Year: 1877

Farm, Rahiitys.


pastures through the season, have as
many varieties of grasses suitable for
pastures as you can make grow. More
feed can be produced on an acre from
ten varieties than can possibly be from
one variety, even if the ten all bloom at
the same time, just as wood lot will
grow more wood and timber with several
varieties growing together than if Wholly
devoted to one kind.


AN old sod of orchard grass is apt to
be bare in spots and bunchy, as it is the
habit of this grass to grow in tufts To
renovate this sod some fresh seed should
be sown soon after the field is mown, and
harrow run over it to open up the sur
face. For fertilizer, where no manure
can be procured, fifty bushels of wood
ashes and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda
per acTe Would be useful. To secure
good set of new seeding, Peruvian guano
is usually very good artificial fertilizer
say 150 pounds per acre.


SOME one says that a strong decoction
of sage tea or a salve made of sage tea
and lard, and well rubbed Gu, will ct1re
garget or caked udder in cows. We
have a remedy for this ailment, well ex-
peTiiiented With did successfully, Which
[ will give: Give the COW one, two or
three doses of poke-root, cut fine, and if
she refuses to eat it alone we mix it with
cut feed OF any kind of slop that she will
eat. Don't be afraid to use poke-root,
fer it is harmless, and COW will eat Just
enough of it and no more than she needs.
This is sure cure


CARTING MANURE.-R says in
the New York Herald: Farmers, let me
caution you against the folly of carting
your manure upon tonr fields and spread
Ing it for week or longer, before you
plow it under. If this be done in the
spring, with a warm sun and high, dry
ing winds, large portion of it, or, rather,
of the fertility, will pass off in the at
mosphere. Don't be deceived in this
manner while your olfactory nerves bear
pungent evidence of the truth of what
7 say. yot catittot afford to Work your
fafms on this wasting principle. Manure
is money, and if one should see you
scattering "greenbacks" over the field
on some windy day the evidence of your
insanity would be but a little more tan
gible than when you spread your manure
and leave it to evaporate in the sun and
by the winds


HARHowtNa WHEAT. 20 CORE
spondent, inquirihg if the narrowing in
the spring of winter wheat, on which
timothy had been seeded during the fall,
would be advisable, the Country Gentle
man replies elf timothy has made a
strong growth, SO as to be four or five
inches high, passing a smooth harrow
over it in spring will benefit it. If the
plants are quite small, OF only an inch
high, they would be likely to be torn out.
The precise amount of growth, to endure
the narrowing, can be best determined
by trial Sometimes the narrowing will
apparently iniure the young plants, but
in few days they recover and show a
benefit of the operation. We would not
recommend the use of common
straightforward harrow on young grass
at any time. The smoothing harrow,
if we remember correctly, spreads nine
feet


How TO MEASURE HAY.-The follow
ing rules are given for arriving at the
weight of hay in certain cases: When
in long, square stacks: Multiply the
length in yards by the width in yards,
and that by half the altitude in yards,
and divide the product by fifteen the
quotient will give the number of TONS
When taken out of mows or old stacks
Multiply the length OF the load in yards
by the width in yards, and that by the
height in yards, and divide the product
by twenty; the quotient will give the
number of tons. When in windrows ::
Multiply the length of the windrows in
yards by the width in yards, and the pro-
duct by the height in yards, and divide
by twenty-five the quotient will be the
number of tons in the windrow When in
the NOW: Multiply the length in yards
by the height in yards, and that by the
width in yards, and divide the product
by fifteen; the result will show the
number of tons in the mow There is
no accurate mode of measuring hay but
by weighing it. This, on account of its
bulk and character, is very difficult, un-
less it is baled or otherwise compacted
This difficulty has led farmers to esti-
mate the weight by the bulk, or cubic
contents, a mode which, from the nature
of the commodity, is only approximately
correct. But for ordinary farming pur-
poses of estimating the amount of hay
in the meadow, NOW, load or stack, the
above rules will be found sufficient as
well as very convenient.


Domestic Economy.


SMOKED SALMON.-Soak three or four
hour hours in plenty of warm water, and