The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-04-11
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APRIL.

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We frequently experience a period cover
ing three to five weeks in March and
April Of comparative exemption from rain.
Our roads become settled, our fields fit for
the plow, the ground warm and ready for
the seed-in short time We have seed
time, when grass, grain, potatoes and car
rots may be profitably put in, and much
land prepared for crops.l We counsel all
farmers to bear this most important fact
in mind, and to make good use of this pc
riod, which may be short. Remember
too, the cold rains that follow, and often
last the whole month Of May, when plow-
ing cannot be done, when nearly all the
seed rots in the ground, and farmers are
busy replanting, or with their hands in
their pockets, mourning over the yellow
spindling blades here and there in their
corn fields. Some land is never fit for
the pillow before the lst of June, or still
later. 1t is probably too late to begin to
do much at draining this spring the
ground will be too full of water and time
too precious but it is never too late to
see the necessity and plan to have the
work well done.
Barley needs fair quality of soil; avoid
wetuess and dryness let it follow some
hoed crop, or SOW on sward turned
over in the autum and manured. Sow
when the ground is ready, warm and
mellow.
Buildings-The first warm weather should
not pass without thorough cleaning out,
and clearing up of the buildings of the
farm. Now is the best time for paint
ing and whitewashing buildings, fences,
and the like, no dust is flying, driving
storms are not expected, and the paint
hardens before blistering suns.
Carrots--Sow early, in deep, rich, mel
low ground, after some last years crop
calculated to kill the weeds After roll
ing, sow in drills and go or "a inches
alternately, OF ID to Is inches uniformly
The former method makes the use of cer-
tain telling implements more available
Use pounds of clean, last years seed to
the acre, tested beforehand, and thorough
| ly rubbed between the hands, to prevent
several seed from sticking together.
! Cattle-It is important that cattle have
some succulent food as warm weather ap.
proaches--rutabages, mangles, sugar beets
or cabbages--work cattle and COWS botl
need it. A good currying OF carding ev.
cry day OF two should not be neglected
Feed corn meal to both milch COWS ane
oxen. This is the most profitable time O
the year, and they should lack nothing
conducive to their health and comfort
Milk cows three times day; it increase
the tendency to secrete milk, and make
+ them better mixers in the end. Allow
ing any COW to 60 with a full, drippin
bag does not increase its capacity, but d
, minishes the quantity of milk secreted.
Clover may still be sown on winte
grain early in the month; and now is
very good time to SOW it with grass seeo
/ where needed on permanent mowings c
pastures.
t Corn ground-Prepare early if poss
:. ble, turning under good dressing of me-
e nure, but do not plant too early.
Grain Fields Winter Roll with heay
rollers, open dead burrows and sow mira
of soda, or guano and plaster, where tt
plants are puny or partly winter-killed.-
Go through and pull any dock or 9th
coarse weeds which show themselves
F., On land very free from weeds, caro-
may be drilled in, in rows feet apa,
i and cultivated after the grain is cut !;
the land is rich, remunerative crop I
i'll sults-a good plan where grain is winte
0 killed.
n Plant an Apple Orchard-The old on
j. are fast dying out all through the old
to States. They were planted hundr
v: " years ago or more, have done good ST
re vice. and ought to have their day. VIII
" apples are So barrel and upward, the
IN is not an adequate supply in the COUNT
T. They can be grown at dollar bar
with profit. The apple crop in sin!
small county in this State, was worth h
3, million Of dollars last year. Otl
counties in the older parts of the caste
States, were under the necessity of pa
20 ing out hundred thousand dollars
t]v this fruit, because they had not the arti
ose at home. Peaches and plums we may
es. able to get along without, but apples
SIS, must have--for sauce, for pies, for
me dessert, and for the dinner. basket of iii
ole boys and girls who cannot come no
from school to dine. We say to ev'
A farmer, then, plant an orchard of at le
a hundred trees. The trees are all res
for you in the nursery, we'll grown {
vt grated, two or three years from the b.
Get thrifty trees, of varieties that .
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