Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-03-15
NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR Tue
sflt (. ttt MONTH.
FOR THE

Joyous spring again comes to cheer ana
gladden.. In many localities. where the
March number OF the Agrtcultur1st will
find its way, the music of the groves and
the sound of lowing herds and bleatlng
hocks may be heard, while in other re-
pions tie fields and meadows are covered
with snow. and desolation reigns. win
March, farmers in some OF the States
commence farming operations, while IN
others chilling winds and pelting storms
confue the husbandmail to the indoor la
bors OF the fam In enc State the soil will
be plowed and the seed put III for various
orops. hut in some other the fertile fields
and the babbling streams will still be
bound in icy letters. Everything should
be on the march towards improvement.
Should the programme of farming opera
items for the season not have been already
completed, let it be done without delay.
If good system of rotation has not been
already adopted, plan it at once. Where
no field labor can yet be performed, put
everything in order to do it as soon as
weather and soil are favorable. There
are hundreds of good farmers who do not
know the great value of crop of peas.
They have never raised crop. and they
do not understand how to use them up
advantageously. Procure good seed, in
time to have it ready to SOW when the
soil is dry enough to pillow, and put in
few acres of peas instead of barley; oats.
or Indian corn. Peas will leave the ground
in an excellent condition if the soil be
well prepared for them, and if sowed at
the proper time. They will be found ex-
celleEt food for all kinds Of stock, and
there is no better meal for feeding mich
COWS, or sows that are raising young pigs
for the purpose of producing an abundant
flow of milk than an equal quantity of
good peas and Indian corn ground into
meal.
What crops sDW you raise What
will your soil produce; or what kinds of
grain, grass or roots appear to be best
adapted to the kind of SOIL or what kinds
Of grain or other crops have grown for
several years past on the soil /? These
are the questions that every farmer ought
to consider before he decides what kind
of crops he will raise during the coming
season. A farmer should endeavor, as
far as may be practica BILE, to adapt the
right kind of crops to his soil rather than
to the soil to the crops. If the soil is
not adapted to either winter or spring
wheat, do not attempt to raise it. If the
soil is good wheat soil and it has pro-
duced more wheat in years past than any
ether grain. it may be we'll to try some
other crop that is also adapted to the soil
which will return perhaps as much, or
more than crop of wheat.
Draining Before the soil is fit to
pillow, let it be examined for the purpose
Of asccrtaining whether or not some por-
lions of it may not be drained very ad-
vantageously, where it is excessively wet.
Let wet portions of field be staked out
and drains cut for tile, stone or wood.
During the month of March a long line
of underdrain may be made before it is
tit to pillow, if the proprietor only has en-.
ergy enough to lay out the work and CON-
mence at once. If it be delayed until
the soil is fit to be plowed, and other
work begun, then the draining will not
be done.
Cattle-Bcgin to increase the amount
ofmeal fed daily to all fatteDing animals
Rullocks and dry COWS that arc designed
for early beef should be we'll fed, watered
snd protected from storms during thi.
month. Indian meal and oil meal fec
to fattening animals will start them RICH,
and return good profit next June il
early beef.
Horses,--Giv horses daily exercise. eli
Their by turning tbom loose in yard fol
few hours. or by driving them in tn,
harness Mares with foal should be hand
led with great care, aud if there is mucl
snow and ice they should be sharp shoe
to prevent their slipping down, which
would be very liable to cause sinking
Feed breeding mares pint of unooltec
wheat -four daily in connection with tbei
other food, as a small quantity of whoa