INDIANA   FARMER.
Devoted, to Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanics and the  Useful Arts.
D. P. Holloway, W. T. Dennis,
R. T. Keel.—Editors.
RICHMOND, AUG. 1, 1854.
(Holloway & Co., Publisher*;
j    Vol.3 No. 20.
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Table of  Contents:
332, 353—better from London—Chicory—Peach Worms
324—Cultivation or Wheat.
325—Basis of Good Farming—Variety of Food Necessary
—London Currants.
326—Letters from the Pacific Side,
32r—Hoeing Wheat, Plain Hints to Young farmers, &c
328—Reminiscences of a Farmer's Dm rhter.Foul Meadow.
329—The -loose'-'erry—Charcoal for Swine.
330—The Beverages we infuse.
331—How to Make Money on a Farm.
332—Some Words about Mules.
333—Raise your own Clover Seed—Bees.
334--Cost of Apple Seed in Oregon—Time for Cutting
Buckwheat—Ventillating Hay Stacks—Germination
of Cherry Stones—To Boil Rice—Mint Sauce.
335—To Choose aGood Milch Cow—Crops in Michigan.
330—Respiratory Organs of Plants—llow to make Barren Trees Fruitful—New Breed of Cattle, &c.
Cultivation of Red Clover.
In our present number will be found a short
bu^jafiJi sensible artiele on the cultivation of Red
Cffiyirto which we wish to call the attention of
our readers. That there is no other crop which
the farmer can grow, so well calculated to improve his land, and do it quickly, we have long
believed, and yet how many entirely neglect its
cultivation. True, there are some soils where it
cannot be grown successfully, the plant liable to
be winter killed. Such land needs under draining, and until this is done, if Timothy seed was
sown with it, the field would be in no danger of
being left without a coat of grass.
We know that some object to raising clover,
because cattle are so liable to get the hoven when
pastured on it. If intended as pasture for cattle, timothy or some other grass should be sown
with it, and then there is but little danger of
hoven. For we have observed for many years,
that stock prefer other grass to clover, and will
not eat enough of the latter to injure them when
the former can be had. We have had clover and
timothy pastures ever since we owned cattle, and
have never, (o our knowledge, had one affected
with the hoven. We have thought that stock
refused the clover because it was more nearly
matured, preferring other grass because it was
younger and more tender. But, whatever the
cause, there can be no doubt of the fact.
Every good farmer knows the benefit of a ro-
ta'ion of crops, and there can be no doubt that
clover should constitute one of his series. There
will be no difficulty at all in getting a crop of
hay and one of clover seed the same season, provided it is not a very dry one, either of which
will pay for the rest of the land, after the crop
of seed is highly remunerative.
With respect to what is said in the last half
dozen lines, we had it in our mind to call the attention of our farmers to the subject, before we
saw the article in the New Yorker. We are pretty well convinced that clover or some other grass
should always be sown with wheat, notwithstanding it miy be the intention to plow up the
field as soon as the crop comes off. We sometime change our notions, and do not, a year
hence, as we intended; in such a case the field
would answer for meadow or pasture, as we might
desire. Besides, wheat is a very uncertain crop,
and in case of a failure, the ground would not be
idle. One of our neighbors sold the timothy on
a field where his wheat had failed the present
harvest,, for 83 per acre, and we certainly mowed
fully a ton of good hay to the acre on a similar
field of our own. Here^was several dollars per
acre saved by sowing grass seed with the wheat.
And in case we have an ordinary crop of wheat,
the young grass will make good pasture in the
fall, especially if it should be a wet one, and the
ground will be in mellow order for the next crop.
How it will answer to sow clover in the fall,
we cannot say positively, but we believe on most
soils it will do very well—perhaps on all where it
will grew vigorously. It is a common practice to
sow clover seed, here, early in the spring, sometimes in the winter when the ground is covered
with snow, but we have frequently heard of it
being sown in the fall with good success. We
know it is the right time to sow timothy, and
why not clover also.
Cut  your Weeds, Briars, &c.
Do not forget that this is the month to cut
bushes, briars, &c. Harvest is over, and you
have a little leisure. Furnished with a good bush
scythe, go along every fence-row on the farm,
and mow down all the alders, briars, bushes,
burdocks and weeds of every description—leave
nothing of the kind standing. Don't neglect nor
delay it. The weeds will be going to seed soon
if not cut down. It will add more to the appearance of your farms than you are aware of,
besides the real advantage of it.
Cream Pie.—Boil and sweeten the cream, flavor it with grated lemon, and bake iu fcLte,
about as long as 4 pumpkin pie.