Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-02-25

/ Iau0lcmns Gay passed, anu no ground
hog saw his shadow, in this region St.
/ Valentines Day comes on ns bright as any
| bird beaux could desire, aud according TO
the Niso weather mongers, tho winter Is
broke. Our ice merchants have made worse
harvest than the potato raisers did last year,
and il We are not to have a cold snap yet
to ripcn the ice crop, ourcity folks viii have
10 dip their butter with spoons, in the next
heated term. But we will let the weather
take its own way, in the firm belief that it is
! all right, and il is our business to shape our,
selves 20 Gods proyidences, in whatever
shape they come.
just now aud simultaneously all over the
county, in Ohio, Kentucky Indiana, and
! further West still more so, the people have
realizing sense Of what we predicted last
! Doc, viz: that prices of all farm produce,
and prices Of good boevcs particularly,
would come up as stiff as steelyards, about
these days We have no intention Of in
sligating panic; indeed, there is no cause
for panic in the matter Of food for man or
beast, but there arc spots where some peo-
I, pie have to look the question of bread and
fodder right in tho face. Where the great
equalizing power of the Railroads and Riv-
er and Lake navigation is felt, suffering may
bo avoided by all who have been properly
proyideut in the tjme of plenty; and if they
have not, such lesson as this, may teach
4 them to look out in future.
1 The special and unexpected shortness
just now made apparent, is in the stock Of
corn in the country. There being but lit.
tie oats and potatoes, the strain fell almost
entirely upon the corn. People pushed off
their surplus beef cattle and fat hogs as car
ly in the season as possible, and, though
some of the earliest cattle Spectators got
badly bitten. the farmers upon tho whole
made a very good thing Of their stock sales,
and particularly so Of their hogs.
II now remains, to make the most of the
stock and materials on hand. Look out for
the pennies, the pounds will take care of
themselves, "a true saying, which applies
with particular force to the economy Of a
stock farm in winter. If our farmers could
only be persuaded to make the most Of their
straw and corn stalks, it would wonderfully
ease the strain upon the hay; and if they
could be persuaded 10 cook thoir corn feed,
by using part of the time spent in telling
yarns in the shops in town, or in fox chas-
ing in the country, or such like pleasant
and Improbable occupations, things would
go on better about the farm yard.
We judge from the cut of the winter,
that the maple sugar business will come
ont about as the ice business has-rather
light and scattering. If this should be so,
the season will allow of getting early at the
Spring seeding. Indeed, it hardly ever
fails, that carly seeding is safest. Now is
the time to SOW the blue grass, tho orchard
grass, and the clover seeds; and as soon in
the Spring as the ground viii possibly ad-
NIT, put in the oats Early sown oats are
almost sure TO be best Several correspon-
dents have requested US to publish more
particularly about the so-callod Hungarian
Grass. The balance of testimony is largely
in IFS favor and we have no doubt that in
pinch, it will make a good substitute for
oats. 1t needs a doep, rich, and moderately
moist soil say good hemp or fax ground;
SOW half a bushel or three pecks of seed to
the acre, in June, and it may yield from
three to Eve tons of fodder and thirty bush
els of seed, per acre. But don't be fooled
into paying over 81 a bushel for the seed
this year, under the deceptive name of Hon
ey Blade.
The teeming ewes will require extra at
teuion at this time. Give them a gener-
Gus feed, and protect them from the rough
and tumble of the rowdy stock in the barn
yard, and if lambs arc dropped, do not leave
them to die of cold or hunger to ornament
the fork of tree or the roof of shed, in
week after Ohio CultiUator.