Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-09-19
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water courses should be widely and
cleanly Opened--the necessary fur.
rows leading to them should be clean
ed down to the firm soil. and the
proper stays placed to check the
h)w down steep banks, and turn the
water into harmless channels.
DITCHEs.-Evcrything on the
farm, if let alone, becomes worse
more easily than better. 1t is cs.
peclally SO with open bitches on re-
claimed swamp lands. Tide drains,
by the way. are greatly superior to
open bitches, for the general pur-
poses of drainage. Still there are
situations where open drains are
preferable. If you have any of
these, now is the time to clean out
the mud, and to deepen them, if
necessary. The bitches should be
cleaned out frequently. Such lands
were made good by much labor. 1t
is bad economy not to keep them
good, by little labor once in year
or two, as may appear necessary to
Keep the water running freely, in
order that the sour, unnutritious
grasses may give place to those that
are sweet and nutritious.
DRAINS should be examined, the
outlet properly secured, and fields
that need drainage should be in
spected. A good plan in practise
is to dig holes here and there, say
four feet deep, and, making obser-
vatiOns of the rise of water in them.
note the conduct of the land under
different states of weather up to the
t me of commencing drainage
With knowledge gained in this way,
partial DRAWINGS may be made to
answer very good purpose.
POTATOES yet to be dug. should
be taken out only on dry days, al
lowing them to remain on the sur
face long enough to dry, and immc-
diately transferred to bins in well
ventilated, dry cellars. They should
be handled as little as possible, and
kept from the light after storing.
Corn should be closely sorted as
husked, and instead of throwing
the poor ears in the mud to the hogs,
let them be fed on hard ground, or,
what is the better plan, soaked in
water, and allowed to sour slightly
before being fed. limo case should
good corn be fed whole, if the OBJ
jecU be to produce the largest
amout of flesh from the least guam
tity of food. 1t should be ground
and cooked, otherwise a consider
able portion of it will pass through
the animal undigested.
CORN STALKS FROM SOWED CORN
for fodder require very great care
in curing, in order to secure the
best of food for winter use. We
have found it almost impossible to
teach any one how to cure this fod-
der as it should be. Experience
during one or two years seems to be
absolutely essential to success.
BEETs AND CARROTS must not be
allowed to freeze. In gathering car
rots we have practiced running the
lifting subsoil pillow deeply along
side the rows, just far enough away
to avoid bruising the roots. This
renders the pulling light labor.
REPAIR ALL BUILDINGS and make
thorough preparation for Winter
protection Of crops and live stock.
ANIMALS should be housed at
night, care being taken to secure
thorough ventilation. Employ a
good variety of such succulent food
as may be perishable, and while
thus economizing the wasting pump
kins, sweet apples, squashes, tur-
nips, etc, the growth induced by |
juicy grass will continue.
HOES are fatted very rapidly if
fed on cooked sweet apples or pump
kins, through which is divided the |
amount of corn meal necessary for
them. We have long practiced SOW
ing peas broadcast on spare ground,
and, moving them close to the
ground, feeding the whole to hogs,
and thus commenced the fattening
process without any expenditure of
corn.
TREE SETTING should be attend |
ed to as early as possible, better if
done just as the leaf is ready to
drop, rather than later. Above all
things don't seek Hoo not to do 1t by
placing them in hadly-made holes,
moor ground or with an OWN dose |
of manure. Particularly do mt