744 FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO. 



think the bits are not cold enough to hurt their mouths, touch 

 them to your tongue and see. 



ROTATION OF CROPS 



is necessary on all kinds of land, although I have known thirty 

 crops of corn to be raised on our rich lands in succession, the 

 last crop being forty bushels to the acre. I never raise more 

 than six crops of corn on new land, however, and then sow to 

 wheat and grass. I always sow a wheat croj) after Hungarian 

 grass or oats, but never like to sow wheat on a wheat stubble. 

 On clay land sown to wheat, I seed clover and let it remain 

 two 3^ears, then plow under when in bloom, planting to corn 

 the next Spring, so that the field will do to seed to wheat in 

 the Fall. 



PLOWING. 



A man should not plow simply to get the best results for 

 the present crop, but should plow to have the best crops in all 

 the coming years ; and the only way tu do this is to plow deep, 

 though noii all at one time, but keep getting deeper every year. 

 The best results are obtained in our rich clay lime soils, by sub- 

 soiling with a regular subsoil plow, except put a narrow mold- 

 board on that will throw a part of the subsoil to the surface. 

 It is best to do this in the Fall. You can not, however, plow 

 to much advantage unless the land is underdrained ; but if well 

 underdrained, subsoiling is a great success. 



PLANTING AN ORCHARD. 



Plant but few varieties of the best apples suited to your 

 climate, and most of them late keeping, firm, hard, Winter 

 varieties, such as bear well. Buy the trees of the nearest nur- 

 sery. Rome Beauty, Broadwell, Tallawater, Liberty, Seek-no- 

 further, are good Winter apples ; Bethlehemite is the best Fall 

 apple, and Danvers Winter Sweet is the best Fall sweet apple 

 the former being the best keepers, but small or medium. 



Prepare the land for planting by subsoiling, throwing the 

 furrows out at thirty feet apart, and put plenty of the top soil 

 for the roots to feed on ; raise a cultivated crop, potatoes the 

 best, until the trees are grown, but always keep the land level ; 



