Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-04
CRAFTSBURY.

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CRAF7ISBURY.
The grist mill at Mill Village is do
ing good business this winter
There is plenty of water and "Hon-
est John" is giving tip top salts
faction.
The old starch factory owned and
occupied by Edward Hatch as ma
chine shop was entirely consumed by
fire last Friday (Feb. 23), together
with quite lot of tools and machin-
cry in the shop. Insured for 5000.
The following is the discussion before
the Farmers Club Tuesday eve, Feb.
18th. ToPIo-Which is the most prof
liable, Titled or Grain Crops. Titled
crops include hoed crops only.
Il. Morse.-Our corn, potatoes, and
roots cost us more than they ought to,
for the reason we let them alone and do
not hoe them when we should, and the
weeds get the start and then it takes
more time to hoe them The corn crop
is the most profitable crop l raise, and l
think it is the most profitable crop raised
in the United States. Potatoes, think,
exhaust the soil more than any other
crop with the exception of oats, which
| think exhaust the soil as much, or
nearly so, as potatoes. Perhaps an old
pasture which is run out might be plant
ed with potatoes with good success. |
think turnips are good crop to feed to any
stock. Some think they are an exhaus-
tive crop but l cannot see it, as the roots
are very small and think they cannot
exhaust the soil as much as oats or po-
tatoes.
/. d. r. Col;nS.-A few weeks ago
| was reading an account in the Maine
Farmer of a man who fed his horses
twice day with grain and once with
rutabagas the horses were at hard work
all the while and he thought they kept
in better condition than when fed with
grain three times a day. Perhaps some
think have got rutabaga on the brain.
do not know but l have. Be that as
it may, | think good deal of 'bagas
have raised them seven or eight years
and have always raised from three tc
six hundred bushels to the acre. Think
| had as soon raise an acre of 'bagas as
an acre of potatoes. Do not SOW them
on weedy ground. When | commenced
raising them | sowed them in drills
when thinned them out | did not hard
en- my heart enough and left them toe
thick. | next put them in hills ffteer
inches apart and when hoed them the
plants looked nicely and l left two in
hill. | now leave but one. | always
thought must have phosphate, and i
is great thing for rutabagas; but on,
year | bought barrel and l did not ge
it as | expected and used hen manur,
and manure from the privy, and realized
a good crop, although the season wa
very dry. My expense of raising is from
three to five cents per bushel. A yer,
extra crop will cost less than three cents
do not reckon the manure &C., only m,
time. One thing l have learned, an,
that Is, not to SOW them till about tn
middle of June. They do not get ia
advanced in the hot weather and the,
grow larger and the bugs don't troubl
them as much as when they are sow
earlier. They grow the most in tn
month of October. Then | intend to no
them as soon as they are up or hoe tn
ground over; do not hoe the dirt aroun
them but rather hoe it away from tn
plants. At this hoeing l cut up all ,bu
three or four plants leave these for fea
OF bugs or any loss. When they &C
about four leaves hoe them all up bu
one IN hill; do all this thinning wit
hoe; do not stoop down and pull thel
out by hand. 1t does not cost any MOI
to hoe them than it does piece of p'
tatoes the same size; do not hill the
up; cover the seed about half an inc
deep rows two feet apart and hills Fl
teen inches apart. have not plante
on broke-up ground although some adv
cate 1T as tho oround Is not ant to be