Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-08-02
Agricultural.
From the Rural Register
FARM WORK FOR AUGUST.
SEEDING RYE.

cultivation with US. On rich sandy
loans nevertheless it will always yield
well if the season at the time of blossom
ing is favorable 1t is hardy plant,
however, and will accommodate itself to
variety of soils if they are properly
broken up and pulverized in the first in
stance, but it will thrive best in light
loans and fertile sands, and especially
will it be found valuable crop on the
rich alluvial meadows which are so often
to be met with along our water courses.
1t is by no means on exhausting crop,
for with the stubble plowed under after
each harvest, crops Of rye have been
grown upon the same field for fifteen
years in succession, without any diminu-
ton in the product. But where the soil
is thin and poor, fertilizers must be used
and of these we now proceed to speak
Or THE MANURE. Fen loads of WE'LL
rotted barnyard manure will suffice for
an acre of rye--or ten loads of woods
mould aud five loads of manure compost
ed, or better still ten or fifteen loads of
woods mould or marsh mud mixed with
one hundred and fifty pounds manipulat-
ed guano.
PREPARATION OF THE SOIL. Pillow
deep; cery deep where the subsoil is
good-and cross pillow if time permits,
turning the manure under at the second
blowing with about four inches Of cover
ing soil. Harrow, seed, harrow again
SOW grass seed and bush them in and.
finish off by rolling
Sow broadcast bushel or five pecks
Of seed per acre.
TINE OF SEEDING. Sow as early in
the month as possible; if there is any
danger Of its being winter. killed SOW with
the rye half bushel of buckwheat, the
first will cut the latter down and it will,
in pulling, afford protection to the grow
ing crop; if any portion of the buck
wheat remains standing in the spring
pass a roller over the field.
SEEDING DOWN TO TIMOTHY FOR A
MEADOW
Every intelligent farmer knows that
the best soil for timothy meadow is
good bottom land -aluvial-with fair
admixture of clay and rather moist than
dry. Any fertile loan, however, will
make good meadow provided it is tolc-
rably level and does not lie too much ex
posed to the northwest winds. In setting
timothy meadow on uplands it is of
primary Importance that the land should
be SUBSIDIZED to admit Of the reten-
ton of moisture during dry seasons,
for nothing is more fatal to a good stand
of timothy than long continued drought.
On sandy or gravelly soils, timothy will
not do we'll.
PREPARATION OF THE GROUND. Pillow
deep. Subsoil on uplands. Cross plow
and harrow until the soil is thoroughly
and completely pulverized. After seed
ing, either harrow again with light
harrow, or brush in and roll. The land
must be fertile to grow good timothy--it
must also be clear, or the subsequent
crops will every year show an increase of
weeds, which will lesson the value of the
hay, and gradually work cut by their
superior yigor the timothy itself.
MANURrs AND MATURING. To each
acre Of timothy either of the following
compounds may be applied:
No. 1. Ten bushels of bone dust,
twenty-five bushels of wood ashes, two
bushels of refuse salt mixed for ten days
--shovelled over, broadcasted over the
ground and narrowed in.
., No. 2. Five two-horse loads stable
manure, fifteen loads wood earth, marsh
muck, &c. one hundred and fifty pounds
of manipulated guano, one bushel plas-
ter; mixed, broadcasted and narrowed in.
No. 8. -Four hundred pounds of ma
nipulated guano, two bushels Of salt,
cultivated in before seeding
If, however, stable manure is album
dapt, twenty two-horse loads of manure
mixed with fifteen bushels wood ashes,
and FIVE bushels bone dust, may be used
with more excellent advantage.
QUANTITY or SEED PER ACRE If for
timothy alone SOW one and half peclss
per acre; but if designed for permanent
pasture, SOW as follows:
Timothy, l peck; orchard grass,
bushel; Kentucky blue grass, bushel;
tail meadow oat grass, J bushel; sweet
scented vernal grass, 3 pounds; peren-
nial rye grass, one bushel.
Where, however, the hay is intended
for market, pure timothy should be seed
ed without any admixture.
TURNIPs.
The ground for turnips should be pre-
pared and seeded down not later than the
10th of the month. For further partic-
ulars, see Rural, June 10Th.
LATE POTATOES.
See that these are kept free Of weeds,
and if not very thrifty, broadcast over
each acre one bushel Of ashes, one bushel
plaster, one bushel refuse salt mixed
before spreading.
SHEEP.
Attend IN season TO preventing the fly
from breeding worms in the heads Of
sheep. This, as we said on previous
occasion, may be readily done by spread
ing tar at the bottom Of trough under
cover and sprinklipg salt over the tar In
getting at the salt the sheep will smirch
their noses with the tar, and thusprevent
the insect from attacking them.
STUMBLE FIELDS.
The heritage in these may be greatly
fmproved'by scattering over each acre a
mixture composed Of two bushels Of wood
ashes, two bushels Of refuse salt aud
Dushel plaster
LATE CORN.
II the corn is not sufficiently advanced
to be laid hy keen tho o,,l,;rat., -, !