The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-27
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grasses, and are more difficult to get rid
Of than barberry bushes or Canada this
ties"
Peter Ilsley had no doubt that the plan
of John Thomas was good one for his
land "But,' said he, 81 find that | can
not bring my pastures to with time and pa
thence at all. ] have no ferns, nor brakes,
ner barberry bushes nor Canada thistes to
fight am not troubled with huckleberry
bushes nor bay berry. Trees don't grow
on my pastures. They are smooth enough
Heaven knows And | never have to feed
them close to keep out the poor grasses
| But they are covered with a dry, cracking
moss which takes the place of grass, bushes
and everything else. Now il is of no use
| to wait for this stuff to go off; for it will
not 20 of its own accord. And so am
| Obliged to. stir up the land somehow or
other, and make the grass grow where the
| moss has got possession. Land may re-
cuperate itself, us Mr.. Thomas says; but
| think that land which will grow but little
grass and no bushes and great deal of
moss has lost the power of reruperating 1t
self and needs help of some kind. Such
land as this needs manure of some sort,
and must have it. You must fertilize 1t
with something and in some way il you ever
expect to make decent pasture out of it.
You must either plough and manure 1t or
ton dress it, Now | am not much in favor
| Il
all. it should be for the purpose of crop
ming and cutivating for corn or potatoes
or grain or root crops; and then u passes
out of the list of pasture land and becomes
tillage land, and should be so classed ana
j used. II the pasture is large, and is so tar
away as to make it fit for pasturage only,
2 you cannot plough it with profit or advan-
I tape. For instance; l have fity-scre
A ,asture, a mile from my hous, IA hill pas
ture. free from bushes, with hardly tree
l. | in il IL is useless for me to try to plough
such pasture as this. 1t cannot be done
h And if it could, am not sure that TINS Is
e the best way to improve II. MT Ihomas
l. is right when he says the natural grasses
o should be brought i'll if you can do It, NOW
IS this cannot be done by pioughlng' iou
l. can yet them out with the plough, but you
r cannot ret them in. For when you have
II nlouphed and MANFRED and seeded, you
III have only the artificial grasses, such as
e. herdserass, which hard groupings ana frost
1T will always kill in the long run, and red
N ton. which easily dies out, and clover,
m which will not last more than two or three
lis wears at the longest. And SO nave seen
e. a small pasture lot ploughed and manfred
st and cropped and seeded to various kinds
d. of grasses, but the crops were poor anu
nd | Tho grasses which were seeded into 1t dld
,er not come to much. 1t made poor pas
an ture, after all, and it never approached be-
US ING a good one until the natural grasses
H. | had come in and driven the artificial grasses
ty out. | have two pieces OF land, several
", miles away, which use for pasturage. one
US of them has been cultivated for many years;
of the other has never been cultivated at all.
nut The cultivated lot has, every year, the most
or nra.s Int the other has the best feed, and
ire nv cattle and horses always thrive best
g a there Why this is, l cannot tell. But
ms the cattle know it, and that is enough.
u.s. do not think, therefore, we can ever expect
hat to make good pasture lands by using the
the plough. On large scale we cannot amor
10 do it; and on small one even we can
lied not always depend upon it. And so,
has suppose, we must use top-dressing; anc
I'm | uoa such IA we find most useful for the land
OF we would restore.
site Now. for me, plaster is the best top
e of dressing that | can use. have used
the freely for thirty years, and where nav
can not think it works very well on light sand,
one lands or on gravelly knobs but on all thu
SIX clayey hills and spriDgy lands on my farm
OF | can use plaster with great benefit.
nus seems to warm and sweeten the land, ant
TALL brings into it great deal of white clover
the Where plaster does not answer, we mus
eco resort to something else, always remember
pre- ing that top dressing is the best thing t
ally do. Let me read what gentleman il
1t Franklin county did with one of his pas
four lures. He says I'm the first place L re
',',tSs moved all obnoxious V9eetaIon l. niau u
g. a Cream .nins VI ~. ~ ooe, ny So .'"
,o deal OF LABOR Out wheh II was orusneu w.
IT, looKeu very s'i,otn' .hon tooN Gu
""y bushels OF asnes (the pasture covered l1ul
teen acres,) three-quarlers Vi toh vi pas
! re- ter and eight bnshel of hen manure. an
y, composted them together 1t lay some tw
ures or three weeks, and then | scattered
. rouhd the fourteen aofes, o'T"uoas''
ond had Very wonoe,Iu, eneo'' .tn nv w,
.. y, tihueu Tue sanie uleeons uP W wy
=, 49,, time' pesun 'lils opei".loI,, esr 49, soa
= ago. "heh 'nS PHstulee oV Hc ou ~ t i",
80 TWO COWS anu .ne eeeso,i oe'oio INV 90
- ~ put Ill seven oo"e anu s y ~
- caves anu iiau a ~ nv tn',, - oons
,uar- iast sea'on p'e -, of tho drornbt r.
49, quehce Oh .h1 se.ein; W s"' pn, fro,, Il
o,,a mo'eu l"o3i .no n ~, 100,
Ia or eAperehGe e " On, ,'errri,ted r. live thr,
com. .nar0 nan keen ton COWS ON this pastu,
nf years; can Keep '1u opms an it ,hopseiu
,ary anu lii',' .ney WI III IT, az" - Snd m
,,ono III wv hvuie auI "a. 49, ~, ,,rrno
Sinre plaster aio1o WI uo' prosassri a
Il 70. on ,his 'an,i' ~ u g ,t'o ,;,,a )"
an taR,hs ole 'nan .nS on"' VI ~ ,ha .,
WI Inc sSnooi-n" 90 ~ MI 80 .iP s A..
lect, ana askeu II tns eApeiiu,ent Va VIZ
Ing the lahu WIN u,hsion' soIis auu ga,
i, hau ever peeh tr'eu ~ any VI .nI 81; 81 :,
~ men present. ne saiu nc Anew one Im.'a 49,
800 Ill whch ury anu so,ie "ha' 5ia'.,Iy XIX; 20
,,ass lure bau oeea piousn' In'p n"e ooo,i !, +,
u.s. by the use Oh h,uIh' Nv nau s.on ~ ~,
80 year before anu 'nu s'pp"t" 81, Tt sraS ~
49, IL was anuhuan. re hau "'1o nno o'.n.
aaSe inc apPlca.loh vi o'sy W ,"nu 49,