The Meeker herald., 1893-05-20
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
INTERESTING TOPICS FOR RUR-
AL READERS.
Some Seasonable Agricultural
Pointefs-Necesslt of Observa-
tion--Experiment with Oats
Corn Ensilage for Lambs
Short Pithy Pointers.
Some ScasOnnblc Agricultural
Painters.

Some ScasOnnble Agricultural
Pointers.
By all means sow some clover this
spring Seed is high, yet we cannot
well do without this useful plant We
need IL i'll our rotations. We require
it both TO furnish the best of hay for
cur stock, rs well us to maintain the
fertility of the soils of our farms.
Try and keep n good start with the
spring work, and then keep ahead.
The man who keeps ahead of his work
does not labor rs hard in the end us
he who is behind. How everything
drags, and how discouraging it is to
perform every farm operation just Il
few days later than it should have been
done; and how much loss such Il prac-
lice entails So 1t is good advice,
though often hard to follow: Push
the work and don't let the work push
you"
Do not fail to prepare the soil prop
erly for the reception of the seed. Fine
up and pulvcrize until it becomes per
fectly loose and mellow. This is the
very foundation of farm work; and,
when this is sighted, how can salts
factorily results be reasonably expect
ed? Then do not omit inccssant tillage
and cultivation throughout the grow
ing season. Keep nj it.
DO not turn out the stock to pasture
too early. Spring is trying 10 the CON
stitution. Winds and rains are preva-
lent, and these are precisely the right
conditions for stock to take cold and
become sick. There is no saving in TINS
premature pasturing, for the grass mas
perhaps barely started. 1t contains
much water, and cropping IN early does
cattle small good, and very likely dimin-
isles the later yield. Furthermore,
the ground being soft, is poached, ana
the sod badly injured. Make the
change from grass to hay very slowly,
and then prevent disorders, which are
liable to occur.
spring is the season for all kinds OF
tran splantlng and setting out work,
SO improve the farm by establishing
orchards and email fruit patches. that
will in future years provide the family
with most hcalthful fruit, furnish a
source OF income. and improve the ap-
pcarnncc and value of the farm. 1t
seems paradoxisal that so many farm
el,s and their families scarcely taste
fruit III any quantity. Rural people
should certainly take hold of all the
blessings which their lot affords.
Plant POTATOES early. Blight ana
rot generally affect late paintings more
seriously Than the earlier ones. Com
mcrcinl fertilizers are preferable 10
stable manurcs. MS the latter seem UNI
der certain conditions much more raw
orablc 10 the spread and propagation
Of the dread "scab." The ground for
potatocr should he plowcd deeply, and
tho seed put down pretty well, say four
or five inches. Level culture Is easier
and better than the old-fashioned hill
culture.
Save ali the manure from all the
stock. and by all is meant the entire
fnrtilizirg matter from both SOLD ana
liquid eycremcnts. Manures are shame
fully wasted. and our Impoverished
soils are cheated of their just dues ana
reeds: aud year Icy year they become
more amt more exhausted. What won
der that .ro1s grow less and less, ana
we hca! tho complaint that farming
does nor pay?' Turn over new leaf,
EMPLOY alHni bcn,s, such AS straw.
meadow hsy, land-plaster saw dust,
ecai astes freely, and curtail this eN-
penSive waste.
Their. arc advantages in special farm
ing rs well rs in general farming.
There are also disadvantages in each.
In SPECIAL farming there is more con
ccntrati1n of effort possible. hut If the
spccinl,, fails, rs ell will occasionally.
then tlt,Ic Is nothing TO fan back upon.
If a mans land is particularly suitable
for one crop, let linn go into it, eX-
tnsvcIy: but yet produce, 10 a second
airy extent. some other crops as a par
t.;i dcpcudence.-Farm, Field and Fire
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