The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-05-19
agricultural.
From the American Farmer
WORK FOR THE MONTH.


MANIFOLD WrnzEL.--To exc out your cat
tie feed for the ensuing winter prepare an
acre or so of deep light loamy soil. either
clay loan. or sandy loan, and sow it with
Mangoll Wurzcl. To prepare the ground
You must plough it deeply. say 8 inches in
depth: first having MANFRED it with Is loads
Of well rottcd stable or farm yard manure or
200 lbs of guano. MIXED with l hushel of
plaster. The ground would he all the better
Of being subsoil ploughcd, also as this species
of the beet always delights in deep culture:
let the ground he thoroughly narrowed, until,
fine tilt lie obtained, then roll it, This
done, draw drills % inches apart, l inch
deep, drill in the seed thii,ly, cover them with
a rake, and compress the earth on the top of
the drills with the back of the rake, or with
the back of q shovel, or with light roller.
4. The seed should he soaked in warmed wa
ter "a hours before being drilled in or sown.
the water drained off, and ashes mixed with
tive seed. When the plants come up dust
them with mixture composed of equal
parts of plaster, ashes and SCOT.
IN about 10 or IL days, the plants will
come mp from = to 4 growing together; pinch
of, or draw out all but one plant, as soon as
the plant shows its fourth leaf; thin them out
when the root is about the size of Iadish,
so as that the plants will stand foot apart
IN the drill, clean out the weeds with hoe and
hand, and stir the earth between the rows.
Repeat this wedding, and stirring of the
earth until the leaves shade the ground. Or
dinarily three workings answer for crop.
1T the soil is suitable. well man,lrcd and
thoroughly pulverizcd. and the crop be well
tended, so tons may be looked upon as fair
average crop: fifty tons, under favorable cir
cnmstanccs, have been grown OIL all acre III
England.
In July or as soon as the outward leaves
arc about II inches long, you may gather
the lower leaves off near and around the root
placing the thumb within, at the origin of
the leaves, in order to strip them off close to
their insertion into the insertion into the
stem. Those leaves alone should be gathered
winch bend towards the earth: care should
ne taken to leave those of the heart of the
plant untouched. uninjurcd. After gather
mig the first crop of leaves, stir the earth
well. In good land or land highly MANFRED,
the leaves may be gathered every weeks
without injuring the root
quantity ot Seed per acre.-From to / lbs
are sufficient for an acre.
lime Of Harvesting. frost sets in
severe, the roots should be harvested III dry
weather; the top cut OFT near The crown of the
plants, and the roots when perfectly dry,
should he piled up,n a tieht shed or dry eel
lar, and covered with straw sufficiently thick
enough to preserve them from the frost. In
this way they may be kept until next spring
We speak from our own personal experience
SUGAR BEEr.-This root is to be cultivated
In the same way.
CARRoTs-pARsNIps.-As carly as posi-.
hle this month, put in an acre or so of these
excellent roots, with view of providing food
for your mich cows and other stock next
winter.
AS an alternating food for horses, we know
of no better food than carrots-a peck of car
,ots chopt or cut fine. mixed with cut hay
or straw, given at a meal twice or thrice a
day, will keep horse in better and healthier
condition, than would 3 feeds of gallon and
half of oats at each time.
An observation appears very oppor-
tune here. No roots should he fed to horses.
cattle or other stock, without being mixed
with cut hay or straw.
PuMPKINs.-Plant these the beginning of
this month, say, between the 1st and 10th,
and don't forget in making the hills, to give
each hill Il good spade or shovel full of rich
stable or barn-yard manure your seed plant
cd, dust the hills with mixture comprised
Of 2 parts Stacked ashes. part plaster, and
l part SCOT When the plants first come up,
and for sometime afterwards, dust them with
the same mixture.
Keep your pumpkins clean: search for and
Kill the striped bug, and you cannot fail to
have good crop pumpkins, which, as you
must know, are excellent for mich COWS,
for commencing the fattcning of hogs, and
for pes when You put plenty of other good
things in your pies. '..-.
T!c best plan TO kill the striped bug is to
catch them and drown them in piggin of
water. The next best plan is to make a
mixture of bushel of ashes, ! a bushcl of
plaster, ID. sulphur, and l ID. of Scotch
snuff. Mix the whole thoroughly together,
20 every morning to you, pumpkin patch
early, for servcral successive days, while the
dew is on the vines, and dust them freely
with the mixture. Not forgetting to kill all
the striped bugs you may find on your vines.
The mixture alluded to, besides being rcpul.
sivc to the bugs, will act as an excellent ma
nure to the pumpkins vines. Be sure 10 put