Iron County register., 1885-11-19
FERTILITY.
Neglected Resources for Obtaining LUZ
uriant Crops.

Neglected Resources for Obtaining Luz.
uriant Crops.
TO improve farm that is rolling re-
quires something mixed with the soil to
hold it together to make a foundation
for manures hat may be applied and to
keep it from washing, and for this busi-
ness there is nothing better than rye;
no other vegetable growth is better
adapted to all soils. Sow in Septen-
ber, that it may get as good
fall growth as possible. In
the spring, as soon as it shows sign Of
ripening, turn swine on and .'hog it
down. After the hogs have pretty
well eaten all the grain turn the straw
under; the remaining kernels will soon
sprout and bring on another crop. The
decomposing straw will give food to the
young growing rye and keep the ground
from washing. The next spring. after
the rye is two or three feet high, turn it
under and plant to corn. That fall ut
the corn aud SOW wheat and in early
spring sow clover seed on the wheat;
harrow first and then sow is best. While
taking land through the rye process
keep lookout for manure.
Our stately forest proves that teaUes
are one of the most powerful fertilizers.
Heap them in large piles in the woods,
cover with loan; if loan be mixed all
through the pile the better. Thus ov-
cred the gases are held. These leaves
will be rich in plant food. when wei!
rotted, but would. be better composted
with stable manure. Cover stable floors
foot deep in the fall while these piles
are dry. They will absorb all the
liquid from the stock. Use of economy
in this way will give 4 surprising guam
tity and value of manure. Collect all
bones, large and small. into a vessel for
safe-keeping- When winter comes and
you are burning sound wood, put in
boxes or barrels a layer OF ashes and
layer of bones, then another layer OF
ashes and then bones until the vessel is
nearly full. then finish with ashes; put
| about twice as much ashes as bones.
Keep the mass wet with soapsuds or
chamber lye, but do not suffer it to
freeze; the process will stop it you do.
Through winter save a hopper of strong
ashes.
When ring comes and the bones
are not dissolved sufficiently, put tie
ones and ashes into a large kettle filled
with lye leached from the ashes il the
hopper and boil them until the I've eats
them up. Put this away in barrels
until wanted; you can mix it with dry
soil to make it etter to handle. have
t us made a fertilizer that gives better
satisfaction than commercial m 'nure
that cost three dollars per hundred
pounds. Hen dropp ngs we'll take care
of is second only to guanO. It should
be composted or mixed with the leaf
meld in some dry place. or it can be
swept up every week and put in barrels
and mixed with loan as used. All the
above mauures can be oedcas ell and
thoroughly mixed with the soil and
crops planted. O.. be used in the hill.
and you have not had to pay out one
dollar in money.
Now. beginner on poor land may
| plant u small lot of the best of it to
small fruits and vegetables. to make a
support until the farm is improved up
to make good crops Have pigs in pens
| fed all the refuse from the table or
garden, keep plenty of sod. chip dirt and
road dust as absorbent; pigs will eat sod
with seeming thanks. This will also
make fine lot of manure and give
in its second year cut it when some
heads are little brown, for feed in the
winter. This clover hay fed to stock
Ga calf or two, as many as you can get,
if nothing else) and the manure care.
fully saved. | believe. wi help reno-
vate land faster than to turn the clover
| under But after the crop of clover is
cut the fall growth should be turned
under and the ground sowed to wheat.
Turn the clover sod under some three
or four weeks before sowing wheat.
The clover thus turned under will fur
nish an abundance of rich food for the
growing wheat. If any young calves
have been fed through the winter they
can be sold Off in the spring or pas
tured until fall and sold for beeves.-
thomas ID. Baird, iis n. ]. Tribune