The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-09-23

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DRILLING WHEAT VS.. BROAD CAsr.
Il have uniformly succeeded best
With drilled wheat, and when after
twenty-five years of successful prac-
tice with the drill, the fashion sud
denly changed two or three years
ago, and every one appeared dis
posed to abandon it. / declined to
follow the fashions and adhere to
the drilling system. The reports to
the Agricultural Department from
all sections of the Union, clearly
prove the superiority of wheat drilled
over that broadcast. / believe,
however, as has been somewhere
stated, that for some years past there
has been a gradual, though steady
improvement on our farms in the
matter of tillage or improved pulver-
ization.
Our soils are now better worked.
made more mellow, and the drill
consequently goes down farther,
burying the seed wheat too deep
Every experienced farmer knows
that wheat requires shallow seeding,
because the primary and secondary
roots, the one springing from the
kernel and the other from the enlarge
ment Of stem or bulb Just below the
surface, must not be severed from
each other, otherwise the growth
will be feeble and -sickly. Many a
crop of wheat is injured from this
cause. Where the two sets of roots
are close together as they always
are in a shallow seeding, they adj
here together during expansion and
contraction Of the soil in winter
and early spring, making a kind
of mat-roots which thus escape in
jury.
l manage my drill so that it does
not go down too deep, covering the
seed only about two inches. The
advantages of drilling are that the
i. seed is distributed evenly, covered
at a uniform depth, and the more
free Giro ulation of air between the
rows is also beneficial. - Practical
Farmer.
PORK RAISING Many farmers make
pork raising a considerable part of their
business without being able to give
more satisfactory reason for it than that
their neighbors dose and make money
by it. They do not seem to consider
that all farms are not equally adapted
to the business-that on some farms pork
can be raised at one half the cost it can
on others. On bottom lands, where
corn can be raised without much detri-
ment to the soil, pork can be raised at
profit, but on billy lands the damage to
the soil is often mnch greater than the
profit on the pork. Then, again, to
make cheap pork the hogs must be kept
in thriving condition from the time
they are pigged-not that they should
be kept fat all tie time, for that would
run away with the profits The first
six months of pigs life should be de-
voted to the growth of bone and muscle,
for which purpose they should be fed
literally but not to an extent as to be
kept continually fat. The hog is nat
urally a grazing animal, and will make
much cheaper pork by being raised
partly on grass than on corn alone.
Not only can pound of pork be made
cheaper on clover than on corn, but
the great gain is in the fact that hog,
after a suInmering OH clover, is in bet
ter condition 70 assimilate grain food
than when fed exclusively on corn,
Pork can be made cheaper, too from
pigs eight to ten months old, than from
hogs that have been wintered and fat
tened at eighteen to twenty months old
the former being often made to weigh
from 200 to 300 pounds (heavy enough
for any use besides saving the cost
of wintering, as we'll as getting the use
of the money SO much the sooner.
Another considerable item of expense
in raising hogs-and one that is rarely
ever noticed--is the extra amount of
fence required. This is often so great,
indeed, that on farms where the soil is
liable to be washed away when turned
in corn, enough hogs only should be
kept to consume what swill and waste
there comes from the kitchen and dairy.
and they to be kept in pens with the ex-
ception ola few for breeders-it being
found much better that brood-sows
should have plenty ofroom for exercise,
with access to the soil at all times. A
SOW shut up in pen. with no exercise,
will bevery apt to disappoint you at
narrowing time; and the pigs, too, if
deprived Of the necessary exercise of
following their mother, as soon as they
are able, are more or less liable to be
affected by lung diseases. The man,
then. whose land Is broken and not
particularly adapted to raising corn