Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13
Aariruttural.
MAY OH the Farm.

There is no time to lose now. A day lost
at this season cannot be recalled. or made
good. There is always more to do on almost
every farm than there IS time to do it in but
this is especially the case at this busy sea-
son. Some of the root crops should have
gone in a week or two ago Parsnips and
beets and mansolds do better to he sown as
early as the ground can possibly be got
ready.
The spring grains also should have been
got in before this. They require the April
rains to give them early and rapid start.
The pillow should be kept in motion now.
We do not, as general rule, pillow our
lands enough, or so thoroughly or so many
times as good economy would dictate. 1t is a
good plan to keep an account OF the labor you
put upon each field and each crop. charging
it with all the expense It requires, and the
interest. with about half the manure. and
creiiting it with the yield. In this way the
farmer viii get more exact idea of the profit
or loss on a crop than it Is possible to do in
any other Start an account with each cow
you turn her out to pasture. charging her
with the actual value of the paSturage per
week AMI the cost of other food, if any
and credting her with the milk and the
manure. This care will soon show which cows
are the most profitable and which do not paw
and the latter should be got rid of at the ear
Hest opportunity
In laying out the plans for manuring
make liberal allowance for the fields under
cultivation. Better 90 over less ground and
do it thoroughly and we'll. than to spread
manure over lar-e area and get small re-
turn. In nine cases out of ten we make n
graf mistake in this respect. and our soil
suffers and we suffer in consequence. by get
ting too small crops with too great labor.
We might learn an imDortant lesson from the
l. IL /
stand the value of manure better than any
other class OF cultivators. They manure
heavily and often, plow deep and stir and
cultivate W thOut stint, and it pays them
well. The nearer we can Approximate to T. e
mlrket garden syste on the farm the better
will he our results
Exnarience has shown that there is moth
ing glincd in the average IF years by planting
corn tpO early. Sometimes we NAV make ?
lucky hit. if the season turns ont To be in all
RESPECTS fav1rab'e hut we shall oftener find
IL retarded hy the late frost or continued cold
weather. and near the Goth Of this month
or the third week in Nav. is about as early
ms it c,n be planted with perfect safety. If
there is a good mannring with barnyard
manure. supplemented with little forcin :
or stimulating fertilizer like gnano. super
phosphate, hen manure or something Of the
kind to give it a rapii start. it will 60 right
ahead. The ground by that time begins To
get warm and this is what the Young corn
likes.
There il question as to the best time tn
SOW carrots ,me advocate early sowing
on the ground that rs the plants start slowly.
it gives time to get well under way before
the dry weather comes along, and they
would slw rs early as the l0th of this month
and some even earlier than that. Others
CONTEND that f they arc spwn early they arr
liable TO rot and this it must be ADMITTED
is not unfreqtently the case. Perhaps
towards the end Of tho month is as good :
time "a any say the Doth or 25th As t.
rute h,.,s. they are better put off till wei
along in June.
1t is n good plan To look out early for any
new indictments or farm tools that will b.
likely to bc needed through the season
Many put off this till late in the Sc ,son o.
till nearly the time when they will requir,
them to use. The consequence often is tina
thew cannot then find what they want. TIM
ia more pressing. AMI they have to put NJ
with what they can get. Ruy carly there
fore, and buy of responsible dealers. D.
not be humbugged by travelling peddler
who not unfrequently impose upon the IN
suspecting pnblic by plausible talk. If YOU
20 to n good, honest, well known dealer
Won have somebody to fall back upon in cas-,
of any mistake. and it is better to pay con
siderahlv more and have the right men t
deal with than to pay less to man that i
nowhere to he found IL is good deal bet
ter to buy the having tools now than it vii
be to nut it off till june or July.
Don't get the stock out upon the pasture
too early. 1t will prevent the grass from
getting good start and perhaps injure it fol
the whole season Pl0ughD1Gn.