Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-04-28
From the Albany CultivatoT.
Work for the Month.

DOR OF the nuSDanQmdn may De Sdlu
to commence. His focks and herds,
his fields and his garden, all now re-
quire, or begin to demand, his constant
supervision. Hisyoung animals now,
as well as his old ones, clam his care,
and the least neglect on this point
may occasion losses which year of
toll can hardly repair. Too many
seem to suppose that because the
snow is gone, and the cows or sheep
are permitted to go into the fields, "a
very bad policy at this season by the
way, therefore, less attention is ne
cessary, and that they may safely be
permitted to "shirk for themselves. :"
Now no man who understands his true
interests will do this.-He is aware
that animals need good looking to now
as much as ever, and it Is probable
the inattentive farmer loses more of
his stock in April than any other
month in the year. Look then well
to your animals; see that that express
sive, but unfortunately too often APP
propriate phrase, "poUerty struck"
be not applicable to your creatures.
One great secret of having first rate
cattle, sheep, and swine, consists in
keeping them in the first rate condi-
ton at all times.
PLowING-Do notplow when your
land is not in a fit condition to work.
Some soils, those of a light or porous
kind, are ready for the plow as soon
as the frost is out, but there are many
of a clayey, heavy orrete 3tive kind.
in which early blowing, or moving the
soil while wet, would prove fatal to a
crop. Such must remain until suffi-
GENTLY dry to work without adhesion,
or the labor upon them is worse than
thrown away. To remedy such ten
dency to adhesion as far as practica-
BILE, they should be thoroughly I'M
derdrained, which will much reduce
the period of time in which they can
not be worked tits generally an ex-
cellent plan to plow heavy soils in
the fall, while quite dry, as the win
ter's frost pulverizes them, and they
are fit to work earlier than when left
for spring blowing
Spring GRAINs,-Spring wheat,
barley, and oats, will succeed best
when put IN the earth as soon as it
can be properly fitted for their recep-
ton Wheat when sown late is very
apt to suffer from blight or rust, and
give an inferior kernel; barley is In
jured by the extreme heat Of our sum-
mers, unless its growth is SO far ad
vanced that such an effect cannot take
place; and although oats will bear
late sowing better than other grains,
yet every farmer is aware that his
heaviest crops and best berried oats
are produced by early sowing.
CoRN.-We are inclined to the
opinion that the agricultural census
of the United States will show that,
Notwithstanding the vast quantity of
wheat produced, and its importance to
the country, the great bread product
of the nation is, after all, corn Ger
tainly it will be so, if its capacity of
feeding both man and beast is taken
into consideration. .--Aprilis the month
in which preparation must be made
for this staple crop The manure
should be spread and plowed in, and
always remember that corn is one of
the few cultivated plants that cannot
be manured too high. Cold, wet land
should never be planted to corn, and
Unnecessary to cultivate such, it should
not be moved with the plow until so
dry as to fall to pieces or be friable