Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-03-17
4grirultural
HINTS FOR MARcH.

March is usually rather unimportant month as
to farming operations but the careful and prudent
husbandman can always find something to do, to
keep him from rusting If March possessed any
personality, dose of chloroorm, from its tranquil
izmg effects, would have happy effect on the sour
ness of its temper it proves wonderful quieter
OF scolding women. But as the tree falleth so it
heth, and we must grin and bear it we do the
curtain lectures of our wives.
Procure your clover and timothy seeds. Ifyou
design to lay down field for a permanent meadow
or for term of two years, SOW the large kind of
clover, as it ripens the same time as timothy. IT.
for three years rotation for wheat use plenty ef
the medium variety-say six to ten pounds per
acre, and four quarts of timothy. For permanent
meadow if not too wet four pounds large clover
and from four to six quarts of timothy. 1t is diff
cult to insure the seeding of timothy in the spring.
especially if May is dry. The only secure method
is to sow it with wheat in the fall 1t is best to
clover after slight fall of snow during this
month, as it readily be seen when evenly dis
tributed. Be sure and SOW it before the hard spring
frosts are past on the heaving and rising of the
earth depends its deposit beneath the surface.
If there is any snow this month improve every
hour in getting home rails, wood and lumber of all
kinds. particularly for farm gates. We observe a
great Improvement IN the country IN getting rid of
what one of your correspondents calls the deva's
1Carping bars. 1t is grand desideratum; we
read of the gates of Paradise but not of bars-they
belong legitimately to the other place,
As soon as the fear of heavy frosts is past open
potato heaps and spread them dry floor if any
rot appears for as soon as dry the disease is sus
pended 1t is conclusively settled that the infec-
ton is not propagated by the tubers it is disease
of the leaf the lungs of the vegetable economy
therefore the sooner the rot is arrested the more
root and eyes are saved for planting.
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inflicted the wheat crop by continual freezing and
thawing, especially to the late sown On those
fields that are injured past resusctaton, sow the
italian bearded spring wheat, and drag it in thor
oughly; it viii not nure but benefit any sets of the
winter shoots that may be alive. Look well to the
burrows and bitches of your wheat fields and have
them opened before the sun gets sufficient power to
scorch it in wet places
Keep your manure under cover, or in heaps as
much possible, to avoid teaching by spring rains,
and don't draw it out until you ready to it.
housewife that would scatter her ashes, intended
for soap making, over the yard, would not be con-
sidered fit candidate to wear the hreeches; so
with manure-the cases are analogous.
Sea that your animals have their tea and sugar
Regularly water and sat) an ear Of corn day will
not burt them; it is better for their hair than Ma
-eassar IF you have any. hay that is not very
Palateable to your cattle litter your horses freely
with ii, and they will eat it voraciously.
Cut your scions for grating Immediately; keep
them in the cellar on the ground. When the
weather becomes warm they should be kept in
dry cool place. excluded from the air. Set cherry
and plum gratis early; apples and pears at any
time till June, if the scions are fresh.