News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06

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and much longer without getting CALLED
and saddle-sore.
If the team has had but little work
the past winter, do not put them at
work too severely at first. A half day
at time the first week will probably
save time before the spring work is
over. And if you have economical this
winter by reducing their grain while
idle, or nearly SO, increase it gradually,
if you wish to avoid getting them "off
their feed," or having them troubled
with collie or indigestion.
If you can remember where those
places were that the grass seed did not
catch good when you seeded last year,
or those spots IN the meadow where the
grass was so thin as to scarcely pay for
moving, though not large enough to
pillow up, just scatter 6. little clover seed
on them as soon as the ground seems to
be thawing out. If done upon an inch
or so Of snow, just as the snow is melt
ing, it seems to take as well as in any
way. It will also pay to SOW little
phosphate at the same time.
If you top-dress your meadows with
superphosphate, do it as soon as the
ground has thawed out, and before the
spring rains come. When it is done,
then pray for rain, and if rain comes
soon, you may expect to see grass start
soon after.
Nitrate of soda or other chemical top
dressings may be applied later in the
season, if you are lucky enough to get
a rain after they are put on, but super
phosphates produce the best results if
used in early spring, and barn-yard ma
nure gives best results when used as a
top dressing in the fall
Before planting time comes be sure
that you have seed enough, and that Of
good varieties, especially for the garden,
for it is a waste of time, labor and ma
nure to grow poor vegetables, when
better sorts viii often yield quite as
wen, and win prove Injuries, while the
poorer kinds are like poor company, as
likely to be worse than none as to be
better than none.
Take one day down cellar to throw
out and carry away all dirt, rotten wood,
decaying vegetables and other accumu-
lations that have gathered there brush
down cobwebs, and with a bucket of
lime give the walls and ceiling good
coat of whitewash. No matter if you
don't understand the business no mat
ter if you have not got whitewash
brush take an old broom that the good
wife has worn out and spread it on
thick and strong. 1t will sweeten up
the air in the cellar, the parlor and the
bed chambers Gf your cellar is like the
ordinary farmhouse cellars), and it may
save your family from the Affections of
fevers, diphtheria and doctors. While
the lime is about you might as will give
the inside of the hen house coat of it.
1t will be good thing for the fowl, if
you do.
PERMANRNCE OF MANUREs.
At late meeting of the Elmira On.
" Farmers Club, reported by the
Husbandman, the discussion turned
upon the length of time during which a
coating of manure will benefit success
sive crops. One speaker said that
was impossible to say how much of
heavy covering of manure is taken up
by any single crop. The benefits are
distributed over several
years. The uncertain element in COM
putting the value of manure is this dis
tribution through successive crops.
Besides, there is something to be
credited to the action Of manure in re-
leasing fertility latent before its appli-
cation-the changed condition that per-
mits crops to appropriate what was
already in the soil, but not available
without manure. Sometimes al appli-
cation of manure shows plainly through
several succeeding crops. AS a rule,
he doubted if a good dressing is more
han one-third appropriated by the next
grain crop. s21gF1er said that cabbage
would take all the clements contained
IN dressing of manure, and the next
speak or declared that though il might
take ell the elements it could appropri-
ate, there would be something lett for
wheat or Data or corn elements that
cabbage cannot use. The best crop OF
wheat he ever raised was ON land that
came into his possession after it had
been used steadily for oats SO long that
he crop had run down to twenty-five
bushels to the acre. He fitted that land
or wheat. and got furty-fonr bushels.
The oats bad exhausted elements that
vent into their composition, but with
,ut manure there Was something left
or wheat.
w. S. Carpenter, a member of the
Sub, says: "Manuring heavily is like
eating a great deal. I take a great deal
II food, hut to balance the account | |
must work great deal If [ fail to do |
hat, there is a penalty-sickness. L
nay eat and work, but, without the
work, very moderate eating is better
han full indulgence. 80 with laud-if |
MANFRED heavily it must turn off heavy |
,rops or the farmer who pays the cost |
will get sick. Give me manure and |
will try TO get good c. ops, but l have to
ry without full supply, for manure
'annOt be bought at such rates as will
,rofit in grain crops. Now must say
hat my opinions have changed some
What about the ways of using manure
o get most profit out Of it, but have a
nle that 1 can stand by; Get the ma
lure in the soil, no matter how, so ii
tets in the earth with little covering. |
)nce in the soil it is safe; there is moth
ng to lose. Pile and rot, handle ana |
xpose it, and there is waste-waste, |