The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-02

wear or two, 70 sell grain or even hsy;
but he win soon sond OF his surplus
mainly In the form u cotton, or wool,
or meat, Or butter and cheese, o. some
thing else that returns 70 the soil nearly
all that il taken from it. A bank 40
count daily drawn upon, while nothing
is deposited 70 it, CROFT, must soon 70
spond, mo funds" so with farm
similarly treated
izstion. 1t may not positively enrich .
farm il will at least retard and psst-
pone its impoverishInent. He who
grows wheat after wheat, corn xffer
corn, for twenty years, will need to en-
igrante before the term is fulfilled. The
same farm cannot support (nor endure)
him longer than that All our great
wheat-growing sections Of fifty years
ago are wheat-growing NO longer, while
England grows large crops thereof on
the very fields that fed the armies Of
Saxon Harold and William the Con-
qu.ror. Rotation has pre-~rved these,
as the lack of it ruined those.-Boston
Journal Of Oemifsy.
Asrseslssral lsess.
Cows and sheep should not be pastur-
ed together. Ho- ses and sheep form q
more suitable partnership, as their graz
ing habits are similar.
II is recommended TO place iron filing
or bits of iron 10 the soil about rose
bushes. Ii increases the vividness Of
the bloom. The sweepings of q black
smith shop are excellent for this pur-
pose.
OxE of the most important principles
established by Liebig Is rotation of am
monia collecting with ammonia-dis-
persing crops-that is, root and green
crops alternating with cereals.
HoR frequently around newly planted
trees. Ii Is better than mulching with
any material. as the fresh stirred soil
admits air. light and heat, and absorbs
the dews of every night
A CORRESPONDENT Of the CoHrty Gen
neman says that even where land was
too poor to grow clover tn amount to
any thing. blowing under two crops of
rye brought the land in good condition
for clover, and this, plowed under, put
the land in good order for other crops-
ZONE who knows" makes it . point
to select q COW with yellow skin. One
whose skin is pale or colorless Is not
he says, half 90 likely to produce good
butter.
TIE Ner E.gl1sd Farmer says that .
gentleman used saltpeter in the kitchen
and flower garden, where il increased
the beauty and prolonged the bloom Of
the flowers. At the rate of two hundred
pounds per acre. On . crop of horse
radish. he experienced ihe most bene-
fetal results. IL presented nildew on
early peas and wall fruit trees. On
gravelly grass lands the results were
exceedingly satisfactory. On calcar eous
or imy soils, the effect Of ssltpeter was
excellent Its application to red clover
was attended with the same success.
The best buyers Of wool do not like
wool to be put up in square packages
and tied around twice or three times
each way with strong Irvine. They pre-
fer the heeces to be rolled up neatly
and left as loose as possible: 50 that
each fleece will be springy and light and
elastic 70 the hand, not solid, hard,
square, compact masses IN which the
wool is pressed together till the fleece
feels like brick. Then one twine
tied across to keep the rolled up fleece
in its place and two twines the other
way.
THERE 10 hardly . more valuable plant
in the garden than sage. IL is easily
raised. The plants should Be set about
eighteen inches apart in rows three feet
distant. Sage viii grow on almost any
land we have in the West, and if prop
erly mulched will stand our coolest and
most severe winters. 1t is very neces-
sary that the plant should Be cultivated
frequently, and no weeds should be per.
mitted to choke the sage. 1t always
brings . good price in market, and .
small, or, for that matter, large patch
usually pays the farmer.
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