Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1868-06-11

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Secure good mower and sulky rake
cock it id twenty-four hours after being
mown don't open the swarths after being
mowed-let it lie day or SO in the cocks,
according to the weather, and put it in
stack, rick or barn, before i becomes too
dry. Use salt and it may be secured in
half green condition, with assurance it will
keep sweet. The less clover hay is NOV
ed or disturbed the better. Col. Capron
made on his Laurel farm fine clover hay,
and be put it in 100 or $50 b. cocks as
fast as it was moved. He cured it in
the cock. The third or fourth day. the
cocks were opened or just, turned over,
and after an hour or two it was sent to the
bsrn and put away with salt sprinkled
over the layers at the rate 4 bushel to
the ton. In winter, when fed to the stock,
it was as green and fragrant as Young Hy-
son tea.
Corm.-Do not be discouraged if the
lateness of the season has prevented you
from getting your land in order to plant
your corn before the end of this month;
the 10th of June will do if you cannot
plant before. Better plant with soaked
corr in June on we'll prepared land, than
early on ground roughly worked. Put
the land in nice order as if for tobacco.
and the work is half done for good crop
Of corn. In consequence of cortland be-
ing badly prepared. the crop has to be
worked too late to keep down the grass,
and the crop is injured. It is generally
conceded that drill or step corn gives
greater yield if good distance, say six
feet, be allowed between the rows, and
eighteen inches in the drill. It will give
as many stalks to the acre as when plant
ed four by four feet, and will not be so
excluded from sun and air. The stalks
will not grow so high, will shoot lower
and be better cured. The fault with our
general system Of corn growing is. the
corn runs too much to stalk and blade,
and bears the ears too far from the roots
and succulant portions of the stalk.
Bluckberries.-This source of immense
profit is almost entirely neglected by our
people. Old and young men, women and
children. feeble and decrepid, can easily
and pleasantly earn their clothing and food
this month and next, if they would, by
gathering this fruit that nature, in her
wondrous bounty, has provided everywhere
on poor as we'll as rich lands. The mar
ket is never overstocked. If not conve--
nient to send to market regularly, they
can be easily dried. and sold at good
prices in winter, or made in delicious
wine, which, at cost for barrel and su-
gar of about twenty-five cents per gallon,
in twelve months each gallon will bring
from So to 81. Every industrious fami
ly could easily make three barrels of wine,
which would give. after being racked off,
one hundred gallons of pure wine, worth
at least nett $500. The same could be
made from wild grapes and few improv-
ed grapes, and, say. the same from cur
rants; thus, with but little labor, and that
performed, too. by those who could in no
other way contribute to the common fund
of labor, because of their helplessness, a
sum of 81 900 may be added to the fam
lily revenue. It is common thing at the
North for persons to realize $40O per acre
from blackberries. l would suggest to
you or any person who desires to try the
experiment Of sending berries to market,