The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-10-11
Facts in SOiling-What to Sow and How
to Grow it.

Mr. George Waring, the excellent
manager of the Ogden Farm, at New
port, r. l., lays down the following pro-
gramme for herd of twelve cows:
l. Early the previous Autumn, SOW
three acres of Winter rye, to be cut the
next Spring, from May Is to June Is.
2. Early in April, sow three acres of
oats, to be cut from June IL to July l.
3. Late in April, SOW two acres of
oats or barley, to be cut from July to
July Is.
4. Early in May, SOW two acres in
oats or barley, to be cut from July Is
to August 10.
5. Middle of May, SOW two acres of
oats or barley, to be cut from Aug. 10
to Sept. l.
6. Middle of June replant plot No l
with corn, which is to be cut from Sept
to Sept. 90.
I. Early in July resow plot No. Q
with barley, to be cut from Sept. 90
until roots and cabbages come in, which
is usually Oct to Is.
8. In September three acres of plots
Nos and 5 are to be sown in Winter
rye for the next Springs use.
Mr. Waring' experience demonstrates
two general principles:
First, the earliest abundant food will
be secured by the use of Winter rye
Second, the best and most abundant
food for the later Summer and earlier
Autumn time will be secured by the use
of Indian corn
An experiment was made last year
by the officers of the Agricultural Col
lege of Pennsylvania to determine the
amount of food per acre. Seed was
planted May Is, at the rate of seven
bushels per acre, one-half drilled, in
drills two and half feet apart, the other
sown broadcast. On the Goth of Aug.
began cutting, and on the drilled part
gathered $4,000 pounds, or 1744 tons
per acre.
Hungarian grass is quickly-turned
food for cattle. On the same farm
three pecks were sown per acre on the
2lst of May. Aug. 2, seventy three
days after planting, it was gathered
and dried, making 1904 pounds of ex-
cellent bright hay, which the horses and
cattle ate with relish, liking it fully
as well as they did the clover.
Josiah Quincy's method of soiling is
as follows:
May 90 to July l, feed cut fodder
from early clover, rye or orchard grass.
July l to 81, cut ftom oat field which
was sown in April.
Aug. / to 81, feed sown corn, planted
from May l every ten days.
Sept. to 80, recut the oats on field
Mol; also feed one acre late corn, sown
in June, every ten days.
October to November feed tops of
vegetables.
After December to next May feed
hay and roots, mixed and finely cut or
cooked.
Lucerne is most valuable for soiling
1t requires no re-seedng every year.
The first year it yields two crops-June
and September. In succeeding years
it will yield four crops each season.
June, July, August, and September
about ton per acre from each moving.
Most of its nourishment comes from the
atmosphere; hence it is an enriching
crop as green manure
The following will be found a good
practical scedule for a herd of cows.
For green feed during Summer SOW:
l acre earl y rye the previous Fall.
acre early oats.
acre sowed corn, May l, resown
Aug. Is.
acre cabbages.
4 acre lucerne
acres sugar-beets aud mangels.
10 acres.
For Winter feed cut hay from ten
acres of clover or timothy, and roots
from three to five acres additional. As
the ground becomes more and more
rich, the feeding capacity of each acre
will be increased, and in time doubled,
SO that twenty acres can easily main
tain twelve to fifteen head the year
round. All the manure must be return