The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-26
CircultCOurt.

fro ASo Oaiic Couuty ShCulI SouIl, llOu Il .. n
pad presiding, closed the last jury trial of the
d on Monday last. 1t was case of much a
West, that OF John L. McCormick vs.. Vim. L. I
G., ct al, which, after occupying the court 81 4
VI has been decided in favor of the defend. I
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n attempting to give sketch of the case, we
Yourselves confronted by two versions SUBJ 7
ctiauy as follows: t
'Cormick claimed, that in 1857, when he C
AhiiIi"Ae "no ..'..- .v"' idge company and
But quarter of mile day is all the walk
mich COW needs. This forcing COW to
range over a wide reach of hill and swamp
and moor and wood for the material to make
milk of, is he insists, The crying sin of American
dairymen. He is q thorough believer in cook.
ing for al farm animals in winter, and cut.
ting green food for them all summer Begin
ming for instance with May, he goes through
as follows: May, old hay, the last of the
stalks and roots, and rye, June, clover and
oats. September, sowed corn, field corn, soft
heads of cabbage. October and November,
turnip tops, carrot tops corn, beet tops, and
roots. November Is to May Is, boiled food,
corn stalks, hay and roots, steamed together
and sprnkled with meal and shorts, the rate
being about four tons roots to one OF stalks
and hay. He used Prindle's boiler, large size,
and double steam box.
The stalks and roots are all cut fine, shovel
ed into the box, and the steam let on. In about
six hours it is soft so that stick can be push
ed through it. 1t is allowed to cool to the
temperature of the blood before it is given TO
the animals. HIS roots, Swedes, mangolds
and carrots are grown in the following man.
ner: Draw burrows say two and q half feet
apart, and fill them with manure then cover
with double turrow and roll flat, and open
enough to receive the seed; cultivate with
horseshoe. On land not remarkably fertile he
gets thrty-fve tons to the acre allowing thr-
ty bushels to the ton that crop is 1000 bush
els. He harves:s by ploughlng them out first
clipping the tops while in the ground with
sharp steel hoe; then he harrows over the
field, lifting the teeth as the roots become en-
tangled. Then dump.carts 60 on, and gather
and throw them into long piles by the road.
These piles are covered with tops, straw, and
earth, and loads are taken out daily as they
are needed at the barn. With 5000 loads Of
manure he has enough to dress thirty acres
very heavily and all his Swedes were large as
also his carrots, many of them, taken from any
part OF the pile, measuring three inches across
the crown. He cut sixty tons Of hay, and we
saw at least twenty feet in the barns, middle
Of March, for his dependence is upon roots.
He had thlrty.two acres in roots IN 1870, and
estimates his crop at 10000 bushels.
Besides these crops he has made extensive
and permanent ameliorations. Bushes have
been grubbed up, fences have been rebuilt on
all parts Of the place, tough old pastures thor.
oughly ploughcd, the forests trimmed and
raked, young groves of lccusts nursed, gates
hung, high yard fences built, and roads gra.
ded. He has the best milk house We have
ever seen, not excepting the famous diaries of
Delaware county, west of Philadelphia. His
hog pens are commenced on on excellent
model. but to describe all these and his system
in connection with them, would be to write a
treatise on butter and pork making We
submit this as report Of progress, and have
given the chief features of his faith as an az.
rlcultural thinker, and his practice as a sue.
cessful farmer. Nor have We said these EN-.
phatic things from wish to praise Mr..
Crozier but simply to let farmers know how
striking the real successes Of their profession
are.