al
see he advocates Milling up buckwheat
L. V. Woodwork. Farmers here talk
of deep blowing, but in the West they
pillow 3 or inches deep and have raised
corn and wheat alternately on the same
land for 40 years and get good crops,
ID. j, Stafford. know about as much
about Western farming us the last gentle
man; we both learn by hearsay. The