The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-03-13
From the Indiana Farmer.
The Spring Campaign.


The long and dreary reign ofold Boreas is
drawing TO a close-the god of summer Is
BEGINNING to ascend the zenith, from which
his genial rays can more effectuaiiy warm
the bosom of mother earth, and instead Of
the cold euoclydon, we already begin TO feel
he soft warm breath Of the bland and gen
tie zephyr Of the "sunny South" Nature
assumes milder and more cheerful tone, and
we are reminded that the Spring campaign
has again opened upon US.
This then being the case, every farmer
should be up and preparing for action 1t
may not do yet to start the pillow, but the
pIow should be got ready. If You need
new one, buy it at once, for the plow-snaker
will not be able to supply the Spring demand
and YOU may fail entirely. 1t the old one
will do with relaving, have it done without
DELAY. Look to the gearing" and see that
i is also in order, and ready for use. All
this may save trouble, perplexity and delay
when the ground becomes dry enough for
the pillow. Sod may be broken almost as
soon as the frost is out of the ground, but
talk and stubble fields must not be touched
I'll weeks later. 1t is a very common error
among farmers to pillow their land when 1t If
700 wet. Avoid it, by all means
But much worse than this, is the practice
of allowing stock to run On the fields in the
sprinp. after the frost has begun to come out
IL the ground This almost ruins land until
is prassed again, and there is no apology Tor
II. Stock should be kept in the barn-yard
until pasture is ready for them. AT any rate
keep them off the pillow fields.
III YOU have any wheat ground which was
not sown with grass-seed in the Fall, now IS
the time to do it. After this month, it Will
be too late. Clover should be sown early IN
the spring, while the frost is heaving out OF
the ground, and Timothy and bluegrass at
the same time, if not sown in the Fall
Look to the fences. Go round and replace
all the rails that the winds have blown Oft
through the winter. If any fence is to be
reset, go about it Immediately, and do not
wait for a "inore convenient season.
If Won have any manure to get out, DO not
do il now. while the ground is soft, but wait
ill II has thoroughly settled. Better by far.
leave it till Fall, and put it on the wheat
oround. than haul it on the fields when they
are wet or muddy.
Do not neglect to plant out a few more
trees. If you have not good orchard, set
one out without fail. That farmer scarcely
deserves the name, who is content to 1--we
wear after year with only a few seeding ap-
nIe-trees on his farm, and perhaps not that
Fence off n lot or field, as large as you WISH
and plant it with a few choice kinds Of thrifty
young apple-trees, and do not allow 1t to
grow no with grass or weeds, but cultivate
il with potatoes, or some root crop III the
ground is not very rich, manure IT well, es-
pecially about the roots of the young trees at
the time of planting. Plow 1t and Keep 1t
clear every year, until the trees are nearly
large enough to bear. Lit may then be sown
with clover and mown, not pastured.
# atsn. "a Deach. Cherry,
plum and other fruit trees, of tho latest vaIi-
cites. Set around your door-y yards variety
Of eyercreens, such as cedars, pines, arbor
vi,ns, sc. Spend few dollars i'll this way,
and ten wears hence your farms VIII be worth
hundreds more in consequence. Ii < few
forest trees, such as naples. poplars, ashes,
oaks, buckeyes, mckories, Nc, are inter
spersed with the eyergreens, 1t Will be all the
better Remember to select these from the
omen fields, and not from the dense forests.
You have no place for treesi Make place.
Enclose your house with neat board or
paled fence, and you have all the place de-
sired, if the fence is as it should be, a few
rods from the house.
If you have any seodling apple-trees or
other fruit trees, prepare to graft them as
soon as the sap starts. Unless they are very
large, old and thriftless. our word for it, it
Vim paw. If any of inferior variety, regraft
them If the gratis are not already cut, do
il now before the buds begin to swell.
If these things are all considered III time
they may all be attended to in season, but il
otherwise, some of them will be neglected
and few, perhaps, accomplished properly, and
in their proper season. That farmer Is sure
~ to be pitied who gives no thought. and be
slows no attention on his work till the day
arrives in which it should be done.