Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1876 — Winter Flowing. [ARTICLE]

Winter Flowing.

Winter plowing is better than fall or spring plowing. The earth is turned up fresh and exposed to the action of the air and frost before rains have settled it. In most soils winter plowing is highly beneficial, and especially in clay soils. There is time now to plow, and to plow deeply and well. The weather is cool and bracing, and the team can do more work, and better work, than in spring, when the weather is warm and debilitating. Many farmers raise colts, and the brood mares carefully worked now are in no manner injured—but in the spring there is some danger in hard plowing. Now is a good time to use three horses abreast in plowing, letting the plow run in deep and turning up the fresh clay, to be pulverized by frost, air and sun. Many farms are nearly worn out by continued cropping. A new farm lies just under the old one. With three horses, plow a foot deep on the worn-out fields this winter, and double your crops for next year, and several following years. We have seen this done often. It will pay twenty times the cost. Now is the time to do it. It will cost you nothing but a little time, and if not occupied in this work, it might be wasted. By all means do all the plowing that can be done tliis winter. Most farmers clear more or less land in winter. Clear strips for the plow, so that the teams can go to work at any time, and plow as fast asyou clear, and do not wait till spring, a Flowing new timber land Is very slow, tedious work, and if it can be dona in winter, it is a big job off of one’s hands in spring. There is time to do it now, and to do it well. Use three horses. The land for oats should by all means be plowed in winter. We have never had good luck in raising oats unless sown in February or early in March. Frequently the ground is too wet to both plow and harrow for the seed bed so early, but if plowed in the winter, and laid in ridges, orback-furrows, so that the water will drain off, it is a veiy easy matter to harrow the ground ana sow the seed, and get this work early off one’s hands. And in nine seasons out of ten, the crop of oats is a good one, and the late sown crop isU poor yne.—Cobnan'e Rural World. —A woman in New York nearly succeeded in cutting out her husband’s tongue not long ago. He came home from his work, and his wife spoke to him, and wlien he attempted to answer she assaulted him with a knife.

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