THE GENESEE FARMER. 



veniber, turn it ia with the boar ; note the time. 

 After th:it, feed it two-thirds as niucli as it' fatting. 

 She shoiUd not be confined in a small ])!ace. A week 

 before she drops her pig's, fiive plenty of litter, and 

 feed all she will eat, especiallj- when sho begii s to 

 build her nest. Give all the slop she will eat. After 

 farrowin?, do not feed anytliin-- under twenty-four 

 hoars, and then about three quarts of lukesvarm slop. 

 Feed sparing for ten days, after which give a little 

 oom, and all the slop she will eat. As soon as the 

 grass ^Tows, turn the sow and {liirs into a i?ood pas- 

 ture of clover and timothy, with ranninjf water. 

 Turn your r:iilk and dish-water into a cask with bran 

 and shorts, and let it ferment; feed this pegularly 

 twice a day, morning and evening, and not ofiener. 

 As soon us corn begins to ripen, feed all they will 

 eat, and no more. When the ground freezes they 

 should be provided with a warm pen, and slaughtered 

 about the first of January. 



I usually slaughter when the hogs are about ten 

 months old, and they dress from 2.-)0 fts. to 300 lbs. 

 1 have just slaughtered two that were two hundred 

 and seventy-five days old ; one weighed 21)0 lbs., and 

 the other 306 fts. The.j were well fed, but 'nothing 

 extra. M. R. Bkitten. 



Spring Prairie, Wis. 



COLTIVATION OF WINTER WHEAT. 



[We have been unable to decide which of the two 

 following essays is the best, and therefore award the 

 premium to each of them.] 



Two methods suggest themselves to my mind : — 

 First, take a piece of land that has laid in clover two 

 or three yeai-s, and graze the first crop with stock, let 

 the second crop grow up, manure the land in the fall 

 with all the manure you ean spare, putting most on 

 the poorer places, then later in the fall or early winter 

 plow under the manure and clover in the following 

 manner : Let one team go first and turn over the sod, 

 and let a second team go behind and throw tl:^e soil 

 upon the sod. The first plow will throw the sod and 

 manure to the bottom of the furrow, and the second 

 will bury them several inches deep. Plow the 

 whole field in the same manner. In the spring, plant 

 the field with corn, and give it good and cl< an culture 

 through the summer. As early as posssble in the 

 fall cut the corn near the ground and remove it from 

 the field, if possible, ©r if not, shock it up, and plow 

 the ground in the manner above stated. The second 

 plowing will enable you to plow deeper than the first, 

 and to mix the manure more thoroughly with the 

 land. Harrow until the soil is well pulverized; then 

 sow five or six pecks of seed wheat to the acre, and 

 turn it undar about three inches; then harrow, and 

 the work is done. 



The second method is to take a piece of land, sod 

 is the best, and manure, and plow it in May or June, 

 in the same manner as above. In all dry weather 

 during the summer, when it cannot be injured by 

 tramping, turn the cattle and sheep on it at night, 

 until the latter end of August, when it should 

 he well cross plowed and harrowed ; then about 

 the middle of September plow it again and sow 

 about the first of October, in the manner above 

 8t»ted. 



About the first of October is the best time to sow 



wheat in this latitude, north of this, the middle of 

 September. 



The first method I think has greatly the preference 

 to the second. It requires but little more labor, you 

 get a crop of clover to feed down, and a crop of clo- 

 ver to turn under the first season; a crop of corn of 

 sixty to seventy-five bushels to the acie the second 

 year, with but little labor and nearly or quite as good 

 a crop of wheat the third year as if the field had laid 

 fallow; and if you want it, your field is ready set in 

 clover, which will be sufiiciwntly thick from the seed 

 previously turned under. Thus you may continue in 

 rotation any length of time — clover two years, corn, 

 manured on clover sod the previous year, followed by 

 wheat. Our land will improve under this rotation. 



The deep culture above described has a wonderful 

 effect on the wheat and corn crops, and on tlie soil ; 

 it gives a good loose soil for the plants to grow in, 

 the best protection from drouth, and draws the water 

 from the surtace in wet weather, consequently pre- 

 vents, in some measure, the throwing out of the roots 

 and winter killing. 



The best remedy against rust that I know of is to 

 furnish the plant with the necessary food, which en- 

 ables it to come up thick and grow up quickly upon 

 the land. This food can be more cheaply and easily 

 furnished here, by plowing under clover, and such 

 manure as we can obtain at home, than in any other 

 way. Larger crops may be obtained by more ex- 

 pensive culture and manures than by the above meth- 

 od, but I am confident for general cultivation, and in 

 a rotation of crops, it cannot be excelled. If the land 

 is wet and water is liable to stand on it, sow in lands 

 of convenient width, in a suitable direction for the 

 water to run off; leaving the lands open in the mid- 

 dle. The head lands should be left open that the 

 water may pass off easily. 



I am told by an extensive cultivator of wheat, that 

 to take recently slacked lime and mix it with water to 

 the consistency of thin white-wash and wash seed 

 wheat in it, that it will entirely prevent the smut. — 

 He has practiced it for years, and not a particle of 

 smut is to be found in his wheat. 



A. G. MULLINS. 



Cheshers Store, Anderson Co., Ky. 



CULTIVATION OF WINTER WHEAT. 



Winter wheat in Western New York is the bread 

 and money crop of the farm. Its culture is a subject 

 of more importance to the farmers at the present 

 time than any other that pertains to their occupation. 

 All classes in the community are interested in its pro- 

 duction, and are affected more or less by the pecuni- 

 ary loss that results by its failure. The greatest ene- 

 my the farmers have ever had to contend with in 

 raising wheat is the fly which attacks the head ; all 

 other flies or worms are harmless in comparison. There 

 are towns in Monroe county where the destruction of 

 the wheat crop is so certain, that its cultivation has 

 been almost entirely abandoned. The evil is not a 

 partial one. What is true in regard to such locali- 

 ties will soon be so in regard to all others where wheat 

 is grown. It will eventually reach every farm in the 

 wheat growinar districts of the country, and the pro- 

 fitable cultivation of the wheat crop will be at an end. 

 In view of these facts, it becomes the farmers to be 

 awake to the discovery of some remedy, and ready to 

 use any means by which this evil can be prevented. 



