Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-01-12


best to pack it in cakes or lunps.
Pzowimg should be done if The weather
permits. like winter blowing for manv
reasons. 1t is ab: olutely necessary for rough
land, heavy turf lands or very s,iffIan's. All
these kinds Of lands should be plowed very
deep. and al leas. every third fu'row sub
sniIed, if every furrow cannot be. II very
foul or strong turf, it ought 10 be narrowed
a, once, SO as TO cause lhe turf tie more
easIy and rapidly to dacompose
D!aating Trees.-.ny time III winter is
a good time to plant out trees if The ground
be not frozen. Evergreens-such as hol-
lies, are hard TO live after being transplant
ed when ,hey have obtained much size,
unless taken up when The ground is SO
frozen that large ball Of earth will adhere
10 the roofs. In this state, hollIes Of very
large size may be removed with reason
able expectation that they will live. Any
lime between the falling Of the leaf and lis
budding in The sp:ing is good lime TO
plant out the Locust, which is so very VAL
liable for posts in fencing and for timber
| in buildings. Every farmer should plant
OF, several hundred each year in the vacant
places in the woods, and along the fences
and in other spots which would incommode
cropping; they grow rapidly and do not
exhaus, The soil like other trees. You rare
ly ever see the ground poor under sn old
locust, however poor i! may have been
when the tree was plsnted. Ia the autumn
the beans should be gathered from the To-
Gus, aud The seeds rubbed out, boiling waller
poured on them and suffered TO soak for
thir,y-six or forly-eight houts, then mixed
with busbel of wood's-earlh and sown in
shallow driIs " here they are designed to DE
grown, cover them one inch deep, slrew over
Tie land Coating of straw or leaves, and
keep the weeds down The next year, afer
which they will he no trouble. The drills
four feet apart.
Chesnu,s sown in the same way soon az
ter they are gathered, would soon fufnsih
fine supply OF rails. Too little attention is
paid to replacing our forests as they are ra-
pidly being cut away. In a few years vast
annual outlay must be made By our people
for fencing and for timber unless more care
is taken TO cultivate such trees as are Oval
ue and which are fast disappearing. Lei
our farmers cultivate and protect the Oak,
Poplar, for taildins, saa the Locust. alA.i..s---
Chestnut for fencing; while other wood may
be made to give place TO these, for it will
be cheaper to buy coal for fuel, than plank
and timber for building and fencing. Of
coal, our State has an inexhauslible supply
and each ton used enriches our State ttea-
sury, which, from The coal revenue alone in
time will free US from taxation and educate
our children free Of expense 10 US, and
make our roads good without county taxa
Iion. This is no fancy sketch Of mine, but
is sound political problem easily demon
stta,ed, but not necessary to be fully work
ed out between us in this letter. have,
by experiment., tested the value of coal ash
es, and found them almost as valuable as
wood ashes. Biuminous coal ashes should
think, would be more valuable than the
ashes of lha, coal which tested.
Lastly, let me advise you, during these
long winter nights, to improve yourself by
reading, frs, the Bible and some religious
book, aloud to your wife and ls,le ones, as
they sit for an hour around your cheerful
freside, while the night winds howl without
and The fire reduces the big logs TO ashes,
The heart reminding US of that palpable
state 10 which all earthly things must come.
Beside this exercise, you will have an hour
or Two to devote to historic and Agricultural
study and reading. Should ANY new the
ory be started by writer, note it, and al the
proper time experiment upon it in small
way, until you les. lis merits. remembering
that the great philosopher Bacon, looked
upon experiment as the best test of theory !;
he knew it to be sound philosophy when b
practical operation proved The theory or
The principle asserted. Very respectfully,
PETER Practical.