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Garlick. — Scarlet Clover. 



Vol. V. 



jng off of 3 pounds per day ; the sheep in the 

 fields consuming the same quantity of food 

 from first to last : the result of the experiment 

 beinsr as follows : — 



Jan. 1st 



Feb. 1st 



March 1st ... 

 April 1st .... 



Total increase 



" Consequently, the sheep in the shed, al- 

 though they consumed one-fifth less food, 

 made above one-third greater progress. The 

 circumstances of the experiment were, if any 

 thing, unfavourable to the sheep in the shed ; 

 the turnips, by being stored in the house for 

 their use, were drier and not so palatable as 

 those in the field ; and the shed sheep were 

 salved or rubbed with mercurial ointment in 

 February, which is generally supposed to 

 give a check to feeding sheep. 



"From this important trial of the compara- 

 tive merits of feeding in the open field and 

 in a yard with a shed, the valuable fact is 

 established, that shed-feeding sheep econo- 

 mizes greatly their food, and sooner fattens 

 the animals than leaving them to brave the 

 inclemency of the elements abroad : the extra 

 quantity and quality of the manure paying 

 for the extra labour and attention. That 20 

 sheep fed in the shed acquired not far from 

 one stone per head more than 20 others of 

 the same weight fed in the same manner in 

 the field, from January 1st to April 1st; the 

 increase of weight being about 10 per cent, 

 on the value of the sheep." 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Garlick. 



Mr. Editor, — I have been a careful reader 

 of your valuable and interesting paper for 

 some time past, and have been much grati- 

 fied to find therein the productions of so many 

 able writers on many subjects of much im- 

 portance ; but there is one subject on which 

 1 do not recollect ever having seen any thing 

 published in the Cabinet. I mean in relation 

 to that noxious plant garlick, as to the best 

 mode of conducting a rotation of crops on a 

 garlicky farm, so as to be the most profitable 

 to the agriculturist, and at the same time 

 keeping the growth of it under, in such a 

 manner as to prevent one being annoyed with 

 it in the grain. 



I will here mention a system which I have 

 found to be the best calculated to retard its 

 growth : it is to plough it under early in the 

 spring, thereby preventing it from growing 



during the following summer, which causes 

 much of it to decay; and I am inclined to 

 think that all that had come to maturity dies, 

 by being ploughed under at that season, but 

 inasmuch as the earth is filled with its seeds, 

 there is great difficulty in exterminating it 

 entirely. The best course, then, is, to plough 

 it under late in the fall or early in the spring, 

 and cultivate the land in corn the following 

 summer; then plough it again the following 

 spring, and seed it with oats, or any other 

 summer crop; manure it in the fall, and seed 

 it with wheat, and in the spring following 

 sow clover on it. This mode enables me to 

 realize a crop of corn, a crop of oats, a crop 

 of wheat, and a crop of clover, all without 

 garlick ; and by letting the land remain only 

 one year in clover, I generally can have an- 

 other crop of wheat without much garlick; 

 but afterwards it generally comes thick again. 

 Now, as my principal object in view is, to 

 elicit information on the best mode to exter- 

 minate it entirely, I conclude by hoping that 

 some of your able correspondents will oblige 

 us with instructions how to cultivate garlicky 

 lands, so as to exiernmiate the noxious plant, 

 or to keep its growth under, and enable us to 

 cultivate our lands profitably. 



A Practical Farmer. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Scarlet Clover. 



In the spring of 1889, I was kindly pre- 

 sented with a small quantity of scarlet clover- 

 seed, by John D. Sharpless, M. D., of Phila- 

 delphia, which he brought from France, when 

 on a visit to Europe, he having distributed 

 the greater part previously to others. I sowed 

 it sometime in the 4th month, and it bloomed 

 in .50 or CO days after, being an annual 

 clover ; comes to perfection in a short time, 

 producing two crops the same season that it 

 is sown. And as wheat generally grows and 

 fills well on a clover lay, I would suggest for 

 the consideration of those farmers who are in 

 the practice of seeding their corn ground 

 with wheat the same season that the corn ia 

 harvested, the propriety of sowing their corn- 

 field with this kind of clover-seed as soon aa 

 they finish working it, say about the 1st of 

 7th month, so that it would have time to 

 come to perfection, fit for ploughing in for a 

 wheat crop. 



The seed, I suppose, might be procured in 

 the first place from France, then raised on 

 our own land. The head is of a conical form, 

 1^ to near 3 inches in length, producing an 

 abundance of seed. 



M. S. 



East Marlborough, 

 Cliestcr Co., Ist mo. 25tb, 1841. 



