Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1855-05-15


iS54.--NOw. perhaps, is the proper time to
gather up and repeas some Of the sdmoni-
tons given Us by the terrible drouth of last
year.
!, Early planting and sowing viii pre-.
vent TO a great extent, the effects Of drouth,
bysgiving the crops an early growth before
the dry weathercomes on. Last year, those
meadows that we're allowed to start early
yielded. in most cases, an average crop Of
hay; and corn, planted early, was far better
than thesame grain planted late. To ena-
bic the farmer to plant and sow easily on
clay soils, drainage, sub-sol plowing, and
Flowing the fall before. should b. pracficed :
Ii the crops on the Western Reserve could
have been well in the ground before the
great rain in May, 1854, thousands Of cattle
ami sheep, whose carcasses are now decay
ing. might have been alive and prospering
2. Early and thorough tilth might have
saved many a crop Of corn and potatoes
The farmers waited too long, and the drouth
came and burned everything up
8. No time should be lost in providing a
generous supply of wells and cisterns for
houses and barns, and Of reservoirs. ponds,
and water tanks for gardens and pastures
How much suffering by man and beast,
how many losses BY fire, how much sickness
might have been avoided last year, had this
been attended, tol Ny friend, spend fifty
or, hundred dollars in these wavs, and
save Eve hundred or thousand there by in
the nextten years
a. The experience Of the last year is in
valuable in regard to the thorough watering
and planting Of trees. Those trees and
shrubs which were well plant on well.pre
pared soil. and thoroughly watered, now
and then during the severest drouth, lived,
in most cases, and did we'll. Nineltsnths
of those that were otherwise dealt by per-
ished. BNa little extra care nearly all were
saved. even last year in other cases a lit
tlecarelessness inyolveda heavy loss. To
this We can testify, from personal knowl-
edge. ~ ges
8. The drouth teaches lesson, too, in re-
gard toavatiety Of crops. Unless the soil
admits of but one kind Of crop--which is
rarelythe case-the farmer should not stake
his all wethink, on single crop. Indepen-
dence is q good thing, both nationally and
individually; and while We would not recon
mend tie farmers of the north to grow or.
anges, nor those Of Louisiana to grow wheat,
toillustrate their independence, we do think
that many farmers are, suffering now be-
cause their crops last year were nvt various
enough. We admit, that, in many cases,
everything failed. In many others. how
ever. portion Of the loss might have been
saved, had suitable variety Of crops been
seasonably and carefully putin.
aWEEDs IN WALKs--The following modes
for preventing weeds in gravel walks are
copied from the London Gardeners Chroni-
Gle. and may prove valuable to some Of our
readers at the proper season:
In order 10 prevent weeds from growing
on walks, put layerof gas-lime under the
lastinch Of gravel. This also helps to bind
the gravel
In one situation l held had three miles Of
gravel walks to keep ia order In winter,
when there was Sufficient frost to freeze the
gravel, in tile mornings | employed the Ia
borers in cleaOing the walks with half-worn
out birch broom, sweeping backward and
forward, and then removing with new
broom what the old ones took Oft the surface.
When the walls were covered with moss it
was scraped off with no. before the broom
was used. After having pursued this prae-
tice for six years, my walks loo ed as fresh
and clean as if they had been newly gray
eled.. Last season very few weeds made
their appearance during ii summer; by
performing the operation when the frost Is
on the ground, you not only remove all small
weeds, but you sweep off most Of the seeds
deposited there to vegetate during the fol.
lowing summer. If docks, thistles, or dan
delions appear, cut out their crowns and put
@alittle salt on them, and you will not have
to repeat the sailing twice'in one place.