The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-13
PLANTATION TOPICS.

AN III lIlc WHO dfDler
rather surprises us by intimating that
spring seeding is so nearly universal in
the interior and Western States. The
best results are usually obtained by
sowing grass in the fall and clover in
early spring. Ifsowed alone. il should
be In as early as possible, and the clover
may be sowed mt the same time. The
suggestion to scatter few oats is good
one. 1t is frequently done in putting
down lawns, but the oats must not be
allowed to get too rank, or the grass
will be injured. They can be moved
and left evenly spread over the ground.
In n recent tour in Central and
Southern Ohio we found that farmers
were very generally deploring the fail
of their last springs seeding of grass
and clover, in consequence of the Sc
verify of the drouth. But the wheat
crop was very fine, and this, together
with the fair prospects for corn, keeps
the farmers in good heart, and they
will utilize the bright wheat straw with
corn fodder to make up for the hay
crop lost by the drouth, and MANY are
inquiring how they can best remedy the
loss of their springs seeding, which is
serious matter, not only in the item
of cost, but i'll the arrangement of the
system of rotation of crops, which is
practiced by every good farmer. One
farmer in Clinton county told us that
his loss in cost of seed and labor was
over $500, and there are very many,
doubtless, who can say the same.
Fall sowing of timothy, after wheat
or oats, is, of course, the first remedy
suggested. We have not personally
known of this being extensively done
in Ohio, but from our observation We
should not hesitate to recommend it
where the soil is not flat nor too clayey,
so as to heave badly with frost in win
ter. Timothy seed if sown in Septem-
Der, on land well ploughed and har-
rowed, will make good start before
winter, if the fall is not unusually dry,
and yield fair crop of hay the next
summer. Clover cannot so safely be
sown in the fall, as the young plants
are apt to be winter-killed; but if
mixture of clover is desired, it can be
sown lightly on the timothy in early
spring.
In preparing the land for fall seed
ing, if it is ut all poor, a dressing of
old manure should be applied to the
surface, after the first narrowing, and
narrowed in before seeding; then the
seed should be gone over a brush har-
row, or n Thomas smoothing harrow
Sometimes light sprinkling of oats is
sOwn with the grain seed, rs partial
protection from sun and winds, and
mulch during the winter when the oat
plants are killed; but this is not gener-
ally thought to he of much advantage.
The weeds that may spring up with the
young grass in autumn will of course
be mostly killed by the winter.
HAULING AND SPREADING MANURE.
The following sensible advice, from
a correspondent of ''MooreIs Rural New
Yorker" should be followed by our
farming community: 81 have prac-
ticed and advised for years drawing
manure from the barn-yard early in the
spring and spreading it evenly over the
surface, often leaving it three or six
weeks before ploughing under. If pos
sible, l would never plough under
manure before at least one heavy rain
had dissolved its solubled portions and
washed them into the soil. OF course |
/ would have this manure spread, III
stead of left in heaps for this. By |
employing help enough, so that one |
team can draw thirty or more loads per |
day, the barn-yard may be cleaned and |
the manure saved from teaching and
evaporation of one-half its value during |
the summer. Then it is, in my expe-
rience, much more advantageous to |
spread the heaps than to stop the team
while spreading from the load. The
heaps can be spread while the ground
Is too too wet and soft for ploughing,
or for drawing manure over. In fact
we often have a very limited time to
draw manure from barn-yar(ls in the |
spring. 1t is only while the ground is
frozen that it can be done to advantage,
and one days sunshine will often con-
vert the hard road-bed into fathom-
less mass of mud and slssh. Then is |
the time when your men cannot be |
working with the team to spread the
manure. If ploughcd, within few
days after drawing, if the manure is
not too coarse, l prefer to spread the
heaps on the newly ploughed surface
and harrow in. Topdrcssing is the
natural and best method of applying
most manures, and in contact with new
ly ploughed soil there is little or no loss
from evaporation.
INFLUENZA IN THE HORsE-TEEATMEN
In the matter of treatment great |
care must be taken to avoid the use of |
active remedies bleeding and purging,
common means of reducing fever,
would be fatal in influenza even the
mildest laxatives are dangerous in the
irritable state of the mucous men,
branes, which is invariably present in
this disease. From the first, diffiIsibie
stimulants are admissible; aromatic
spirit of ammonia with others, followed
by bitter infusions, are to be relied on
counter irritation, which is best applied
by means 81 mustard plasters,> should
be resorted to carly in the anack.
The occurrence of cough should he the
signal for stimulating the throat, and
if signs of bronchial irritation present
themselves, mustard should he applied
to the chest or sides without delay
Influenza is not a fatal disease, if PROF
erly treated; but great loss may be Of
casioncd by the injudicious employment
of remedies in the commencement.
Pending the arrival of competent
veterinary it may seem best to do some
thing, but it may be accepted as fact
that to do nothing is better than to do
the wrong thing in the treatment of
influenza
In case of doubt, and when profes-
sional advice is not mt hand, it will be
perfectly safe, and generally effective,
to cOnfinc the efforts to nursing the
patient, avoiding all irritative cxpe-