August would be a better time. 
or as soon as all reliable men, grew this cor 
the oats or wheat or whatever else it maybe, edge, in this vicinity. The exp 
are taken off. Don’t leave the job till September them coincides with my own; 
or October, but plow up the stubble immedi- upon high, warm ground, on ; 
ately and sow the seed; then it will be there tained a fair crop of excellent 
ready to start on the first rainfall that comes, The stalks, however, in no < 
which is very necessaiy in order to give it all or short; but quite the rev its- 
the time possible to get a good root-hold and istic undesirable, at least to c 
produce top enough to protect the tender roots this locality. By measure t 
from the frosts and snows of the succeeding little over eight feet in hight. 
Winter. This statement of facts is c 
If the seed is sown alone in the Spring, it what should be more fully 1 
doesn’t have time enough to mature a full corn, unlike oats, cannot be g 
crop, and to cut it before it matures is an in- its own latitude without the 
jury from which it never fully recovers, and havior,” commonly resulting i 
consequently there is a partial loss of the the first year, 
ground for the season: whereas, if one follows 1 Cornwall, Vt. 
ptt£«tlan*au£ guUTrti.s'ittg 
Scrofula 
A NEW NOTION.—A SUCCESS. 
Sowing oats on snow in a wheat field; ad¬ 
vantages of the practice; a success last 
year; spring wheat sown in the same 
way; the practice on wet land; sowing 
on top of manure. 
Probably no form of disease is so generally dis 
tributed among our whole population as scrofula. 
Almost every Individual has this latent poisof. 
coursing his veins. The terrible sufferings en 
dured by those afflicted with scrofulous sore 3 
cannot be understood by otiiers, and their grati¬ 
tude on finding a remedy that cures them, aston¬ 
ishes a well person. The wonderful power of 
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m eradicating every form or Scrofula has been so 
clearly and fully demonstrated that it. leaves no 
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COL. F. D. CURTIS, 
To day, March 22d, seven bushels of oats 
have been sown on a part of a wheat lot. 
The snow was three inches deep. It fell the 
night before on top of the mud. and the frost 
is out of the field about six inches. My idea 
is that these oats will settle down into the 
ground, and as soon as the weather is warm 
enough, they will come on and grow up with 
the wheat. The wheat was not sown until 
October 17, and has all been killed down to 
the roots. I am afraid it will be thin, and 
the oats have been sown to make a good 
crop, and so save the use of the laud without 
any further trouble. The gruss seed will be 
sown on iu a few days, and then I expect a 
good crop. The oats and wheat will ripen 
together, and make the best of feed for any¬ 
thing. The mixture can be fed to the horses 
whole, or it can be ground and make the very 
l*est kind of food for youug pigs, or cattle or 
sheep. There is no theory about this plan ex¬ 
cept the extra-early sowing. Last year the 
same thing was done here, and it was a com¬ 
plete success. The oats were sown iu April 
right in the mud. when there were big snow 
banks iu the field. I have tried the exitcri- 
rnont of an earlier sowing this year, to see 
how it will work. It is the right way to get 
oats iu early, and to till out the winter-killed 
spots in the wheat and rye fields, or to sup¬ 
plement t he entire crop, if it is not promis¬ 
ing enough. There never was a finer crop 
of oats on the farm than the wheat-oat 
crop sown last year in the mud when the 
frost was coming out of the ground. Where 
there was auy wheat, it asserted its right 
aud grew well, and where there w as none, the 
oats took entire possession of the ground and 
stooled out wonderfully. The truth is, such 
conditions are best suited to oats: they want 
a mellow surface, and a firm under soil, lots 
of moisture nnd cool weather. When sown iu 
the way I have described, they get the best 
part of the season for growth, and a gain per¬ 
haps of several weeks more than they would 
if time was taken to plow and fit the ground. 
