The Delaware ledger., 1883-08-11

knack Of making money, and, what is
of still greater purpose, the art of
keeping it.
Care of Pastures.
Too many farmers think pastures
can take care of themselves, and no
matter how greatly they are robbed and
denuded, the cattle feeding on the past
ures can take care of themselves also.
We have heretofore urged the import
ance of allowing blue grass to grow
several inches high before stock is
turned on it, and to have no more stock
than will allow the grass to continue
that high, with a thick coating for the
ground, keeping it moist and the grass
green. But all kinds of pasture need
care and feeding. The grass crop OH a
well regulated and properly ordered
farm is worth more than the corn and
wheat cop. And yet all the care and ex
pense are devoted to the cereals, leaving
the grass to take care of itself. This il
unwise husbandry and poor economy
There is no crop which responds NOR
cordially and pays more liberally fo
good treatment by the farmer than hi
, pasture and meadow land.
5 If man keeps his moving land i
good condition, he will have an abur
! dance of hay in winter and spring, S
e that he will not be compelled to tur
3 his poor cattle on his pastures befor
K there is bite for them. They tram
5 the soil into mortar and gnaw the vel
+ roots of the grass from the soil. In til
y condition the ground is bare, soon hakt
e i'll the sun, and there is a scanty crop
e grass the entire year. Ii hay is plenty
IS the spring tits better for stock thanha
l. Il feed on grass, and ten times better f,
d the pasture.
" The thoughtlcss farmer scarcely let.
;, spear of grass stick its head above Il
u snow-bank before he will turn his stot
= = in to eat it, and poach up the soil. Al
y too often both pasture and meadow g
this annual treatment. Tie right WI
= is TO keep both in good, rich and pr
ductiye condition, and then keep
more stock than will eat in suital
time and way the products of both.
there be too little hay and too mu
stock the grass is sure to suffer I
next spring. 1t is almost impC
sible to avoid it. There must be jud
m ment and wise management to make
I'd farm profitable. There is nothing
lie be let alone-nothing to take care
tn itself. All of the time and expel
ne must not be devoted to the grain crI
or What is planted should be done W
in and on soil well prepared for it. b
it in order to have a plenty of meade
and pasture, raise eighty bushels of &C
to the acre instead Of forty. Or raise
i much on twenty acres as you do now
~ forty. 1t can he done, and should be. I
in acreage of all the cultivated crops can
,nr greatly decreased without lessening
~ product. In this way the grass lands {
tb begreatly increased in acreage, and mi
od more time allowed to enrich it in VI
.ed Gus ways to double its capacity. Tn
~, are not idle words. This system
od management is what this country m
M come to. More corn, more wheat ;
more grass on less acres. But grass be
worth as much per acre as grain, "
ne one-third of the labor, il is policy
hg wisdom to make the soil more prod
Ich tive in the various ways which G
are farmers know, and then farm to m
Oh profit with less labor, r,-Iolca State l
Lop lister.
a. a. Sorghum for Feed.
ith
mt The following statement is from
in first quarterly report of the Kar
,er- State Board of Agriculture.
,m- writer, Mr.. G.. Z. Hubbard, of Paw
county, has been growing sorghum