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urnl none oi which the farmers in general are sn little 

 aware, as that of horse-teams " 



Alderman Mechi says; "This brings me to the 

 fearful question : What portion of the acreage of this 

 kingdom do farm horses consume ? I answer, nearly 

 one-fourth of all the arable land in the kingdom." 



This is a very discouraging picture. That one- 

 fourth of all yon raise, will be devoured by the horses, 

 which are required to work the farm ! 



Is there no way to remedy this ? Certainly there 

 is a way. We must raise enormous crops of forage ; 

 nothing else can save us from this great expense. 



Joseph Harris speaking of John Johnston sa\ > : 

 " Last summer he wrote me that he had raised a 

 great crop of timothy, but that the story was too big 

 to tell. I asked him about it yesterday. He top- 

 -ed a piece of timothy grass with a compost of 

 hen droppings, chip manure and cow dung. The 

 timothy was nearly six feet high, and as thick as 

 wheat straw, with heads almost a foot long. He 

 weighed several of the cocks and estimated the crop 

 as five tons to the acre ! " 



In 1SGO, a friend of mine, cut and weighed and 

 sold to his neighbors, nine tons and a haij ot timothy 

 and clover hay, from a two acre lot, which had been 

 manured from his slaughter-house. 



"We should learn two useful lessons from these 

 examples. 



First, that top-dressing is all that is required to 

 insure a big crop of timothy. And second, that a 

 little land can be made rich enough to furnish us 

 with all the hay needed on the farm. Hay from 



