THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 4, 
184 
SENSIBLE SOILING CROPS. 
Most of us are familiar with the story 
of the man who, having just missed a 
train, after smart sprinting, was informed 
by a tantalizing bystander that he didn’t 
un quite fast enough. His retort was 
that he ran fast enough, but didn’t start 
soon enough. If one is after the earliest 
soiling crops an inquiry at this season in¬ 
dicates that he has not started quite soon 
enough. Fall-sown rye and wheat seem 
to be the first earlies. The laxative qual¬ 
ity of green rye in early May equals that 
of young grass, and comes earlier. Of 
course the use of it may easily be carried 
to excess, both regarding the condition of 
the animal or the quality of the product, 
if milk or butter. Rye is one of the foun¬ 
dation stones of our agriculture. We can 
depend upon it to grow; we are accus¬ 
tomed to its culture, and, like the mule, it 
will stand abuse. This latter is a strong 
economic point in its favor, and will be 
until farmers know better how to farm. 
In general the same can be said of wheat, 
although its soil and climatic range is 
narrower perhaps; yet where it will grow 
it is palatable about 10 days later than 
rye, so that a combination of two parts rye 
and one part wheat in total area, sown 
separately, makes a good first early crop. 
In the earliest cutting of rye considerable 
ground must be gone over, as the rye is 
still small. This may seem wasteful. But 
the importance to hay-fed cattle of the 
earliest possible green feed as a laxative 
and appetizer, and the fact that the land 
:s clear to be replanted with a full season 
A PAIR OF GOOD FRIENDS. 
crop, potatoes, for instance, offsets this 
apparent waste, but is also a reason why 
the rye should be given a greater relative 
area than the wheat, which will be cut 
later when larger. Two and one-half 
bushels of rye on rich land, sowed not too 
early or too late, September 20 to October 
10, is the proper quantity in Connecticut 
for soiling purposes. It takes a big fist 
and a short step to sow it at once over 
if sown by hand. 
Rye is a nice crop to follow corn as a 
Winter cover. The man with lots of sur¬ 
plus energy, one of the kind that bangs 
around and “hollers” a good deal, will 
split corn rows, hammer the stumps to¬ 
gether to clean off the dirt and dump the 
stumps on a stone heap as a bed for run¬ 
ning blackberries. This method carts off 
a lot of valuable material from the ground. 
A person disinclined to such arduous 
labor can sow his rye directly on the corn 
stubble if the corn has had level culture, 
and cultivate it in between the rows of 
corn stubble just as he cultivates his corn. 
A finish with a weeder followed in the 
Spring by a field roller twice over will 
make a smooth job ready for scythe or 
mowing machine. 
When the Wheat Gets Tough.— 
Now, if this man had started early enough 
he would have a field of clover growing 
also. In the latter half of May, when 
the wheat becomes unpalatable, this clover 
will be large enough to feed. The cattle 
need no teaching to eat this crop, but we 
need lots of teaching yet) to grow it, fa¬ 
miliar as it is to us. Clover is another 
of the foundation stones of our agricul¬ 
ture. Tt is also another crop for the lazy 
man, for it, too, can be sown in the corn¬ 
field in connection with a last flat shallow 
cultivation as the corn begins to show 
tassels in late July, using 10 to 12 pounds 
of common Red or Mammoth clover per 
acre, substituting one-third Alsike if we ^ 
like. Green clover and early grasses out 
of waste corners will carry us to the mid¬ 
dle of June. 
Chance for the Belated Man. —At 
this point the chance comes for the man 
who didn’t start early enough. A crop of 
oats and peas sown in the Spring should 
be ready for cutting about June 15. The 
oat is another foundation stone of our ag¬ 
riculture. Everybody knows when and 
how to sow oats, partly because the same 
latent ability. that can feed a mule can 
sow oats. Peas are among the founda¬ 
tion stones of the family garden, and he 
who knows beans knows peas also. Now 
when our friend takes his bag of oats, 75 
to 80 pounds, to sow an acre, let him take 
a bushel of Canada field peas, and sow 
with them. From June 15 to July 1 these 
are an unsurpassed soiling crop. About 
the latter date watch for maturity in the 
oat, not in the pea. When the oat berry 
begins to turn from milk to dough cut at 
once and cure like clover. The cured or 
siloed oats and peas and grass from the 
hayfield will carry us along until the early 
corn begins to silk. Here is another foun¬ 
dation stone, and you may have noticed 
that we have not gone outside of our most 
familiar crops to construct a soiling 
scheme that reaches up to frost about Oc¬ 
tober 1. To provide a late Fall green 
crop is the most difficult, because the most 
uncertain. We trust to Fall pasture and 
odds and ends for the first three Weeks 
of October. About August 1 barley and 
peas, amount per acre like oats and peas, 
may be sown for green feed from October 
20 to November 15. Barley and peas 
stand the late cool weather, and grow lux¬ 
uriantly some years, but not every year. 
We are nearer to gambling with this crop 
than with any previously mentioned. The 
writer has mowed in barley and peas 
waist high in November with a crust 
frozen on the ground, yet the foliage and 
stems were juicy and palatable. Of 
course there is a limit, but the limit is 
nearer Thanksgiving than with any other 
but a root crop. The success of this crop 
may fix the date of silo opening, or this 
crop may be omitted and silo feeding be 
substituted. The above soiling scheme 
may be embellished with a variety of other 
crops, some as good as the ones named. 
Reference is made to the catalogues. But 
the above are our tried and familiar 
friends, safest for the beginner. After¬ 
ward conservative experiment may be 
made in the interest of progress. 
Connecticut. e. c. birge. 
Mistress: “Mary, did you shake the 
kitchen stove down before you went to 
bed last night?” Maid: “No, mem, I was 
afraid it would burn the floor; hut me 
cousin, who came in to see me, gave it -a 
few kicks.”—Boston Transcript. 
Separators 
Tubulars Find Gold 
in Milk 
Good butter is worth 20 to 30 cents a 
pound. Butter is worth only one 
cent a pound as stock food, yet farm¬ 
ers using gravity skimmers — pans 
and cans that leave half the cream in 
the milk—feed that half the cream 
to stock, then wonder why dairy- 
ing don’t pay. 
Can’t find gold with¬ 
out digging. Can't 
make dairying pay 
big profits without 
getting all the 
cream. 
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to the paying level 
— squeeze the last 
drop of cream out of milk- 
make dairying pay. Tubulars 
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Milking Time 
Is the farmer's daily harvest. Unlike the raising of crops or of beef cattle 
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