Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-05-26
AGRICULTURAL.
BRIEF HINTS

TOR sPRING WORK
Apply manure to corn and potato crops
and not to grain crops.
Let manure be buried as soon as posi-
bic after spreading.
When rotted or fermented manure is
applied, let it be as thoroughly mixed
with thesoil as possible.
1 Wheat thrown out Of the ground by the
etost should be pressed in again by pass
ling roller over it.
& Ploughing heavy soils when wet does
more injury than if Re team were stand
ing idle.
In ploughing greensward deeply, the
burrows must always be at least one half
wider than deep, else the sod will not turn
well.
New meadows should now be rolled.
ALI grain fields seeded to grass should
be rolled.
s., Preserve leached and unleached ashes
which have accumulated during the win
ter, to be applied to corn in the hill.
Toprevent corn being touched by the
crows, stir the seed with sufficient guam
tity of heated tar, and then roll it in plas,
ter, lime or ashes.
After each hill ofcorn is dropped, put
in "a small handful of a mixture of plas
ter and leached ashes.
Plaster Is always most efficacious or
light and thin soil-on meadow and clover
ground the earlier it is sown the better
Plaster, when applied to cultivate
ground, is best when worked into thu
soil. i
Every farmer should attempt the fielc
culture of root erops-he may raise a
much cattle food from one acre, as from
five acres Of meadow.
Farmers who have heavy, rich soil
will succeed best with mangel wurzel-
those who have heavy soil, with ruta ba
ga. They should try both
Sow garden crops with drills where
practicable, in order that the weeds ma
becleared with hoe.
Different varieties Of squashes end mel
ons should be planted at the greatest pos
sible distance in order to prevent inter
mixing and crossing.
Loosen the soil with spade round tn
roots of fruit trees which grow in gras
land. Take every opportunity Of settin
an ornamental shrub or tree round you
house or door ard--now is the time
you have any taste you will never regrt
it.--Genesee Farmer
KEEP AccoUNTs.-The farmer ougf
not only to keep accounts with himself 6
asito be able to review at the end ofever
year, his receipts and expenditures
tell whence his cash comes and whittier
goes ;but with his several fields, his crops
his sheep, cattle, horses, swine, poultry
HeAshould at least do this with great pa
ticularity till be shall be master Of the sui
ject, and can trust his judgment with SON
confidence. For want Of accurate a.
counts, farmers are often deceived, faii
Improbable crops or animals, or pursr
improbable methods of cultivation
feeding.s Sometimes, too, they abandon
pursuit really advantageous to them, und
the talse notion that they can do bett
some other way.
We have published several specimen
Of such accounts. A little practice w
make the business easy and II will OF
you not only the satisfaction Of known
the pecunlaTy results of this and that or,
or method, but will awaken new inter,
in the whole process by which land is M
pared and crop matured. Il will IN
bic you to determine the value of the hin
You get from reading, and whether it
allyis more profitable to cultivate f
acres thoroughly and skilfully than ten
hap-hazard. And now, while prepari
your fields and sowing your seed, j:
good time-to begin.-[W Farmer.