The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-09
AGRICULTURAL.
FIELD CROPS.

FIELD CROPS.
Sol0ing Whedt.-Experiments a
different deptls favor, in ordinary
soils, one or two inches. Samples o
pure seed sown one half inch il
! depth came up IN eleven days, seven
eighths of the seed terminating; that
i sowed one inch in depth came up in
II twelve days, and all terminated; two
- inches deep seVen-eIghths of it came
> up In eighteen days; three inches
- deep, three quarters OF it came up in
II twenty days; four inchss showed a
growth of one-half, tia. came up in
twenty-Une days; five inches, only
one-hslf grew and cam up IN twenty
two days, while that planted six
inches deep came up in twenty-.hree
days, but only one-third terminated.
- Practical Farmer.
Tie Value Of Hen Dung. If all the
: droppings from the roosts by hens be
carefully saved in barrels, AID every
spring and fill this manure be CONF
posted with any good soil or muck
from swamps, and so kept few
months, it's value for any crop is
equal to Peruvian guano, and it may,
| think, be estimated at soc. per fowl |
per annum. From fifty bens l saved |
about ten barrels of the pure hen
guano during the year. WHAT l save
from November to April l compost IN
the spring with soil. First l spread
in a circle soil to the depth of three or
four inches. Then l spread hen
manure about an inch deep; then l
spread another layer of soil, and then
a layer of manure, till the heap is
completed, using about four times
the bulk Of soil that do Of
manure, the last layer being soil. ,
The top OF this compost heap l |
make fiat, to catch the rains; then l
cover it with any refuse hay or straw,
then place some sticks OF wood or
boards against the covering to keep j
it in its place, and in two or three I
months it is ready to use, having
become thoroughly incorporated with I
the soil; but as the season for planting {
is then past mostly, l leave the heap {
till the next spring, when l use 1t d
with what l compost in November. f
Perhaps it would be better to make q
compost in March, where the climate il
will admit, and use the manure for {
crops planted the last of May or early
in June; but 1 can discover no loss
by keeping it till the next season. a T
gill of this compost in a hill of corn
will be equal in eject to half
shovel.ul OF stable dung.-FGrmer's
Letter
Seeding Rheat Ground. While TIE
area of wheat grown in this country O.
is yearly extended, it is a noticeable j.
fact that IL most states the average is y
not increased, and in many cases it u
decreases each year. If more stress
was laid on clover 10 get the farm
into good heart and producl.veness,
the work of improvement might be If
slow, but it would be sure. Green I
manufing is the lever which will do If
more toward enabling the southern Sc
farmer 10 wrest heavy crops from his q
soil than any other thing he can re-
sort to, especially as we have found
by actual test and careful experiment
that, as rule. the foathern lands Il
are very deficient in vege-
table matter. Lime and COM p
mercial fertilizers are almost ez- 81
clusiveiy used, and bat little al
vegetable matter finds its way into Il
the soil. To save time in seeding as
vel as to gain part Of a season on m
the field, some OF the farmers, and, u
in fact, many of them on the PENN 4
sula of Maryland and Delaware, cut
their corn of making wide space
between the rows OF shocka-s0me
thirty-tWo rows or hills between-and
then run cultivators between the 4
corn rows, following Immediately +
with the drill, sowing the wheat and II
phosphate. In land which has been IL
kept clean all through the season b.
while the corn was growing, and e
where the land is naturally light u
enough in texture II be susceptible g.
of being mellowed or loosened up W
by merely running the cul'ivators b
over it before seeding with wheat,
this method has returned very fair
crops, in some cases heavy ones, 1t
has the advantage of cheapness over
the regular way of blowing, harrow 80
ing and seeding with drill or broad G,
cast. When the corn has been hUsked lie
and hauled to the cribs, and the b,
fodder all removed, the narrow strips e.
or spaces where the shocks stood are Ia
ea5ly in the spring treated to a good -,
cultivating and oStl sOwn therein, /
thus bringing the whole field TO grain n
the same seACOl. Although 1t Is
rather more expensive, we prefer to
pillow and harrow the field we'll before
seeding wheat, for it leaves the field
in much better surface for the reaper a
than if seeded in the other way. This P
is quite an item when We take into e
consideration the cost for repairs to a il
broken machii and the lost time In f
man and horse power waiting for the a
repairing.-D. 4. ECaRs il. 2
LIVE STOCK. y
Corn for Folcys. Indian corn is o
thought to be especially preiudicial to
the health of fowls, on account OF It's
high heat-producing and fsttening
character, and its relative and COM
paIalive poverty 10 those elements OF
food cut of which bone, muscle, flesh
nerves and tissue generally, are made,
and the matters which are notably I
present in the egg, namely, elbumen &
and phosphate OF lime. ;
There are. however, conditions
under which corn. as the only cereal,
can be fed to fowls with comparative
safety, and that Is where it makes a
part only OF the daily ration, the ether
parts being animal food of some kind,
cooked or otherwise, and ground
oyster shels, or broken, calcined
bones. dor the other part One OF the
most successful producers of eggs l
know, feeds his hens corn exclusively
for the grain portion of their daily
ration, but supplements it with as
regular daily ration of flesh and
bone, and in thst way supplies the
deficiency Of an Indian corn diet.
| DIT 7 am satisfied that fowls on |