The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-09-25

ly pasture. If cut before it is too ripe it also
makes good hay.
II. John Rogers said that it is i'm ortant but not
absolutely necessary to have permanent pastures
for fattening cattle. Orchard grass is valuable.
1t stands great deal OF pasturing and unlike
other grasses it starts from where il is bitten or
cut off and not from the root. 1t resists dry
weather better than any other grass, and makes
moe hay II cut before 1t becomes too ripe. 1t Is
not well 10 make speciality of the hay crop, but
IL pays to have 10 or II acres of good clean tmo-
thy on 100 acre farm, even when prices are low.
awo ioRs per aero is not an unusually large crop
any crop we have. Six or seven crops may be cut
from one seeding and perhaps without any fert-
liZers. It can be shipped by rail in hand made
bales which will bring about 81 moro per ton than
when baled by power press. and the additional
price will pay tor the baling. Timothy should
be cut when the seed are formed, which is
when the blossom Is about to be she'd 1t should
be put up as green as possible, and be well cured
! heads begin to turn brown, and should be saved
without getting it wet. 1t should be we'll dried
before being raked into winrows. Hay tedders
Samuel M. Lee said that grass is the founda-
ton OF all Improvement in land. Without grass,
no stock; without stock, no manure; without
manure, no grain. Blue grass grows naturally
on our lands but timothy and clover are both
valuable. Orchard grass has little value as a hay
NOV; 1t should be cut at the right time and well
cured, to obtain II in greatest perfection.
Rev. Z. ID. Wilson remarked that he had no
practical knowledge OF grass crops but the Scrip
lures say that all flesh is grass He preferred it
".
He had heard of people who were as green as grass
but there seems. to be part of the country
where the grass is blue. Then there is Havre de
Grace, coup de grace and grass-widows. That
was all he knew about grasses.
j. NJ. STREET. said his observation led him to the
belief that grass is the foundation of farming
He also observed that growing grass and cutting
| and selling hay had enabled many farmers to buy
cattle and fatten them on grass who could not
K. Harris Archer thought farmer ought not
to make hay specially but should have some
sne s Gest nay 20 sell every year II requires
said Is much better than Hartford hay, because it
is cut be fore 1t gets too ripe 1t will not injure
wheat to let it get dead ripe, and when our farm
| ers are cutting their wheat is time they should
be cutting their hay. He thought it well enough
to have patch Of orchard grass, but no more.
lie had seen blue grass sowed in 1871 which Is now
| a beautiful sod.
| Edward 2 Moores said he could not see why Cecil
| county hay should be better than Hartford coun-
| ty hay. The soil in the two counties is almost
the same and Hartford farmers are as intelligent
as their neigheors; He had seen as good hay cut
| on Mr.. Rogers, Mr.. Oldield's and his fathers
| farm as was ever cut in Cecil county, and il
brought as good price, too. Some soils will
bring timothy and won't bring clover and Others
will bring clover and not timothy Farmers must
keep certain amount of stock for farm work,
| and when within days haul of market there is
| more profit in cutting grass than in grazing.
| Thomas Lochary sows clover and timothy with
| wheat. He did not consider grazing as profitable
as moving or cropping land He also thought the
fertility OF land could be kept up better without
grazing than with it. by feeding hay and corn In
| winter and saving the manure. Pasturing land
will not make it rich. The reason why we ia
| Hartford do not make as good hay as they do In
Cecil is that in Hartford it is cut too late. You get
more weight by cutting late and it is a question
whether the difference in weight will not more
than make up for the difference in price.
Johns II. Janney spoke in favor of orchard grass
| keep it from growing woody it makes excellent
| pasture all the time. He regarded clover as the
greatest fertilizer we have. If you can grow
| clover and have lime convenient there is nc
| necessity for land ever to become impoverished
| Prom observation he does not value blue grass as
highly as some people do, from the fact that ii
grass. Iforcherd grass is moved when in blossom
| it makes excellent hay. 1t can be sowed to adj
| time. Timothy should not be cut too early, but
before the seed etripe, when the bloom is fall
ing. Hay should not be dried too. much, but
dried so that when you take up a wisp you can
| twist it without breaking it.
| VIM. Webster thought variety of grasses
more profitable to the farmer than any one sing lie
grass. If near a market he would raise pure
| timothy. The Deer Creek Club is engaged In di.
versihed farming and it is more profitable to the
clover 1t is better to SOW the three, because one
may fail but all are not likely to fail. Green
land is rich enough. Farmers don't pay enough
attention to grass. When they buy seed corn OF
seed wheat they select them with great care and
| pay little more than the market price for them
but when they want grass seed they trust to their
| commission merchant to select it for them. Cat.
tie will put on more fat and get more solid on
| green grass than on new pasture.
John Moores said he believed in grass, and
would advise farmers to keep their land in grass
as long as they can. Timothy and orchard grass
| do not make sod like our natural grass does
| For improving soil nothing equals clover. When
you fail to get set of clover it seems to put the
| land back for years. Glover is renovatOr of the
soil. We could farm without any bought fertliz
ers, he believed, If we would stick to clover
and cutting hay. Mr.. Moores said Suppose il
takes 2h acres of land to fatten bullock. Such
land would yield tons of hay to the acre. This
amount to SO. He did not know how a farmer
could get $40 out of a bullock He. advised put
rG so an on II you have good
and then be compelled to pillow and reset 1t. That
is the way to make farm rich If you want to
put field in corn in 1887, you will raise more corn
| by putting on fine bone now, besides giving you
two years more pasture. Large crops of corn
| cannot be raised without sod.
| Mr.. Rogers did not believe bone dust would dc
| any good on corn.
Mr.. Moores thought it time to stop that kind OF
farming, and said that sod could be made good
only by barn yard manure, bone dust or some
fore putting it in corn. Mr.. Moores would like
that is, confine it to patch or small lot 1t has
| no advantage over timothy and is not as good
as clover. Cattle fatten nearly as well on clover
! and timothy as on natural grass but will moi
| weigh quite as much.
James Lee also regarded grass as the founda-
| blue grass. 1t takes some time for it to amount
| to anything after you SOW it. Five years ago he
| sowed Kentucky blue grass seed with wheat
| about bushel to the acre. He could not sec
much of it until this year. Now the field is GOV.
cred with a sod like a thick carpet. On about one
acre 10 seed was sowed and although all the field
| had been covered with stable manure there il
not one-half as much grass where no seed was
| sowed as on the rest of the field Stock will eat
| timothy better If cut when ripe.
VIM Munnikhuysen said that il farmers would
make more grass grow and do less blowing theil
land would improve faster. He was satisfied land
can be improved by .pasturing. He thought
clover hay as good for horses as for CATTLE if il
is properly cured and saved. On a permanent
pasture he would like to have an acre or two oil
orchard grass but not an entire field of 1t. In cut
ting timothy you should strike the happy medi
UNI, when the seed is just formed. 1t Is not good
| If cut when in bloom and il allowed to stand toe
long 1t becomes woody.
ipt1rp tn, OF n,t1 o 1t.