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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May G 
J. E. Wing, Carroll County, Ohio — 
For three years I have raised Lucern or 
Alfalfa on a small scale. In the Spring 
of 1890 I sowed about half an acre, on 
good clay land, not very dry, well pre¬ 
pared, plowed and harrowed as if for 
corn. About 20 pounds of seed to the 
acre were sown about April 1. It was 
lightly harrowed in and I got a No. 1 
stind—as good as I ever got in Utah. I 
let it grow till it began to blossom and 
then mowed it down. It made not enough 
hay to pay for mowing it, but it is neces¬ 
sary to the health of the plant to cut it 
at this stage. The second crop then 
came on and really paid for harvesting, 
in September. 
In 1891 I noticed that most of it had 
wintered all right, but in one low, wet 
place, a patch had heaved out, and the 
weeds and some docks were pretty bad 
in the spring. It made a heavy cutting 
at that time before clover was ready to 
cut, and when we were through our 
Timothy harvest it was up and in bloom 
again, and this time no weeds were visi¬ 
ble, as the Lucern had distanced them or 
smothered them out. We cut a good third 
crop also, and the three crops togelher 
yielded at the rate of three tons to the 
acre. Last year the first crop was very 
good and the second crop promised well, 
but the rest of the meadow being bare 
and dry, the grasshoppers came to the 
Lucern and feasted until they had 
stripped it of its leaves and blossoms. 
We cut it, however, and it made a good 
third crop, which was grazed off with 
cattle. I also had a two-acre patch which 
I cut last year the second time. It is on 
different land, some being gravelly, and 
some black and low. It all died out on the 
low black ground but did very well on 
the gravelly land, and best on the clay 
loam underlaid with gravel. After three 
years’ trial of it in Ohio I am confident 
it will pay on much of our soils and yield 
larger returns than Red clover. 
It is a perennial, which Red clover is 
not, and gets stronger year by year for 
eight to twelve years. The hay, when 
cut early, is relished by all kinds of 
stock, but especially by sheep and cows. 
It is the most nutritious of all we can 
grow, and is a good feed for growing 
colts or working horses. If not cut in 
time, it becomes hard and woody. The 
objection to it is that it cannot be suc¬ 
cessfully sown on wheat in spring, as 
clover can, but the land must be prepared 
for it, and it does better sown alone. It 
is not a good plant for a rotation, as, after 
going to the expense of starting it, one 
ought not to disturb it for years. There is 
no other plant that withstands drought 
so well, and it will make a good hog pas¬ 
ture. It is not safe to let cows or sheep 
pasture on it when growing rankly, as it 
will almost surely cause bloat. Hogs will 
live and do well on the hay in winter, as 
I learned in Utah. There I have kept a 
pen full cf hogs growing very nicely in 
summer by giving them a forkful of 
freth'y-cut Lucern twi.e a day. 
One advantage of sowing Lucern this 
year is that seed can be bought for much 
less than clover seed. But seed and time 
will be wasted if it is sown on unsuitable 
or unprepared land. I had a letter the 
other day fri m a ranch in Utah, in which 
it is stated that they had put up 266 loads 
of Lucern hay this year from less than 
40 acres ; but we cannot get such results 
here. Our subsoil is colder and wetter 
and our sun not strong enough. 
Readers of The R. N.-Y, have probably 
read ury largo stor es about how it grows 
in California and the West. 1 have never 
read anything larger than I have seen. I 
have seen it six feet high on our ranch, 
where it grew up through a bush that 
held it up, and have cut six tons to the 
acre on new land. One year when water 
was plenty for irrigating, we cut it four 
times in a summer. It has been learned 
that Lucern enriches land in the same 
way as Red clover, but in a greater de¬ 
gree. Its roots grow deeper and it catches 
a greater percentage of the pure nitro¬ 
gen of the air than any other leguminous 
plant. 
More Potato Scabs. 
J. E. F., Vischers Ferry, N. Y.—I 
have been quite interested in reading the 
experiences of different farmers on the 
potato scab. My experience differs wide¬ 
ly from that of some of the others in some 
respects. I do not think “angle worms” 
have anything \o do with the matter. 
I believe I can produce as many “angle 
worms ” to the cubic foot on my land as 
could be produced upon any land in the 
United States. Where I have manured 
heavily with barnyard manure, and also 
where I have burnt brush and weeds, 
leaving the ashes to be plowed under, 
there is where I find the scabby tubers. 
My past experience has taught me to 
use my barnyard manure on winter 
grain and meadows, and purchase some 
good special fertilizer for my potato 
ground. I have found the white grub 
the worst sinner that ever infested a 
potato patch. In order to get rid of 
him, some years ago I took some fool’s 
advice and dropped a large handful of 
unleached ashes upon each hill just be¬ 
fore hoeing; the result was that there 
wasn’t a grub, but there were lots of 
scabby tubers. Since tlmn I have found 
that by applying my barnv' , rd manure 
on the winter grain and sowing the same 
thickly with clover the following spring, 
I get a good stand of clover to be plowed 
under, which furnishes potash enough 
to the soil to make it unpleasant for the 
white grub. 
What Do I Know This Spring? 
B. W. G., Liberty', N. Y.—“ What do 
I know this spring ?” 
I know that I have passed through a 
long, tedious winter. I know that I have 
wintered an average of 30 milch cows, 
three horses and 42 ewes and all are in 
fine condition and I have had hay to sell. 
I know that I have averaged 10 quarts 
of milk per head all winter from 20 to 24 
cows in milk. I know that I have at 
present 42 nice lambs from 27 ewes. I 
know that, in consequence of deep snows 
and severe weather, the wood pile is very 
low and I am burning coal in place of 
wood. I know that the manure is all out 
and spread on the fields, where all enter¬ 
prising farmers should have it, so as to 
receive the whole benefit of the fertilizer. 
I know that I have not planted a single 
seed this spring. I know that there are 
acres of snow banks on my farm at the 
present time from two to seven feet deep 
I know that the past winter has beaten 
the New York blizzard of 1888. I know 
that a large number of sugar makers are 
disappointed in consequence of a light 
run of maple sap. I know that this is 
enough to digest at this time. 
Irrigation 
is of immense importance, to 
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Better than rain; the sun 
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farmer gets it when and where 
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that part wet. 
Irrigation costs as much for 
grain as for fruit; but the 
southern fruits pay best. Skip 
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ons prunes figs grapes al¬ 
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