The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-29
HTJ JsBOROUGH, HIGHLAND COUNTY, OHIO, THURSDAY, DE

putting the corn ground in wheat II
good season. My method ofPutting
in the wheat is this:
After the corn is out of the way
run a heavy, sharp-toothed harrow
over the land until it is perfectly
level and smooth, and then put the
wheat in with good two-horse drill
The matter of using commercial
fertilizers is to be decided by careful
experimenting.
The wheat ground to be seeded to
clover and timothy. The best plan
that has ever yet presented itself to
my mind, of alUqy securing a stand
of clover, is to sow one half of the
seed early, say the last of January or
the first of February, with all Of the
timothy seed, if that has not already
been sowed with the wheat in the
fall, and the remaining half, the last
of March or the first of April, going
across the field with second sowing
at right angles to the first.
This clover will only stand one
year, the first crop being taken of
for hay and the second for seed
Then manure, and feed on the land
for the next crop of corn.
By this course, the organic mat
ter furnished by the clover roots, the
manure from the barn, and that sup
piled by the stock fed on the land,
is continually on the increase from
year to year, and as matter oi
course, the fertility is all the time
increasing.
This presupposes that there is, all
the time, live stock enough kept to
consume, on the premises, all of the
corn fodder, straw and hay prcduc-
ed, and that this shall be fedseither
in stables or close lots, so that the
manure and litter can be kept in
close bulk until spread on the land.
By this method there is no loss Ot
time or unproductive labor; clover
sod every year in good condition for
corn, and nothing to interfere with
early pIowing, one ofthe essentials in
good farming.
But then there is a prejudice
againstputting wheat in corn ground.
I think when the above plan is fol
lowed, that prejudice will disappear
for certainly the cheapest wheat can
be raised upon corn ground. And
all that hard work of fallow breaking,
narrowing, rolling and dragging
which is so trying.to man and beast,
is dispensed WITH sThe double plOw-
ing can all be done in February and
March, when the ground is loose and
mellow, and the weather cool
It seems to me also that the val ue
of permanent pasture is not well IN
derstood by the majority of farmers
How many farms there are in High
land county, with a considerable
area entirely too broken for prohta-
Bile tillage in grain crops, whilst the
remainder is very nice plow land
and yet it is all treated just alike
until all the soil is washed and worr
off the hill-sides, and they become
unsightly, barren wastes; when i
they had been seeded originally il
grass, and so continued, they wOulC
not only now be the mo st prohtaDlt
portions of the farm, but the mos
slightly; for what is more beautiful
than hill and dale covered with
rich carpet of the king Of grasses
which, if it be not indigenous here
has made its home among our fertil
| limestone hills and valleys.
Another argument in favor
permanent pastures, on farms wher
all parts are equally adapted to graf
and grass culture, is that by havin
the grain all grown near the barr
there is a great saving Of Il
Dor, in many ways that readily SUI
gest themselves to every practic;
Fary,aer