Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1889-06-27
FARM, FIELD AND GARDEN.
S. lBJECTS THAT ARE SEASONABlE
AND OF WIDESPREAD INTEREST.

Points in HaymalSing-M Methods for the
Improvement of Meadows-Bone Meal
an Excellent Fertilizer for Grasses-The
Cow Pea ~ Substitute for Glover
Meadows and hay are important top
les, and these received capital consider
alton in a recent issue of Rural New
full farmers in widely separate parts of
the country appeared at length. and from
some of these have been cleaned the fol-
lowing statements:
Professor Cook, of Michigan, calls at
teation to two points, namely-the mix
inT of alsike clover with red clover in
tia. spring seeding and the value of a
COOL hay loader. Regarding the first
point he says: "Alsike often catches
when the red does not. 1t is fortified
by the honey bees and so the first crop
yield seed and reseeds the ground; and
so the alsike becomes perennial, or at
least continues longer than does the red
clover | have practiced this somewhat,
and shall do so more. The aisle clover
has the further advantage of being a
valuable honey plant"
T. b. Terry, of Ohio, emphasizes the
well tested fact that "the time to draw
in clover for hay is during the hottest
part of the day He says: Just the
moment it begins to grow cooler, that
moment the air begins to deposit the
moisture that it cannot longer hold. AS
long as ii is growing warmer the air is
taking the moisture from the hay, or
anything else it comes in contact with
but when 1t is becoming cooler your hay
is taking the water back from the air.
Professor Roberts. of New York, says:
Two methods are open to us in the inn
provement of meadows. If they are
rough and reproductive, plow, replow,
level. fertiliza and res"pd. using some
clover, which will disappear in about
two years. By this method plant food
will be st free at the surface and with
that. added by fertilizers and that brought
from the subsoil by the clover roots.
there will be enough available fertility
in the surface soil to produce many
abundant harvests The second method
is to thoroughly scarify the surface with
sharp toothed harrow in the spring of
the year, sow little grass seed and one
or two hundred pounds of commercial
fertilizer per acre and roll with heavy
roller. This, of course, should be done
in addition to giving the meadows light
coat of fine manure either immediately
after haying or later in the fall. Where
it is desirable to have the meadows per.
manent, little or no plsturing should be
done in the fall.
Virginia correspondent increases
the productiveness of his meadows by
applying every three or four years, 200
to 800 pounds per acre of raw hone meal
which is narrowed in with !. !,hlgp too!
y farmer il the Piedmont be-. Ct Souti!
Carolina claims tllt of all the substi
t;ltcs for clover the COW pea il most
used and GIr.nan millat and Hg..! .rarian
gra ext Tie latter is a fai::'r ex-
cppt on IT,, richest lAn well Pr Jared,
whir tar COW pea :,Ipws well on all
kinds OF l.:nl and viii the rudest cult
vasion i'll! Unable. and Invariably i'm
proves t.h Lad. whether the crop is re.
moved or not. Peas are drilled in or
sown broadcast after snail grains have
COM Of il june.