The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-06-30

suited for the last week of June and the
beginning of July.
All kinds of weeds are now showing
themselves and if not destroyed in time
will make sad inroads on the growing
crops. Ply the plow, cultivator, horse
and hand hoes in every place where
they can be used, and aoloao an, root up
or cut doac,s all these pest of the farm
and garden. Finish thinning parsnips
and carrots, mold potatoes as soon as
the plants are high enough for the OPP
Grafton. Make surface drains across
the head lands of potatoe fields to let
off the water of sudden showers. Sup
ply hand manurers to growing crops of
corn, potatoes, cabbage, &C., guano,
plaster, ashes or any other condensed
fertilizer, may be scattered over the
hills or drills previous to the molding.
Keep corn perfectly free from weeds
and well cultivated or hoed. Sow
buckwheat, first working the soil well,
with the pillow, harrow and roller. Half
bushel of seed will sow an acre. The
sooner this crop is put in the better; if
it gets good start it will keep down
all weeds. Prepare the soil well for
the ruta~baga crop, manure with good
compost or rotten dung. Plow deep
and pulverize completely. Gett seed
into the ground achile the soil is moist
after being titled, and put it in to the
depth of one inch or more, by this
means the roots will have taken strong
hold on the soil, or manure, before the
tops appear above the surface, and the
plants will make rapid growth, and
put on their rough leaves soon, thus
getting out of all danger from the fly,
which is, only destructive while the
plants are in smooth leaf, or in the first
stages of growth. Well MANFRED, drills
generally produce the best crops of
ruta-bagas. A drill machine of some
kind should always be ussd in getting
= in the seed.
Sow corn and Hungarian grass for
fodder. Prepare horse and hand ma
chimes, and implements of all kinds
for moving, saving and harvesting the
hay crop. Take care that your clover
does not become too ripe before, or too
dry after it has been cut down. See
that fences are in repair, and that all
kinds of stock have good pasture and
plenty of water
In the orchard, nursery and garden
there are many things that demand at
tention. Wage cruel war on all kinds
of noxious insects. Like the Austrian
Marshal have but one punishment, and
let that be " DEATH" Kindle fires at
night in the orchards, and hang up
wide-mouthed bottles half filed with
sweetened water, to attract and destroy
moths and wasps; the former are pa
rents of many destructive worms the
latter plumber bee-hives and are injur-
ious to ripe fruit Examine gratis and
buds, repair flaws in grating wax, and
see that the bandage on budded stocks
are in proper order, they sometimes
loosen and fall off, at other times they
are left on until they cut into the bark
Hoe around orchard trees and keep
down all grass and weeds, top-dress the
surface beneath the trees with short ma
nure or good compost. Use the cult
vator wherever there is space for it to
work, and ply the hoe and that newly
invented. and useful implement "The
Hand Scarifer," and destroy all weeds
collecting them, as well as offal of eve-
nv kind, and adding to the manure
heap. Mold cabbages and plant sue
cession.
Look out for the gooseberry cater
pillar; the parent fly deposites its eggs
on the back of leaf, and as soon as
the young insects are hatched, they
commence eating through, and make a
number of small perforations reseIn-
bling pin-holes, which are easily noticed.
If the damaged leaves are picked off,
while the young brood is confined to
them, the caterpillar may be easily
crushed in their infancy, and the foil
age preserved, but if they are allowed
to grow large, and spead over the
branches, it will be very difficult to des-
troy them. Sow lettuce, radishes and
spinach for a late crop, also peas, beans
and turliips. Plant ont celery, taking
care to water and shade the young
plants until they have taken root. Stake
rasberries and blackberries, hollyhocks
and aahlias, mulching and watering the
latter as often as necessary. Trim
climbing roses and destroy the rose-bug
A solution of common yellow soap scat
tered over the leaves with asyringe Oh
sprinkler has been found useful for des.
troying the insects. Water trees, plants
and vegetables, especially those which
have been transplanted. Make layers
of carnations, pinks and piccotees
Trim grass and other borders, NOV
lawns and repair walks. Take care O.
bees, see that new and properly con
structed hives are ready to receive the
young swarms- Keep the tops of thu
hives shaded from the sun, which some
times melts the wax and causes th'
combs to fall down. Poultry of al
kinds. swallows, and other insect-eater
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