Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-06-17

.JuNE-Work TO be Done. If you have
planted potatoes or corn in the early part of
the month, you may SOW on the surface of the
ground between the rows, and furthest from
the plants three bushels of fine salt to the
acre. This will free them from the attack of
grubs, or at least will assist in doing so. AT
ter it has lain day or two, and been carried
iuto the ground by the dews and rains, the
cultivation of the crops with the plough, cul-
tivator or horseshoe will then diss inmate the
salt in its diluted Or more divided state,
throughout the soil, thus enabling it the bet
ter to withstand every drouth, as the soil will
be rendered more retentive of moisture, and
more capable of abstracting it from the at
mosphere. These remarks are equally appli-
cable to the beet, carrot or other root crops
It would have been more advisable to have
applied the salt to the land when fallow, at
the rate Of six bushels per acre, but where
this has been neglected, it may be applied as
above stated.
When hoed crops appear sluggish at this
season. hey may be stin ulated to increased
action, thus:
Mix twenty parts charcoal dust with ten
parts plaster of Paris, and one part Peruvian
guano, each by measures, intimately together,
and top-dress before hoeing-a small hand
full to the hill and for other crops, in proper
ton, will be found sufficient, Guano when
pure is apt to prove too stsong stimulant,
and thus kill the plant but when SO divided,
it may be used with out danger When these
materials cannot be had to divide it, dry road
dust, or indeed any soil may be used, but in
that case should lay In combination few
days before being used. A still better article
for this second manuring or top dressing, is
the improved super-phosphate of lime, and
still better, the nitrogenized super-phosphate
of lime. 1t will be found to be more eco
nomical than guanno. and more lasting in its
effects.
Potatoes may still be planted, but not with
as good prospecte Of success as at an earlier
date, as they will be more liable to disease,
and the crop will not be so large.
Buckwheat may be sown safely until the
Goth of July.
Ruty Baga turnips may be sown this
month. Ground bones and salt are u good
manure for this crop; the proportion of salt
as compared to the bone must be small, and
should not be applied at the time of sowing
the seed. The salt will be found equally Wig
orous in its destructive power upon insects,
and much more SO as a manure, by being pre-
yious y treated vita lime, plaster may also be
used judiciously with this crop.
This is also proper season for planting
White Globe turnip, which will yield lar
ger crop than the Ruta Baga, and is therefore
equally profitable for soiing but does not sell
SO well for family use
Carrots and Sugar Beets should now be
sown.
As to comparative value for fattening cat
tie, the carrot is to be preferred to all other
roots, for in addition to its high nutrative
properties, it contains large portions Of pee
tic acid, which has the power of .gelatinizing
the fluids in the stomach, thus rendering the
contents more readily available and more
easily digestible; this crop is easily kept du.
ing the winter and is preferred by cattle to
all other roots. OF the sort known as Belgi.
an carrots, nine hundred bushels may be east.
ly raised per acre, and they win be found to
take the place of oats in part for the use Of
the horse Working Farmer, June.
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