The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-07
AGRICULT6RB,

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Inc weil.planned aystem Of farming
the subject of crop rotations should be
q carefully considered, as one Of the es.
sentiai elements of succcss in its highest
i and best sense. Early writer's on agri.
culture, even from the times of the
Greeks and Romans, have quite uni
formiy urged the advantages of sue
cession OF crops from the teachings of
experience. That these practical rules
of alternating drops Of different habits
and modes Of growth are based on COR
rect. but not fully explained principles,
has been shown by direct experiment..
At Rothamsted, Eusland, Drs. Lawes
and Gilbert obtained nearly as much
wheat in eight crops, attended with
eight crops of beans, as iii sixteen crops
of wheat grown consecutively without
manure in another field; and also nearly
as much wheat as in eight crops alter
mated with bare fallow.
RoOT- GRATING is sometimes resorted
to where extensive increase Is nh object,
or where stem. grating or other means
OF propagation are not available. In
such a case the scion is grated directly
on to portion of the root Of some ap.
propriate stock, both graft and stock
being usually very small. The grated
root is then potted so as to cover the
point of junction with tho soil, and is
plunged in the bed of the propagating
house, where it is slightly stimulated
by the gentle bottom hent, Dahlias
and peonies may be grated by inserting
young shoots into the neck Of one Of
the deshy roots Of each kind respsc-
lively, ,he best method of doing 80 be-
ing to cut ac',rianguIar section near the
upper end Of the root,iu large enough
to admit the young shoot when slightly
pared away on two sides to give it a
similar form.
HINTS ABOUT BUrrER.-Butter made
IN May and juno oan be kept sweet and
good until the ensuing fall and winter,
II one has ccol place for storage; 9TH
erwise it is somewhat difficult. Roll
butter may be packed in tight casks or
tubs, and covered with strong brine.
This will exclude tho mir and keep tho
butter sweet i'll a cool room or cellar.
Orange county dnirymcn uso the fol-
lowing mixture i'll preparing butter
which is to be kept for some timc: 10
ten ounces OF fine salt, add two ounces
OF brown sugar. Tho different ingredi-
ents are mixed together, and an ounce
OF this mixture is we'll worked into every
pound OF this butter. Willard, in his
Butter Book" says that butter SO
treated if closely packed and stored in n
cool place, will keep sound for several
years.
"A coRnEspoNDENTsettlc upon orchard
grass as possessing greater merit than
any other for both pasture and mead
ow' When cut for hay, just before its
bloom, 1t will make more milk and of
better quality than any other variety
known, but ii left to ripen it is, like
other kinds of grass Ill tho same stage,
worthless. 1t is always green and fresh
when other grasses are brown aud dry,
and many weeds, such us tho daisy, Will
not grow in tho samo field with it. In
stead OF being exhaustive it enriches
the soil, 1t shades tho ground in sum-
mer, and, ii allowed lew weeks rest
from cropping in the fall, Will mulch it
III WINTER. 1t is able to smother down
qu"0h grass, and clop OF orchard
grass, once obtnined, will last for several
years without rcsccding.
LIGHT soils arc not favorable to oats,
and yet it is tho light soils which arc
tho early ones. Oats require modor-
ate)y low tcmporature of ut loast two
months to perfect its root organization.
IL ought to bo ono of tho earliest sown
crops III spring. Those who have strong
soils, ana ycV tolcrally dry, have tho
very best OF oat land, and those VINO
nave not must watch every chnnco to
get Ill the seed carly il they would have
tho best results.
The rapid, steady and gontlo milkcr
CT the COW Is the one sure to obtain tho
best results i'll the dairy. Whore quick
ness oi MOTION is accompanied by cnre-
less ronghness and irrcgularity the Of
fcct ia exactly the opposite. Slow milk
ers always gradually dry up COW, and
for the reason that if tho milk be not
drawn about as fast as it is given down
1t will subsequently be withheld, and
that withheld is, rs a matter of course,
what Is known as tho strippings.
lT may bo said that COW must make
200 pounds of butter during her milking
season to afford any adequate profit.
This may be considered MS meagre
quantity when compared to tests of
some COWS whose yields are reported Mt
GOO tS 800 pounds per year, but 200
pounds IL, nevertheless, considerably
above the average OF all the butter COWS
i'll the country, l40 to $50 coming much
nearer th't general average.
WHEN a potato is exposed to tho
light III n cellar tho eyes nearly ull
start good. healthy, green sprout, but
if i'll pile, or in darkness, OH the stron-
gest eyes grow long, white, worthless
sprouts. Hence, seed potatoes, should
be spread thinly in the light. The sprouts
should not be broken tif when cutting
the seed Tor planting.
BEFORE filing up vacant places in
the orchard with young trees, 1t is best
to think whether the 1ulI grown trees
now standing will not with good manur
ing bring moro fruit than larger num-
Der would. Most of our orchards were
planted too closely, and the tree roots
lnterlaco 80 as to Oh each otht L of what
fertility each should have.
IL seeds are to bo kept over q yenr
they should be placed in cool place