This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...rainfall-flowing from the south-west to the north-east, as established by a long series of observations made by the signal department at Washington. On the subject of the best means to increase the adaptation of soils for dairying. I will mention one of the most practical manners of doing it. On all dairy farms It should be a standing rule with the owner of the farm to make all the manure possible from the produce of the farm, and judiciously apply it where most needed' It is a wellestablished fact that the liquid manure of an animal Is worth quite as much yearly, If properly applied, as the solid manure is. Every stable should be so constructed as to save th6 liquid as well as the solid manures of animals. All portions of a dairy farm that are too wet to produce the best qualities of cultivated grasses should be thoroughly drained and cultivated, till tit to raise cultivated grasses in the highest degree of perfection. Low, wet. sour lands produce an Inferior quality of grass but illy adapted to the production of milk for butter and cheese; but whem thoroughly reclaimed, by perfect drainage, are often the most valuable portions of farms for grazing purposes. As a rule there is no class of investments that pays bettor than thorough drainage of wet lands. For dairy purposes grass for hay should be cut while green, and never allowed to fully ripen. When grass is cut before it is fully ripe the quality of the hay is much more valuable than when loft to ripen, and a second crop speedily starts; and then, also, is the propor time to apply liquid manure by filtering on grass lands. In this country a 100-acre farm that will keep thirty cows is considered a good one. On the alluvial soils of England, Belgium and Holland, farms under thorough culture by a system of ...