Year: 1865

Much has been written about the advanta-
ges of soiing cattle, particularly sowing corn
for feeding cows in summer, when pastures
become short DR.. Lyman s. Wright, White,
borough, N. Y, has given some account as to
the benefit of this system, which is worth the,
attention of all farmers whose pastures, are
label to fail in times of drouth.


HE kept thirty cows on twenty acres Of
ground Of this he devoted to pasturagey
fifteen acres to clover, three acres; rye, half
an acre; oats, half an acre; sowed corn, one
acre, The rye is put in the previous season,
by the last Of August or first of September,
and is therefore ready to be cut early in the
season following BY the time this is used
up the clover will be large enough to be used,
and after that the oats, which are sowed early
in April. The corn fodder comes last, and
different parts of this acre of land are sowed
with the corn so as to have succession of
food the earliest corn being put in by the 9Th
of May. In this way the twenty acres were
amply sufficient to keep the cows in food un-
til some time i'll October, when they were
turned into the aftergrass. The doctor is Of
the opinion that the COWS do as we'll, if not
better, both as to health and yield of milk,
than they would at pasture, and that when
land is valuable and arabic, OR adapted to
this system, it can be employed with profit
The cows were generally fed by six clock in
the morning, and remained at their feed
about three hours, when they were turned into
the pasture, and at 3 o'clock p, m they were
brought up and received their afternoons
meal. To cut the feed and take charge of
the COWS, it takes one man about half his
time.


ut may be observed here that it usually
takes two or three acres to pasture cow,
while by the system adopted as described
above, two-thirds only of an acre Suffice
TIE system of green-soiling is not generally
by the dairy farmer. All experiments of this
kind arc valuable, and are we'll worthy of
thought and investigation, whether the
smaller farms, under this system, may not be
enabled to keep quite as much stock, realiz-
ing more profit annually than farms Of double
and treble their size under the ordinary
methods of culture"


Selecting Seed Wheat.


| We have before alluded to the experiments
of Mr. Hallot of Brighton, England, in the
selection of his wheat for seed and the results
which have attended it 1t is an interesting
and important matter with the farmer, and
one which we desire to press upon the atten-
ton of our readers. Mr.. Hallct commenced
his experiments in September, 1852 He
then planted one grain of wheat and year by
year selected most carefully the produce of
the finest heads of seed for the next years
crop, and improving every successive harvest,
he has at length more than doubled the size
of the original heads, the weight of the pro-
duct has largely increased, and he is enabled
to SOW much earlier than formerly. These
are most important considerations.


1t will be remembered that at the meeting
of the Board of Agriculture last winter, Mr..
Haines of Aroostock stated that the one year
he separated his seed wheat so as to have the
largest, heaviest kernels only to SOW In this
way he obtained about one peck from
bushel A bushel and half of this selected
wheat was sown side by side in another field,
with wheat uncleansed, and the former was
four times as good as the latter, and the yield
correspondingly heavier. The fields upon
which it was sown were very uniform in char
acter throughout, and this difference in the
looks of the wheat could be distinguished as
far as the field could be viewed so as to see
the grain.


The benefits of careful selection of seed
through number of years, have become SO
evident that we think farmers can but profit
from the experiments which have thus far
been made in this direction and there is this
advantage to it that this plan is open to each
farmer alike, and without but a small expense
attending the operation. To raise pure
crops of every variety of seed is of the greatest
importance, and we wonder that it has been
so long neglected. Farmer. ~"