Connecticut western news., 1885-06-17
FARM AND GARDEN.
REASONABLE HINTS ABOUT FARM WORK FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Destruction of weeds-Treatment of Run
 cut Grass Land.

A HNT.-Here is hint for farmers.
 Last fall man at Clyde, N. r., had a number of stumps which he wished to remove. He bored holes in them, in- serted saltpetre, filled up with water, and then plugged the holes. About n month ago he took out the plugs, poured in kerosene and set fire. The stumps have smouldered away without blazing, and now there is nothing left of them but ashes. .. .a. r
 TREATMENT OF RUN-oUr GRAss LAND. -E. l.. F., Nyack, N. I've have a piece of grass land all run out and have not enough manure to bring it up as fast as we like It was plowed four years ago and allowed to grow to weeds, wild roses, etc. IT this is plowed now and sowed to oats and clover, and the clover is plowed down in the fall and sowed to rye and seeded, and in the spring fertilized, would it be reasonable to expect favorable results7 Answer: The trouble with this course would be that what oats were grown would leave the land so much poorer and the clover would not be large enough this fall to amount to anything as manure. If the land is quite poor, plow thoroughly and apply hundred. pounds of good fer tilizer per acre and SOW two bushels of Western corn per acre in drills twelve inches apart; the last of August, or when full-grown, blow this in, using a chain if necessary; SOW to rye, apply ing two hundred pounds of fertilizer, and if wanted for meadow seed to Tim othy, seeding to clover the following spring. This will give satisfactory re- suits. It would be better, however, to withhold the Timothy seed this fall and seed with pure clover next spring. Let this grow up and fall down that year and the next year cut 1t for hay, and let the second crop grow up and blow that in, when full grown, again sowing to rye with fertilizers, and then seed for meadow as before described. Rural Ne10 Yorker. ..s ... ......
 DESTRUCTION OF WEEDs.-H farmers would be more observing and make a practical application of the facts which come to their knowledge, 1t would be greatly to their advantage. In planting many small seeds of the vegetable class, who is there that has not noticed that the germination was very much has, tened, and in fact insured, if, after the soil has been prepared and the seed placed therein, it is compacted ol pressed together by the passage of s roller over the surface or by means oI board. Herein lies 8 principle thaI can be successfully applied in the de struction or prevention of weeds. Weeds are at all times the pest of the farmer
 and any means of relief from their in
 furious effects will be hailed with joy In all cases where the soil is continually stirred and kept loose weeds arc seldom found, for the reason that the conditions are unfayorable to their germination ol growth. In case of the germination, because the soil Is not compacted about the seed it does not spring into life, and if by any chance it has attained to that condition, loose soil is not as favorable to it's growth as one in which it is more compact Farmers can but have noticet that weeds spring up and grow more readily where tracks have been made than where the soil has been left un
 trodden upon; so, if a shower falls upor the earth and the loose soil is beater down, the conditions are most fayorabl, to the growth or germination of weeds Then what is necessary to counterac this effect? It is to stir up and looser the soil as soon after a shower as pos sible This, of course, involves labor i practioed, in the field, but in the garder should be attended to if the best result are desired and freedom from weeds i
 sought-GermGntoDn Telegraph.