IJcvotod to Agriculture, Horticulture, MecUauics nnd tlie *t scfui Arts.
D. P. lloLiow-AY Wm. T. J
Denn s, It. T. Keed—Editors.)
RICHMOND, JUNE 1,185G.
(nolliWo? <St Co., Publishers'
I VoUV No.   II.
Terms of the Indiana Fanner.     I     The, preparation of the soil for this> crop,
._,     „          „'  - 'as already hinted at, should be thorough in
O-rAYMSXT TO BE MADu INVARIABLY   N ADT3STS. Hi    . , •" ,     -, ,, iMi,    .    °
■f. , ■*„,;■,     its character.    A deep, mellow tilth is most
One copy, per volume, $1 00       « , ,     . -.     ..L T,  .    ,1
Four copies,  3 oo    , favorable to productiveness.    It is the prac-
•  Nine,   "  6 00    l tice of many of our most successful farmers
And any larger number at the latter rates.   Bills  of all    ... „ U„..lrtT,. n{Yn~ *n..r.   «™,*l „A,nr, +l.r» lnfi/,i.
specie paying Banks and postage stamps received at par. *<* SOW barley alter COU1, and When tlie latter
Subscription money, properly endorsed, may be mailed at CfOT) has received a DTOod dressing of green
our risk.   Address HOLLOWAY & CO.,        j        •"■ , P, -, 11      f 11
Richmond, Wayns county, Indiana.    ! manure, a   large   yield   generally follows,
, —        _ I larger than if the manure had been applied
Advertisement™*b?fnst't^""u'Jnfet for five cents directly to the barky. A fall-plowed clover-
per line lor the first insertion, and three cents per line for ley, properly prepared, Will produce good
each subsequent insertion. J    *     I       J    r     r
    crops.    We should recommend first harrow-
Barley-,                               i mS lengthwise the furrow, and then working
t>   -I                   i                ,i           ,'      /..    with a wheat cultivator before sowing the
Barley now ranks among the most profit-       v     -rm i •   .■.    *u •*
ii   /•             3    .      c tit   i      at      v-   i     seed.    When green sward is to  bo sown, it
able farm products  of Western New I orb;         ...           **-,   ,     .     ,         • ,,   ,.    -.r- , •
..  i-'i      •         j             ii   r •     • 11 r    ii     would be a good plan to plow with the Jlicli-
lts high price and generally fair yield for the .""-""" "J-:    "7,     f          fi   L '                 v  t
.    , _?   l          i          •       -i.                        •   igan or Double plow, as that ensures a bet-
last lew years havo given.it a more promi-  _***■                 .      r. __  ,    __          .           j      i .
. .i       •               ■*-*.         7?       ■    ,}           tor prepared seed-bed. Some plow as deeply
nent place in our system  of agriculture.—        *    F-L1       -.i   ±i                        i i
m,   .•"■._. j                •* ,           •   °                      as posssibly with the   common  plow,   and
That it deserves such prominence  we are _,   '            ■_,          ,    .., ,,             r,   -   . „ ■-
,,ii         •      i z.1 .i         .   i.    • •       then cover the seed with the gang-plow, liar-
pretty well convinced, for the cost of raising,         .           _     ...       ,.           ib    ° x
j     -ii   ii   i   i?  ^1 •       •   i       rowing and1 rolling atterward.  <
compared -with that ot other grams, is less      ,,  <*_       ,     ,, P ,        ,,
,,    r      .   _. ., -,.-■. .   " i     ., :     Barley should be sown as early as the sea-
than most ol them, comparing also its mar-* .,,-' ,.,»,., . ..   J .•
ket and farm value; Its present high price son wlU admlt of the relulSlt0 P™P«*t«">-
lias probably been produced and kept up by ! The amount usually given to an acre va-
the demand for malting purposes—but with ries from two to three bushels; poor and
the question of thc value or injury of malt mellow soils, and early sown, requiring least,
liquors to those who consume them we have If drilled in also, a less quantity is required ;
nothing to do. We believe that, aside from and rolling when four or five inches, if the
this demand, barley can be made a profita- ground is dry and pourous, will be serviceable crop to the prodncer for use as food for ble in giving support to the roots, causing
horses, and for fattening pork, beef and the plants to tiller, and increasing their vig-
mutton. ! or.    We question  the utility of sowing so
An experienced farmer, who raised barley thickly as some practice—two bushels of
extensively before prices came above 60 cts. good barley ought to seed an acre of the
per bushel, said that barley could be grown best soil. Seeding to clover succeeds well
much cheaper than corn, as the same quality with this crop, and should never be neglected;
of land would produce it, and the labor was A good three year rotation of a field suited
much less, and that its value for feeding, es- to barley, dressed with long manure and
pecially when ground and cooked, is as great planted to clover, so as to use for mowing or
as that of Indian corn for all domestic ani- pasturage the next year, or two'years, if
mals.  He estimated the straw as worth more thought advisable.
than that of wheat, and nearly equal to: In harvesting barley, it is important that
common meadow hay*. We know that if it be cut just at the right stage—if too green,
cut at the proper stage and well cured, cat-, the grain will shrink and prove light; if too
tie eat it very readily. j ripe, large waste will ensue  for its shelling
The soil best suited to barley is rich, mel-: so easily. Care should be taken to dry it
low loam. A light soil that will grow toler- thoroughly before stacking or_ storing in
able rye will produce inferior barley;'a large mows, as it is more easily injured from;
heavy soil better suited to wheat does the heating than any other grain,
same. One in the best condition to promote j There are six varieties of barley, not dif-
vigorous vegetation—fertile, in fine tilth, and . fering essentially in character. Those most
properly moist—and a warm season—en-'common are known as two-rowed, four-
* sures a large crop of this gain. It should, rowed, and six-rowed—the last the most
m not. follow wheat or oats, nor should a sec-1 hardy, the first the least so, but the heaviest
«*» ond crop of barley follow the first, without! and handsomest grain. Other sub-varieties
JH re-seeding to clover or the application of are numerous, and some of them popular in
gB  well decomposed manure. | their different localities.   Whatever kind is
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