The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-02-04

TO be worn out, since they are no longer
productive. We now want the best and
cheapest plan Of renovating these lands,
30 as to grow remunerative crops, 10
do this. we must have our lands charged
with q good supply Of vegetable matter
to make the land lively aud productive.
This can only be obtained by the turn
ing under Of green crops and afterwards
a judicious rotation Of crops in doing
this, VIC can only cultivate what lands
VIC can manure we'll, or such as have not
been exhausted. Let us take the lands
in the fall, break thoroughly and sub
soil in the spring, pillow and SOW peas
about the first Of June, and harrow
them in.
Turn under the peas in September
and SOW to rye, and pasture through the
winter with sheep; the second spring
turn under rye at proper time and again
SOW to peas /; these in turn to be plowed
in September; then in October, by SOW,
ing one bushel Of wheat or oats and
thirty bushels Of cotton seed per acre,
and narrowing in welt with clover seed
lightly narrowed in the spring, you are
ready for a judicious system of rotation
Of crops-say cotton, corn, wheat and
clover. If lime can be procured at rea
sonable prices it should be used where
green crops are turned under. -Amert'
can Farmer.
n NECESSITY OF GRASS CULTURE.
The cultivation OF grasses and forage
plants is an indispensable attribute Of
prosperity. Why are the lands OF Ken
lucky and Ohio so much more valuable
than these of the cotton states, when
we can produce a commercial article OF
prime necessity worth twice a. much
per acre as their products? 1t is be.
cause we disregard rotation, exclude
every other crop but cotton and base oil
our chances of success upon n single
card. In on agricultural point OF view
grass is the greatest boon ever donated
to man. 1t grows increasingly day and
night, wet and dry, cold and hot, and
furnishes,,the cheapest stock feed ex'
tant. have had hogs from seven to
nine months old, weighing $50 pounds,
and yet they had never tasted anything
but grass. ,
The land should DO we'll drained, and
if not sufficiently rolling to drain nat
urally, it must he done artliicially.
Water must, under no circumstances,
be permitted to stand on land devoted
to grass culture, else the grasses sown
will be destroyed in such places, and
wire grass" will furnish a substitute
as improbable as it is undesirable.
The proper preparation of the land
is of prime importance. 1 would use q
one.horse turning pillow, running at a
depth OF three to four inches, follow
with a subsoil as deep as the best double
team could draw the same, harrow
we'll and thoroughly ulveri2e the soil
by rolling or dragging as may be
necessary in order that the surface
may be smooth and adapted to the use
of tie mower. This preparation is not
altogether necessary in fact, clover
sown in the fall or early winter is more
certain to catch when sown on stubble,
the trash serving to protect it while
young, yet this is not neat farming and
should only be practiced in cases OF
emergency. Occasionally We have wet
weather in August and September, and
grass can then be sown in corn or cot
ton, and by Christmas a good pasture
will be obtained, provided the ground
is not too wet for pasturage OF that
time. The most preferable method is,
however, to thoroughly prepare the
land as above described (; the exceptions
to the general rule should only be used
when better preparation cannot be OBJ
tained.-SOuthern Farmer.
SALT AND CHICKENS.
In some paper a correspondent says
salt is fatal to fowls, and some months
since a lady, I think, recommended lis
use where hens had lost the feathers on
their heads from some unknown cause ;
that cause, though, I think to be the
secondary effects of roup. The fowls
head seems feverish, and soon all the
feathers come off. Mine were so, and |
said I would kill or cure /; 10 l mixed
up a half pail of soft feed and put in q
large handful of salt. l went out next
morning TO see what the result was, and
| found them all alive but very thirsty.
I gave them some water, and the next
evening more salt. My hens all
feathered out on their heads, and they
stopped eating each others feathers, q
habit hard to break. Salt 10 a simple
remedy for many things. 1t will sure
sick headache, make cream freeze, make
the butter come, take ink stains out Of
cloth of any kind, kill weeds and
worms, make the ground cool so it is
more congenial to cabbage, celery, ETC.,
ease the itching pain caused by irritable
skin disease like itch, hives, ETC., pro.
duce vomiting or stop it, just as you
like, and many other things too numer.
GUS to mention. Still, l onoe fed some
potatoes to young chickens and turkeys
tnat had been boiled with salt cOrnea