Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-12
June Work.

JUNE is the month of weeds and work.
In wet seasons, like the present, it is one
of the most laborious months of the year,
and upon the manipulation that crops re-
ceive depends, for the greater part, the
success of the farming season. The same
elements that now bring forward the crops
also develop the noxious plants, with the
seed of which western soil is especially
well stocked In the northern parts of our
country, corn planting has been pushed
over into June to considerable extent,
so that now more than the usual June
work is to be done. Though work must he
accomplished in the corn and potato fields,
weeds must be kept down, or they will
keep down the crops.
Hay making will come on toward the
close of the month, in many localities,
where the tame grasses have taken the
place of the prairie grasses in the meadows.
All varieties should be cut before too ripe.
Before this work comes on, advantage
should be taken of rainy days and odd
spells, to get all the haying and harvesting
machinery in good repair. The moving
and reaping machines, the horse rakes, the
horse forks, ETC., ETC., should be carefully
examined, and where shop work must be
done upon them, let them be sent off at
once.
Root crops may be put in even up to
the Goth of the month. If every farmer
realized how much good feed he can grow
upon little ground, at small expense, and
how well the feed is adapted to almost all
kinds of his stock, the area put in carrots
and rutabagas would be multiplied ten
fold, in the West, this season. The yield
is enormous, and, used with hay and grain,
they form as healthful diet as is needed.
Give carrots light rich loan, if possible,
but most of our dry prairie soil will do.
Stir the ground deeply, and get the sur
face level, smooth, and without Jumps.
Sow in drills, fourteen to eighteen inches
apart, and thin out to five or six inches in
the row. The same kind of soil will do
for rutabagas. 1t is the practice of some
to throw two burrows together, and sow
upon the ridges, making them about two
feel apart. It takes from a pound to a
pound and half of rutabaga seed to the
acre.
June is the great month for butter
making The pastures are covered with
rich, juicy heritage, and the flow of milk
reaches it's maximum before the hot suns
and the flies of the summer inconvenience
the COWS. Mr.. Willard tells us that the
Orange county butter makers use at the
rate of pound and two ounces of salt to
batch of twenty-five pounds of butter.
In butter designed for winter use, a little
more would, undoubtedly, be better.
The buttermilk must be thoroughly got
ten out. Some wash it out; but others
claim that the flavor is injured by this pro-
cess, and they practice kneading it out.
There is some danger of overworking it
by this method, making the butter salvy
and soft by breaking the grain. White
oak firkins are considered best for packing.
The health of the sheep must be looked
after by Kidding them of parasites. In
back numbers of the Prairie Farmer, full
instructions on this subject will be found.
1t is an easy matter just after shearing.
Besides the field work this month, the
garden must have good deal of attention,
if the table is to be well supplied with
delicious, health giving vegetables.
There must be no Sinking of this duty
Better take time from something else, and
save money by growing a supply of gar
den vegetables and small fruits, strawber-
ries, currants, gooseberries, &C., for family
| use.
Indeed, the farm, the orchard, the gar
den, "and all that in them is" will need
attention this month"; Prairie Farmer.