Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-05-31
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TO BE DONE.-THE FARM.
In early part of this month pastures should
be attended to. Do not pasture cattle until
the grass has some growth, or the yield of the
season will be less
Clean and whitewash cellars, distribute
charcoal dust and plaster of Paris about your
hog-pens, stables, &C., and remove all putres-
cent and unwholesome substances. The char
coal dust and plaster of Paris will absorb
deleterous gases, as given off from vegetable
and other matters undergoing decay.
PLANT Indian corn as soon as the leaves
are as large as mouses ear This is an
old and safe adage, but we should advise that
some be planted earlier either broadcast or
thickly in rows, for soiling cattle with the
stalks. Peas, oats, and buckwheat, as well
as Indian corn should be soaked in water, and
then rolled in plaster before planting. Plant
potatoes for your principal crop, if not ,previ-
ously done. Those planted early are less
subject to be diseased. If you have land
thoroughly prepared and we'll SUBSIDIZED, sow
lucern this crop will be found very profitable
for those who soil cattle, as it may be cut four
times during the summer. If the soil be not
deeply disntegrated, ucern cannot succeed,
as it is deep-rooted plant and fails as soon
as the ends of the roots reach coal and COM
pact subsoil.
Attend to insects, and read our articles on
caterpillars, and modes Of destroying them
If you have used six bushels of salt per acre
on your winter follows and grass lands, but
few insects will annoy you other than those
that harbor in trees, &c., and where salt has
been used, but few weeds will be found
Cleanse the bark of your fruit trees. (See
our article on Cleansing Bark of Fruit Trees,
r&c, &c.
Secure manures from the influence of sun
and rain as fast as made. Place them under
cover, practicable, and augment their guam
tity by admtxture of muck, poud-mud, or
even headlands, as during the warm weather
stable manure decomposes rapidly, and gives
off large quantities of amonia, which should
be received by such materials as are capable
of retaining it. When muck cannot be had,
cover the top of the heaps with charcoal dust
or plaster Of Paris.
1t you have hog-pen manure which is free
from long stuffs, mix it with charcoal dust
under shed, and by turning it will become
puverulent in time to SOW with turnips, for
which use it is equal to ground bones, and at
less than one-third the cost. Dress corn and
potatoes thoroughly, and if horn shavings can
be had, apply them to corn in the hill no
manure is more safe and effective for this use.
Should potatoes not show Wig or, use guano
(Peruvian) diluted with 100 times its bulk Of
charcoal dust or well decomposed peat in the
hills, at the time of hoeing or cultivatiDg,
using small handful to each hill. The i'm.
proved super-phosphate of lime may be used
instead of guano and charcoal.
Save soap-suds for fruit trees, both as a
wash and manure.
If you have salt meadows ditch them, and
the muck dug out will be ready for making in
compost in October and November.
Orchard. Attack the caterpillars By burn
ing them with camphene lamp described in a
former volume. AS caterpillars leave their
nests at about s O'Clock A. NJ, and return to
them at 5 P. M, they should be attacked be.
fore or after those hours. Boiling water
poured into the haunts of ants will destroy
them.
If your trees were properly washed in early
spring they will not be hide-bound now. Treat
sluggish grape vines as Recommended in Mr..
Gabraith's paper in former volume. Sow
very slight quantity of fine salt around plum
and some other fruit trees as recommended f;
trim off shoots from the roots Working
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