Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-15
AGRICULTURAL.
HINTS FoR sEPTEMRER.


| We clip the following excellent advice
for work to be done this month, from
the American Agriculturalist:
BUCKwHEAT, which must be cut be-
fore frost hurts it, and if putup in neat
gavels, the tops being bound to shed
rains, will go ON filling out, so that,
though very few grains may have been
fully formed at the time of cutting, there
will be few not filed out at the end OF
a few weeks.
TOBACCO, lis hoplessly damaged
by a slight frost. III tobacco has grown
web, the greater part of 1t will have
been cut before the end of the first
week in September.
POTATOES. The decay of the vines
indicates the maturity of the potatoes,
and early sorts may be dug and housed
at once; but If there is any appearance
| of rot, leave them In the ground. Lit
makes less work to dig only the sound
ones, and the decaying will be chiefly
over before the last of October; how
ever, it may pay to dig and market
early. a
Corn, which promised so very little
| in July, probably never looked better
| in August than this year. 1t Is only a
little late. Do not top it so as to ex-
pose the ears TO the frost, certainly not
until it is thoroughly glazed.
SELECT SEED CoRN-Trust this to no
hired man, but do it Yourself. Select
| by feeling cans little above the me-
dunn size (no monstrosities) close, firm,
well tipped over. tight and full at the
butt Mark these in some way, as with
a dabb of paint, or by tying string
around the ear. Then in husking,
these may be unhusked, or broken off
and then husked, leaving the husks at
tached. Finally select from these the
well ripened ones, and those with few
est irregularities, false or short rows OF
kernels braid them up in strings for
thorough drying.
SEEDING TO GRAss.-Grass seed may
be sowed alone on good soil, on which
compost has been narrowed In, and, if
the ground is not both poor aud clsyey,
will stand the winter well and do much
better than If sOwed with winter grain.
Oats and buckwheat are occasionally
sOwn as protection to grass. The
grain should be sparingly sown. 1t
dies in the winter, but affords the grass
mulch.
SoILING. Wheat and rye are sown
this month for early soiling crops. Next
spring, as soon as the rye is fit to be
mown, its feeding daily will produce
very great difference in the yield of
milk This is the earliest crop. Wheat
follows soon, then very late sowed rye,
then spring sowed oats, corn, etc. The
rye and wheat will be off the ground in
time for summer crops, and as they do
not seed, do not exhaust the soil per-
ceptibly. 1t should be in good heart
and filth, however.
WHEAT-Sow wheat early. The soil
should be well worked, not plowed below
its natural depth. III sowed upon clover
turned under, work in a liberal dressing
of fine compost with Shares harrow,
cultivator, or harrow. GuanO, we'll
mixed with fine muck or peat, brings
forward rapidly that sown little late,
and causes it to tiller well this fall. By
all mems drill in the seed, If the ground
be of even quality and consistency. If
it is hard and clayey, and sandy or light
i'll spots, SOW by hand.
VFRAuN-The granaries should be
early freed from vermin, which will
generally collect as soon as grain is
stored Insects must be remov-
ed before the grain is put in,
when the bins, etc, should be most
thoroughly cleansed and whitewashed
inside and out. Rats are easily
disposed of by using literally the phos-
phOrous paste. This has also some
effect on the mice, but not so much,
because, though it is poison and kills
them, the mice do no not go in COM
munities as rats do, and cannot be
''stampeded. The paste gives some
of the rats a severe collie end they alarm
the rest, and so all are cleared out.
This paste is very fatal to fowls.
NEAT STOCKS require no especial at
tention this month other than good
care and good feed to prepare them for
winter. None should be allowed to run
down. Though cows coming in late for
winter milking should not get fat
Beef stock which are to be finished off
for market during the fall and winter,
should have an increase of feed.
Hoes for fattening should be penned
and fed old corn, ground and cooked.
Let the pigs have the run of the orch
ards. ''raming" hogs by cutting cash
across the snout close to the roofing
gristle, so as to make it powerless, is
better than putting rings In their noses,
and much more easily done.
SHEEP.-Give good pasturage with
water, salt and shelter from long storms.
Fattening sheep should be making flesh
fast, and ''stOres" kept improving.
MANURE. all kinds of waste
vegetable matter for increasing the
manure heap; put into it no weeds with
seeds. The hogs will work over an i'm
mense amount of weeds, sOds, potato
tops, ETC., and convert the whole into
excellent manure An old farmer used
to say, che would give more for cob
that hog had breathed on, than for
a shovelful of yard manure" The bulk
and quality of hog manure, or any 9th
er kind, are greatly increased by hav-
ing it under cover.
Muck AND PEAT.-Secure as much as
possible for use in, mingling with ma
nure, or under the stock In the stables
this winter. Compost it with lime, if it
be not lin crumbly condition, for it
should be dry and fine. Get out as
much as you can, and leave it exposed
for the action of the frost IL winter.
This is work for the whole autumn and
winter when it can be done.
APIARY IN SEPTENIBER.-We stocks