The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-10

nure crops. 1t is hard to change old prac
tees sufficiently to pillow under a good crop
of clover or even buckwheat Some have a
very poor opinion of buckwheat and green
manure. Rye is much better, and one can
pillow that under early enough to SOW some
thing else, to be either harvested or plowed
under as the case may be. For instance, the
following treatment of a rough, stony,
poor, gravelly lot, has been successfully
tried. An old neglected lot, five
acres of which would hardly pasture
a sheep, was plowed and sowed with rye,
which Wintered well. a good many stones
were picked of, and about the first of June,
when the rye was heading well, it was rolled
down and plowed under. Stones We're par
TALLY picked off again-that is, the larger
ones were-and about the first of July buck
wheat was put in. OF this good crop
harvested, aud the straw, with little addi-
ton of some other light manure, was spread
back, and rye was sowed sgain In the au-
tumn. This gave another opportunity to
pick off the stones, and the result was that
when the rye was a second time plowed un-
der the quality of the soil was so good that
corn was planted with fertilizer in the hill.
OF this u very fair crop was secured, and
other farm crops followed. Now il COW peas
could have been sown at the last hOeing OF
the corn they would doubtless have covered
the ground well. Then they might have
been plowed under just before frost-as soon
as the corn could be cut up and removed;
then wheat or rye might have been s0wn.
Light, poor land really need, a growing
crop to cover the soil ali the time. Rye of.
fers several advantages over other crops. 1t
occupies the soil from October to June
eight manufacturing which time, when the
ground is not frozen, the roots are absorbing
nutriment and growing, so that when the
warmth of spring comes the plant makes
most rapidly the astonishing growth with
which we are all familiar. 1t is very GER
tain crop, not being liable to winter kill.
Besides it is cheap, the seed costing seldom
over 100 per acre. Red clover is no crop
wherewith to manure poor land, though one
of the best tor land in good heart. 1t must,
however, occupy the land fully year. but
after a good crop has been plOwed un-
der and the land lined, almost any crop
may follow. We raise few green crops
which may not be fed off with
sheep before they are plowed
under Turnips, rye, clover, and COW peas
ously. One writer says: "The difficulty |
find is that 1 do not and can not well keep
sheep. Feeding off with other stock is not
so satisfactory. The manure is less evenly
distributed, and the crop is less consumed
than trodden down. 1t is important TO save
labor, and the advantage OF green manuring
is that all that great amount of labor in har-
NeSCng, curing storing. 1eeulDS out the
crops, and finally carting out the manure
and spreading it is saved. The actual value
OF any crop as manure, is never so great as
when it is plowed under just at the right
time. When it Is fed, we gam perhaps in
other ways, but we lose in manure. This
loss must be made up by the use OF leaves.
mold, muck, swamp hay, or other articles
really foreign to the farm, or at least foreign
to the arabic land of the farm"
WATERING HORSES in regard to watering
horses Immediately after full feed OF grain,
q writer OF the Stock Journal says: 1.-THE first
effect of this is to largely distend the
stomach; and the result may be as serious as
if the material were masticated grain saliva.
But should this danger be avoided matters
are necessarily left in better state. The
sudden and excessive influx of water is
likely TO wash much OF the contents OF the
stomach into the intestines before the nitro
genous particles have been digested, and
fermentation, extricatiOns of gases, over
distention, colics and Inflammation result.
Even this is not all. The application of an
excess of cold water on the mucous mem
branes of the stomach and intestines causes
vacular congestion, so that all tend to diges-
tive disorder OF dangerous nature" Here
you have the result in nutshell, and to
avoid laundering horse he should never be
watered beyond a few quarts, when heated.
In fact it is not safe to give a horse any
water when much heated.