The Hillsborough recorder., 1878-07-03
GREEN MANyREl CROPS.

VI - #&s III
4 correspondent Of the american Agri.
cultnrist thus discousses on these:
Cheap and good manure il getting TO be
more and more Important every year. We
are finding il harder TO buy manure. and
more disfcu.t To- get concentrated fertilizers
that are 10 be depended upon. Ncserthe.
less. farmers make little use of green lnan-
nre crops II i hard to change old prac.
fices sufficiently to plow nnier good cr"p /
of clover or even Of backWheat. have |
very poor opinion. OF ouekwheat as green
manure RYE Il much better. and one can
plow Tint under early enough . SOW sane- |
thing else. to be either harvested or llowed
under IS the case may be. For instance.
witnessed tile following successful treat
ment of rough. stony. poor. grAseily lot.
and hope to be able 70 carry out something
quite similar myself this year An old ne.
elected lot. i've acres Of which would hardly
pasture sheep. was plowei and sowed
with rye. which wintered vel a good
many stones wer. picked III. and about the
frst of June. whea the rye was heading
we'll. it was rolled down and piowed under.
Stones were partially picked Oft again
that Is. the large ones were-and about the
first of July buckwIleat was put 10. ofthis
good CROP was harvested. and the straw.
with little addition OF some other light
rnannre: vas spresa back, andrye vas SOW
ed again IN the autumn. This gave an.
other opportunity II pick of the stones,
and the result was tltai when the rye was
4 second time plowed under the quality oil
the Soil was 50 good that corn was planted
with fertilizer in the bill. Of this avery
fair crop was secured. aud other farm crops
followed. Nov If cowpeas could hase been
sowei ii ths last hoeing Of the corn. they
would doubtless have covered the ground
we'll. Then they might have been plowed
lust before frost-as soon as the corn could
be cut and removed: then wheat or rye
might have been sowed.
Light. poor land really needs growing
crop 10 cover the soil at all the time. Rye
Offers several advantages over Other. crops
Itoccupies the soil from 0ctobertS june
eight months-during which time. whei
the ground is not frozen. the roots are ab
sorbing nutriment and growing. so tba
when the warmth Of spring comes the plan
makes most rapidly the astonishing growtl
with which We are al familiar. II isa yerl
certain crop. not being liable to winierkill
Besides. it's ebeap, the seed costing seldom
over 81 80 per aeTcc
Red clover il no crop Herewith to man
nre poor land. though one Of the best 70
land in good heart. II must, however
occupy tbs land fully year. but nfter
good crop bas been plowed under and the
lined, almost any crop may follow.
: FEEDING OFF BEFORE PLowiSG.
We raise few green crops which mas NJ
lie fed nff with sheen before they are p!os
ed under. Turnips. rye. clover and cos
peas may TINS be treated. often most I'd
yansaeageously. The difficulty | find
that 90 not and cannot vel keep slieeE
Feeding of with other stock il n"t - satH
factory. The manure is less evenly di
tribnted. and ihe crop j. less consume
than trojden down. IL is important
save labor. and the advantage Of gree
manuring is that all tbtt great amount
labor 10 harvesting. curing. storing. ieei
;nr out Of she crops. and fnally carting al
she manure ,and spfeading i. J. saye'
The aetual value Of any crop - ipsnnre
never 50 great as when il il plowsa und
inst Al tie right time. When i Is fed. y
gain perhaps 10 other ways. but We loo
n manure. This iossinnst be made "
he uss IL leaves. nsld. muck. sxamP h'
n other articles really foreign 70 the farl
or 81 leat foreign 10 tue arabic land of y
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