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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 20, 
STRONG FARM POWER. 
Fig. 43 shows a pair of horses such 
as are found on many New England 
farms. There are thousands of such 
teams in service. These horses weigh 
2,400 and 2,800 pounds. They are kind, 
intelligent, willing and, for their size, 
easy keepers. The way they will walk 
off with a plow or a heavy load is a 
joy to the farmer. Such horses average 
about $500 in price, and are worth it. 
The pair here shown is owned by Mr. 
T. E. Peckham, who, with the help of 
good tools and team has done wonders 
on a small farm. 
PASTURE QUESTIONS. 
F. S. M., Andover, N. H. —1. I am trying 
to solve the problem of getting my fields 
into good grass without the use of much 
stable manure. Can you tell me how I can 
use chemicals and perhaps green crops 
plowed under to accomplish this object? 
Manure is scarce. I want to get it done as 
methods at first, and experiment lightly 
with new methods. This 1 have done, and 
succeeded where others have failed. In cut¬ 
ting fodder here it is well to wait till it is 
dented; in this way most of the blades be¬ 
low the ear will be lost, but if the fodder is 
cut when there are a few bright breezy days, 
and shocked over a shocking horse, leaving 
it quite open inside so as to give the air a 
good chance to circulate through the shock, 
and the shocks made quite large and well 
tied twice, compressing the tops with a 
good rope before tying, there will be little 
loss of corn. Our farmers miss it not grow¬ 
ing more Soy beaus, as they will grow on 
land too wet and sour for cow peas, and 
will succeed in a season so wet that the 
peas will not do well. They also stand the 
drought equally well with the peas. I grew 
a fine crop on land too wet for peas with 
only basic slag and muriate of potash, while 
I failed to grow a broadcast crop of peas 
with much more of the same fertilizer. On 
our poor lands peas must have nitrogen to 
start them, and I believe that the reason 
farmers here say peas do no good broad- 
cast is from lack of plant food and humus, 
for the finest crop of peas grown in this 
MOTIVE POWER ON A CONNECTICUT FARM. Fig. 43. 
quickly as possible. Can I grow a decent 
crop of fodder corn on old sod where the 
grass is all bound out with the use of chem¬ 
icals alone? If so what should I use? I 
have one or two acres of such sod that I 
want to stock down again with grass imme¬ 
diately after plowing and disking. I have 
no manure to spare for it. What fertilizers 
shall I use and how much? 2. Is Alsike bet¬ 
ter than Ited clover to lx* sown alone on a 
rather moist piece of land? 
Ans. —1 . We have no doubt you can 
start new crops of grass and keep them 
going without manure, but we think you 
will have to use lime as well as chemi- 
country was grown on poor land broadcast, 
but the land had a good application of barn¬ 
yard manure. I believe that it is not neces¬ 
sary to inoculate for Soy beans or peanuts 
on land that has grown cow peas; at least 
it has not been with me, the roots of both 
plants being literally covered with nodules, 
those on the Soy bean often being as large 
as a Canada pea. I believe for the three 
above crops basic slag is the best form of 
phosphoric acid. I grow cover crops every¬ 
where and hope in a few years to get along 
without buying nitrogen, but cannot do it 
yet. A. F. AMES. 
North Carolina. 
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tals. One reason why these old fields ‘'run 
out’' of grass is because they are sour. 
Neither clover nor Timothy will do well 
on sour soil, no matter how much fer¬ 
tilizer you use. Lime will also hasten 
the decay of that old sod. You can plow 
sod at once after cutting the grass early, 
and work in one ton of lime to the acre. 
Plant a flint corn in drills, using fertil¬ 
izer, and give the most thorough culti¬ 
vation—two or three times a week. This 
will force the cotn and thoroughly till 
the soil. You will get a fair crop of fod¬ 
der cut before frost. Then disk up the 
ground, fit it properly and seed to grass. 
This plan has been carried out success¬ 
fully at least as far north as central 
Massachusetts. For chemicals we should 
use one of the regular grass and grain 
mixtures or a home mixture of equal 
parts nitrate of soda, muriate of potash, 
fine ground bone and acid phosphate. 
That may be called an expensive mix¬ 
ture, hut it will make grass grow. Use 
300 pounds per acre at seeding down, 
and 400 more in early Spring. With 
old sod which is to be seeded after hay¬ 
ing—without planting corn—we should 
plow and lime and then work several 
times at intervals with the disk, seeding 
in late August, using the same chemicals. 
We think you will find the lime neces¬ 
sary. 2. We prefer Alsike alone on moist 
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land. 
CORN FODDER AT THE SOUTH. 
I am much pleased to see Trof. Massey’s 
•change of base on the method of raising 
corn fodder in the South, as shown by his 
article “Corn Fodder vs. Corn Stover” on 
page 1102. I am a Northern man who has 
lived south 22 years. I have followed both 
methods of saving fodder. I generally find 
if- hoct fni 1 n now r*nmr»r tr» or\n y tile lOCcll 
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