The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-06-12
What can still be done to increse the
Products Of the Soil this Year7
THE WHEAT AND RYE rTELl

THE WHEAT AND RYE FIELDS.
These are too much advanced 10 do
much with them now. Still, plaster, OF
lime, and especially guano, sown as top
dressing, will improve the growth aud fl
nal yield. The re-opeuiug Of bitches. or
dead furrows, TO let all water Oh from
low spots, will often do much to warm
the soil and hasten the maturity Of the
crop, and quite possibly save it from rust
and the later insects. Harvest will be
precarlous time; the absence Of 10000
laborers at that time will be serious hin
drance. A reaping machine of his own,
or the positive engagement of one from
neishbor, will be important for the grow.
or Of ten acres or upwards ANY DELAY
after the exact season for cutting, that is,
just when The kernel is beginning 10 har-
den, Is loss of dollar day on each
acre in the value Of the crop, including
lis quality, ,weight,a and the loss by sheliug,
.a....a PLANT CORN NOW.
This should be the great business pre-
vious to the 10th of June-the earlier
now the better Replant any missing hill
in fields already up. Seek out hooks and
corners, and wherever hill can be made
to grow, drop in the seed and cover il.
Any spare pasture, any poor spots of
meadow, may still be turned over aud
planted to corn. The more manure you
can mingle with the soil under and around
each hill the better Look under the
poultry Ioosts, in the corners of the barn
yard, behind the horse stables, in the cor
ner where the cows rest Mt night, under
the privies, and wherever shovelful Of
manure can be found gather it up, and
get little into as many corn hills as pos
sible. The work will pay. The good
ears of corn next Autumn will bring the
cash directly, or make pork or beef which
will sell for cash. BY going to bed soon
after sunlight Is gone, with light sup.
per, so as to sleep well, and then starting
an hour earlier in the morning, one may
90 out with hoe in one hand, basket
or barrow Of manure in the other, and n
pocketful of seed corn, and during the
hour thus gained, put in extra hills enough
to bring two or three bushels in Autumn,
worth q full dollar or more 10 the grower
and more than that TO the country. The
Improved King Philip, Rhode Island Pre-
lnium, the Dntton, or other smaller quick
growing varieties of corn are preferable
for planting at this late season. Hoeing
and cultivating the growing corn well, is
important to its yielding well, Weeds
and grasses abstract from the hourish-
ment and life of the corn. Plaster, ashes,
Peruvian guano, etc, in or round the hills,
promote growth. Lime, or wood ashes,
are excellent in the hill, on fresh sod land.
}.# PLANT BEANS.
Beans constitute an important item in
the soldiers fare; they contain n large
amount Of nutriment in n small bulk.
The common field, or the small white
kidney bean, can now be planted with en-
tire safety. Tho. waste places amopg
corn, potatoes, etc, should be sprinkled
over with beans, or other quick growing
crops. Beans can also be planted be-
tween The corn hills, and on land too wet
TO use until now. They will flourish Oh
poor dry soil, where few other valuable
crops wonld cke ont an existence. BY
all means increase the quantity of beans
planted. They are good, substantial,
cheap food for the home table, and will
save many bushels of wheat for Tho mar
kct, We must, hereafter, give chapter
on the right method of cooking them TO
make them paIatable, easily dige5ted and
nutritious. II always thus cooked, they
would be far more popular. .....
SOW BARLEY AND BUCKwHEAT.
Buckwheat need not be sown until ,ru.
ly, but barley usually succeeds well when
sown early in June. Besides, barley forms
a pretty good substitute for wheat, in case
That crop is cut off or is in demand at
extra prices. Who is not fond of n good,
light, warm barley loaf--and of buck
wheat cakes How would it work to
have barley, buckwheat and gardcntruck
enough to about support the family from
six TO ten months, and sell all the wheat,
and corn, and most of the beans, and pay
up the debts on the farm, aud at tho
stores, this year9 ''.''.+
TRY A soILINe CROP.
A lot of corn stalks, millet, sugar cane,
or other forage, to be in part cut up green
and fed TO the cattle, horses, sheep, and
swine, in the dry season, aud in part cur
ed like hay for winter fodder, will increase
the yield of milk, and butter, and cheese
to sell; will keep the animals in good
heart for labor, or for increasing in weight
of meat; and will save hay to exchange
for cash. Plant in drills, or SOW, all you
can of these crops, the first, second and
third weeks in Juuc. t aa.f.
DON'T FORGET THE TURNIPs.
They cost next to nothing, and are un-
doubtedly good for all kinds of ANIMALS
when fed with dry forage during all the
Winter and Spring, Scatter the seed on
every vacant spot, alone or among other
crops, wherever there is room for root
to grow and the top to spread, without
interfering with something moro valuable.