The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-18
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AGRICULTURAL:
March on the Farm.


The labors of spring will soon be up;
on us, The animals must be prepared
GRADUALLY for hard labor. Take care O.
them now, by frequent grooming an6
nrOper feed. Ewes about to yean shoulC
nave a few roots and warm pens
Lambs as well as pigs often die in colo
weather unless great care is taken tt
look after them. All the stock which
shed their coats in spring should bt
carded often. 1t increases their thrift
and improves their looks.
The drainage from roads and cultiva
ted fields should be turned upon the
moving lots. a small stream can offer
be led over the grass with little trouble
and it will start up an early and luxuri
ant growth. Pick up and remove the
stones from the moving land. They
are an unmitigated nuisance before the
moving machine, and give more trouble
twice over than the labor they cost tC
get them of. All grass lands are great
" benefited by ashes. or by plaster
and ashes mixed. Grass lands are i'm
proved also by heavy roller.
Now is a good time to mend up al
tho tools that will be needed on the
farm, ploughs, harrows, drags, and ar
infinite variety of others. 1t is far bet
ter to do it now than to leave it till they
are wanted to use. A good workshop
for farm tools is very desirable, and il
a farmer has one, he will not be without
work on n rainytday.
Clover may be sown on light SHOWS
anv time this month, on lands laid
down last fall, or upon pastures and
old fields that received top-dressing
when a brush harrow is great i'm
proyement. a good brush harrow, by
the way, is another of the things that
come handy on n farm, and 1t would be
asgood plan to get it ready now.
Grain fields can now be top-dressed
with plaster, guanO or super-phOsphate.
For applying all concentrated fertili-
zers we prefer the spring, and this
month ia, perhaps, rs good as any to do
it in.
Feed young stock as well as the sup
plies OF fodder will allow. 1t is poor
plan to turn them out to browse. III
sheep are confined as they ought to be,
a few pine or hemlock boughs are very
useful to them. Raw roots in small
quantities are very useful for breeding
sows as they approach the time of far.
rowing. Cows require good feed at
this season OF the year, and till the
time of calving. They may be MIXED
TO within six weeks of calving, and
Young COWS, after their first calf, longer
than that.
IL is best to look out in season for
good farm hands. The best are soon
engaged, and 1t is we'll to look out in
season.
AS for the rest, there Will be no time
10 lose. Something can be done to fill
up the month. with useful work that
will materially help on the work OF
spring, Though it will be of little use
to work the land when it is too wet,
some days will occur when the garden
soil can be forked up, or perhaps
ploughed and narrowed. The ground
for the kitchen garden, also. can be en-
riched, Asparagus beds can be pre-
pared; the rhubarb plants .manured
and forked over, and new plants set,
using pieces OF root having one or more
buds. Who would be without rhubarb?
1t is ono OF the necessities on every well
supplied table. No one can take toe
much pains to have it in abundance
and perfection.
Cabbages may be started in hot beds
Every farmer can start a simple frame
covered with glass, and start many va
rieties of vegetables, and so have them
earlier than it would be possible other
wise, In these frames the seeds may
be started, and celery, cabbage, lettus
peppers and tomatoes be forwarded.
These and many other vegetables are
Indispensable.
Early potatoes and onions may be
planted in warm places. Grape cut
iings NAV be set out, so may cuttings
of currauts, gooseberries and other
shrubs. In fact, thousand little things
will suggest themselves TO the observ-
ms. thinking and we'll informed farmer
1t is not too late to cut sciOns, but graft
ing apple and pear trees should not
take place till the buds are woll sWol-
len.-NIdsS. Pl0M1Emdn.