Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-04-20
The CHRONICLE.
Hints for The Season.

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of the country will be late. 1t will be
the tenth or middle of the month be-
fore much ploughing can be done, ex-
cept in the most favorable localities,
and about the twentieth and perhaps
later, before cats or spring wheat a
be got into the ground. To forward
the work as much as possible,
MEND ALL THE FENCES,
work that is usually done after the
oats and wheat, and sometimes the
corn, are in the ground, but it can be
done as well lin many cases. a month
earlier. This will save time, and the
pastures will be ready for the cattle
when they + wanted.
All the coarse manure, if not already
hauled out should be at once. 4 day
when the now is gomez can be given
10 picking up the chips where the
winter wood has been cut in the
woods. They make a most excellent
hre In July and August, when only
q blaze is wanted to heat the tea ket-
tie, and in no case should fuel of any
sort be wasted.
When ploughing is commenced, be
careful of the teams. During the first
warm spring days at the beginning of
constant work, there is more danger
of injuring a team (oxen especially
than at any other time of the veal.
They have been standing idle most
of the winter, and need to be harden
ed gradually, not to say anything
about the letting down OF the whole
physical system consequent upon the
change from cold weather to hot.
Water them three or four times a day.
If they III at work at a distance from
the farm house. on a prairie perhaps,
always carry with their dinner q bar
rel of water, and see that they are al
lowed a pailful of that most invigOTa-
ting beverage at least once in three
hours. Treat your team as you treat
yourself, should be an memorable rule
for the farmer; and when you are
weary and tired, remember that your
horses or oxen are non the less so.
As a general rule, SOW wheat and
oats early. As soon as the frost is
well out of the ground, if the soil is
sandy, put in the plough. If wetand
heavy, leave it till the surface is a
little dry. In no case allow yourself
to take a single furrow where surface
water is standing. When the plough
ing is done, put in the grain immedi-
ately. 1t will harrow in better if il is
sOwed before the burrows are beaten
down by a rain.
SEED TO THE ACRE.
Much depends upon the quality of
the land. Rich soil does not require
heavy a seeding as poor. About
one and a half bushels of wheat and
two and a half or three bushels of oats
is the average for good, fair soils.
Very rich soils will do with less.
Very poor require more.
1t should be well gOtin. Narrowing
both ways is nom too much, and
even if you lap half the second time,
all the better. The harrow should be
followed by the bush. and on some
soils by the roller. This levels the
ground and packs tia special need
where it is light and sandy, and pre-
pares the field for the moving ma
chine the coming summer.
After the first narrowing, the grass
seed should be sOwn. Where clover
and red-tOp and timothy are all used,
the proportion would be one bushel
"a poundsl of red top, twelve to six
teen pounds of clover, and a peck of
timothy.
Do every thing well. Begin the
year with a purpose to fill it with
work better than ever has been done
before. Plough well, sow well, get in
the seed well, leave the lot looking
with a skirting of grass OF
weeds or bushes next the wall or fence
but clean and complete. The joy and
satisfaction of farm life, as well as its
success, depend as much upon this as
On any one thing; and we shall love
The old homestead and resist the al
of the outside world just in
proportion as We make our homes
beautiful and attractive by doing
every thing in its season, and doing
every thing well.-HedFh and Home. |