St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-06-02

lie makes it. There are the immense
banks of it standing fathom deep IN the
main stock yard, and looming above the
burrows of all the plowed fields. Ills
compost pile is not winters accumula-
tions thrown into the yard from stable
doors and windows to be hauled in the
field in April and May. Manure max
inc composing goes on the year round
no dav in winter SO frozen but it sees adj
ditons to the piles Of fertilizers no sum-
mer morning without its round Of chores
that swell the heap. 'IIverything," he
says, ''must have a mother and manure
is the mother of all things" lie keeps
an OK team, and has them driven stcadi
ly at work the year round, hauling alb
.sorbants and composing stuff: His task
is, five loads before dinner and five after
dinner of leaves from the woodlands,
muck, weeds and salt mud. His calcu-
lation IS that the solid droppings of a
COW or OK amount to something like ten
loads in year, and that ten loads OF
muck and leaves Should be composted
with j.. For manure making hn syS
far sheep equal COW.
Pasture Hand h does nuG believe in.
Young animals and mich cows should
have a small range, and run in it an
hour ~ tWu for cXcrci-c Bat Il quarter
Of a mile day i, all the walk milch
CIV needs This forcing Il COW to range
Oyer wide reach of Hill and swamp and
III Jor and wood for the material To make
milk of Is, he insists, the crying sin of
American dairymcn. He is a thorough
believer in cooking for all farm animals
in winter, and cutting green food all sum
mcr. beginning, iur instance, with
May, h" goes through the year rs fol-
lows May, old hay, the last Of stalks
and roots, and rye, June, clover, and oats.
September, sOwcd corn, soft heads OF cab
baee October and November, tnrnip
! tops, corn, beet top, and roots. Novcm
| Der - to May j. boiled f1oJ, corn
stalks, hay and roofs, steamed together
and srrinkIod with mesl and shorts, tLc
rate being about four tons roots to one
of stalks and hay. lie used Prindlc's
boiler larGc siza, and Il double steam box.
The stalks and roots are all cut fine,
-hovclc,l into 4 box, and the steam let
on. In about six hours it is 50 soft that
a stick can be pushed through it. 1t Is
allowed . cool to the temperature Of the
blood before it is given to the animals.
His roots, SwcdcS, mangol,ls and carrots
are crown in the following manner
Draw burrows say two feet apart, and
fill them with manure, then cover with
4 double tu:row a.I roll fat, and open
enough to receive the seed, cultivate with
| Icrsc-hoc. On lanl no, rcm:.rkIhiy fer
tile he gets thirty-iivc tens 10 the acre
allowing thirty bushels 10 the ton that
crcp Is 1000 bushels. lie harycs;S by
plOughin@ them out, first clipping the
tops while in tie grouud with hoe
then lie harrOws over the i1ld, lifting the
teeth rs the roots become rEtan@lcl, tltyr
dump-carts 20 on, and gather ami throw
them into long piles 10y the road. Thee
piles are covered with tops straw anl
earth, and loads are taken daily rs they
are to tile barn With C,0OO load, oi
manure lie has enough to dress thirty
acres heavily. AMI al his Swcic- wri,
large, a. also his carrots many OF them,
taken from any part CT the pile, measur-
| ing three inches across the crown. He
cut sixty tons OF lay, and we saw at
least twenty yet in the barn, (middic OF
MarctD for his dependence is upon roots.
lie had tiirty-two acres in roots in 1870,
and estimates his crop at 10000 bushels.
Besides these crops he has made extern
sivc AMI permanent authorizations. bush
6 lave been grujbed W, fences rebuilt
on all of the place, the old pastures
thoroughly plowcd, the forests trimmed
and rakcd, young groves of locusts nurs-
cd, Gates hung, high fc,.ccs built, and
roads graded. He las the best mill;
house we have ever seen, not excepting
the famous diaries of Delaware county,
west Of Philadelphia. lis hog pens are
commenced on an excellent model, but &c
describe all these and his system in con-
ncction with them, would be to write {;
treatise on butter and pork making. w,
submit this rs a report ot progress, and
have given the chief features of his faith
as an agricultural thinker, aud his prac,
ticc a. a successful farmer. Nor Iay,
we said these emphatic ;hirss from 4;
wish TO praise Mr.. Crozier, but simply
to let farmers know how striking the rca
success OF their profession are.
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