THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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pool. Now is it possible that the enterprise and 

 ijooJ judgment oi' our farmers will allow John 

 Bull to carry our bones 3000 miles lo spread upon 

 his lands, and they lliemselves sland by, as if they 

 Ihouifht iheni hardly worih ilie griiuliritr ! Wf 

 are apprehensive thai bone dusl is not sutnciemiy 

 appreciaied in this vicinity, or the material would 

 not he sent from our very elbows, to enrich the 

 broad pastures of England.— /farmers' Cabinet. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF 

 GRASSES. 



ARTIFICIAL 



For the Farmers' Register. 

 Jied clover. — On the proper cu'ture of this 

 grass, the very foundation of improved husbandry 

 depends. To prepare the land suitably to sow 

 this grass seed on, it must be Irequently tdled, un- 

 til the soil is in a fine mellow siaie, and the native 

 grasses destroyed. The usual and best way on 

 rich land is to sow the seed on wheat or rye in 

 the month of March, in the latitude of Baltimore, 

 the ground being previously cultivated in corn, 

 then oats or barley, and then well manured (or the 

 wheat crop ; then sow 6 to 8 quarts of clover seed 

 to the acre. Something less seed may do when 

 evenly sowed by an experienced, carelul hand ; but 

 it is best lo have seed enough sowed to completely 

 cover the land, otherwise weeds come tip in place 

 of clover, exhausting instead of improving the 

 land. But where manure is scarce, and the land 

 rather poor, plough early in the season, and sow 

 buckwheat, peas, corn or oais, to protect the land 

 (rona the sun's rays, and smother weeds and grass, 

 until a suitable time to plough these grasses in 

 lor the wheat crop ; or if the ground is in order 

 in time, say the 12ih of July, sow buckwheat lor 

 a crop, and sow the clover seed ai the same time. 

 On sandy land clover (i-equenlly stands best if 

 sowed the latter part of summer, and olten does 

 well with buckwheat, provided it is not sown 

 two thick, or does not lodge. Also, where a corn 

 crop is well culiivated, the ground in many cases 

 may be got inio such good order that the clover 

 may be iown the last time it is culiivated, which 

 maybe done in August. And seeing clover is 

 the great improver o( land, and by it the land 

 can be improved cheaper than in any other way, 

 it ought lo be exhauste<i as little as possible, in 

 order that the clover may take, which if once well 

 set, and suffered to remain on the ground without 

 mowing or pasturing, and the second season's 

 crop ploughed in, will olten double or treble the 

 wheat crop sowed on it, which ij the cheapest 

 plan of improving land, and of course the most 

 important to every larmer, when improving a 

 poor (arm. 



On rich land clover is apt to lodiie ; in this case 

 it ought to be mowed lor hay, to prevent its root 

 fi-om rotting. Most people handle clover hay too 

 much, and expose ii to dew and rain until all or 

 many of the leaves are off, and until it looses all 

 that delicious odor and sweetness so very accep- 

 table to siock o( all sorts. In good weather six 

 hours' eun on it will cure it sufficient to go into the 

 barn or stack. If water cannot be twisted out 

 of the stems of clover, it will keep, and then the 

 leaves and other nutritious qualities will be pre- 

 served. A peck of salt to each tun of hay would 

 be an additional preservation, and the beet way 



salt could be given to cattle. To save clover 

 seed, mow the second crop as much above ground 

 as will just cut all the clover heads, leaving as long 

 a stubble as can be, to protect the root from in- 

 jurious effects of the heavintj spring (rosis, which 

 are a|)l to throw the clover roots out, if left too bare 

 by mowing or pasiuring. After the seed is mow- 

 ed, leave it in swarth until wet with one or two 

 rains, to rot the hull or chafi' that contains the 

 seed, otherwise it is very hard to thrash out. In 

 many places they have clover seed mills to lake 

 out the seed, but persons having a good thrashing 

 machine can get it out quite fcX(.ediiiously ; and 

 it is a profitable crop at ^5 per bushel, it ia 

 estimated one year with another that land that 

 will produce 15 to 20 bushels of wheat will aa 

 certainly produce 4. to 5 bushels of clover seed 

 per acre, quite as valuable, with much less labor 

 than the wheat crop. 



Timothy grass, called Herds- grass, in New Eng-. 



land. — This is a valuable grass (or hay, is very 



productive on clay loam, rather moist than dry„, 



In newly cle- red land, if well grubbed and all the. 



leaves carefully raked and burnt, it will be best 



not to plouuh the ground, which would bury ihe> 



mellow (ertile surlace soil, and bring up the stiff 



unproductive clay, but instead thereof scarify 



the surlace well both ways, sow and harrow in 



the seed, then mil it well to make the surlace 



i compact ; as there are often some remains of old; 



j rotted leaves which would be too porous without 



I rolling lor the young plants to live in. The land; 



j is much quicker got in order this way, on rooty 



I new land, than by ploughing, and is much better 



(or the above fibrous rooted crop, which requires 



I (eriiliiy, but not deep tillage. The seed is best 



i sown from the middle of August to the first of 



October, but about the middle of September is, 



the best lime. And in February and March, 6' 



quarts o("seed care(ul!y and evenly sowed will do. 



Orchard grass, white clover or green grass may 



be profitably mixed with timothy, especially if it 



is intended (or pasture. 



Orchard grass. — This grass is very productive 

 of hay and pasture, it grows very quick, fit to 

 mow when the clover is, and may very profitably 

 be sown with if. It may be sown in tfie fall, with 

 winter grain, or by itself; or in the spring with 

 oats or barley. If sowii in the spring on wheat it 

 does well, but must be harrowed, as the seed is 

 light and long, and would not get covered other- 

 wise. When sowed alone it will require 1^ bush- 

 el of seed to the acre. Robert Sinclair. 

 Clairmount Nursery, near Baltimore. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH-CAROLINA 

 AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



From the Southern Agriculturist. 



At a meeting of the South-Carolina Agricultur- 

 al Society, held in Charleston, on the 22d July, 

 1842, the annexed preamble and resolutions 

 were read by K. W. Roper, esq., vice-president 

 of tlie society. Aiter a mature consideration as to 

 the prospective benefit to the state — the aid and 

 utility to individual agriculturists, and the practi- 

 cability of legislative aid, the following resolution 

 was adopted : 



Resolved, That the preamble, setting forth in 



