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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1. 



ing; but my advice may, perhaps, be worth 

 something nevertheless. 



In the tirst place, I don't believe any paying 

 crop can be secured the first year from such a 

 farm — that is, any crop that will pay for the 

 fertilizers the first year; and my experience 

 agrees exactly with that of Mr. Terry and our 

 Ohio Experiment Station. At the present price 

 of average farm (^mps, and the present price of 

 fertilizers, it does not seem to me that a farmer 

 can afford to buy chemical fertilizers — at least 

 that is my e.xperience. Nevertheless, I would 

 go to work and make that land good if it were 

 mine. Save every bit of manure, according to 

 Terry's teachings in the potato book. Mud Win- 

 ter Care of Horses and Cattle. l?uy stable 

 manure if you can get it near by cheap in your 

 neighborhood. After having done this, or If 

 you can not do any thing better, raise crops to 

 plow under just a fust as possible. In our lo- 

 cality we would turn under rve, then buck- 

 wheat, and finally clover, one crop after anoth 

 er. as many as possible in a season. In the fall 

 you can doubtless work in crimson clover to 

 advantage in your locality. If you are far 

 enough south for cow-peas, get in a rotation of 

 them. After you get a good crop of clover 

 turned under you are all right for paying crops. 

 Your coat of lime to commence with is proba 

 bly all right. You might try some potatoes on 

 some of your best land; but I don't think they 

 would pay cost unless prices are away up 

 above what thny are at Iht* present writing. 



You say the land has slope enough so as not 

 to need ditching. I should not agree with you 

 here unless there is a gravelly subsoil that lets 

 the water off quickly. I would commence til- 

 ing it right off thi-i very month according to the 

 directions in Chamberlain's book on underd rain- 

 ing. As you describi' the land, 1 should think 

 laying tiles was the very best thing to do, if 

 you want to get your ten acres into shape so it 

 will bring paying crops as speedily as possible. 

 Our ground upon the hill by the windmill has 

 given some of the very best crops I ever raised; 

 but it is a heavy hard clay away down, and it 

 slopes to the east so much that we do not dare 

 have the furrows run up and down hill, on ac- 

 count of wash. After we got it underdrained 

 (tiles laid 30 inches deep and ,S0 feet apart), we 

 turned under a poor stand of clover, and got a 

 good paying crop of potatoes i he very first time. 



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