News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-06
FARM AND GARDEN.

AN EARLY FODDER CROP. Iii is good
time Just now to think of providing
green crop to cut for the cows before the
grass gives a full bite in the spring.
Rye sown this month will furnish late
fall pasture and the earliest cutting in
the spring. But rye is objected to be-
cause it gives a bad flavor to milk and
butter. Personally we have not had
any trouble In this way in either milk or
butter. But as several very trustworthy
dairymen have made this complaint, as
Mr.. W. A. Cheover, of Massachusetts, a
well-knOwn butter-maker; Mr.. Thomas
S. Gold, of Connecticut, who is a large
milk producer, and several others whose
statements cannot be doubted, the fact
must be admitted. Perhaps itwOUlld be
well to have a substitute, and this IS
orchard grass, which is the first green
fodder that gives u bite in the spring.
An Indiana dairyman says in regard to
It that he has used rye for Il number OF
years very extensively and probably for
early spring fodder. but has never used
1t ''since he learned the overwhelming
advantage of orchard grass over every
thing else for that purpose" Soiling,
to partial extent, is Indispensable II
the farmer wishes to stock his land rs
fully as he can and ought to do. And
| the great trouble is to get some green
fodder before the clover is ready. Rye
Is the first green crop, and it may be
that if it is pastured or fed before the
blossom appears the Objectionable flavor
will not appear. We have been in the
habit of sowing five bushels of seed to
! the acre, in August, for this early pro-
| vision for the COWS; but as we find or
! Chard grass is far cheaper than rye, as
once it is in the ground it stays for ones
| lifetime, and aS after it is pastured or
cut it grows up again very rapidly,
which rye does not, we are seeding down
more orchard grtas and growing no rye,
| choosing ratheI~--~s feed hay or fodder
longer in the spring and wait a few DAYS
for the later orchard grass. But every
farmer should grow at least an acre or
| two Of rye, if it is only for the straw for
binding corn; and if this is done it VIII
| provide also some early pasture, if it is
sown in August.-Nc1o York. Times.
EXPERIMENTS WITH PEAs.-Experi-
ments have been made this season, at
the New York Agricultural Experiment
! Station, ut Geneva, n. Y, on the period
| Of growth of peas and the relative value
of seed matIred from the earliest and
the later pods. 1t appears from expert
ments with sixty-eight so-called varieties
| the earliest edible pods were obtained in
| tiIty-tive da! from planting, and of fif-
| teen others the latest required fftv-nine
and half days. OF seed peas gathered
from the first pods and from the latest
| pods, the average difference in the vege-
| tatiOn of the seeds was fourteen and one
! half per cent. in favor of those earliest
| maturad, and in favor OF earliest pro-
| ductiOn Of edible peas a difference of
| five days in favor of the earliest matured
| seeds. In productiveness, also. the diff
! ference in favor Of those from the earli-
est mat1Ired seed is considerable. from
IN equal number of plants the earliest
seed vines producing in the same time
thirty-eight well filed pods to only thir-
teen we'll filled pods from the later ma
tured seed.
KEEPING CABBAGES OVER WINTER
Cabbages are usually preserved through
the winter in trenches But care is re
CURED III putting away Il large quantity,
as they are liable to heat if packed in
| masses. An excellent way to do it is as
| follows PlOw out a long double fur
row unit! it becomes Il trench. In this
| set the cabbages with the roots in the
loose soil and close together some straw
! may be laid on the cabbagcs and more
| cabbagcs on these, but not more than
three deep. Straw is laid over the heap
and the earth banked up over the straw.
a few holes should be left here and there
for ventilation. When some OF the cab
bages are to be taken out i'll the winter
one end is opened and afterward the pit
Is closed. 1t Is better to make several
pits for a large quantity than one large
! one.
THE NEADOws.-Just now is the best
time Of the year to replenish the mea-
! dows. The fail rains will carry into
| the soil WA4taE.-@--t-as,laILrc fertilizers
are given to them. The fresh seed sown
viii be started into growth and the old
roots Will be invigoratcd. Root growth
does not stop in the fall, but goes on all
! the winter when it has the needed nutri-
mcnt to encourage their growth, 50 that
! the new growth from the fresh seed Will
| take hold OF the soil and the old growth
will be strengthened. In the spring the
| heritage will start with vigor, aud, MAX
Jig an early growth, will make Il strong
aud sure one, even in dry and Infayor-
| able season.