Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-02
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farmers department.
The Spring Seas0n-ItS Work.


the farmer. Much depends upon getting
our summer crops in. in good season, and
in good order. The land should be well
titled, and the surface. we'll pulverized, so
as to give the roots of the young plants
healthful and vigorous growth in the early
part of the season. This enables them to
stand either too much wet or too much dry
weather, and the attacks of worms much
better than if got in late in the season or
in bad order The straw Of grain sown
early, is not as subject to rust or lodge, as
that sown late and grain which is forward,
and ripens early, is usually much better
and heavier than that which is late. The
farmer who gets his crops in well and in
good season is most sure of a good yield;
besides, if lie gets his springs work done
early, he will be most likely to do the whole
work OF the season in good time,. and will
have time to do it well while if he gets
behind time in the spring, be will be most
likely to get behind time through the whole
season; and being driven with his work will
not be likely to do it well; and if he keeps
an account of outgoes and incomes, will be
most likely to to find his profits much less
than they would have been, had his springs
work been done in season. rrer
The spring is also important in another
point Of view. Almost all of our domestic
animals drop their young at this season
and the same rule that applies to the vege-
table, applies with equal force to the animal
Kingdom, viz: that we pay particular atten-
ton to them while young, SO as to give them
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All experience has shown that if we would
rear good stock, we must give them good
! keeping while young All animals intend
ed to be reard, should be dropped as early
as the climate and season would admit =
This enables them, with good keeping, to
become SO large and hardy, as to stand the
first winter well; while if dropped late in
the season, and poorly attended to-, their
size, slender and feeble constitution, lily
fits them to stand our severe winters. The
first of March is the best time fer calves
This enables them to make good use Of the
early grasses as soon as they start and gives
them the benefit of the whole season of pas
! turage. And further, the dams Of all young
animals, require particular attention and
good keeping at this season, or they will
run down and become poor. Dairy cows
especially, should have the best of care, if
we expect good yield from them during
the season The milk drawn from the COW
is moustrous draft, and if she is suffered
to get poor IN the spring, she will remain so
during the season, and the yield of milk will
be small, particularly during the latter part
of the season.
| There are many other important matters
to be looked to during the spring Do your
old meadows need narrowing and munuring
and additional grass seed If so, now is
the time to attend to it,
Have you sufficient number of fruit
trees, and of the different kinds best suited
to your soil and climate? If not, this is
the time to plant them.
Have you suihciency of shade trees and
shrubbery to make your situation pleasant :?
Ii not, now is the time to plant them. It
will cost you but little labor Plant them.
keep cattle from them, and natural agents
will do the rest. Ii ft.
Although we would not encourage ex-
travagance Of style in our common farmers,
still, we can see no good reason why they
should not practice and encourage correct
taste, as we'll as those engaged in other pur-
SUITS 1t is believed that those farmers
who are the most particular in all their op-
eratlons. are the most prosperous, provided
they avoid what may Gas applied to farm
ers) be justly termed extravaganza.
/ The time when particular job is done
may not be of much Importance to the man.
ufacturer or mechanic, but to the farmer it
is all important that lie does almost every
thing at the right time. He has to depend
upon natural agents for success and they
will net come to his aid unless he accommo-
dates them as to time Nature does not al
ter her Laws or rules, to suit either the ig-
noranco, mjudgment or slackness Of the
farmer. # he plants his corn too late in
the spring, she will not stay the frost in the
fall to give it time to ripen. If then, we
would be benefited by natural agents, we
must so observe their laws as that they come
most readily to our aid /; and there is no
season of the year when this observance is
more impoI tant than in the spring.
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