Cooper's Clarksburg Register

Useful Hints for Farmers.

The chopping, or grinding of grain to be fed to stock, operates as a saving of at least twenty-five per cent.

Draining of wetlands and marshes, adds to their value, by making them produce more, and by improving the health of neighborhoods.

To manure, or lime wet lands, is to throw manure, lime, and labor away.

Shallow ploughing operates to impoverish the soil, while it decreases production.

By stabling and shedding stock through winter, a saving of one-fourth their food may be effected: that is one-fourth less food will answer, than when the stock may be exposed to the inclemencies of the weather.

A bushel of plaster per acre, sown broadcast, over clover, will add one hundred per cent. to its produce.

Periodical applications of ashes tend to keep up the integrity of soils, by supplying most if not all, of organic substances.

Thorough preparation of land is absolutely necessary to the successful and luxuriant growth of crops.

Abundant crops cannot be grown for a succession of years, unless care be taken to provide an equivalent for the substances carried off the land in the products grown thereon.

To preserve meadows in their productiveness, it is necessary to harrow them every second autumn, apply top dressing, and roll them up.

All stiff clays are benefited by fall and winter ploughings; but should never be ploughed when wet. At such ploughings, the furrow be materially deepened, lime, marl, or ashes, should be supplied.

Croup.—A piece of fresh lard as large as a butternut, rubbed up with sugar, in the same way that butter and sugar are prepared for the dressing of puddings, three parts, and given at intervals, will relieve any case of croup not already allowed to progress to the fatal point. Cor. N. Y. Eve-