Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-04-23

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Calender for April.
April is the month when the general plans Of
Farmer and Gardner should be laid out for the
coming season. Ever hing should be systematic
ed and every pla: or Fl, Id assigned its CROP. As
much manure should be got on as possible. Light
sandy or gravey soils will receive benefit from
ploughing or digging when moist, or as soon as
the frost is out of the ground. But on all clay
soils their exact condition should be observed, and
they should be stirred only when comparatively
dry. Fall ploughing should always be the course
adopted farmers on clay soil. as spring ploughng
when wet, mixes The soils into a mortar which
bakes into Jumps and remains hard through the
summer unless beaten IN pieces at great expense
Of labor. II should be the object Of the Farmer to
deepen his SOIL by cultivation, and 70 this end ne
should not overlook the advantage of deep plough
ing, turning up at each time small portion Of the
subsoil. By this system The roots of the plants
will have greater resources for food, and before he
is aware of it his crops will doubled. Moving
fields should be put in order; drains should be
made 10 carry off any surface water that may col
leci upon them, stones carefully picked up, and
fences repaired SO that cattle will net be liable to
break over them. Spring Wheat, Oats, and Bar
ley, ought to be got into the ground as soon after
the frost is out as possible. Corn for soilng may
be sown broadcast or in drills, the planting for seed
crop is however better postponed until early in
May. Plant early Potatoes, Sow field Peas.
Suffer not your animals to get into the pastures be-
fore good bite is afforded them. aud supply them
at all times but especially when first turned to pas
ture, with liberal quantity of salt, to correct the
frequently too purgative effects of the fresh feed.
Do not allow young animals to follow their dams
sbo GalJ m DIV
and firm.
Fruit Garden and Orchard.-A kinds of fruit
and ornamental Trees and Shrubs should be trans
planted before the leaf buds shall have come ont.
Graft all inferior and unprodac.ive fruit trees with
approved sorts. Dress and clean Straw berry beds
Prunc Apples aud Pears, cutting out old decayipg
wood and all limbs that intertwine, shorten the
ends Of such limbs appear taking too strong and
and Struggling a growth. Currants and Goose
berries should be pruned to open heads to admit
the sun and air, and should also be well manured
about the roots, and the soil made loose and kept
free f,om weeds. Cut out The dead wood from
Raspherries and lie up the stems to stakes or a
trellice. Examine tine roots of Peach trees and
out the worm. Apply soft soap to the bark Of all
fruit trees. Examine your Pear trees and see il
any appearance of blight is pe:ceptible; continue
to do so every week through the summer and
when you discover any appearance of IT, Gu; the
limb and burn il. Do this without hesitation, il
delayed the disease may extend through your
whole Orchard. The following is good grazing
composition: 3 paris bees wax, parts rosiD, and
part tallow; spread when warm on bandages
two inches wide, of new strong cotton cloth.
Kitchen Garden cabbages may be pro
duced from sprouts cut from sumps or stalks pre-
served in The cellar through the winter. Take
with each cutting slice Of the stalk ABOUT two
inches long, plant them in the garden and with
the usual care they will give you early Cabbages
Attend, fnot already done, TO your beds of Aspar
agus, dress the old beds, and make new ones i
wanted. Salt mixed in proportion Of half peck
10 two horse wagon load of decomposed vegeta
BILE and animal manure is good fertilizer. Sow
Cress in fine mellow soil, very lhicky in shallow
drills, FIVE or six inches asunder, and cover very
lightly Plant Beans toward the last of the month
in a warm, dry soil, for early use, deferring th,
planting Of the principal crop until the middle o
MAY. The same remarks ia regard 10 Beets
Sow Carrots, Parsnips Satisfy, Spinach. Radshe
and Mustard, either for seed or salad. Cucum
.bers. Spuashes, Melons. &c, may be propagaie'
according to the following method: Take large
flai turuip; scoop it oui making hole through tn
bottom as in a f,wer pot; fiji With good garde,
mould. and plunge in hot bed or keep IN warn
room. When the plant shows its second lea
transplant IN open air il sufficiently warm. Sow
peas, and you wish for an early crop be careful
10 select such are all early sort, as the Earl
Warwick, aud Cedo Null. Continue sowin
once fortnight until the last of June if you wis
for a succession. One pint will a row G
twenty yards. Manure with dscomposed vegets
BILE matter aud but lutte Of stable manure. So,
Lettuce brtu cen rows intended for other plants, Q
10 bed by itself as your ground may afford room
i. A quarter Of an ounce is seed enough for be
four fee, by TN. Tom,toes. Egg plants. PEPPER
&c., that have been forwarded In the hot bed or
pots, pants GU, toward the las. Of the mouth
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