The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-06-25
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THINGS NOT TO BE DONE.

Sowing spring wheat without soaking in brine
and rolling in lime, is thing not TO be done. Ac
corilns to c. w. Johnson, salt acts an imporan
part in termination and promoting the growth o
plants; and lime, every one is aware, seem to b,
necessary in some form to the perfection of plant
and their seeds Both, then, should be used ii
sowing wheat.
Attempting to keep cattle, sheep and horses
through our long winters on straw or even hay
without roots, is a thing no, TO be done. Every
good farmer, will therefore make his arrangement:
so as TO secure plentiful supply of turnips poa-
toes or carrots, for winter and spring use. These
fed with the hay, will improve the stock, promote
heah,and bring the animals through the most try.
ing season of the year with safety and profit
Making n yard Of the highway, and allowing
Your cattle and sheep to be iod and to drop their
dung where is lost 10 the farm, is not to be done
This practice though common,s wrotchod one,
aud should be reformed altogether. Feed your
animals in stalls, if you cam if not, IN yards, TO
do otherwise, is wastelul in the extreme
Allowing your cattle in the spring ofthc year to
20 roaming about,poaching your meadows and pas.
lures with their feet is thing not to be DOME
The amount of food they can get in this way is
poor compensation for the damage they do, and
besides it destroys their relish for hay without Of
isring any substitute.
Suffering animals to perish for want ofaltenon
at any season oithe year, is thing not to be done.
But fany do die accidentally, they should BIO con.
yerted TO use BY being covered with earth, to alb
eorb the gases of oxygen and ammonia that are
the inevitable results of animal putrelacon, and
which are Indispensable to the growth of plants.
Having your pig sty in such a state, or place.
that your pigs shall not work for living, is thing
not to be DONE They should have yard into
which weeds, swamp muck, straw, and the scrap
inss Of roads and bitches should be thrown, to be
converted into manure; and if they seem at any
time relucan, 10 begin the task of mixing such ma
ierials, few handfuls of corn scattered over the
surface will set them to work most ndus,riousy.
Permitting tho chips, pieces of bark, sawdust,
&C., Of your wood yard to accumulate for years.
is thing not 10 be done. Remember that all (which
has once formed part of a plant can be converted
into plant again,and place all such matters where
TIER decomposition will be most useful, and soon |
est effected
Nearly every farm has some pond, marsh or bog
which receives large portion Of the wash Of The
cultivated Iand; and 10 allow this TO remain with
out being returned 10 the SOIL is thing not to be
done. There are some such places that may be
considered rs inexhauslibe deposits of ferizipp
matter, yet have never been drawn upon for II sin
gle load, by the neighborng farmers. Let those
who have such deposits look TO them
Allowing your work to drive you, is thing not
to he done. The man who /, half an hour behind
ms work. finds labor forever an uphill business
There IS here serious mistake committed By many
Farmers. They lay out more work than they can
do well, or IN season, and the consequences is,
nothing is done at the time, or as il should be.-
What you do, do in season and be sure 10 do well
Being content 10 allow single year TO pass
without correcting some error or making some i'm
provemon' in husbsndry, is thing not to be done.
in conversation with an intelligent farmer the 9TH !
er day. he remarked that the practice of all fell be-
hind their knowledge, or in other words, none did I
as well as they knew how. TO put the knowl- :,
edge we acquire from our own or others expe- n
iience to use, should be the aim of every one. and
would soon do away the reproach that farmers are C
n stationary race of rnen.-.4l6any Cultirator. "
Vice stlnss US even in our pleasures but virtue tc
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