Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-06-18
agricultural Department.
From the Massachusetts, Plowman.
Farm Work for June.

June is at hand, sweet June the flowers are oui
and the cattle are out all seeking their appropri
ate food Bees are swarmng in June, bu, the bet
ter sort have swarmed once in May. Don't let
them go of to the woods, but provide young and
low trees for them TO aight after coming from
the hive Remember to set the new hive this
side up" unless you wish to make :" confusion
worse confounded' by holding it wrong side up to
take them in, and turning all out again on revers-
ing its position.
Cows now live well by grass alone, yet little
meal each day, on their first leaving hay, will
strengthen them through the summer. One quart
to each COW will do injury unless they have
drinked too much of their milk. June butter
is richer than any, provided YOU can keep it cool
and sweet. The buiermk inside, and the air
outside, are the enemies to be guarded against in
attempts to keep butter.
Oxen that are turned TO grass, should not be
worked hard for fortnight. Meal is good for them
too if you have it, you have nome and no mon
ey to buy with, you will do wei! to think Of il next
season, before ii is too late 10 sow. Your poor and
sandy plains will give you some buckwheat with
very little trouble
Try little corn in drills in hills or sown broad
cast, to be cut up green for COWS that have short
pastures. Sow some at the rate of two bushels per
acre. aud let us know how you succeed. You can
NOV this with scyhe and gather it with COM
rake, il you cut il before the tassel appears
or you can let it grow large and cut it but once
Cows are liable 10 be short of feed in July and Au.
gust.
Go round your apple trees once more and pull
off every scattering caterpillars nest even il the
tenants have quit; for there is hardly more SLOW.
emily practice than allowing such sights to appear at
any season.
Sheep may be washed now and turned into clean
pastures They should not be shorn Immediately
after washing. for the animal matter that was in the
wool is gene, and time must be allowed 10 restore
it. After shearing ii is dangerous 10 expose sheep
Immediately TO the weather during night; and in
wet days they must be attended to or you lose
them. Sheep should never know any thing about
jumping over fences. When they have once climb
ed wall one foot high, they are ambitious as
officers TO climb still higher When driven from
one Enclosure to another, the bars should be taken
clean away mol rail should be left for them to
practice upon.
Carrots, parsnps, and beets may be sown from
the first to the tenth Of June Have the ground
plowed deep. some of the manure placed on the
surface and narrowed in, and let all the wild seeds
vegetate and be killed before the seed OF your plants
is sown. And after the plants begin to appear, drag
brush harrow lengthwise of the rows and con-
found the weeds.
So in your corn and potato fields that are toler-
ably clear of stumps and stones, drag brush along
just as the plants begin to appear, and save much
labor of hand wedding. So plant that the pillow aud
the hoe may do nearly the whole job, and you may
grow field carrots, beets, and parsnips, at a rate
that will justify your feeding out to stock.
Planting has pressed on so close that some have
not put up their fences. When you set posts for
rail-fence, place stone on each side to support
them. The sharp edges of posts cut the soil and
let the fence lean Stones, even no larger than lap
stones, bury themselves partially in the earth and
strengthen your fence
But stone wall is the fence to be relied on in high
grounds, and if you have rocks handy build little
each year. June is good month to build wall
Young farmers are reminded tina, single walls--or
balance walls stand stronger and longer than doub-
lie walls, or any kind Of faced wall When rocks
are plenty good four feet walls should hem in your
farms.
You will be obliged to cut the small red clover
before July unless you are willing TO see the heads
die first but dead clover is hardly worth cutting.
Prepare all your haying tools in June for July is
too busy a month to mend up rakes and scythes
and forks
Cart stakes cut in June easily peeled. They
are stronger and lighter than stakes with bark on.