270 QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 



FARMEKS' MISCELLANY. 



ON THE PROPER TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT 

 OF MEADOW LAND.* 



BT JESSE RTDER. 



What I mean by meadow land, is that whicb, from the nature 

 of the soil, is more natural to grass than grain, so much so, as to" 

 make it desirable to keep it all the time in grass. It also includes 

 the light moist soil which is good for either grain or grass. As 

 permanent meadow land, the same treatment applies to it all. And 

 be it understood, I have reference to upland merely. To such 

 land as, when poor, or the grass becomes thin upon it, is covered 

 with a red moss, and frequently mouse-ear, being reduced to the 

 production of bull's-eye, or white daisy, all of which are the effect, 

 and not the cause of the absence of grass. 



Those temporary meadows on dry land, which come of a rota- 

 tion of cropsy where the grass is renewed after tillage, and remains 

 in but a short time,- do not come within the purview of this article. 

 The very dryness of the soil, which compels frequent ploughing, 

 increases the profits of the farmer ; his land is enriched by the easy 

 and simple means of seed and plaster, in conjunction with the ma- 

 nure of the farm, and, as a general thing, such is the most profitable 

 of all land. 



But a far different system should be adopted with land which 

 is too heavy and wet for grain^ without manure. 



From the nature of things, it requires manuring highly to in- 

 sure a crop of grain, and the fertility of the soil cannot be main-, 

 tained in tillage husbandry, by the cultivation of clover, as is thatij 

 of dry land. 



Where the soil of a farm is all of that nature, there should be 

 no more ploughed than can be manured sufliciently to give good 



• Note by the Editors. — The writer of the article above, in a private note accom 

 panying it, says : " Had I possessed the information herein contained ten years agoyji 

 I should have been more thajione thousand dollars better ofl tlian I now am." 



