The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-05-08
Gbs farm anb Garorr.
Spring Work for Farm and Gardea.

ACCOUNTS.--ln IUc HNSIC 10 COIL
mencc plowing and sowing, other I'M
iportant interests should not he over
looked. a successful cultivator must
also bc man of good business hab-
its; obscrvant Of markets, and ready
to improve the favorable moment for
either buying or selling. Keeping ac-
counts will add to the thrift, and give
more certainty 90 all operations.
A fairly kept book is better evi-
dence in court OF law that u trcach-
Icrous memory, or an interested witt
ness.
BoNE. Save all found upon, or
brought upon the premises, and lay i'll
n large stock, If they can be procured
chcaply. They are better than any
''patent' manures. Break them with
a sledgc hammer, and put them freely
in the soil around fruit trees. For
immediate use on annual crops, they
reed to be dissolved in wooden
hoopcd barrel, in one part of sulphu-
ric acid aud two or three parts of
water. They need -four or five weeks
time. The fluid is to he poured off
and mixed with large quantity of
muck. Some recommend to moistcn
them with the acid and then bury
them in heap of horse manure, where
they will soften.
CALvEs.--Raisc enough of the best
to keep the farm fully stocked Teach
them to drink when one or two days
old After the first week their food
may be gradually changed from new
TO skim milk, and few weeks later to
Cruel or shorts, rye, oat or harley
mca! a little wheat -four boiled ia
milk will relieve the scours. Keep
! their pens dry and clean.
CELLARs.--Clean out and whitcwash
at once, il not already done. Win
dows of fine wire gaUzc. millnct or
"mosquito CLOTH are useful to admit
air, and exclude insects. If milk be
kept there, it should be in an apart
mcnt separate from the general store
room.
CoRS is orc Of the seeds most read
lily injured by dampncas or hcating--
in Che shock or crib. 1t is always
best to. test an average sample select
ed from the whole seed in advance, lay
in warm soil. ii is much
better TO do This than 20 risl; the loss
of crop or OF many hills. The seed
is the least part of the c.pcnsc.--.
Corn is a gross feeder and reyels in
plenty OF manure OF any kind. IT is
Il sun plant, and not Il water one.
Rich land, warm and dry-draincd il
at all needed, is what fills the corn
.crib--and the purse. i heavy sod
turned under is II good place for corn
roots to revel in.
Grass SEED may he sown at the last
narrowing in of oats or other Spring
grain. The lighter the covering the
better.
MANuRrs. - Don't leave any to
waste It's sweetness in the desert air.
while rotting ell Summer in the barn
yard corners, in the pig styc or hem
roosts, OF in the privics. Every shov-
elIul put under on around crops and
trees will reappear greatly multiplied
in the grain bin, corn crib, or fruit
ccllcr, before the season il over. No
manufactured fertilizer purchaaed can
equal the barn-produced matclial.--
After all this is used, il would do to
try genuine Peruvian Puano, super
phosphate mad, OF mbumod bones
aud not mixed with cheap matters,
aud few Other honestly made fertil-
izcrs made principally of animal mat
tiers.
MEADows.-It is easier and cheaper
to pick W n stone now, than 60 grind
a scNthc in hayin~ time; to remove
bushes and stubs now than TO mcrA
scythc snaths then. \ roller settles
the frost heavCd roofs, and sihls the
lWmmocks and small stones. Fill up
the hare spots hy sowing seed. Cat
tie Groupings in heaps, if scattered
with long handled mallct, will fer
tilize several square feet Instead of
spelling one Fine momuc, OF ashes,
on lime, spread broadcast is top
dressing, viii show itself in the hay
NOV. after (noD many days.
oars are relatively the highest prize
cd grain in our market Where the
insect is 20, feared thtv are worth
looking af,er The earlier they can
be soNn tha better. They Ike good
soil bui not too much rich manure, or
the straw viii grow rank and tall. (
RcI1cmhcr that all the soil below
you is y"urs, aud appropriate little
more OF il every year, 700 much of
the new soil brought up at one time
may iuiurc the whole for the first crop,
though not afterwards.
SuEEr were never before in greater
demand, or at higher price. Every
lamb will be worth saving and nurs-
ing. Take good care of the cwls;--
shelter from the cold and rains, and
separate them from the rest of the
flock. Keep ,hom in oc 81 heart, feed
sparirgly if at all with s.ain they
should he in good health, but not fal.
Tag locks and iilth should be removed
from their uddcrs and elsewhere.
SnECmM. - Prepare The soil the
same as for corn. and plpnt IS earlv
as the ground or season viii permit.
covering lightly, We prefer 3 feet
dnlls, the seed sovn thickly and
when well stcrtcd thin out to 10 OF
u inches apart in the row, leaving
the best stalks.
TonLs.--We can not too often i'm