Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-08
AGRICULTURAL.


OF crops and I've stock.
BEETs and carrots must not be a
lowed to freeze. In gathering carrot
we have practiced running the hftin
subsoil pillow deeply alongside the rows
just far enough away to avoid bruisin,
the roots. This renders the pullin,
light labor.
Corn stalks from sowed corn for fod
der require very great care in curing
IN order to secure the best of food TO
winter use. We have found it almos
impossible to teach any one how t,
cure this fodder as it should be. Elk
perience during one or two years seems
to be absolutely essential to success.
ANIMALS SHOULD be housed at night
care being taken to secure thorough
ventilation. Employ a good variety Of
such succulent food as may be perisha
BILE, and while thus econo,n ling the
wasting pumpkins. sweet apples
squashes, turnips, etc., the growth III
duced by juicy grass will continue.
SURFACE drainage cannot now be
safely neglected. All natural water
courses should be widely and clearly
opened necessary burrows leading
to them should be cleaned down to the
firm soil, and the proper stays placed
to check the flow down steep banks.
and t1rn the water into harmless chan
nels.
Hogs are fattened very rapidly if fed
on cooked sweet apples or pumpkins.
through which is divided the amount of
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have long practiced sowing peas broad
cast on spare ground, and moving them
close to the ground, feeding the whole
to hogs, and thus commenced the fat
tening process without any expenditure
of corn.
DRAINS should be examined, the out
lets properly secured, aud fields that
need drainage should be inspected. A
good plan In practice is to dig holes
here and there, say four feet deep, and,
making observations of the rise of
water In them, note the conduct of the
land under different states of the
weather up to the time of commencing
drainage. With knowledge gained in
this way, partial drainage may be made
to answer very good purpose.
Asparagus.-Cut off tops and cover
the bed with coarse manure. Remove
celery and bury in trench, as deep as
the plants are high. as closely as it can
be packed, and cover with straw as the
advancing cold requires-so says an
old market gardener. Fresh paintings
Of rhubarb, asparagus, grapes, fruit
trees. currants, gooseberries, raspber-
ries, blackberries and strawberries may
be made now with profit, if we'll done,
and tho ground mulched where neces-
sary during winter.
Corn should be closely sorted as
husked, and instead of throwing the
poor ears In the mud 10 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. In no case should good corn be
fed whole, If the object be to produce
the largest amount of flesh from the
ground and cooked, otherwise consid-
cradle portion of 1T will pass through
the animal undigested.
WINTER grain should have all been
in the ground last month, but some
farmers were belated in their work of
preparation. Late sowing with rye can
be more safely practiced than with
wheat-though on good, dry, warm
soils the latter grain has been known
to do well as late as the end of the
month. One farmer records the fact
that he sowed late in November five
acre field. finishing the narrowing with
snow falling, and already three inches
deep. The crop was equal to that
gathered from field sown six weeks
sooner. A greater amount of seed was
sown on the late piece.
TREE setting should be attended 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
"ho,o not to do it" by placing them in
badly made holes, poor ground, or with
an over dose of manure. Particularly
do not make it point to kick tine trees
about in the cold wind some hours be-
fore setting. Pick and handle fruit
carefully, especially the portion intended
to be kept. Good cider can only be
made from the most mature apples, and
the better they are selected and ham
died, the better will be the cider. II you
prize your trees, have all the fruit
picked, that the buds prepared for next
season may receive no injury.
DrcHEs.-Everything on the farm, if
let alone, becomes worse more easily
than better. 1t is especially SO with
open bitches on reclaimed swamp lands.
Tile drains, by .the way, are greatly
superior to open bitches, for the gen.
eral purposes 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 frequent
ly. Such lands ale made good by much
labor. It is bad economy not to keep
them good, by q little labor once in
year or two, as may appear necessary
to keep the water running freely, in or
der that the sour, unnutritious grasses
may give place to those that are sweet
and nutritious.
PLASTER AND AsHKs.-Once while rid
ing In the cars we noticed on either
side of the track for some distance a
tract of almost barren sand, the only