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Shall We Keep Sod Turned Down

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Day
4
Month
July
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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It t8 advooatsd by sonie, and recent]) [Country Gentleman, May 29,; by Lev Hartlett, that sod tuin d down shouk uu llt thcre, plow-rd shailow, and the soi worked with the cultivator, so as nut to disturb the sod. Tuis will do, esi e;inlly in some soils - thosB rejtaining thuir fertility. In aaud; or leachy land il witl act do, is thstrength of the so'l, to sume exteat a east, will be lost, dntined oi?, for deoay ed Bod must be considered. ntaiiure, am manure on such land must be fcpj Led a' tue surface, and in ccmptiratively smal quantities, elsn thore will be los. Tiiis i believe no one will dispute Now thi ground which holüs the roots, whieh ie the Süd, is itself composed of this leachy soil, where tiiat is the character of Uil land, so tliat it will pass off what is not tuKen up by the roots of the phints - and it will pass it ofi' beyond reacfa if turned dcwn aud left there. In sucii soil il wants to be brought up to the surface and mixed well with the soil, and pulverized. At Least this is practioed with success on our sandy, alluvial botton; and it is the couiuiou practice - aud uo cojii'plaiat made - on our clay ridgea. If the sod is a heavy oiip, by turning it up the second year it affords one of the fiuest of .Mifcd beds to stock down the land - there is eeldom a f'üilure either of tho grain örop or grass seed and clover sown. It is the pr íctico of our dairymen here, (south s:de of thu Mohawk,) and those wlio have tuo heaviest sod have the best 8U1 iliis on all kinds of land in this seotion, and the soil varies considerable Now itud then land is seeded the sume yeai that the sod is turned down, and in severa drouth we have known a total failure ; tho land had to be replowed an:l seeded in the spring usually wiïh satis fiicüóH. Had it been worked sfaallow, with the sod remaining untouohed, the land a well drained clay, I have uo donbt there would hava been Buocees, espeoially if the sod' had not been put down deep, so that the roots of the grain .ind grass fonnd ready acces. I have great hopo of a wicked mar, sloiider hope of a mean one. A wiokm man muy be convcrttd and becotne a prominent saint. A mean ïmin -j n tr 1 1 r to beoonvertfed sir or seven times, oio rígbt after the other, to give hiin a fa;r gtart and put liini on mi equality with a bold, w.cked man. - Beechcr A inttn being arraigued before a maf - istrate for obstrinting the s reets, h s counsel attumptud to trent fhe offanse aa trilling matter, but the juatioe crugl - ed him by stern 1 y asking : " If everybody should obstruot the street, how could anybody get along 'è " A pruteutious hypoitc, who was in the habit of praying so VOClferously that his neighbor and persons paasiug in the etreet could licar him, was quietly iulurined by his pastor ono day that if he would got a little nearer to Ood he would r.ot üave to xray sa loud," " Wornan : Purissima, 8anctitii7Ui, Cariêtama," was a toast given by William M. Evarts at a recent banquet in New York City. The transistors insist that " [.ui - est, holiest, most expensiv," is the rendering.

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Old News
Michigan Argus