Spring wheat may be sown the same way, 
and it will grow aud ri]>en with the winter 
wheat, and a crop lie insured. It is quite a 
saving to get u Crop iu this way, so as uot to 
lose the use of the extra surface manuring put 
on the wheat, and to get the grass seed put in 
as wo desire, aud not have to put it iu with 
a later spring seeding. Sometimes the Tim¬ 
othy has been sown in the Autumn, and one 
dislikes to plow this up. I am certain that 
wet lands may be plowed and fitted for seed¬ 
ing iu (hi- Autumn aud ditched out, and then 
left till Spring, and sown with oats or spring 
wheat, and that a better crop will be had 
and a much better seeding with grass seed 
than by putting the seed in when the ground 
would be in a fit. condition. When I want to 
seed down a wet field, 1 shall most certainly 
fit it in the Autumn aud sow the graiu and 
grass seed on when the frost is coming out, aud 
if there is a fall of snow, utilize that and so 
keep out of the mud. 
The oats and wheat will grow wheu sown 
early, without covering with the soil, as the 
spring rains and the wetness from the frost 
coming out will keep the surface moist, aud 
the grains will absorb enough of this moisture 
to cause them to germinate. First the root is 
seut out,aud after this takes hold and strikes 
down into t he ground, the blades will shoot 
forth. This ueu f way of putting iu grain 
might be carried to the extent of spreading 
manure iu the Winter on the surface aud sow- , 
ing the seed iu early Spring on top of it. The ! 
graiu would be more apt to grow than wheu 
harrowed in with the manure, for in that 
case, it might not be able to penetrate through 
the manure; but, being on top of it. it would 
all be sure to grow and be nicely protected 
and enriched. 
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oats or any other grain, be gets a full crop of 
grain the current season, and a full crop of 
f-'T'nss the succeeding one, so, all things con¬ 
sidered, I think the extra work of plowing 
and seeding a stubble iu the latter part of the 
season is fully paid for. Charles lee. 
Morris Co., N. Y. 
ANOTHER COUNTERBLAST. 
G. W. Davis, Litchfield County, Conn., 
speaking of some Angel of Midnight Corn ob- 
tained from the originators, Breek & Sons, 
aud planted with Longfellow on the same sort 
of soil, and under similar conditions, says: 
‘•The Longfellow proved fully two weeks 
the earlier, and was cut up early iu September, 
ripe aud sound. The Angel of Midnight not 
being ripe, was topped and left till busking 
time; but it did not mature, a large propor¬ 
tion being unsound.” 
[The same kind of corn acts, as is well knowu, 
very differently in different soils and climates. 
But the A. of M. is strangely variable.—E ds.] 
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1 think it poor policy to sow grass -seed at 
all iu the Spring aud particularly so with 
grain, because the chances arc very much 
against it; lor there is almost, always a drought 
of longer or shorter duration in the fore part 
of the season, during which the grain, being 
stronger and growing faster, absorbs the 
moisture to such uu extent that the grass, be¬ 
ing small and tender, is nearly or quite 
destroyed. Even if it, survives, it is never as 
clean aud free from weeds and other foul 
stull as it is wheu sowu alone iu the Full. 
tained. By this test the Angel of Midnight is 
a late variety, being the sixth in order, and 
requiring in this latitude, 119 days to mature. 
My seed was obtained of the introducers, and 
was genuine, I also planted a peck of this corn 
on one acre in competition for u prize offered 
by the introducers. The ground was manured 
of course, nud well cared for. Result:—Sound 
corn,51 bushels; poor, 28 bushels; total,73bush¬ 
els! I didn’t get the prize. Three other parties; 
of Midnight Corn. Part of it was uot planted 
until the 15th of June. It all got ripe; but 
the late planted did uot do as well as that, 
planted earlier. Some curs were 14 inches. 
Nearly all the stalks had two lurge ears. I 
never plauted a variety that eared better. I 
like it very much. I think the Rural has 
made no mistake this t ime iu placing this corn 
in its Free Seed Distribution. w. s. m. 
Mt. Upton, N. Y. 
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