The Grass Crop And Fodder

The long droutli which has prefailec in thia State, ard in souie other of the Western States, threatcns to sliorten up the erop of gra?s and hay. We notice by tho Prairie Farmer that iu Illinois it is causing foars to bo eutertained that it will diminish tho erop one half. Wheu farmers perceivo that they aro going to be phort ia their h y erop, and have a stock of sheep or uattle that Un y fee' they ought to try and oarry over the winter, now is the time ihéy ought to make preparation for the growing of forage crops. Tho want of help will preclude rnany of them from having reeourse to roots, but a good large field of fall turnips will be found a great assistance in wintering either sheep or eattle, and now is the time when calculations should be made for that erop A five or ten acre lot of drilled Indhin corn, or, what is better, of sorghum or Imphoe, will furnish feed enough, if well taken care of, to keep a largo stook of eattle or sheep in good eondition well ato February, with the use of but very little hay, which may bo thus preserved for use tilí a lato period of the coming winter. Even millet May be sown with the chance, on good groupds, of seeuring a heavy erop of feed well adaptod for the uso of gtook during the early part of winter.- Hay is now very high in pi ice everywhere, and, with tho weather wc have had, promises to be scarcer and higher. Oats are looking fair, but must be short in straw and light in the head without rain very soon. In many parts of the State the wheat erop is either lost or there is a very light erop ; so that oven the straw of that erop will be less than usual. We wish our readers, therefore, to begin now, when tho seson is rigbt to secure such fodder crops as will help thom through the next winter, and will probably save them from saerificinff a largo amount of thcir catlle and sheep at low prices, when, by keeping thom over, tho advantago of high rates may boreached. Farmers, take waming now, and get ready. Haiso all tho fora.ro orops it w in your power, even if you have to take a picoe of the fallow you intended for wheat next ycar to Krow them. fa