Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-07-09

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wet with dew asfflshe plants get into the
rough leaf. - -. - -
When the plants begin to bottle, that is
to assume the bulb shape, run light har-
row through them. This operation serves
the double purpose, of partially thinning
out the plants, and working them at the
same time. In week from this time, the
plants should be finally thinned cut so as to
stand from 6 to s inches apart. At the
same time the weeds should be cleaned out
bv hand and hoe. After an interval Of 8
or 10 days, give another wedding, and your
culture will have been completed; and If
your soil is adapted to their culture, has
been well MANFRED, we'll ploughed and har-
rowed, the season being propitious, you
cannot fail to make large crop.
And before we close this branch of the
months duties, let us conjure you. with the
view of eking out your cattle-food, to enter
zealously into the growth of this crop. 1t
has done more for the agriculture of Eng
land than any other crop, and if intelligent
ly pursued with us may do as much for our
country. al
PEACH TREES Examine and treat your
peach trees as we advised you last month,
if you failed to take the advice We then
gave.
PEAR, Plum, AND CHERRY TREEs.-Ex-
anime these, and if there be any blighted
limbs on them, cut the blighted parts off
into the sound wood, burn the parts cut off
Immediately. Cover the wounded parts
with varnish.
Examinations should be often repeated,
as it frequently occurs that large portions of
a limb may be saved by timely resort to this
remedy.
BUDDING, AND INoCULATING.-P lums,
Cherries, Apricots and Pears, may be bud
ded towards the last of this month.
ORCHARDS decayed fruits which
may fall from time to time should be picked
up and given to the hogs.
If there be decayed limbs on the trees,
have them carefully sawed off into the sound
wood, smooth the wound with a drawing
knife, and dress the wound with a coat of
varnish.
RuTABAGA TURN1p. of this variety
may be sown any time up to the 10Th of
this month. For the best mode of culture
we refer to our advice upon this head in our
last months number.
TREATMENT OF Roor Crops GENERALLY.
Every kind of roots should have the earth
well stirred, and kept.clean from weeds and
grass until they are laid by. Cleanliness
in growing crops, is quite as necessary as it
is to the health Of the human body: in the
first case the pores of the earth are opened,
and placed in condition to be benefited
by atmospheric influences, while, in the lat
ter, those of the body are cleansed Of all
impurities, and the skin permitted to carry
on healthy action.
&c.-Make an interminable war upon all OF
these with the determination to destroy them,
seed, root, and branch.
CoMposr HEAps.-Give to the formation
of these your most ardent attention. Upon
ALI occasions of leisure have them collected
yand placed in a condition tie be transformed
into manure IF you have four hundred a.
ores in culture, the entire time of one hand
and a team might be very proftably occu-
pied in their collection. Mould, recollect,
is the vital principle Of every soil-the life
blood of its productive powers
+ WET Ds.-f you have any fields that
may be considered wet lands, have them
drained; for you may rest assured, that, un-
til they are relieved of their excess of water,
they will never prove productive or profta-
BILE.
4 DEEP PLoUGHING.-As you will soon be
+ breaking up your wheat grounds, let us say
to you that deep tillage is absolutely neces-
sary to enable the soil to do full Justice to
its productive capacities. A field that be-
fore being drained would only yield from I
to 10 bushels of wheat, will, after being
thoroughly drained, yield from Is to 20
bushels or more per acre, while the quality
of the wheat would be better, and come
sooner to maturity. 4
BUcKwHEAr FOR IT'S GRA1N-This may
be sown up to the 10th of this month.
FENCES. Examine your fences carefully
at short intervals, and see to it that they are
at all times kept in state to keep the stock
out Of fields. Recollect, that the short COM
mons of July and August pastures make ami
mails very sharp-sighted, and corresponding
~ persevering in their efforts to secure more
sumptuous fare.
The Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday says:
We examined carefully, yesterday, large
quantity of papers from the West, publish
ed within the last few days, and found, from
every section, most fattering accounts of
crop prospects. The weather continues
clear and warm. Wheat is maturing fine