The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-08-18

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none, for whatever he undertakes he
genefally does well. = His last work is
. book called g Plain and Pleasant talk
on Fruits, Flowers and Farming" just
issued, and the reader, we have no
doubt, win find it just what it purports
TO be. As a specimen of 1T, we mean
to indulge in pretty long extract.
.tNoRK FOR AUGUsT.-lf during this
hot month you will clear out fence cor
ners, and cut off vexations intrudcrs,
Che sun will do all it can to help you
kill them. If your. wheat is troubled
with the weevil, thrash it out and leave
it in the chaff. 1t will raise heat ia
tai to its enemy, without injuring itself.
Every farmer should have little nurse
ry row of apple, pear, peach and plums
Of his own raising. Plant the seed
when year old, transplant them into
rows eight inches apart in the row, and
two feet between the rows During Jul
ly, August and September, you may
bud them with choice sorts, remember
ing that a good fruit viii live just as
easily as worthless sort. This is
good month to SOW down follow fields
to grass. Plough thoroughly-harrow
till the earth is fine !; be liberal of seed,
aud cover it in with harrow and not
with a bush, which drags the seeds into
heaps or carriesthem in hollows. The
early part of the month should be i'm
proved by all who wish to put in a crop
of buckwheat or turnips. If your pas
lures are getting short, let your mich
cows have something every night in
the yard. Corn, sown broadcast,
would now render admirable services.
If you have neglected to raise your
bulbs, lose Eo time now. Take cut
tings from roses and put in small pots,
invert glass over them, in two or three
weeks they viii take root, and by the
next spring make good plants. Gather
flower seeds as soon as they ripen.
WoRK FOR SEPTEMBER.- on should
finish seeding your wheat grounds in
this month. If sown too early, it is IL
able to suffer from the fly if too late,
from rust. Those who SOW acres by
the hundred, must SOW early and late
both. But moderate fields should be
selected by the middle of the month.
In preparing the land, if the surface
does not naturally drain itself, it should
be so ploughed as to turn the water into
burrows between each land. Standing
water, and yet more ice upon it, being
fatal to it. See that your cattle are
brought into good condition for winter
ing. Fall transplanting may be per-
formed from the middle of this month !;
take off every leaf-re-set and stake.
By the latter part Of the month, or
early in October, according to the sea
son, it WILDE necessary to raise and
pot such plants as you intend to keep
in the house, to raise and dry in frost
proof room, your dahlias, tuba roses,
amarylias, tigridia, gladioli, and such
other tender bulbs as you may have.
Let your seeds be gathered and care
fully put away where it will contract
no moisture. Go over your grounds
and examine your labels, least the
storms which are approaching should
destroy them. Sow in some warm and
sheltered part of your garden, early in
this month, for spring use, spinage,
corn, salad, lettuce, &C. As soon as
the leaves fall, take cuttings from cur
rant, bushes grapes, and plant them out
in rows. They will start off and grow
earlier by some six weeks, the next
season. Fill in your celery trenches
every ten days.
WORK FOR OcToBER.-Push for
ward your hogs as fast as possible.
If they have had clover range in the
summer, they will be ready to start
off vigorously the moment that you
put them on corn. See that good
walks are made in every direction from
the house, and be sure to have walks
through your, barn yards, raised so
high as never to be muddy. : Your cat
tie yards should slope towards the
centre in such a way that horses and
cattle need not wade knee deep in going
in and out.
Frosts will now begin to strip your
trees and stop the growth of garden
shrubs, and allyour preparations should
be made for protecting tender trees and
Shrubs For cherry and pear trees,
especially, you should provide good
covering for their trunks, until they have
grown quite large. A good bundle of
corn stalks set around the body so as
to keep out the sun, but not the air, will
answer every purposeI 10 For beds of
China and tea, and dwarf roses, we adj
viseaa covering of three inches of half
rotted manure. Cover this with leaves
about six inches. q Moss is better, if
you~will take the trouble to collect it,
and straw will do if you have neither
moss nor leaves. Half cover the part
that remains exposed with fine brush
or pine branches. For single plants,
drive stake by their side and tie the
plants to it, wind loosely about it wisp
of straw or roll of bass mating or
cloth, so as to exclude the sun and not
the air. The sun, and not the cold,
usually destroy plants. .u
WORK FOR NOVEMBER. - During
this month, if the ground is not locked
by frost. you may plough stiff, tena-
cious, clay soils to advantage. By be-
ing broken up and subjected to, the
keenfrosts, yourself viii become mellow
and tender.3oSee that every provision
is made for sheltering your cattle and
horses be sure that your sheep are
not obliged to lie out in drenching
rains 9r1 .t1llE Lftt 1fa3 is1.s Ifi :