T2 TIE WISCONSIN FARMER.



  Members of Societies, if your officcrs have was filled with other hay.
Not having occa-
become lukewarm in these matters, kindle them  scaffold tremaLined  aynil
thc npat winter, this
anew by the fire of your own enthusiasm, and which I have fed it out.  As
before stated, I
thus set the ball a-moving once more.      expected when I came to feed out
this hay, to
                                             find it mow -burnt, rmusty,
and perhaps mouldy,
                                             but instead of this I found
all of it bright and
            Curing Clover Hay.              sweet, and as vell cured in every
respect as
                    -n th. sumerif , aigfildfedany hay could lie; all of
the heads and leaves
  In tlhe silmmler of I St,l laving nafield of red 'were onl tile stalks,
ann the whole was eaten by
Clover to cut I concluded to try an experi- w    o  wthe  as ind teliho was
 eaytenb
ment in making it into hay, or rather to vary my stoc-  with as much relich
tIs any hay that
           the poces whih I enerlly ake n ma In 1 have, and it was eaten
up clean, stalks and all.
the process whii h I generally takT in haking I]e sntinter of 1862 I cured
all my clover
and hocsinte  fr 1o:          pthse. .en hay in the cock, but it stood out
longer in the
  'My practice for sone yearhs past lies beenad  cock before it was ptit
into the barn, than that
to cut my clover when about one-half tile]letds cut in ISCI.  All that I
have yet fed is as
cerc getting ,i, of thle blow, or beginning to I bright and as sweet as I
want lay, and judg-
turn hroi% n. If it is cut when tlhere is n wet ing y the a ay twat my stock
w at ith and thgive
in it. I Iet i l:e in th^ swathi luntil it is  i te(d, i  b tve
and then pit it intto cocks. uitilg a to k to do !n it, it is worth as much
as any hay that I have.
                              iti a to:      i n d  From mty own experienci.
in curing clover
           mora; L~e ho vcksassnalon te goun  inthe way mentioned, I am satisfied
that there
hemil I. r th, wekll  aI lnatl oan the gvornd is a saving of fifty per cent.
over the way
as will st a d v ll  tl not make tieti very  actised by many, that is to
spread out the
                           it' he wathr is1" Iractise
large. fi I neat 1Ly if the veather is l er- clover anld dry it until the
stalk is dry. By
*,hle, Ia liti( cock- ,, mr in th( followiltig man- tie way alarge portion
of the .eads and leaves
ncr:   iih n ftrk take off the top of the cock                          
          e
and lay it on the ground, then take oft anotlh- fill off and are lost, these
being tihe most val-
                                             tiable part of tile hay when
cured in this way.
er forkful and lplI(c it oii tle fitst oLe. atid so  specially is this the
case when tIme clover is
on until the whll- lhIs breeti 1 il t  nil and the a lloed to stand iinttl
it is over ripe befoe it
cocks have been tu!tnedl bottom tipwatrds. In is ; ttt.  . I. - ord, in (Conintir!
(,'
this way the grecttir pnrh s arc placed on the
top  alli  outside.  itil  tl- IIIi,   left I'-s  so
that tlie heat lnd air Nill hitellhte through it,        A Good Farmer.
and carry off mite moiurtiirc.  The third day
open the cockA, tul ict the hiv be exposed to  An lnglist fartiter rccently
vci:trketl that
the suitu for a few hfou:;. fild thei' pit it in thte '1c fed his land before
it was btngry, rested
barn.                                        it before it was weary, atil
weeded it before it
  Although this *-wt1:od Of cli'ilt clover hay was foul."'  We have
.ehl'lu. if over seen so
is a great i rI  lcziient' :ioi' ,11 method, much agricultural wis ldo-:
condencsed into a
(Wvhich was to Fpre:il ott :aini Iry it like grass) I single sentence.  Reader.
hIve yort not some
yet in this way there is soltiC loss bv' the leaves land which at this time
will panit aud blow and
atd herads becomting so dry as to shell off.  struggle under the burden oh
a starveling and
  The way in which I desigic' tI make this sickly stalk of corn.  Weeded.l
before it was
field of clover into hay, was to cutre it entirely foul.'  Why, some of our
farmners raise weeds
in the cock, not to open it at all. blut to lay the | for manure.  Vile pests,
of no uise to man or
cocks over from tIay to day, iunt:1 the hay was beast, are suffered to grow
up and encumber
suitable to ic put in the barti. The clover the ground, nierely for the sake
of the privi-
was cut in the morning, in the .afternoon it lege of burying their bodies
to supply vegeta-
was put into the cock; the next day in the af- ble mitter to the soil. On
a perfectly conducted
ternoon the cocks were laid over. The next farm no pan t would be suffered
to mature its
morning (the third day) the prospect was tltt seed which was not of some
known and posi-
we should have showers before noon and rath- tive utility.  Peas or clover
are better than
er than have this clover wet I decided to put wecds: they feed both the soil
antI domestic
it into the barn, and as soon as the *Iew was atintals. and give no trouble
to succeeding
dried off, commenced earting it in. Althoughi crops. Remember the practice
of thio English
this clover was well wilted atd some of it par- fartiter. Do not wait until
your land begins to
tially dried, yet at least one-third of it appear- get poor before you manure
it. If it is rich,
ed to be as green as when it was first put into make it a little richer.
Do not wait until your
the cock, and I expected that it would be dam- land begins to fail before
you rest it; give it
aged some by putting it in so green, but prob- rest in time to prevent its
being tired. Do not
ably not any more than by leaving it out and wait until your farm is stocked
with weeds be-
having it get wet.                          fore you begin to destroy them.
One weed
  The clover was all put on a scaffold near the destroyed this year will
save much hoeing next
barn door, so that when the door was open it year. Manure soon and well,
give abundant
would receive the benefit of the air or wind rest, and cultivate clear. Ile
is a good farmer
that might come in. After a while the scaffold who observes these rules.



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