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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. Pa-re 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.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1854, v. 03, no. 21 (Aug. 1) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA0321 |
Date of Original | 1854 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 321 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
Transcript | 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. Pa-re 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. |
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