The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-06-21
Treatment of Meadows.

Treatment of Meadows.
A number of the experiment stations
arc discussing the treatment of mead
ows.
According to the Minnesota station.
grasses and clovers sown in that state
| in the spring with a small grain crop
should have hard, fall-plowed seed
bed. If the soil be wet and heavy, har-
rowing should be very light, but il the
| land be dry it may be thorough. Per-
manent meadows are not considered as
profitable as short rotations of mead
ows and cultivated crops. For wet
lands a mixture of red top and alsyke
clover is recommended. The latter
makes a good growth in the first few
years. while several years are re-
quired for the best results from redtop.
For this reason redtop does not find y
place in short rotations. The cost OF
| orchard grass seed, from SO to s. for
the three bushels necessary to an acre.
practically excludes this grass from ~
short rotation. Timothy fits into rota-
ton well, but alone 1t serves for only
few years in permanent pasture GO
meadow. Blue grass in Minnesota
grows too short for meadows In ehoos-
ing a field for a permanent meadow, Ii
is we'll to avoid dry, sandy or gravelly
soil.
At the Michigan station recently
seeded meadows yielded more hay than
those which had been in grass and pas
tured for about twenty-five years. The
following plants were sown alone.
Meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, tal9
oat grass, redtop, June grass (bluR
grass, orchard grass, alfalfa, agropy-
rum tenerum, fowl meadow grass, tal-
Ter meadow fescue, timothy red clover
and mammoth clover. Meadow fescue
and perennial rye grass were sown to-
gether. The yields made by these two
were compared with the hay from %
mixture of timothy, tall oat grass, or
chard grass, red clover, mammoth
clover, and agropyrum tenerum. The
mixture afforded by far the largest
crop.
The Massachusetts station condemns
the seeding down of grasses in the
spring in Massachusetts,. On the other
hand, in Kansas it has been found best
to seed in the spring, not earlier than
April Is. On the Kansas station farm .
mixture of orchard grass e bushels
per acre., and red clover g quarts), has
proven more satisfactory than any
other combination.
Suppress Filled Cheese.-Never wero
the dairymen of the country more alive
to the necessity of decisive action ON.
the subject of filed cheese than now.
From every cheese district in the coun-
try is heard the Macedonian cry for
succor, and judging by the bills now
before many of the legislatures, an eff
fective damper will be put on the ille-
Ultimate sale of such goods. No reason
able man can complain of the manufac-
ture of skim cheese, so long as it is sold
for what 1t really is; the crime consists
in supplying the place of the natural
fat with foreign article and then max
ing the product masquerade as fun
cream goods, and attempting to palm n
off on the consuming public as the gen.
uine article, thus robbing the buyer
and injuring the sale of pure goods.
American Cheesemaker.
Loss of Young Turkeys.-About one
half OF the young turkeys die, and in -
majority of cases IL is attributed to
other causes than the right one, which
is the large gray lice on the heads. n
young turkey may be examined and NO
lice seen, but down on the skin Of tina
head and neck may be few large lice
at work, and as only one or two or
them will kill a young turkey the lico
are dangerous enemies. Anoint the
heads and necks with two or three
drops of melted lard (use but q few
drops) and also treat the hen In thu
same manner, and the lice will DO d.
stroyed.-Ex.