Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1870 — Early Made Hay. [ARTICLE]

Early Made Hay.

Tint practice of beginning to cut the grasses as soon as they are fairly in blossom is rapidly gaining favor. This fovored time comes to many fields in this latitude, from the middle to the last of June. With the improved implements of haymaking—the horse mower, rake and tedder—it is not difficult now for the former to gather all his hay crop at the time when it makes the most nutritious fodder. The early cured grass does not give so heavy a yield of hay to the acre at one cutting, and the same bulk will not weigh so much as the grass cured two or three weeks later. But very careful experiments show that the hay thus treated is much more nutritious; it is relished better by all kinds of neat stock, and nothing is left in the manger. This tender, sweet hay, is particularly important for sheep ana young stock in the winter. If it do not bring so much in market or at the stables, at least the hay that is retained for home use should be early cut. It does not exhaust the soil so much as where the seeds are allowed to mature. If the ground is. very rich it allows of a second catting in August. If* not, it makes a heavy aftermath, end shelters the roots of grass in the winter. The practice is increasing among our reflecting farmers, which is pretty good evidence that it is safe to follow.— American Agrievltwiet.

After a verdict had been rendered in a late trial ip Austin county, Tex, the udge addressed the jury in this way: *By your verdict you have said the accused is guilty of no crime. Your verdict being contrary to law, contrary to the evidence, and contrary to the charge of the court, the court disapproves of your action in the strongest possible manner. It is by such verdicts as this upon the part of petit jurors, that Texas has been brought into disrepute among the other States of the Union."