Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-01-04

Things NOT TO BE COMMISSIONING spring wheat
without soaking in brine and rolling IN lime Is
thing not to be done. According 10 e. W. john
son. salt acts an important part in termination and
promoting the growth of plants and lime, every
one is aware, seems 10 be necessary in some form
to the perfection of plants and their seeds Both.
then, should be used in sowing wheat.
Attempting TO keep cattle, sheep and horses,
through our long winters straw or even hay,
without roots, is thing not TO be done. Every
good farmer, will therefore make his arrangements
so as to secure plentiful supply of turnps, pota-
toes carrots for winter use These fed with hay,
will improve the stock, promote health and bring
the animals through the most trying season OF the
sea with safety and profit
Making yard o. the highway and allowing
your cattle and sheep to beied and drop Their dung
where 1t is lost to the farm, is thing not TO be
done. This practice, though common is wretch
ed one, and should be reformed altogether. Feed
your animals in stalls, If you cam if not, IN yards
To do otherwise, is wasetul In the extreme
Allowing your cattle in the spring OF the year TO
go roaming about, poachlng your meadows and
pastures with their feet, is thing not to be done.
The small amount of food they get in this way is a
poor compensation for the damage they do, and
besides 1t destroys their relish for hay, without Oh
tering any substitute.
Suffering animals TO perish for want of attention
at any of the year, thing not to be done.
But If any do die accidentally, they should be con-
verted to use by being covered with earth, to alb
sorb the gases of oxygen and ammonia thai are the
inevitable results of animal putrefactlon, and which
are indispensable to the growth OF plants.
Having your pig stye in such 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
pings of roads and bitches should be thrown TO be
converted into manure: and if they seem reluctant
to begin the task of mixing such materials, few
handiuls OF corn scattered over the surface will set
them to work most industriously.
Permitting the chips, pieces OF bark sawdust, &c,
of your wood yard to accumulate for yearsisa thing
not to be done. Remember that all, which has
once formed part of plant be converted into
plant again, and place all such matters where
there decomposition will be most useful, and SOON
est effected.
Nearly every farm has some pond, marsh, or bog
which receive large portion of the wash of the
cultivate land and to allow this TO remain without
being returned to the soil, a thing not TO be done.
There some such places may be considered
as nexhaustibe deposits Of lertlizing matter, yet
have never been drawn upon for a single load, by
the noghboring farmers. Let those who have such
deposits look to them.
Allowing your work to drive you, is thing not
to be done. The man who Is half hour behind
his work, finds his labor forever 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 consequence is.
thing is done at the time, or as it should be- What
You do, do in season, and be to do it we'll
Being content to allow single year to pass with
out correcting some error, or making some I'M
proyement in husbandry, is thing not to be done.
In conversation with an intelligent farmer the 9TH
day, he remarked that the practice of all fell be-
hind their knowledge, or in other words, did
well as they knew how. Toput the knowledge
we acquire from our own others experience to
use, should be the aim of every one, and would
soon wipe away the reproach that farmers a
stationary of men.-Atbany Cuitirator.