Crops for Soiling.—-Sugar Beet. 
should have a pasture which had been stock¬ 
ed down the previous year, with orchard 
grass and clover to succeed them. By the 
time this began to grow short, say about the 
first of July, Indian corn sown broad-cast, 
would be ready for soiling, and this, by pro¬ 
per management may last till the grass has 
become well grown again in the fall, or till 
winter sets in. In order to effect this desir¬ 
able object, different varieties of corn should 
be sown. We would first commence with 
the earliest Canada, taking the risk of frost, 
and sowing a single acre or so as soon as we 
could prepare the ground for it in the spring. 
Then at the earliest usual time of planting, 
we would sow different ripening varieties, 
from the earliest to the latest. We would 
repeat the Canada in one patch by itself; 
then in another patch sow the Dutton or some 
good summer variety ; then a patch of the 
China tree ; and finally the Baden. These 
two last varieties yield more fodder than any 
which we have cultivated ; and though many 
object to them for grain, we think they will 
prove excellent varieties for soiling. As the 
above varieties ripen from three to six weeks 
apart, they may be all sown at about the 
same time, and then will be fit for cutting in 
regular succession. We should be careful 
to sow them in distinct patches and never 
together, as corn ought to be in tassel before 
cutting to feed to cattle, otherwise it will 
badly scour them, and prove injurious rather 
than beneficial food. It would be still better 
to reserve cutting till the ears were large 
enough for roasting; but in either event, and 
indeed during the whole process of pasturing 
and soiling, the stock ought to have salt al¬ 
ways accessible, where they can eat as much 
as they please of it. A trifle of alum mixed 
with the salt is an excellent thing, and to 
have the troughs well covered with tar is 
very healthful, and indeed the best prevent¬ 
ive of disease of any thing we ever tried. 
Vetches are much used in England for early 
spring food, and our opinion is particularly 
asked about them. We tried them two years. 
They grew well and yielded an abundance 
of green food on a cold tenacious clay soil, 
but the seed would not ripen, and as we had 
to import this at a very high price, we gave 
them up ; but we have no doubt they may be 
acclimated here, and if so, they will prove 
excellent food for soiling. Some of our 
friends are going to make the attempt of 
acclimation this year. But even what is 
Called winter vetches, which are sowed in the 
fall and winter in England for their earliest 
green food, do not come forward so quick 
as rye and wheat there; and rye pastures for 
early spring pasture, are getting more and 
more into vogue in Europe. The vetch is 
but a diminutive sort of pea; the American 
pea can therefore take its place in feeding to 
great advantage. It resists frosts well, and 
we have known it sown late in the fall, or 
during a mild winter, for an early crop in 
this climate. Its vegetation, however, under 
these circumstances, is not always certain. 
We have seen quite a valuable pea for this 
purpose growing in the western part of this 
state and Canada, called the Grass pea. The 
stalks and leaves are smaller much than the 
common field and garden varieties ; but they 
grow close together, and we think would 
yield more feed per acre than any other va¬ 
riety ; and although the grain is small also, 
still it usually gives a large number of bush¬ 
els per acre. We have seen from 4-0 to 65 
bushels taken from an acre repeatedly, on 
land of a moderate fertility, and without extra 
cultivation, and we have never heard any 
other objection to it where grown, except that 
the grain was too small, but this we consider 
rather a fanciful one than otherwise. If more 
herbage or grain is obtained with it than from 
the larger varieties, why should we not give 
it the preference in cultivation 1 
In preparing land in this vicinity for pas¬ 
ture and soiling, we recommend its being 
made as rich as possible ; and in order to 
easily effect this, we again entreat our farm¬ 
ers to read attentively the valuable articles 
in our paper on city manures, by Mr. Par 
tridge, as well as others which we have copi¬ 
ously selected and written previously. Many 
of them will bear a second and third perusal 
with profit. 
If the land is made sufficiently rich with 
the proper materials, 3 tons of grass may be 
had from an acre, and its equivalent, or per¬ 
haps more, in rye and wheat; and with corn 
we may easily get 10 to 15 tons of the earlier 
varieties, and 20 to 35 tons of the later ones. 
We hope our friends will make some experi¬ 
ments on these crops the coming year, as 
the yield of corn per acre is involved in con¬ 
tinued dispute. We do not think to cut a 
rod or two for the purpose of weighing is 
sufficient; we dislike partial experiments, 
when it is so easy to make a thorough one; 
a quarter of an acre is the least amount that 
should be tried, and a whole acre would be 
still better. _ 
SUGAR BEET. 
As much attention seems to be awarded to 
the cultivation of this truly valuable root, and 
