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THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
1161 
, Cleaning a New England Pasture. 
W IIAT would you advise in th» follow¬ 
ing matter? I have about 20 acres 
in pasture, all hill land, soil very 
good. It has a very rank growth of 
brush, sprouts from tree stumps and wild 
berry bushes, etc. What would be the 
cheapest way to clear this land in order 
to make it fit to plow? Some people ad¬ 
vise sheep, others goats or pigs, blasting 
powder, hooks to pull out, but as I have 
never seen land of this kind cleared I am 
at a loss to know what to choose. I in¬ 
tend to plant 10 acres of the 20 in apple 
orchard just as soon as I can get the 
land ready. w. B. R. 
Marlboro, Mass. 
On general principles goats would 
probably be the cheapest way, provided 
one has the goats, but to buy them might 
be an expensive proposition. In any case 
these would be slow and probably two or 
more years lost before the land would be 
in shape to handle. Pigs with a little 
help and proper handling would do the 
job, but would he expensive, as one would 
either have to keep a lot. of pigs to do the 
job quickly, or keep a few and do a small 
part at a time, which would mean a 
long time to wait before really getting 
down to business. The same arguments 
would more or less apply to sheep. If 
W. B. It. has a good or fair team, either 
horses or oxen, he can get the job done 
quickest and probably as cheap in the 
end, counting time, bv tackling the job 
at once or during any spare time he has 
from now until Spring. However, if 
obliged to hire a team it will be pretty 
expensive this way, as a hired team does 
not always accomplish as much as we 
think they should. It means hard work, 
hut one has the satisfaction of seeing 
something gained, and this is a big sat¬ 
isfaction to anyone. Unless the big 
stumps are thick and of some hard wood 
like oak, it can be plowed all right with 
a good strong plow with a good cutter. 
Birch, alder and such like can be pulled 
out by a chain or hook if not large; if 
large can be cut and worked up to pretty 
close, having an ax or two handy to cut 
any big roots you cannot break with the 
plow. Berry bushes can be easily plowed 
or pulled up if not too thick; if so can 
be done just the same only requires a 
harder effort. If one has two teams or 
a team and an extra horse and man to 
use him or even a boy, the horse or ex¬ 
tra team can be pulling bushes, small 
trees, or rocks as the case requires, while 
the first team is plowing. 
It will require one or two men with the 
plow; if one man can handle the team 
and hold the plow also so much the better, 
and he can do a better job than having 
one drive and the other hold the plow, 
and the second man can use an ax or 
grub-hoe to good advantage in the mean¬ 
time, or give any such assistance as may | 
be needed. The man who handles his own 
team and holds the plow also can stop \ 
or start the team just about the second 
he wishes, while if some one drives for 
him he has to tell when to do these things 
and much time is lost. The only time a 
driver is any use is when one has an 
uneven team, one always ahead of the 
other or stopping and starting in the 
same fashion. With such a team a driver 
is sometimes useful. Whatever part of 
the land is plowed this Fall may be used 
next season to grow a crop, or the trees 
could be set if owner was in a hurry, but 
personally I should prefer to work the 
land a year or two first. 
Possibly it could be got in shape this 
Fall to sow a crop of rye, but if so should 
be sown by October first, before would 
be better, so as to handle as early as 
possible next Spring. This could be cut 
green or turned under as seemed best to 
owner. I have a rich neighbor who is 
doing a lot of this kind of work, only 
instead of pasture it is mostly young 
woodland he is reclaiming. He has tried 
dynamite; this rips out the big stumps 
all right, but leaves many small roots, 
and it requires about as much time to 
clean up after it as to do the job without 
it, and many of these small roots left, 
sprout again and cause trouble, while 
those pulled out by a team do not bother 
to any extent in this way. If this man’s 
land is not very rocky I should think the 
plow, etc., would be the cheapest and 
quickest way, but if very rocky perhaps 
the slower way with goats, sheep or pigs 
would be cheaper and better. It is a 
question the owner must decide himself, 
as he knows just what time and expense 
he can put into this better than anyone 
ol se. a. E. P. 
Potash on Maryland Soils. 
W HAT is it that we need, nitrogen, 
phosphoric acid, or potash, or do we 
need all? We shall take a field that 
has been manured and a good sod plowed 
under, or any other cornfield. We shall 
put half in field corn and half in sweet 
corn (pull the ears off sweet corn for 
market). The part with sweet corn will 
bring from three to six bushels more 
wheat to the acre. You can see to the 
very drill track where the sweet corn was. 
Of course I want one part of the field as 
good as the other. Hence what shall I 
do? A. It. K. 
Westminster, Md. 
As I understand the question, the field 
you have in mind for seeding in wheat 
has been part in sweet corn and part in 
field corn, the former being cut green and 
the latter when fully matured. That ac¬ 
counts fully for a difference in the yield 
of wheat following the two crop., in the 
same field. What you need is more phos¬ 
phoric acid and potash where you had 
the field corn. More nitrogen you will 
not need, if as you say you had a heavily 
manured sod to start with. The reason 
is this: It. takes much more phosphoric 
acid and also a certain amount of extra 
potash to bring a. seed crop to maturity. 
Your sweet corn you harvested green, so 
that it did not take up the extra amounts 
of phosphoric acid and potash that the 
matured field corn used. Both crops on 
the other hand, used about the same 
amount of nitrogen, as this element en¬ 
ters largely into the growing of the 
plant and foliage rather the maturing of 
the seed. 
You can remedy the difference by mak¬ 
ing more liberal application of an 8-4 or 
8-5 acid phosphate and muriate of potash 
mixture on the part you grew your field 
corn on. A good mixture would be 1250 
pounds of 1G% acid phosphate and 200 
pounds muriate of potash, which should 
cost you about •$12. This I would apply 
on the part that had sweet corn at the 
rate of 250 pounds to the acre and on 
the part where I had field corn at the 
rate of 400 pounds. The threatened 
scarcity of potash may make it unprofit¬ 
able to buy the muriate for the above 
mixture, in which case, the next best 
thing to do would be to make an applica¬ 
tion of lime at the rate of one ton of 
.burned lime, or two tons of ground lime¬ 
stone, ' which will help to liberate the 
soil potash for use as a plant food As 
•most Maryland lands are well supplied 
with this soil potash, which lime will 
free, I would rather depend on liming 
than on paying a stiff price for any form 
of commercial potash. r. b. 
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