The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-16

barley from the Helu ulay Oo Su' AoA 0~
use. For forage barley ought to be sown
much more thickly than is advisable for
growing grain. At least three bushels
per acre my be sown with advantage.
For grain crop, two bushels IS usually
enough per acre.
A heap of stones after lying two or
three years will leave the soil much richer
than before. This is probably in some
cases due to disintcgration of the stone,
which is the mode in which all soils are
formed. But the greater part OF the
effect is due to the action of the stones
as a mulch, allowing the soil beneath to
disintegrate.
A very good feed either for green
forage or grain is made by sowing oats
and peas together. Where field peas
are sown alone the vines get down and
become moldy A few oats sown at the
same time give them needed support.
and what oats are grown are so much
clear grain. Oats and peas cut green
make an excellent ensilaging crop.
The grass which grows on dry, rich
soil, with free sunlight warming it, is
much more nutritious than that grown
on land filled with stagnant water. Stock
will eat the former down to the roots be-
fore touching the latter. 1t is very COM
mon in fields where underdrains run. to
see the line over the tile made plain y
visible by its closely cropped heritage.
Ewes that have lost their lambs, ex
cept by accident, should be fed a little
grain now aud turned off early for the
butcher 1t needs very little grain to
fatten them on grass, and though they
are often fattened on grass alone, they
will pay for little grain as we'll as any
stock the farmer keeps. The poorer
sheep and all over five years old should
be fattened and sold.
1t used to be an old joke with farmers
that more corn grew on crooked than
on straight rows, simply because they
were greater in length. In the best
farming districts straight rows of corn
are now the rule and crooked ones the
exception. The use of horse cultivators
in tilling corn makes the straightness of
rows more necessary than when most of
the work was done by hand labor. With
straight rows the cuitivator teeth may be
run so close to the corn that few or no
weeds will remain to be removed by
hand.
Few persons appreciate the effect of
entire suppression of weed seeds for a
single year in cleaning land, especially
where frequent tillage gives opportunity
for seeds to come to the surface and
terminate. On land dragged once a
week through the season, millions more
of weeds are destroyed than the cultiva-
tor supposcs. Many lave but just ger
minated, and nprooted thus early lose
their only chance of causing the farmer
trouble. A weed seed once sprouted and
buried will never sprout again.
If q farmer wishes to get the full ben
eft OF manure on his orchard, and quick
ly, too, let him draw out a load to every
tree that shows promise of fruit so soon
as blossoms can be seen, spread it as
widely as the tree extends on either side,
and if possible it is better to leave it on
the surface. The crops that can be
grown under bearing apple tree are not
worth the labor of cultivating and har-
vest:ng. They cost in injury to the trees
productivcness more than the best crops
grown in the open field are worth.
The dew deposited on plants and the
surface of the ground Is very rich in
ammonia; it is, in fact, the condensed
moisture of the air, and holding often
all the ammonia that it contains. When
allowed to evaporate, these fertilizing
properties are lost, but if this is turned
under by pillow or cultivator the ammo
MIA is absorbed by the soil and saved for
crops Here is another of the advanta-
ges from getting ont to work early in the
morning. There is no time like morning
before breakfast to hoe cabbages to make
them grow.
Professor Burrill, of Illinois, says the
amount of water exhaled from the leaves
of trees in dry, hot weather is prodigious
vastly greater than any one not ac
quainted with the results of experiments
upon the subject supposes. AS near as
can be made out from Investigations upon
small plants in pots, large sized forest
tree throws into the atmosphere every
favorable summer day about fifty barrels
of water, counting forty gallons to the
barrel. One apple tree twenty years old
may be estimated to be one-fifth as large,
end to exhale ten barrels of water each
clear and breezy day of June, July and
August. This seems Incredible, but it is
not above the accurately determined
facts with potted plants of many kinds.
Recipes.
| EGG SANDwICH.-Remove the shells
and cut four hard boiled eggs in slices
butter few slices of bread, put the
eggs on them neatly; salt and pepper,
and serve.
BREAD PUDDING pint of
grated bread crumbs in one and a half
pints of milk. Beat up the yolks of two
eggs with tablespoonful of sugar, a
| little salt and the grated rind of one