Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-04-02
HINTS ron THE SEASON.

/. The frost is going or gone. See that
miry or swampy places are so enclosed that
stock cannot get into them. Before you
know it, valuable animal may be serious
ly injured or lost.
III. Recent thaws or rains may have food
ed some field of winter grain, or land that
you design to plow this spring. In either
case-and wherever else water stands on the
ground that you wish to cultivate this year
means should be used at once to drain the
water off, The best time to dig drains is in
most cases, when the ground is dry. But a
little work now, in opening old sluices, or
making new ones, will do much good.
III. Wherever tho ground issettled, right
up and repair the fences, so that all your
stock shall be kept in the right places.
w. Be particularly careful to keep your
pigs from the clover-felds, in which you
wish to have the clover grow.
v. Make preparations for gardening, in
in the way of selecting seeds, getting tools
ready, making hot beds, (f not already
madc,) forking over manurc-heaps, and
where the ground is dry enough, sowing
seeds for the harder early garden vegcta
bles.
vi. Examine all your fruit trees, and as
certain how thcy have endured tho winter
Wherever anything is amiss, search out the
cause, and note it for future use, meanwhile
taking the speediest measures to remedy the
evil. A little time spent in this way will
be wisely spent.
VII. Get everything ready for setting out
whatever trees or shrubs you would like to
set out this spring; and as soon as the ground
is dry enough, you had better attend to
this work. But be careful not to dig OF
plow clav-soiI when it is wet. You will
lose your labor, aud hurt the soil besides,
fyou do.
VIII. Set out something new this spring
in your orchard or garden. Without in
curing much expense, you may get the ad
vice of some dsintereSted and experienced
man, who may recommend something ht
has tried with success. A new grape Oh
apple, or peach, or pear, or cherry, or some
new variety of potato or garden vegetable
or now shade tree, may thus find place
among your permanent comforts or luxuries
and enable you to help others in the same
way.
TX. Now is good time to kill tho yer
min about your premises. Food is becom
ing scarce for them. And if traps anc
poisons arc judiciously used, the rats anc
mice may be greatly diminished in humber
Killing them at this season Of the year, kill
all their progeny in advance.
x. AS tho frost leaves the ground in tn
spring, gate-posts, fence-posts, corners c
buildings, and some other things, may b
thrown out of place and begin to lean 0
sag. Watch all these matters and attend
them soon. A littlo care now will say
much loss hereafter.
XI. Continue 10 feed ard curry and car
for your stock. From nov Till tho middl
of May, is the most critical time in the yea
for most domestic animals.-O. Farmer.
For that shabby rail fence about 20,
house substitute neat board one.
In transplanting trees preserve all th
roots you can. The more the botter.
Planting a CASTOR Oil Bean on eac
square rod Of ground, is said to be a SUI
way to prevent tho g'phers or striped pra
rie squirrels from digging up newly-plante
corn. Might not the Same mode DO adopte
TO diminish the ravagesof our own squirrel
IN tho Same linel
Coal dishes are used with advantage {
some meadows. A man near Syracus
says the Rural Nec Yorker, tried CO..
ashes side by side with good baru-yard mi
nare. The grass where the coal ashes we
spread WAS thicker aud higher than whe
the manure was. He is going TO oxpel
lnent farther.
EcosoMY IN BREAD.-Twenty-six poun'
and thirteen ounces of good bread ha'
been made from fourteen pounds of aou
aud one and half pounds Of rico, by d
following method:
Tie up the rice in a thick incn bag, a
lowing il ample room TO swell; boil for thr'
or -four hours, till It becomes a smooth past'
mix this while warm with the -four, addiu
the usual quantity Of yeast and salt; a!lo
The dough TO risc near the fre, and divit
into loaves, 1t is affirmed on high autho
ty that -four thus treated will yield fif
per cont more bread than by the cTdina
method.
Take these cattle OF your meadows NJ
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