. Descriptive catalogue of choice farm, garden and flower seeds, roots, plants and garden requisites. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 8 ALLEN'S RETAIL PRICED CATALOGUE. PRICKLY COMFREY, or Symphytum Asperrimum. Prickly Comfrey is espe- cially adapted for the feeding and fattening of all Farm stock, and for increasing the milk of cows ; it grows more rapidly and luxuriantly than: any other green soiling plant,, producing five or six crops of 15 to 25 tons each, per acre, per season. To teach stock to eat it,, confine them, and after fast- ing over night, prepare
. Descriptive catalogue of choice farm, garden and flower seeds, roots, plants and garden requisites. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. 8 ALLEN'S RETAIL PRICED CATALOGUE. PRICKLY COMFREY, or Symphytum Asperrimum. Prickly Comfrey is espe- cially adapted for the feeding and fattening of all Farm stock, and for increasing the milk of cows ; it grows more rapidly and luxuriantly than: any other green soiling plant,, producing five or six crops of 15 to 25 tons each, per acre, per season. To teach stock to eat it,, confine them, and after fast- ing over night, prepare a mixed chopped feed of com- frey leaves and hay, grass corn fodder, or like palatable food. Sprinkle with meal or bran and a tittle salt. "When this is eaten, feed dry hay and turn out for the day. Next morning increase the proportion of comfrey, and after a few days they will leave almost any food for the comfrey. About one half of the animals will eat it at first trial. Pigs and Poultry eat it generally, and, when kept in confinement, it will furnish the cheapest, best, and hardiest forage with which to stock the poultry yard. Comfrey being a deeply rooted plant, is independent of weather and cli- mate, for in the dry est and hottest seasons it will afford several heavy cut- tings, when all other vegetation is either burnt up or at a stand-still. It also comes in earlier than any other crop, and lasts longer, continuing to afford forage until it is cut down by severe frosts. Its culture is simple ; any good soil is either forked or plowed six or eight inches deep and well manured. The rooted cuttings or sets, are then planted three feet apart, say one thousand to a quarter of an acre. In Winter the roots ought to be well dressed with manure, and when once this plant is established, no further expense is needed. If the crop cannot be cut quickly enough for green food, or drying in: bundles, it ought not to be allowed to flower, and the flower stem should be cut out. The
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