HO BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



of an old pasture and removed to the field which it is intended to 

 convert into meadow ; it is here cut into pieces about three inches 

 square at such distances, that the nine square inches of turf shall 

 be surrounded by eighty-one inches of space and then pressed into 

 the soil with the foot or with a wooden ramrod. If the trans- 

 planted sod is deficient in any of the valuable grasses they may 

 be sowed on the vacant spaces in the field from which the sod has 

 been taken as well as on the one which has been planted and both 

 covered with a coating of manure. It is said that the vacant 

 places left in both fields will soon be filled up with offshoots, and 

 a well filled turf be obtained sooner than any other way, 



Before closing my remarks, allow me to call your attention to 

 an implement, a comparatively new one, and although, as I under- 

 stand, introduced to some extent in this State, it is one which 

 might be used to very great advantage by thousands of your 

 farmers who probably have not yet so much as heard of it, I refer 

 to Nishwitz's pulverizing harrow. It will be found a most effica- 

 cious implement in the restoration of grasses into many of your 

 fields and pastures where the grasses have suffered severely by 

 reason of drought and grasshoppers. It will effectually cut up 

 the ground and render it fit for the reception of seed. I would 

 apply fertilizers first, if possible, then go over it with this imple- 

 ment, at once incorporating the manure with the soil and pulveriz- 

 ing both together. If any grass roots remain, they will now start 

 into more vigorous growth, and your seed will have the best 

 chance for coming along also. In my opinion on all such lands 

 which are adapted to its use, (it cannot be used to any advantage 

 on rocky soils,) it will be found invaluable. 



Mr. Thing. After you have used this Nishwitz harrow, and put 

 on your fertilizers and sowed your seed, would you recommend 

 rolling on dry ground ? 



Mr. Goulu. I would, if there is a prospect of dry weather ; 

 but if rain comes soon after, there is no necessity for rolling. If 

 it is sandy upland, I should roll it; there is too much air admitted 

 within the interstices of the soil on loose land, and I would advise 

 the use of the roller, whether rain is coming or not. But in ordi- 

 nary cases, in dry soil, I think the roller is useless, except to give 

 a smooth surface. 



Col. Swktt. flow is it on granitic soil ? 



Mr. Gould. That varies very much. Some of it packs a great 



