188                THE.WISCONBIN FAR-MEJL.

til it is rotted, he has a small pile of almost true that it is correspondingly
exhaustive of
worthless manure.'                            the fertility of the soil.
Its chief advantages,
  The mode that I wish to submit for the con- in our opinion, are its adaptability
to soils and
sideration of my brother farmers is this: Stack climate less favorable to
clover and the other
your grain where you can use the ground the ordinary grasses, and its ability
to perfect it-
next summer for a cattle yard. Put up a large self when sown after the other
grasses have
shed with crotches and rails or some other given unquestionable evidences
of failure.-
cheap convenient material, near to the stacks, ED.]
allowing for a good body of straw where the
chaff falls.  When you thrash, have hands       The Chih Bug and Deep Mlowing.
enough to stack the straw real good, covering  The above is the heading of
a communication
the shed all but the south end. This will af- in the January No. of the FARMER
for 1862,
ford a better shelter than half the stables in by Lewis Clark, of Beloit,
giving some of his
the country.                                  experiences with the enemy
of our wheat crop
  During the winter, spread a little clean straw  and its relation to deep
plowing.
round inside the shed as needed. So far it is  I wish now to ask Mr. Clark,
through the
food and shelter. In the summer it is hardly FABSIEn, a few questions with
regard to the
less useful.                                  effect of the double plowing
on other crops
  We have all noticed the injurious effects of than the one of which he speaks.
the cold rains upon cattle yarded in an open  In the first place, what was
your object in
yard, and felt how uncomfortable it was to sit following the breaking plow
with the stirring
milking in a shower. Through the summer, plow?
spread clean straw around occasionally. The  I have 30 acres of prairie land
which I
straw absorbs and preserves the droppings and thought of plowing in the same
manner, for
they enrich and help to rot the straw. To- the sake of raising a crop of
corn the first sea-
gether they make good manure, ready for use son. Will it pay forthefirstcropalone?
What
in the fall. I say good manure, though I con- effect will it have on the
following crops, leav-
fess I am not chemist enough to tell what per- ing the chinch bugs out of
the question ?-
centage of dragon's blood or shark's tccth it What was your first crop on
the ground? and
contains; but it has a very beneficial effect how did it yield compared to
the crop by its
upon all crops on which I have tried it.   side:
                                 J. BOLI.      I would like al-o to hear
answers front oth-
 OBaaNGI Feb. 9, IS 3.
                                              ers than Sir. Clark who may
have experiment-
              Hungarian Grass.                ed in the foregoing manner.

  Wp hat abhut Hungarian grass? Shall we cul-  So far as my observation has
extended, deep
tivate or not.' Give its your opinion, Mr. Ed- and shallow plowing, previous
to the last sea-
itor.                             M. LEE.     son's crop, wade no difference
with the rava-
tIL WAVkEE Co.                             ges of the chinch bug.    If this
winter, with
  [The verdicts upon its advantages are vari- so little snow, giving the
ground a chasce to
oun and conflicting-soume maintaining that it freeze deep, does not diminish
their number,
is very valuable indeed, and others declaring we will be obliged to adopt
a greater variety
it a humbug. Some have even declared that it of productions in farming. L.
R. Bi.Nciuln.
is liable to kill the horse tha: feeds upon it.  TAFTON, Febly 25, 1663.
Otri owin conviction is that the Hungarian gras- I
                                             C  INItAXA COTTON.-A correspondent
writes
though it ansvwers a very good purpose for ivinti to the Cleveland .Lerald.
from Mount Vernon.
tering cattle and horse<, has nevertheles bee  Indiana. as follows
                                   .Oil it     I aul happy to inform you
that southern In-
somewvhat over-ratedl. On a go~od     uo it un- diana is in earnest on the
cotton question.
questionably yields largely, but it is equally I am informed by a reliable
man that the pros-



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