National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-02-06
Farm, Garden and Household,


food for cattle. On one farm three
pecks were sown per acre ON the 2lst OF
May: Aug: 2-seventy.three days after
making ,e04 pounds Of excellent bright
hay, which the horses and cattle eat
with relish. liking, IL fully as we'll a.
they did clover. lC,0 - u
Josiah Quincy's method Of soilins is
as follows:
May 20 to July !, feed cut fodder
from early clover, rye or orchard grass.
July / to 81, cut from oat field which
was sown in April.
Aug. l to 81, feed sown corn, planted
from May I, every ten days.
Sept. to 30, recut the oats on field
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. ta -
Luoern is most valuable for soiling.
It requires no reseeding every year.
The first year it yields two crops-June
and September. In succeeding years
it will yield four crops each season
Jane, July, August, and September. In
succeeding years it will yield four crops
each season-June, July, August, and
oSeptember-about ton per acre from
each moving. Most of it's nourishment
uoemes from the atmosphere, hence
it is as enriohing crop as q green
manure.
1.-THE following will be found q practi.
cal! schedule for q herd of COWS. For
green feed during summer SOW:
acre early rye the previous fall.
acre early oats.
I acre sowed corn, May /; resown
Aug. IL.
acre cabbages..
acres lucern. ............
acres sugar-beets and mangolds.
10 acres.
For winter feed cut hay from 10 acres
OF clover or timothy, and roots from
three to five acres additional. As the
ground becomes more and more rich,
tho feeding capacity of each acre will
be increased, and in time doubled, so
that twenty acres can easily maintain
twelve or fifteen head the year round.
AL the manure must be returned as o
top-dressing.
W, Preserving Corn Fodder.
A Hungarian farmer communicates q
way OF preserving corn fodder without
curing, in q sour, succulent state for
winter use:
-. 1.-THE curing of the various kinds of
green fodder into sour hay is, perhaps,
in. the United States, not commonly
practiced, especially the souring Of
green corn, which should be practiced
with more effect on the farms of the
United States. The making of dry hay
OF green corn is an injurious manner OF
curing it. Although the writer is not
acquainted with American farming OK.
cept by reading, nevertheless, eommu-
nicate method of preservation of Juicy
fodder peculiarly important for corn
producing America.
"The corn is sown broadcast, or drilled
in rows nine to eighteen inches apart.
nearly three and one-half bushels to the
acre. The field must be kept free from
weeds. At blossom time the corn is
mown, loaded into wagons, and hauled
in. The home-brought corn is put in
large bitches ten or twenty rods long,
and is here pressed in by few men
walking on the green corr. The ditch
is twelve feet deep, twelve feet wide at
the top, and six feet at the bottom. The
length will need to be sufficient to con-
tain the fodder to be preserved. The
ditch must be dug in dry ground.
When the ditch is filed the green corn
is built like stack upward about ten
feet over the level of the ground. The
finished stack is then covered with
earth about two feet thick on every side.
1t is best to cover the top of the stack
at first, because the weight of the earth
pressing down the green corn, rs much
earth is not needed for covering as is
the case when the sides are covered
first.
r..i" The sour-hay making enables us to
store q large quantity of Juicy fodder
for the winter, and if we'll covered with
earth it may be stored for few years
without any injury"
.,. Constitution for Farmers, Club.
Article l. This association shall be
called the fill the blank with the namel
Farmers Club. and it's object shall be |
to increase the interest and knowledge |
in agriculture and horticulture in this |
town.
Art. 2. The officers of the club shall
be President, Vice President, Secre-
tary, Treasurer, and Standing Com
mlttee OF three, to be chosen annually |
by ballot on the first Tuesday of Janu-
airy or other day agreed on.
Art. 3. The officers of the club shall
constitute Board of Directors, and
shall take charge of all the necessary
business Of the society not provided for
by special assignment.
Art 4. The club shall hold regular
weekly or fortnightly meetings, and |
the exercises shall be of such q charac-
ter as shall be determined on by vote.
Art. s. Any citizen of the town or
towns may become member of this |
club by paying 81 and signing the con.
stitution.
Husking Corn.
An old farmer writes in enc of orr
exchanges: There is a great knack in
husking corn, and some mems hands
and strong, horn-like thumb nails are
peculiarly adapted to rapid work. The
operation of breaking off the husked
ear is very trying to the hands, and the
skin between the thumbs and fore.
fingers. if not usually tough and lea.
thery, become blistered and sore. Nit
tens are inconvenient, gloves worse. I
have tried and thrown aside the "husk-
ing gloves" armed with metal claws.
etc. aad have gone back to the simple
old.fashioned husking-pin, made Of
hickory scraped smooth, with leather
thong to 60 over two fingers, while the
pin is held within the hand, across the