The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-05-21


There are Certain qualities Of land
chat are better suited 70 permanent
pasture than 70 any other use. Here
very little land i too rough for c~ultiya-
ton. hat very much hal better never
have 4 furrow iurnel on H. refer 10
Hill lands and the white clay Some
hill land is ~ excellent quality. but il
turned over il viii wash and gully. and
Che most fertile part spread itself over
the fields below. often doing them more
injury than good
Then much 81 the hill land il very
poor corn land. and while il j. in is
natural state. excellent bluegrass land.
VET after II has been impoverished by
cropping and washing. il j. slow oform
q good sod again know il i hard 70
tell = hill farmer that he must not plow
his land. and in fact 10 seed Il % blue
grs~S now. would verify the old English
proverb: To make = pasture will break
man.
Biuc-graSsi i 50 slow of becoming well
and probably established on the poorer
quality IL soils. where il should always
b.. that an attempt should never BE-
made 70 establish IL unless permanencc
j. intended. and = man hal better think
Little before he breaks an old pasture
that has grown = thick firm sod, and
yields \ satisfactory amount.
know 81 fields that have not been
rloweL since l can remember. and
where the grass j. thick and heavy and
r~rf<~lI. .rI ~~>rr. t.f u~kfrk 20
plowed. would. in a few years. be so
poor a. 20 scarcely repay for cultivation
Thee s0l~ are a light-colorcd. caleareous
clav. quite tenacious and somewhat wet
and cold They will not grow corn very
well without a good deal Of manure.
hut 10 pretty well for wheat or grass.
They ought not 10 be farmed while there
j. money in pasture grass and when
they are farmed they need thorough tile
drainage
Blue grass. when thoroughly estab-
1shed on this kind Of land. Is more sue
cc-sful than on some rich black. bottom
lsris. which SEEM TO b. too drv for il to
do u best though No. I for corn or
cluver. and Of almost incxhaustible fer
tilitv. With this exception. however.
the better the land the better the grass.
and. in fact. the very siowne-s Of its
getting set J. caused by the slowness Of
the soil in regaining it. lost fertility.
much a which must come from the de-
caying roots and blades Of the grass
For that reason il il a bad pracflcc "a
feed down any pasture. and especially a
Young one very clos. for il not only
weakens the grass and removes the nat
ural fertilizer and winter covering, but
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a. 1 mali clumn THAT harms nobody.
N do.~ not spread FAST. Az first only =
sn-,e pIan. ppcars: next fifty IN yarious
rartS N meadow or pasture. vet No
motto. i taken II II: NEXT five hundred.
and max - the farmer begins 10 wish
tisev were fever. but TIE clumps are
mot larrr. and the next wear there are
i've thousand. and every one spreading
in IN directions. both bv seed and IN
means II the creeping roots. and wher-
ever = clrmp grows bluegrass i ex-
clnd.~i. What y 10 prevent the odiou-.
bstcr-tastinr. acrid-smcllinr plant from
e-rp'n IN 10 complete po<<ession
Ihn pastures ought mol 10 b. plowed
over after II has rood control: n 9th
e. vas II EXTERN mating IL i impracti-
calle. while the road-sides are beinc
stockei win Il for sd for wears Il
csine. Kill the first stalk you
So quicker than YOU would
= ratflcsnakr. Don't let it.ret started
a'onr the road-ides. or on your neigh
hur . farm. II YOU can helm Il. Believe
me. / have studied the inianifv IL il
anil seen the practical examples that /,
j. rnrw IL GIVE All IN is own rood
time.
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