The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-10
FARM WORK FOR NAY.

IAnM WUhA FUN NAL
From the Maryland Farmer.l
Plant corn, and when it is up and
worms, plant abundantly of pumpkin
seed. Also, we advise that an acre or
more of the best land be selected to
plant Lima beans to run upon the
corn stalks for support. In this way
fair crop of beans may be made with
out detriment to the corn, if the land
be as il should be, rich, well cultivated,
and the season prove not unpropitious.
Beans command high price in winter
and early spring, when vegetables are
scarce. They are easily gathered and
threshed, making the crop very profit
able. They are, after being soaked and
properly cooked, as palatable as when
eaten before they are ripened, and
hence they are in great demand. With
the aid of drying houses, they may,
like other vegetables, he gathered in
the green.state, and in the winter they
are almost as fresh as if just taken off
the vines.
CLOVER PASTURES.
DO not turn stock too soon on clover,
and when you do, beware of hoNen in
cattle, particularly in wet weather. AS
some guard against it, be sure to give
them plenty of salt and ashes. A
hungry OK in wet weather, turned on
rank clover, will be apt to have "cerebo-
spinal meningitis" and milk punch"
will not save him il he has drank freely
of cod water.
Stock of all kinds, especially colts,
should have feed of corn at least once
a day, though they be on clover, as it
requires sometime TO the system to ac-
con, modate itself to change from dry
winter food to green summer diet.
Such change often produces hoven,
hatulency or collie. Ashes ard salt
i'll equal parts are excellent preven-
tive for such diseases. These two
articles, with an equal quantity of
plaster well m'xed, form a fine dressing
broadcast for corn, at the rate of five or
SIX bushels OF the mixture per acre.
MILLET.
The last 81 the month, those who de-
sire to increase their amount of winter
proveDder, ought to select a portion of
land and enrich it, and SOW miliet upon
it. If the hay or straw crop is short,
we advise sowing miilet, for it is cure,
if properly sOwn on good land, to pro-
duce well. The seed is good for poultry,
and also Is fattening To stock, but we
should never SOW miilet in preference
TO corn broadcast for either soiliug or
prOvender for winter use. Our venerable
contemporary says in his April number
that IL is Southern plant, and quotes
from Georgia correspondent that "a
little more than All acre sown in drills
three and a half feet apart, last of
March. yielded from the third week in
April until the S5h week in September,
sufficient to keep eleven head of stock
fat" The writer saws he cut It ten or
eleven times, and believes it would
have yie deu more had it been cut
oftener. Oar contemporary actually
seems tn believe this wonderful hOa2
We'll, my friends, We do not believe it,
AMI won't, aud don't ask you to 90 any
such ridiculous thing. If such is the
ease, and the wTi.er ia not hoaking,
why all We have To do is To cut mil ct
after thirty days from its being sown,
and as often as possible, and it will
feed any umoupt of stock. In Georgia
it must grow a. fast a. Jonah's gourd.
1t is a different article from what We
istence We hope all our people will Try
it. Only think! one acre of thin land,
manfred, VIII keep fat eleven read of
stock-or one hundred acres will keep
fat 1l0a. P'odigjouS :" as dominic
Simpson says.
1t Is such wild statements that render
book iarmius" 50 ridiculous in the
eyes Of SENSIBLE, practical men. What
do hOiaui-ts and farmers. who are prac-
teal mer, say about millet? We be-
lieye IL, Ike Oats or timothy, will bear
hut one cutting, once or twice at most
TIE spondeuJ referred 10 must
have mistaken licerue for mil!et. On
very rich sol lucerne will bear cutting
maDy times a year.
RUTA- BAGA, TURNIP AND SWEDES,
Are worthy OF consideration, aud at
least ii small space should he devoted to
each. The ground should be dressed
with forty or fifty loads OF stable ma
nure-pioSed deep aud narrowed well /;
then dressing of three bushels of
ashes, one Of plsster, and three or five
Of sat, well intermiXed, and sown per
arIe, and narrowed in. In ten days
after heavy dressing Of some
fertilizer, say fifteen bushels of fine
ground bones, or four hundred pounds
of any good preparation of super
phosphate.
First of June SOW drills two feet apart,
work often, and keep clean and grass
free from weeds, allowing the plants
to stand apart not nearer than len to
fifteen inches IN the row. Your crop
will begood, and your land permanent
ly improved, while the product from
each acre will yield enough manure to
enrich two more acres, besides either
milk, butter or meat, to pay highly for
both the expense of fertilizing and
culture of the crop.
TOBACCO.
Keep the reds clean, and prepare
for planting the last of the month il
possible. This crop is of great moment
now, particularly such sorts as suit the
French market and the German
MARKET, where, owing to their late war,
the prices have considerably advanced,
with brisk demand. To make to-
bacco valuable as crop, the land
should be light loan. made very
itch and well prepared. The crop must
be planted early, well cultivated, kept
from worms, and tOpt low and handled
carefully. The beds ouSh hit to have heen
dressed with at least five hundred
pounds of Peruvian guano-and if so,
az good manure for top dressing the
plants as can be used, is well rotted
stable manure and leached ashes, well
mixed and sifted, then sowed heavily
or broadcast before or during a rain.
SHEEP sIIEARING.
Sheep shearing may be done after
the fifteenth, during warm weather. If
q cold rain or stormy weather comes
soon after this work be done, see that
the sheep are housed. There is often
much cruelty attendant upon this
work, and the master should see that
it be avoided, and that these tender
and harmless animals be treated with
gentleness and kindness.
POTATOES.
Potatoes are an indispensable crop,
and should now be planted; at least
portion of the land To he devoted to
this crop, should be planted this month.
Land can hardly be too rich for the
potato.
SWEET POTATOES.
Sweet potatoes should now be set out,
by drawing the slips from the plant
bed in damp weather, ami setting
them in hills or ridges, under which
strong manure from the stable should
be placed. Too little attention is given
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