FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 109, 3 February 1903, Page 2

FACTS FOR FARMERS.

No other instrument is so well adapted to pulverizing small clods as the plank drag. A great man once said that the most important secret of success with crops is to remember to stir the soil. Even half a dozen sheep are better thaji none, as they will keep down the weeds and prevent the farm from being seeded with such pests. Feed up the corn fodder, millet and other cheap forage as closely as may be and save the timothy hay, which is a cush article, while the others are not. Not only must the soil contain food elements, but they must be thoroughly mixed and incorporated in the soil to become available as plant food. Therefore, let the ground be heavily manured and every square inch for a foot in depth well pulverized. Farmers who sowed crimson clover last fall will have an excellent fertilizing material for plowing under. No nitrogenous fertilizers will be required where crimson clover has grown, but application of phosphates and potash j will be beneficial. They cost but a I small sum, however, compared with the substances containing nitrogen. | It is seldom that a farmer can accumulate a sufficient amount of wood ashes for a large field, but on farms >vhere wood is used there is a limited supply, which can be put to good use on th-e garden or on the young clover. Ashes are excellent also on all grass lands and in orchards. They are applied broadcast, in any quantity desired, as many as 100 bushels per acre having been used on certain soils. — Prairie Farmer.