Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-15
che farm and fireside.
LUCERNE CULTURE.

years been working the land with view or
bringing it to high state of cultivation, by
deep ploughing, narrowing, and broadcasting
stable and such other manure as could get.
In the fall of 1877, decided to try lucerne
on it. I then had fine crop Of COW peas on
it. l cut the vines and put them away for
feed, and then scattered what manure | had
collected since spring broadcast, and broke it
up with small bull-tougue. then turned
itover with atwo.horse Watt plough, drawn by.
two large strong mules, as deep as they could
conveniently pull it. In the same turroD
I followed with one-horse plough with
bull tongue on it. You can form some idea
how deep it was, when the beam of the one
horse plough was almost all the time below
the surface of the ground. then narrowed it
with a two-horse rotary harrow, both ways,
which left the land like a nicely prepared
garden bed. then sowed the seed, % lbs,
and cross-sowed them, and narrowed them
in with two-horse rotary harrow, Sept. %,
1877. In few days I had beautiful stand,
and it grew off rapidly, and did not seem to
be injured by the winter. Very early in
the spring it began to grow, and was not at
all troubled by the weeds or grass. | began
cutting it February 2Sth, and have been cut
ting it daily since, and been feeding two hors-
es, two COWS and eight hogs principally on it.
They eat it in preference to corn, cut oats or
fodder.
I think it should be sown broadcast. 1t has
been drilled by friend of mine here, and he
has abandoned the drill and filled the space,
and acknowledges the broadcast to be the
best The ground should be ,ceN prepared
and ,1sN manured, if it is expected to do we'll.
I have made FIVE cuttings since February
%, 1878, and the sixth growth is just as Wig.
orous as any of the others, but We have had
good seasons I think have cut at least
seven, and probably eight feet in height in the
FIVE cuttings on an Average over the lot. For
producing rich milk and butter, fat cows and
horses and hogs, l don't know any green
food that will equal lucerne. | sowed broad
cast during good rain in May, 100 lbs
guano on the lucerne, where it had been re.
Gently cut, and it seemed to d. great deal
of good-D. R. FLENNIKEN, Winnsboro, s.
c., in Southern Cultivator.
ACREAGE REQUIRED FOR Cow.-How
much land is required for the support of
COW? This question depends so much for an
answer on the circumstances Of the soil as
not to admit very de6Lite answer. In a
dairy competition in Jefferson county, N. Y,
1857, the first prize dairy ofsixteen cows, was
kept on thirty acres Of land: the second pre-
MUM dairy of eighteen COWS, on sixty acres;
the third dairy Of thirteen COWS, on thirty
acres; the fourth of twenty nine COWS, on IF:
ty-fve acres; the fifth of twenty eight COWS,
on ninety acres. Mr.. Schulz, of Little Falls,
N. Y, estimates that the land in pasturage
and hay requisite for the support of a COW is
three acres and this is the estimate Ct Mr..
Darlington for moderately good dairy farms
in England. In Belgium ten acres of land
support two COWS, one heifer, and one year.
ling or calf; but when the calves are sold of
young, and COWS in full milk are only kept,
the proportion is two cows to seven and one halt
acres. Colman estimates three acres of pas
ture as requisite for COW in Berkshire coun-
ty, Mass, while in some towns two acres of
pasturage are sufficient. Mr.. Harrington, in
the Report of the American Dairyman's AS
sociation, thinks that on the average four
acres are required per COW, for summer and
winter keep; while Mr.. x. A. Willard thinks
that in Herkimer county, N. Y, one and
one.half to two acres of pasture per COW
will answer, and in some exceptional cases
one acre-Scientifc Farmer.
WATERING PLANTS IN SUMMER.-Plants
growing in the open ground and fully expos
ed to the sun, are frequently ruined by the
very means taken to save them-by watering
in hot dry weather. Generally merely the
surface Of the ground is wet, and the mois-
ture soon evaporates, leaving the soil dry and
hard-almost impervious to air as we'll as
the dews. But this is not the only nor the
greatest evil which results from the ordinary
slight watering which plants get. The tenn
porary, superficial moisture causes the roots
to seek the surface, where in the intervals
between the waterings, the heat and drought
destroy them, and the plants become stunted
or die out right. The remedy lies in more
thorough irrigation and in different mode
of applying the water. In case of young
trees and large herbaceous plants, the best
way is to carefully scrape away the soil
around them to the depth Of an inch or two,
forming hollow basin into which sufficient
WdIeT Suoulu oo Pouteu " tuoiotou "oll tue
ground as deeply and as widely as the roots
extend. When the water has soaked in, the
dry earth should be returned, which will
prevent speedy evaporation. Among small
plants, which cannot be treated in this way,
make holes with an iron rod or sharpened
stake several inches in depth and gil them
with water which will thus reach the deepest
roots.-Rural Messenger.
RUST IN WHEAT.-I have just tested a
German recipe for rust in wheat and found it
a sure remedy. My wheat this year had rust
badly, but prepared and sowed one peck
on two lands across a lot; and the hands,
when they came to it remarked to ME, "this
wheat is clear of rust" without any knowl-
edge of the test On either side, the wheat
was badly affected with scab rust The Ger
man agriculturalist had used this remedy for
80 years, and his neighbors had rust in fields
adjoining his, whilst there was not head of
rust on bis. His habit was also to take the
sheaves and beat off the ripest kernels with
stick, and use the seed thus obtained for seed.
I will now give the recipe: Some hours-at
the longest, six or eight-before sowing, pre-
pare steep Of three measures of quick lime
and ten measures of cattle urine, pour two
quarts of this upon peck of wheat and stir
with a spade until every kernel is covered
with it. By using this, rust of every kind
will be avoided.-J. D. COOPER, Greenville,
S. c., in Southern Cultivator
DOG CULTURE.-Farm and Fireside says
with degree of confidence : "It may be re-
garded as a settled maxim that good crop
of both dogs and sheep cannot be raised in
the same neighborhood at the same time"
The failure seems to be on the sheep side of