36BH WISCONSIN FARMER.



balance oil and water. where is the marvel         lases 10r Jdal Powing.
that a succestion of wheat crops should im- 11 The farmer lIas more time
in the autumn
poverish the land?                           than he can possibly command
in the spring.
  Secondly: the way threshing is conducted i 2. For this reason lie will
plow deeper and
renders it a perfect confusion instead of a better in the fall.
comfort.  it is remarkable that every man   3. The condition of the soil
is more favors-
that invests so mtch money in one single ar- ble to easy and advantageous
plowing.
tice can but have oie object in view, that is.  4. If deferred until spring,
the land must
to mieet nil deiLantds. and reap as great a pro- often he plowed, it at all,
when it is too wet;
fit ta lIe eau. Consequently horses have to be the result of which is that
it becomes stiff and
triven beyond humianity to achieve the object. lumpy, unfit for cultivation.



  Thirdly: in the hurry and flurry, various
kinds of wheat, as A consequence, must be
nixed, so thatt to get a pure sample is out of
the question.
  And, b titly: t he ztraw is rendered a perfect
loatlisiote itess, unfit for animal consutmp-
tion  and. us a matter of consequence, tbe
evilc (nn ',nl V l, removel by a perfect revoiu-
t(11.
  Tlhre-hing nev, r t ,n he beneficial to the
tartning community under a system of specu-
lajiori. We titUst have a reconstruction of
stationniay  ianchines, adapted to the wants of
farmers z ellerally.  We know that it can be
done. for I myself have seen the six-horse



  5. Fall plowing exposes the minerals in the
soil to the action of weathering, whereby such
elements as are needed for the succeeding
crop are decomposed and better prepared for
assimilation by the plant.
  6. Fall plowing exposes to the destructive
agency of fromt a host of insects and other
vermin which would otherwise remain in the
soil undisturbed until the season when their
ravages begin.
  7. It insures early planting or sowing,
which are usually essential to the best euc-
cess.
  8. For all the reasons above named, fall
plotkinq insstre a larger ant better crop.



power saw retitced within the limits of a po- .
ny to uiwrate. cutting threefinch platik into      unfirnm  of tie GaM$ Law.
brush-bicks. and the six-horse power grist  EDITOR FARMER:-1 would like to
say a
mill can grind corn, and the Little Giant can word about our Game Law and
its operation
do the sine. We rill suppose, for instance, in certain respects.
that a tarmner with eighty acres of land (and  We have Game Laws, protecting
certain
no ono ought to have less, in order to keep kinds of animals, birds, &c.,
amongst which
what he ought to possess, and to include a are prairie chickens.  Now, game
laws are
patch ,f timber). (f course, a man so situ- first rate, and we should have
them by all
ated needs one pair o! horses, and if he could metns: but I would like to
have a little alte-
own a threshing machine for t o horses that ation in regard to prairie chickens:
The time
could tore-h six wiagon loads or a small stack for killing them commences,
if I am not mil-



in one ulay with his own force, and if this



could be done no faster than a boy ten years
old could hand the bundles. it would be all
that would be required, and the benefits would
be combined with thie advantage of choosing
a right wind (which is no small matter) and
a favorable opportunity to clean the grain and
put away the straw in quantities that might
be sheltered and kept dry for all purposes.
                          DANIEL AxCter.
 S 'stuwctSir.D. Watwortb t'o., Wis. .



taken, on tbe 12tn O0 August, Just tne time



that farmers are the busiest, and could not
leave their work to hunt even were the fields
full of buffaloes. Now farmers will notioe
that just so soon as the time arrives for kill-
ing chickens, the fields are full of chape and
dogs every day, killing what they can, (and
very many are good shots), and frightening
tihe balance arway from the fields, so that, ba'
the time a farmer gets a little leisure to bunt,



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