The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-03-14
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AIS. KE CLOVER.

We believe. upon fair trial, Alsike
eioyer will recommend itself fayorably to
the farmer aud viii lie preferred to the
red, whenever it can be a6vantageously
grown, THIS year it has been cut six
feet four inches in length, and the aver
age length on one acre was four feet
Our stock prefers it to all other cloYers,
and the afterswath does not salivate our
] horses or cattle 1t should be sown with
Timothy or stiff grasses, to hold its fine
growth up. 1t will stay green until after
harvest, when it will be as green as the
timothy, and not turn black, as our red
clover. when cut late as Timothy is after
being left standing until after harvest
1t can also bo threshed with timothy, and
the seed easily separated, and it also acts
as flavor to threshed Timothy and all
can be fed up without waste.
Alsike luxuriates In damp soils, and
vii. mot freeze out, as the red clover, and
can also be used as fertilizer, as it yields
a heavy succulent matter to plough under.
LII uiSO lbs lAlCC tlLISs lI1C dIIOuuI Ol
roots that red clover has.
Alsike can be sown in the fall, Timothy
at seeding time, and on almost all seed
drills there is a seeder attached, to SOW
grass seed, especially the Willoughby
drill, which has a grass seeder and guano
attachment combined with the grain drill.
Three quarts of Alsike and three quarts
of Timothy make very good seeding for
an acre.
| GLEANINGS.
At meeting Of the Brandywine Farm
ers' Club, in Chester county, Penn, Da-
vid Branson showed an ear Of corn thir-
teen and half inches long, aud contains
ing 2,456 grains.
a bee-keeper at Bridgeport, Conn. has
sold, the present season, 1000 pounds of
honey. Mr.. Phelps, Of Iowa, has sold
| 1880 pounds the present season, and has
a reserve of two tuns left.
| 1t is stated that there are now no lesa
than two hundred and fourteen varieties
Of weeds which have been introduced
into the United States from foreign coun-
tries, and principally from England.
| In the Maine Legislature bill has
been reported e2empting from taxation,
for 20 years, lands set apart for the en-
enlargement OF the growth offorest trees.
California papers complain that the
| yIolI of ,3-haat thor h-c 4al1on
from forty bushels an acre down to twenty
| bushels; and that, if the present inn
provident style Of farming continues, the
crops will not average over twelve bush
els an acre.
Farmers and chemists are well aware of
the beneficial effects Of ammonia on all
kinds of vegetation. and if you desire
your roses, geraniums, tucilsias, etc., to
| become more t1ourishing, you can try it
upon them, by adding five or six drops Of
it to every pint Of warm water that you
give them, but don't repeat the dose
oftener than once in every FIVE or six days.
lest you stimulate them too highly Rain
water is impregnated with ammonia, and
thus it refreshes aud WHITES all vegeta-
Bile life.
| LABOR BY THE HOUR.
The subject OF hiring farm labor by the
hour is attracting attention as the best
method Of settling the number of hours
that shall constitute a days work. 1t
makes provision for paying men for the
time they are actually aged, and moth
ing for rainy days and the time they are
standing still. A correspondent of the
Rural Ne,o Yorker has tried it, aud says:
| find it pays. [ keep three lnen-usu-
ally one by the month. The men | hire
by the day usuy have families to sup
port. When paid them by the day,
without any understanding as to its length,
they arrived late or early, as was convenient
for them. Now | pay by the hour, they
generally want to work full as many hours
as [ need them; but if they do not, they
know that they will get paid only for the
work they do; and if they do not regard
my wishes somewhat, laboring until the
work is accomplished, they feel very GER
| tain that L sh< hire some one who will
stick by me; and | find men are moro
willing to accom- plish ali the work, regard
less of the number Of hours, if they are
sure Of being paid proportionately,a s they
are by the hour system. | think we shall
adopt the same rule in reference to house
hold help. 1t requires q little time to
break ia and make laborers understand it;
but when they do, they like it better, and
so do L.
! GOOD RULES FOR FARMERS.
The following are among the rules
adopted by the proprietor Of large livery
stable in this city: First, no man will
be employed who drinks Intoxicating
liquor his men, ike his horses, must
drink water-cold water only. Second,
no man must speak loud to any of the
4 horses, or in the stable where they are.
Horses of good blood are nervous, and
loud, excited conversation is felt by every
horse in the stable who hears it. Excit-
ed words addressed to one horse are felt
by every other horse who hears them,
and keep them all nervous and uneasy.
Third, no man may use profane language
in the hearing Of the horses. They are
gentlemen horses, and understand what
profane language is and the excited tones