Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . to work and. plant it earlier in the spring;fifth, it prevents washing and waste of manure; sixth, it often preventsfailure of crops in excessively wet seasons, and enables them to endure droughtbetter in dry seasons. Although drainage is expensive it is a permanentimprovement, and in many cases
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . to work and. plant it earlier in the spring;fifth, it prevents washing and waste of manure; sixth, it often preventsfailure of crops in excessively wet seasons, and enables them to endure droughtbetter in dry seasons. Although drainage is expensive it is a permanentimprovement, and in many cases the increase of the wheat crop in a singleyear has defrayed the expense of tiling the land. Another improvement, which seems to be the opposite of this, is the irri-gation of arid lands in those parts of the country where the annual rainfallis small and every summer brings a drought. In these cases, water storedin large natural or artificial reservoirs, or that furnished by snow meltingon the mountains, is utilized to carry the crops through the dry season andto enable the farmer to grow large crops where nothing could be producedwithout this aid. Perhaps in no other line have the methods changed for the better morethan in the care of domestic animals, and this includes both shelter and feed-. DOUBLE CORN PLANTER ing. In the first half of the century, cattle and hogs were usually exposedto the severe weather of the winter with no other shelter than that affordedby a straw-stack, and this often was found leveled to the ground by the firstof March, leaving them entirely without shelter at that changeable seasonof the year. They were allowed at all seasons to roam over the farm andgather their own living, and were turned into the cornfields as soon as theears were removed, where they lived well as long as the stalk pasture lasted,after which they depended on straw for food until spring; and it was com-mon to have the cattle so poor, as spring approached, that many died ofactual st
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