The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-06-06

For many reasons there is need of less
pasturing,a and more soiling and stall feed
ing hereafter, than ever before. One of
these reasons is the difficulty and
COST OF MAKING FENCES.
As the country grows Older and is
more generally cleared up, there is but
little timber left for fencing, and what
there is left is verg high and difficult to
obtain. In some sections stone are used;
but good walls are expensive, and only
where 1t is necessary to remove the stone
from the fields that need fencing, will it
pay to make such fences, Hedges are
tried to a limited extent but with any
hedge plant yet tried, there are so many
difficulties to be met and provided for,
that comparatively few farmers are able
to make good fences in this way. Hence,
when the fencing timber on the farm is
exhausted, there is not very good pros
pect Of buying timber or lumber, or of
getting stone, if not plenty on the fields,
nor Of growing good hedgos,so as to make
any Of these modes of making fences gen.
orally practical the expenses and diff
culties to be overcome are usually too
large to be warranted by the present or pro-
spective profits of farming So that,in all
these sections pasturing will sooner OF
later be difficult for want of fences tc
divide it off, and keep the stock on differ.
emf parts Of the farm as they should be.
MORE MANURE Is NEEDED.
Another reason for less pasturing and
more feeding in the stables, is that more
manure is needed. Pasturing is very
slow way Of improving the soil, unles,
clover is pastured and then the land is no
improved so fast, nor so much by tn,
growth of the clover as when the crop i
cut for hay; while in the latter case tn,
hay can be used to feed and make manur,
besides, which makes a two-fold means O
Improvement, first in the growth of tn
clover, and second, in the manure made
Still good clover is not usually pastured
but on y the fields where the better par
OF the cultivated grasses are run out, anC
only portion of timothy mixed will
June grass and perhaps other wild grasse
to rather exhaust instead of improve tn
soil. True, the land is not run as bad q
when kept in grain crops, and after
period Of rest to such crops, will do BET
ter when first plowed up than at the tim
it was last seeded But with this cours
if the land is not frequently covered O
well MANFRED, the soil will gradually &c
poorer, and each course of crops, as
comes around, will be less than the Pre-
ceeding one
Pasturing largely has tendency t
lesson the means Of improvement in al
other way. TO keep the land improving
good vigorous sod should be alway
turned under when grass is broken up,
good, thick, rich sod is one of the cas-
est and cheapest means of improvement
that can be used on the farm. But sue
sod is seldom plowed up where the lar
is largely devoted to pasture it is muC
more likely TO be used as it will produC
much feed, and then there is very lit
left to improve the soil. Or if it
plowed up sooner, it is first fed down
close that it appears more like mess
poor, half dry and dead grass roots, tn;
the green succulent sod that should
plowed under. With a good thick 81
and some growth above ground, that mi
be secured before breaking up for corn
the spring, or for fallow in the SUNNI
the whole top and roots will be full of t
rich sap and juices of the plants, viii
will cause the sod to rot in she
time, and to afford large amount
valuable fertilizers. So that wheney
land is closely pastured, good deal me
manure is needed than when good S
and this extra growth is plowed unde