White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-07
for tBt farmer.
work for April.

SoLs.-Oats will grow on any good
soils, best on grass swards or clover lays.
In these latter, however, the worm is fire.
quently destructive to the young oat
plants this may be prevented by sowing
broadcast 2 bushels Of salt per acre.
PREPARATION OF THE GRoUED.-Plow
deep, and thoroughly pnlverize by har-
rowing and rolling.
QuAxrIrY OF SEED PER AcRE.-Sow 2
bushels Of seed to the acre, and be sure
to SOW good, heavy, weIl-cleaned oats.
If your soil be really fertile, or you should
manure il generously, 3 bushels of seed
will be better than 2. After sowing your
seed and narrowing the ground, then COM
plete your work by rolling.
BARLEY. II You have a good strong
lOamy e. 8 that would grow good
crop Of it to barley. being sure
to pillow lserize it well. 2 bushels
Of seed n acre is about the right guam
tity. II desire to get it into clover.
dress it with, say, 10 bushels of ashes
and s bone earth per acre.
EARLY PoTAToEs.-Plant as carly this
month as possible.
ARTIcHoKEs.-If you desire to get in
an acre or two of this root, select good
deep loan, manure it as for a full crop Of
corn, pillow in the manure, lay off your
burrows 8 by feet each way, running
North and South, drop an artichoke sett
at every list, cover and treat as you would
corn from to 7 bushels of seed, cut
into sets, 2 eyes to each, viii plant an
acre. The sets should be cut the same
as are potatoes, and busted the same way
with mixture of plaster and ashes, or
with either. The artichoke is equally
good to feed mich cows as it is for hogs,
and excellent for both; it encourages the
first to secrete milk, and the latter to fat
ten.
CoRS PLANTING.-As to the proper
time of planting corn, that must be reg
ulated by locality and seasons. In a
country like this, stretching over many
degrees of latitude, and presenting all
sorts of climates and varied temperatures,
it is impossible to definitely fix any day
for this operation the time when corn
should be gotten in, must, therefore, be
governed as we have promised by locali-
ties and seasons. But as general rule,
it may be assumed that it is always best
to put in corn early, as in an average of
years, it succeeded best when thus plant
ed. Therefore. it may be farther aSsum-
ed as safe rule, that you should get your
corn in as soon after the frost is out of
the ground, as it can he plowed and put
into fine filth.
PREPARATION OF THE Seed. Make
a soak by dissolving l pint of common
tar, or l pint of gas-house tar, in three
gallons of boiling water, stir until the
whole Of the tar is dissolved, then put
bushel of corn into the vessel with the
soak. If the soak does not cover the
corn, add more water. Soak the corn
one day, then drain of the liquid, aud
AIDA suficiency of ashes and plaster to
coat the grains of corn. AS this is being
put in, the corn must be stirred so that
all the grains may receive coating of
the ashes or ashes and plaster. As soon
as this Is done, the seed corn will be fit
to plant-more corn should not, however,
be taken to the field than can be planted
during each day, and all except what may
be in the hands OF the troopers should be
kept covered from the weather. The liq-
uid drained of will answer for a second
or third soak. The calculation is, that a
peck of corn will plant an acre of land.
SPRIXd WHEAT.-Although we are not
the advocate. for the culture of Spring
wheat in any State where Winter wheat
can be successfully grown, still we con-
slider it to be our duty to remind our rea-
ders, that the earlier it is gotten in this
month the better.
HEMP AND FLAx-It will soon be time
to put these crops in the ground, and we
need hardly add, that they each require
a deep rich soil, which should be well
plowed and reduced to fine filth; several
borrowings at different intervals will be
found advantageous.
TOBACCO PLANTs.-If these appear fee
bic, put a bushel of horse dung into
hogshead, tie up pound of the -four Of
sulphur and one gallon of SCOT in bag,
place the bag on the top of the horse
dung, and Gil the hogshead with water.
Let the whole stand few days, and wa
ter the plants with the decoction. The
hogshead may be filed up two or three
times, so as to allow of repeated water
ings.
SETTING OUT CABBAGE PLANTs.-If you
have been provident enough to provide
yourself with cabbage plants, set them
out early this month. In the first place,
select suitable bed of deep loan, ma
nure it heavily, dig it up nicely to the
full depth of the spade. being careful to
rake it well as the Spring progresses.
Then set ont your plants about feet
each way, keep them clean, and water In
dry seasons, and you cannot fail to have
an early supply of collards and well head
ed cabbages.
GRAPES ,--Cuttings may be still plant
ed. SO also may grape vine roots be plant
ed out, provided both the one or the other
be done in the beginning of the month
The best manure for grape vines would
be a compost formed of 4 parts mould, 9
parts ashes and 5 parts bone shavings or
bone-eartb, to be thoroughly mixed to-
gether.-.Ameriodn Farmer.
GARDEN HINTs FOR APRL--As soon
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