The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-10
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such timber could scarcely be found, but
there are not many farms where small stones
are not altogether too plenty. l suppose
the cellar walls might be built in the same
way, which would help in some places
where good cellar stones are scarce. This
would furnish a use for the loads of stones
with which so many of our fields abound,
and give our buildings more durable ap-
pearance, and would leave the lumber for
other uses. Remember that | do not re-
commend this, but that l say would in
vestigate it before building, as have been
ia, orably impressed by what / have seen of
it. Perhaps such investigation would re-
veal some fatal objections to it, hut would
know what they were before giving my de-
cision against it,
When | was a boy on the old homestead |
thought planting time was past in May,
but now ! do nearly as much planting after
the first OF June as before. | have rot in
my winter squashcs, late sweet corn, late
peas and mangolds since that time, and now
have fodder, winter cabbage and turnips to
put in. Then after the early peas are taken
off round turnips must be put on the
ground where they are. This work, with
the hoeing, is keeping me very busy, but !
hope to get it all finished in time to get at
hayng IN good season. lloeing has gone
along well SO far. / have taken the weeds
in good season in most fields, and it is not
any great labor to keep crops clean if the
weeds are taken in the seed leaf, but if they
get well rooted know it to be a hard job
to clean up an onion field, or any other
crop in which cannot use a horse hoe. |
have tried it and never want to try it again.
The field in which propose to put my
fodder corn was planted with turnps last
and was well MANFRED with green manure.
plowed under This year have plowed
it without manuring, and shall now spread
on d light coat of manure and harrow it in
and put the corn in with a horse corn
planter, which sows the corn in drills. |
90 this because | think the strength of the
manure which was plowed under last year
was not all exhausted by the crop of tur-
nips, and that with what shall put on this
year should be quite enough for the fodder.
| do not care to have it heavily MANFRED,
as do not like to have the fodder grow
too rank and coarse. shall SOW the white
Maryland corn, as ! think it yields better
growth than any other, though it is not
quite rs nutritious rs the fodder grown from
sweet corn. Do not know but what it
would have been economy to hayc paid
more for sweet corn 10 SOW, hut was very
doubtful about II, so concluded to stick to
l
did well Cor me last year, and the cows did
not find any fault with the quality of il,
For tMnips | shall do as did last wear
take a piece of the meadow that is not
likely 10 yield much glass, and pillow the
sward under, after have spread the green
manure on it. Then | shall try to SOW
little phosphate in the drills, or broad cast.
and harrow It in. Think putting il in the
drills Will do the best, but ii is more labor.
Which way | shall apply it will depend
upon how closely other work presses. |
put my rows of turnips far enough apart to
run the horse hoe between them. and do
not find il any more work to attend an acre
of turnips than ii would be to take care OF
an acre of corn. Onions, carrots. cabbage
and squashes are the crops which require
the most labor for the size of the fields, but
they pay well if they do well.
NV onions are no, as thicl, sc I sborld
like to see them. for did not ret the seed
in thick enough. used the seed plonter
as ALWAYS had been accustomed tn use il
but the seeds mirht have been a little larrer
tLan | had them before rot in ono
pound of seed and planted ahoul a third Of
an acre. They look very vel. for have
kept them pretty clear of weeds 50 far
That is the only way TO raise decent cron
of onions. With the onion weeders that
have. | can weed a row in half the time
that could with nv fingers in the ola wnv
that used to when I was bow.
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