IMPROVE FARMING.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 183, 4 August 1877, Page 5

IMPROVE FARMING.

Professor Johnson, in his report on Agriculture in New Brunswick, concludes with the following summary of "Points to which individual farmers are recommended to direct their atten- '. tion "— Thorough drainage of clay soils, wet slopes and, bottoms, and marsh or dyked 'land, where the fall is sufficient to admit of a ready outlet, and a sufficient depth of drain. " Better clearing and deeper ploughing the soil. " More care in .savings collecting, and applying manures of all kinds, liquid and solid. An abandonment of the system of . cutting repeated crops off the same land till it is exhausted. An abandonment also of the custom of taking repeated successive crops of corn off the same lond, without alternation with other crops, and without manure. Gutting down grain of ail kinds before it is fully ripe, and grass before it runs to seed. Ploughing deeper in all cases than has hitherto been usual, but especially such land as ha 3 ceased to be as productive as formerly. Taking advantage of every open day in the fall to plough and prepare the land for the spring sowing. Selecting good stock of cattle, pigs, and sheep for keeping through the winter. Providing warm but well ventilated housing for" them. Feeding them plentifully, that they may be in good condition when the spring arrives. Growing turnips and linseed, with the view of adding to the quantity and enriching the quality of the food he has at his disposal. Collecting carefully, and preserving under cover, all the manure made by his stock during the winter, that he may have it abundantly and in good condition for his potato and green crops when the time of planting or sowing comes. Manuring annually, by top-dressing, his worn-out hay lands. Collecting carefully all waste bones, breaking them, and applying them to the land ; especially the use of bones is to be recommended upon land which has been worn out by overcropping with corn. ' Sowing down always with artificial grasses when land, after a corn crop, is to be left with a view of its producing hay. To provide shelter, by fences or plantations, for his fields and stock.