Daily Republican., 1886-04-14
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0RRING WORK.


& wetaks the following practical article |
from the 'Amsricau RnrAi Home, pub.
lished at Rochester, n. z, atti 90 q year
than which there - no better agricul
turAl paper In the country
For many reasons Il IL q aits- desirable
TO get In. the, various spring crops as
early as practicable after tho soil 10 Ia
condition to be worked, without injury
from moisture. This is especially the
case with barley and oats, which are
natives OF QUITE high latitudes, and
germinate and negotiate In lover tenn.
peratures than many other binds OF
vegetation. Yet even these hardy crops
may suffer from remaining too long in
cold earth, without terminating or
having their growth arrested BY long,
cold spells, after they have commenced
growing. We have known barley 10
make good crop sown In March and
oats early In April and, again, We have
known both OF them to give evidence
that they were sowed too early when
not 90 wn until the early part OF May.
We are too short sighted to predict the
weather and can probably do no better
than SOW at the ordinary seeding time,
provided the conditions are ell favor
able.
There 10 little doubt that heavy land
inclined ~ be wet, can be prepared
earlier for seeding II underdrained and
p owed In the fall; the water will drain
Ioff apd therays Of the sun and the mel
lowing atmosphere viii penetrate the
loosened soil, preparing IL, earlier for
Thsre can be no harm In beginning to
Iplow sandy and gravelly soil when ruf
liciently dry, although cold, wet weather
Imay probably follow. It may require
la little more working with gang plow,
Icultivator or harrow in consequence of
the rain, but piowing 10 much the slow
lest operation OF tillage, and all that can
be accomplished In that direction, facil
itatss the Anal seeding.
In the operation OF blowing we trust
that there arc very few Of the readers
Iof The American Rural Home, who still
lretain the old, clumsy, heavy drawn 8
plows with iron mold-boards. The
hard, chilled surface, of msld-board
now made by many manufacturers OF
lplows turn of the furrows with much
loss friction than the old sorts. II,
after the ground 10 plowed, there comes
on long, heavy rain, beating down the
mel.owed soil, good gang pillow will
, again mellow It in much less than half
, the time required by q pillow and, in
,, many cases, one OF the better kinds Of
harrows will answer every purpose.
While 1t 10 not ad visable for farmers,
l espe cially those OF limited means, to be
carried away by every new implement
4 Invented, filing their tool house and
f, fence corners with discarded imple-
meDts, still IL 40 fact. attested to By
: many Of our most successful farmers
frn
:, often nearly save It's cost In the cas-
i. and thorouRhness with which 1t will
q prepare for o single sp ing or fall seed
4 ing. Do not let smooth toDgued agen
persuade you into buying new impie
= N snt, blindly, but when you ara con
: WINGED that o new implement will d,
y the work much faster and better thai
the old. without increase OF draft,
: may be the truest economy to buy 1t.
+ In sowing these spring grains there !
y probably aB much difference betweel
! good and bad seeds and in varieties q
!. lin other crops. None but the cleanes
= and sounde seeds should be sown
Ismut should not be propAgstod, AM
D levery farmer should endeavor to asceI
p tain what are the most productive va
Irieties AMI SOW them, unless the seed
/ held at exorbitant rates. In barley, o
n Igood, heavy barley soi';-it will no. pa
!. to raise barley on any oLheE-the Man
: shury, or German barley, has produce
= the largest yields, but brewers do ne
ID like TO malt is with the six-r0wed
a Where It Is gro IN In suffi silent quaint
N ties for maltsters Co make = business {
IS IL, 1t 10 preferred. and will command
higher price than six-rowed.
There is q decided choice In var ietit
Is Of oats. The Probestier has, for man
10 PEARS, been q favorite with many VIII
Up lhave tried it, and, more recently, tt
be White Russian is making q prett
heavy yield. IL has a stiff straw
IT which 10 much in its favor, tor thal
~ has been an increase OF heavy wind
az in summer of late ears, beating dow
C. the oats. Experiments made at II
he New York State Experiment Static
w would seem TO show that smutted See
produces smutty oats and that soakin
!, a the seeds In copperas water, q strOn
solution, reduces the amount of smn
SEED CORN.
1t is not day too early for ever
es farmer who intends to plant corn tb
To lfeasop, to assure himself that be hi
net good, sound seed, that will be sure
,et terminate. Many corn fields have, I
ok lato years, been badly spotted viii
us vacahc ies, caused by the failure of
O. portion OF the seed. Seed should
al Immediately tested, by planting
he shallow boxes, with the earth and a
nd kept as near as possible to what it wi
er probably be for two or three weet
BY after corn planting. Ifthirty per cen
at fall 10 Rerminate, other samples hs