Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-08-15
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HINTS FOR AUGUsT.-Husb and well e.
verything that will serve for food for stock
next winter.
Sow winter grain early, that tho roots
may have time to pc netrate the soil to a
sufficient depth to prevent being thrown
out during winter.
Commence fatting your swine in good
earnest; pork can be made much cheaper
while the weather is warm, than when a
large portion of their food is needed to af
ford warmth.
This month is = good time to make new
strawberry beds, and keep old beds free of
weeds. Spring planting is ordinarily pre-
ferred, because of the extra moisture; rem
dering the plants more certain to grow
but there is this advantage in fall planting,
that they will grow good crop the ensu-
ing season if we'll cared for, thereby saving
whole year of time no small consider
alton in this "fast age" Therefore we adj
wise all who have not yet begun-or who
have not as large beds as they wish to
plant the present month, wet time being
preferred for the purpose. And in order
TO be the better able to avail oneself, of
just the right time, the ground should be
selected and prepared without delay, by
making bed of well rottsd manure and
soil one to two feet deep. Secure the
plants Of some neighbour which can be
found by little enquiry. If no suitably
wet time come in season, set them out in
the shade Of evening. Plant in hills about
twenty inches apart, each way, and level
with the earth. After planting, mulch
each bill, and The whole ground at least 2
inches deep with fine old chip manure
which water we'll at the close if the rains
do not Immediately do it. Then finally
and lastly, gather few arnsful OF short
leafy branches, Or some shrub, or tree and
stick them around each hill so as to shade
the plants from the sun, fold newspaper or
any other shading will do just as weiD for
the first week, with an additional wetting,
if very dry and hot; and we will warrant
them all to live, and grow to bearing, the
ensuing spring, if subsequently well treat
ed. If you fail to plant now, next May
Will be the next best time Wis. Farmer.
Do not fail as fast as your garden yege-
tables go to seed to gather a good supply
for yourself and neighbors.
Budding should be attended to without
delay. The amateur and farmer with but
few buds TO set, should choose cloudy days.
Stocks of to l inch in diameter are SUIT
able for budding.
Farmers should commence, if not alrea-
dy commenced, making ample provisions
for garnering their grain. This raising
hundreds and thousands of bushels of grain
each year, without barn, hayhouse, or
grapery, to save their products in, don't
pay! and the sooner farmers realize the
fact and commence building, the better.
How 10 Ensure Coed seed Corn.
MEssEs. ED1roRs-The present season
having been, thus far, the most cold, wet
and backward we have had for many
years, has, | doubt not, impressed upon the
minds of many farmers the necessity of
properly selecting and saving their seed
corn. In my neighborhood, some have
planted the third time, in consequence, as
they say, of the seed rotting in the ground.
But the cause of this is the want of proper
measures, in the first place, to insure a.
gainst this difficulty.
L will give you a little of my experience
which | bought after several failures to OBJ
tain good seed flom the crib--a very shift
less practice in my opinion. l take the
opportunity, as soon as the ears begin to
show signs of being ripe, by the partly dry
husk, to 60 through the field and select a.
bout four times as much seed as | think i
shall want, breaking off the ears with sut-
iicient husk to braid them up, and thus
bind together fifteen or twenty ears in a
bunch, and hanging them in some dry
place in the barn, wood house or chamber,
where there Is air and, not one kernal in
thousand will fail to terminate. I plant
ed earlier than | should have done this
Spring, and the corn laid in the ground
yer twenty days before it came up, and
not one hill in the lot was missing. Il
farmers generally would spend a part of
day III attending to this work at the prop
er time, they would find it TO pay, and l
believe we can, in this way, obtain earlier
npening varieties, which will be valuable
In the northern part of the Slate, if we do
not need them here.
L would suggest another thing to be
borne In mind about the cultivation of corn,
be sure TO plant so as to work it both acavs
with the cultiyator. | find one days's
work OF myself and horse equal to about
eight days work, at least, of a good hand.
where it can only be gone through one
way, and the space between the hills has
to be worked with The hoe. On sward
ground, no hoeiug is necessary; for if it be
well turned over and narrowed, itgcan be
kept clean and free from grass with the
eultlvator alone. Observing these condi-
tions. | have never failed of good crop on
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