The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-13
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a cultivator to more completely mix the
manure with the soil, alpi TO break upl
ssl!itgmpsS.IIar oncc more after the
! J issAnd 1isuppose," SAIL the Squire,
with rather a sarcastic smile, you would
use the roller alsor
"Certainiy, if there ae any bumps, ]
lwoHld foll and harrow and cultivate
luntil the land was as fine and mellow |
as garden. Then plow orice more,
harrow and roll. Theli mark out the
lland in rows lrom,2 to 31-2 feet apart"
/ dCnnnot You he alittle more def
mite p said Tie Squire. elf feet is as
good as 1-2, why not say soy
at depends somewhat onthe land,
and still more on the kind Of cnltivator
you use, If you have nothing better
than q common corn cultivator; you had
better make the rows 1-2or 3 feet
apart, as the cultivator will be apt to,
smother the plants. Hut if You have a
lproper cultivator that will runwithin an
iuch of the young plants without throw
ing earth on them, two feet is wide
! enough for the rows. But unless the
soil is very rich, ii is perhaps best to
n make the rows ? 1-2 feet apait. 1t is
Iless 1orkito chltiyatc and hoe, and you
will get larger bulls than, if sown
y thicker" III
\ "What is the use Off marler? asked
the Squire. "a good drill makes its
own mark for the next row."
"It'is not much work to mark out q
, few acres of land with n good one-horsc
marker, such as we use for marking out
corn. If the land is as mellow as ii
should be, the. teeth win make good
deep mark, two inches wide. And now
: | want to tell you something that is
4 worth Notwithstanding which is OF
a the first importance to the turnip-grow-
cr-somcthing which will often double
= the crop. In fact, have repeatedly
c known it to make all the difference be-
= tween success and failure. 1t is very
important in England, but it is still
>, more important here, owing to our dry
Il weather and our increased liability to
# having the young turnip plants de
v stroyed by the little black beetle"
"What is itY' said the Deacon. al
it will keep off the beetles ! would like
n to know it."
e at will not keep of the beetles, bu
4 1t will so stimulate the growth of the
young plants that they soon get out o
! danger. As soon as the plants get into
e rough leaf the beetles do little dam
e age. Mr.. Lawes told me thirty year
=. ago, that if would SOW this article il
. the. rows WHh the seed, he would insur,
, me against damage from the beetle. IL
e effect, gu The growth of young plants i
IS marvellous. tll D..
o. IItsapplication here is comparatively
- new. Until within year or two il wa
| On nI co nj
z lcertain, that a farmer could hardly al
st ford TO use it. But now we can bny a
l. reasonable rates, a good article of guar
n anteed composition. | have used II 70
" many years, and should have used
y lstill more extensively if had raise,
more turnips, and could have rot
If good article at anything like presen
!. prices. What we now want is goo
IT drill that will sow this manure i'm tn
o drill with the turnip seed. We hay
o good drills that will sow it with wheat
If and barley. and corn, bnt | do no
u and turnip or onion seed ut one opera
q ton. They have such drills in, Canada
Y and pc! s'bly there may be such manr
featured here, but do not know o
any"
anu uulil We nave StlCH II urllI,
= said Charley, "it is necessary to use th
u marker"
!! DAT any rate, we have not yet Int OF
u any better plan on this farm. Mari
!, out the rows ? 1-2 feet apart, takin,
y pains to have the rows not Onl,
: straight, but deep and wide, and thcl
:; go along the rows and carefully sow
u little superphosphate in the mark. til
y some work, and should be done by
: careful man. 1t is a shame that we hav
y no machine which will do it. But un
Il til we have, it will pay, on small
10 scale, to do it by hand. The super
phosphate should be previously rui
II through sieve, and ali Jumps broker
y fine. If damp, mix bushel of plastc
= with three bushels of supcrphosphate
, or if plaster is not cheap enough, us
i sifted coal ashes. Sow 200 to 800 lbs
IS of snpcrphosphatc per acre; then drill
e in the seed, running the drill along tn
mark where the superphosphate i
;, sown. We use a hand-garden driil
IL and sow 9 lbs. ofsced per acre