. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. A SOISSONAIS MERINO RAM. The sheep were but one feature of the life andactivities of the farm. There were many yokes ofmagnificent red oxen busily cultivating the wheatand oat stubble to make a seed-bed for the fallengrain and for all the weeds and grasses which wouldcome up and make the land green. Sometimes they 506 IN FOREIGN FIELDS also sow red clover or other seeds on the stubbles atthe time of this cultivation—a catch crop, as it red oxen, of the race of Auvernat, were muchlike large Devons; they buy th
. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. A SOISSONAIS MERINO RAM. The sheep were but one feature of the life andactivities of the farm. There were many yokes ofmagnificent red oxen busily cultivating the wheatand oat stubble to make a seed-bed for the fallengrain and for all the weeds and grasses which wouldcome up and make the land green. Sometimes they 506 IN FOREIGN FIELDS also sow red clover or other seeds on the stubbles atthe time of this cultivation—a catch crop, as it red oxen, of the race of Auvernat, were muchlike large Devons; they buy them when four yearsold, work them for three years and sell them fatin Paris. They cost about $150 each to buy and sell. FRENCH SHEPHERD, SHEEP DOGS AND FLOCK OF DISHLEY MERINOS. for $170 to $180 each. Oxen do not sell as well asdo steers, but they do so much labor that they areprofitable. They work them usually in fours. In another field the fertilizer distributer was go-ing, putting on basic slag at the rate of a little lessthan 1,000 pounds per acre. It is applied once in TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 507 four years. They also used great amounts of plas-ter or gypsum on the manure heaps, and bonemealin large amounts on the beet-fields, about 500 poundsper acre, and for the beets nitrate of soda, about250 pounds per acre in several applications. Allstable and yard manures are religiously saved andapplied: What is the result? In the drouth year of 1911they got forty bushels of wheat and oats to the beets were hurt by drouth and the maize wasalso damaged as it was planted late and thick, tobe cut green for cows. The farm has 1,050 acres. It carries 2,000 sheep,sixty oxen, fifteen Normandy cow
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