The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-13

to be put at hard work or fast driving i'm
after eating, and think young
horse would do better IL not fed at noon
than If fed and put directly at work, as is
the usual practice.
As for the importance of good bed
after hard days work, 'you know how
1t Is yourself" and the horse or OK will
rest as much better for 1t as you would.
Another thing OF Importance is that they
should have little better food, if it is pos
sible, than they have had during the win
ter. | do not mean necessarily more grain,
but they should have the best of hay, and
extra care should be taken to have every
thing clean in their managers. Allow no
feed to remain over before them from one
feeding time to another. If any food is
not eaten when you take them out, take 1t
away and give it to something else, and see
that there is no wet meal souring in any
cracks or corners about the manger. If
you detect any sour smell there, wash and
scald it out until 1t Is is removed. If you
will attend to these things and will see that
they are watcrcd every time they are
brought out to work, or oftener in hot and
dusty weather, you will not be very likely
to have trouble with your team getting "off
their feed" or growing poor upon their
work, nor will they be SO likely to become
overheated so as to develop humors or
sores, as do too many teams where these
precautions are not observed.
have few lots of grass land where l
think it will be an advantage to sow clover
seed this spring upon the old grass. 1t
should have been done earlier in the sea-
son, and upon the snow, but the snow has
lain upon sheet of ice, and part of the
land is so slopng that the thawing of the
snow on the ice would be likely to wash
the clover seed away. Now l can put it
on when the ice gets away, and the grass
roots will hold it until the spring rains beat
it down into the ground, where / expect
enough of it will take root to pay me ten
fold for the cost of seed and the sowing.
think it will pay to do this on any piece
of land where it is not swarded over as
thoroughly as it should be, and where the
land is rich enough, or can be made rich
enough by topdressing, to yield fair crop
of clover. 1t is not of much use when the
land has already the roots of more grass in
it than it can grow to fair size. am an
advocate of topdresslng grass land in the
spring only on the principle that sit is bet
ter late than never in good cause" The
best time for topdressing grass land be-
lieve to be just after moving, or in early
fall, but early spring will do. / am not
sure that topdressing is the best way of fer
tlizing the land. but / think that any loss
that may result in waste of manure by
spreading it upon the surface (Which will
not be large if the manure is well rotted
and fine) is more than counterbalanced by
the saving of the cost of blowing and re-
seeding land, and getting the stones picked
off it, so as to have it fit to NOW. be-
lieve that if the manure is in the right con-
dtion, and put on at the right time, land
can be kept in grass a long time by top
dressing, and at much less expense than
Ivy cultivating and renewing, but as some
old farmers think differently, cannot say
that l am sure of it.
propose trying the plan of sprouting
my potatoes in hot hot-bed this spring,
and transplantipg them. 1t will make the la
Dor something greater, but hope to gain
a week or two in earliness by it. l have
an old hot-bed frame near the house, where
can attend to it conveniently. That is
one great fault in this farm What you
have near the house you will find too far
from you when you are at the barn, and
that which is at the barn is too far away
from the house. But potatoes, being less
delicate than many of the plants which are
usually started in hot-bed do not require
so much attention nor such careful regard
to temperature. | have not very good
opinion of hot-beds where they must be
under the care Of man who has gIeat
deal of other business to attend to both on
the farm and off it. If you are mile
away from home, a change of few de-
grees in the temperature may destroy the
labor of weeks before you can get back to
the sash For this reason l prefer to buy
most of my hot-bed plants rather than to
have the care of ot-bed in addition to
my other cares. have yet to look out for
my seed potatoes. AS | intended to change
seed if remained here this year, did not
save any seed potatoes last fall. l think it
pays to change Seed especially if can get
it from more northern climate. This
hold to be safe rule, not only for potatoes
but for many other seeds. have also some
other seeds to buy. although not so many
or of as many kinds as in some years past.
When buy seeds, my rule is to buy the
best, and of responsible party, without
much regard to cost, although money is as
much OF an object to me as any one. But
poor seed can only make poor crop.
How about special manures ? Are you
intending to use any this year certainly
shall, but / don't know what kind, nor do
l think it will make much odds, If | can
get that which is anywhere near what it is
represented to be. Don't bother your head,
if you want anything of the kind, about
the comparative chemical analysis of the
various kinds. If you know man who
has found it profitable to use upon such
soil as you wish to use it on, and on such
crops as you wish to raise, get the same
kind and use it as he used it, or as nearly
according to the directions as you can, and
| think you will find benefit in it. The
Irshman, it is said, liked his apple pie that
was Favored with ounce so we'll that he
wanted another made entirely of ounce.
Use it as certain doctor used his medi-
clnes. When some one was crying out
against drugs and in favor of letting ma
ture do the work, he said that was his idea,
he only fused the medicine to give nature
a jog" Have good soil and plenty of good
manure to do the work, and then put on q
little fertilizer to 'give it a jog" On all
rapid growing crops it will pay by in
creasing the productions and forcing an
earlier growth, while on more slow growing
crops it may help to get them forward be-
yoHu TIC iish VI iidtii iIOIil luc laii uTOutus.
In blowing this year, especially for seed.
ing down to grass, hope you will try q
swivel pillow. Get a good one, (there is
more than one good pattern, and don't
know what will be best for your land), use
a long yoke for your oxen, or long evener
for your horses, that they may travel lit
tie farther apart than usual, and when you
have learned to hold it steady 0hey are
lively in stony ground, and you cannot go
to sleep IN holding it if the blowing il
rough, but if you are quick as it is in turn.
ing 1t you can go around rock as close as
the barber would round your CHIN, will
warrant you to like the work of it, and
still better to like to be rid of dead fur
rows and ridges in the moving. have
held many plows, but none that could
hold with less labor, or that the team could