The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-07

hurt them that il made them broken
winded, and bloated their legs, and made
them lose flesh when their food was chang
ed. But never found any such trouble as
this with it, have fed young horse on |
il, in the fall Of the year, not long after 1t |
was got into the barn, and he grew fat and |
strong faster than have ever known horses |
to do on hay and grain. | have used 1t for |
working horses, and they did well on it. |
And have fed it now and then to my |
working oxen, and they like 1t for change |
at least. | raise it, however, mostly for my |
mich cows 1t will make more milk than |
English hay. And when ! have good
milk market always lay in Tor a good sup
ply of Hungarian. This kind OF grass l
raise Just as do barley, or oats, or rye.
1t will grow but one year, and so you must
plough and manure and seed every year if
YOU want to get crop. 1t will not grow
on poor land. | see John Thomas looking
at me, and want to say to him that am
not talking about green food for cows in
the summer season-so he needn't think
am coming into his theory about fodder
corn. am talking now about hay 30 he
can look the other way If he likes, and /
will have no more fuss with him. / say
want good land for 1t. If / have had a
piece in corn, and have MANFRED it well, l
like to raise Hungarian on it. And first
plough early in the spring, as soon as the
frost is out of the ground. / then let the
land lie until about the first of June ; give
it about six cords of good well-rotted man.
ure to the acre plough it in shallow then
plough again (; harrow as fine as | can and
then sow my seed. Half bushel of Hun
garian grass seed to the acre IS enough. III
YOU SOW more, the crop is apt to be short
and too fine 1t lacks firmness and when
it is cut and dried 1t withers away. The
seed should be brushed in, or narrowed in
with very light harrow, and the land
rolled. Now, If this is all done between
| the first and middle of June, when the
weather is warm and the earth is beginning
| to feel the summer heat, you can get your
seed started before the weeds spring up,
and the chances arc that you will get good
crop. If you SOW earlier the weeds will get
the start of you. If you sow later the crop
will not have time to grow before the sum
mer hay-making weather Is all over. The
great trouble in raising Hungarian is the
weeds and l have told you the best way
to avoid them, because l have heard SO
much complaint that the crop is almost
worthless and hardly worth raising on &C
count of this nuisance. Prepare the land
well, manure it well, SOW the seed when
the weather is really warm-warm enough
to bring up the corn and make it grow right
along, and, my word for it, you will not be
disappointed. You can get four tons, or
more, of this kind of hay to the acre it
does not get damaged by being wet as Eng
fish hay does it will stand the effects of
storm about as we'll as corn fodder /; and
it always spends well when fed to mich
cows IN the winter l am talking about
grass cut and made into hay and hope
nobody will charge me with abandoning
my fodder corn, for l raise that still, to use
in the dry summer weeks in August and
September, before the fall feed comes.
But / raise Hungarian, acres and acres of
| it, every season, for winter feed for my
mich cows. If it is rank, coarse and heavy,
| ! chop it and wet ii with warm water, add
ing meal and shorts. And am as sure as
| am that | am alive, that no better food
for cows can be found. reckon that an
acre of good Hungarian grass fed to good
COWS, cows that will give fifteen quarts q
day, and these are good enough, will bring
$3.50, besides the manure, and this ID doing
pretty well, when you consider that there
is NO hceing to he done, and that the har-
vestng is as easy as harvesting the hay
crop. Do you doubt this? l see Barnes
smiles. But reckon it up and see. -Four
tons of the hay, which will grow on one
acre, will feed two cows, six months. 1t
they give fifteen quarts of milk day, each,
and you sell your milk for six cents quart,
and l calculate to get more, you will receive
in six months, $3.50. Allow $110 of this
for grain for your cows and you have $3.50
as the result of that work, or my arithmetic
is all wrong. call this doing pretty well.
And am willing to raise Hungarian as
, long as keep COWS, sell milk, and make
manure. In reckoning my profits on ar
acre of Hungarian grass, have said that
fed it to COWS giving fifteen quarts of milk
day. | don't expect COW to give more
in winter in herd of thirty or forty, and
don't want one which will give less. an
very careful to have my cows begin to milk
in the fall. If they must be fed all winter,
want them to pay for what they eat as
well as they can. And know that tor
of hay fed to COW giving five quarts Of
milk day will not bring me in as mucl
money as If it were fed to COW giving fif
teen quarts. ! like winter mich cows fol
proof. like to feed them. 1t is like pay
ing good wages to first-rate man-yol
will always get a new dollar for an old one
+ If you know how to set him at work. Blu
40 seed drone, or a loafer or a dry COW
/ l cannot and l will not have that going OIL
where l am, at any rate. John Thoma
may do it for charity if he likes but if
am going to give anything away, l wan
to give it away, and not squander it-giv'
it where it would amount to charity, ant
not waste it where it would be premium
, on idleness. You might as well throw
, stones into an old well as to *."-BOS
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