Show WINTER BYE RYE WHEN TO SOV SOW winter rye should be sown in july as the soil can then be worked to advantage and the seed will germinate without any obstruction if it ia is good it takes root immediately springing into life bo suddenly that you are surprised with a luxuriant green carpet before you are aware of it in the october following I 1 you have a rich pasture just when your summer pastures fall fail this thia feed feeding ingoff on the rye answers a two fold purpose a source of profit in the feed and the thickening of the crop the next spring when I 1 was a boy my father bowed his big rye among his bia corn at the jast last hoeing three pecks of seed was all that bat was necessary for an acre this was fed off by the tho cows after the corn was harvested harvester upon some plain land the water will kill much of the winter grain but when sown where the corn cora was hilled up it would be saved and no vacant spots be seen winter grain will produce a greater amount of grain and straw both of which are valuable the straw for the market the grain to mix with corn for swine an experiment by mr hiram jones of dover mass basss in sowing rye for a series serie s of years upon the same land without the addition of fertilizers resulted in the improvement of the soil his ris method wab was to plow and sow bow soon after taking off the crop in this way all the scattered grain was saved it would be worth the while for those who have plenty of land and team to make i a trial of this it would be a rare sight to see bee such a beautiful green for six months of the year instead of the autumnal dryness of a new new NOW england edgland pasture and spring would open to your view the charming lovely green which would be a sure token of a beautiful harvest I 1 love to think of the crops we used to grow sixty years ago and the well formed red oxen we used to drive trained to haw baw round or gee round by the voice of the driver when holding the plow handles those were scenes delightful to the youth of those day daye they still claim a place in our me memory mory although lost to sight eight R i V M in new england ien JEn gland giand farmer |