Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-07

any other preparation Of the soil except
narrowing, could not then have been made
to believe that tho same land when cleared
and we'll titled would soon begin to fail to
produce wheat under continuous cropping
by the same cereal. But soon found that
tie Germans from Pennsylvania, true to their
instincts and former experience, sowed the
seed of red clover with their wheat, that the
clover crop might replace the nitrogen in
the soil which the wheat crop would destroy.
] have seen clover plowed into a wheat fall
low when 1t was 30 high that the pillow could
hardly turn it under. Had this system Of
farming been supplemented by the addition
Of ground bones or superphosphate to the
wheat crop, it might to this day have been
kept up to at least twenty bushels to the
acre. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
&C., it is alike deterioratiug, aud but for the
successful wheat growing on the new lands
and virgin soil Of Minnesota, the deteriora.
tion in the wheat crop would be so great that
our export Of the cereal to Europe would at
this time be reduced az least to the moiety.
England has doubled her wheat crop since
the abrogation Of her corn laws, enacted for
the protection Of the farmer against the inn
portation Of foreign grain. Her farmers
now, instead Of depending on protection,
have to depend on their own industry and
superior farm management, and the result is
that their farms produce double the meat,
grain, aud other vegetable products that
they did under the protection Of the emascu-
latiug corn laws, and the enormous increase
OF her manufacturing population under the
influence Of free trade and a sound currency,
has kept up the price of every agricultural
production. The farms of England now
carry double the farm stock, make twice as
much manure, and grow twice as many bushels
Of grain to the acre as they ever did under
corn law protection. The English farmer
now buys mutton sheep and young, thrifty
bovines to keep through the winter and turn
his straw into manure, supplemented with
roots which he grows, and the fax seed or
cotton seed cake and Indian meal he imports
from the United States, thus increasing the
fertility Of his soil at our expense. Al
though twice as much wheat is grown to the
acre in England as in this country, it is said
that the English farmer never boasts Of his
wheat crop, but always Of the quantity Of
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farm. But we have at this time few farm.
ers in western New York, who have Of late
materially Increased their wheat crops by
the most pains-taking tillage, early sowing,
thorough manuring, and draining in their
wheat falows. | know Of several farmers
who have the past untoward season grown
thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. One of
them, who for many years has only grown
three and four acres OF wheat, is so much
encouraged that he is now preparing thirty
acre falow, which he will sow early with
wheat, carefully drilling in superphosphate
and compost Of hen-dung with the seed, to
give it an carly start and enable the young
plants to resist that heavng out by frost,
which SO often destroys the young aud weak
rooted plants.--N. Y. World.