The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-04-03
From the Germantown Telegraph.
Matters to be Attended to Now

Matters to be Attended to Now
! We copy from the 4mcrican Farmer, the
following excellent hints to be taken now by
every farmer. They are good, practicle sug
gestions, such as apply to the duties of every
one, and if followed, must have beneficial re-
suit .... ..,. ..@:
Cure of .lfanure-Wc have so often called
the attention of husbandmen to those matters
on their, farms calculated to be converted into
manure, that it is not necessary to point ou
what is susceptible of being converted into man
ure, but we will here admonish them to permit
nothing to 60 to waste that is of that character
and it may not be amss to state that their cattle
barn yards and other places where their stock
may be kept, should be so shaped as to prevent
the riches of their dung-the liquid portions oft
from being washed away, and we would impress
this truth upon their serious consideration--that
one load of manure that is we'll kept and pre-
served, is worth two to which no attention has
been paid. All manure before being hauled
out, would be greatly improved by having one
bushel of plaster mixed with every twenty loads
oft
Fence Sides IF your fence sides are infested
with growing bushes, brambles and briars, cut
them down and root them up. You may take
our word for it, that such membranes, while
they exhaust the soil and rot the fence, never
fail to earn for those who tolerate their growth
an unenviable name-the stranger who may
pass your farm when he sees such evidences
of neglect, invariably makes the invidious re-
mark-see there's a slovenly and neglectful far.
mer
Out Buildings.-If any of these need repair
have them mended, after which cleanse ant
whitewash them. Attentions Of this kind arc
not only promotiye of ones interest, but they
conduce to health and comfort, and make ia
vorable impression upon the public judgment
a thing that no man can afford to be Indifferent
to, as one of the elements of human happiness
arises from the concious belief, that man de.
serves and stands well in the affections and re-
spects of his felowmen. Beside, every bestow-
al Of pains which man may make to increase
the comforts and improve the appearance of his
possessions, instinctively make him love his
home the more-enlarge his claims to selfes-
teen, and adds immensely to the volume ofhis
neighbor's regard and consideration. ....-...
Fields intended for Corn.-If the ground you
intend to put in corn next spring is clover-ley
manure and plow it up deeply, leave it until
Just before you are going to plant your corn,
then harrow it until you get it into fine filth.
This done, sow on each acre of it two bushels of
salt, harrow it in, roll, and plant your corn and
you will experience but little annoyance from
grub and other worms, as the salt will give them
their quietds just as notably as though you had
done it with a bodkin. Besides this, the salt
will, to considerable extent, act as fxer to the
ammonia in the soil as it may be formed, attract
moisture from the atmosphere, preserve the corn
plants from firing, and furnish no inconsderable
quantity Of soda and chlorine for their appropria-
ton. n