The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-28
THE BULLETIN.
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Published every ,norring, Monday ex.
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TIIEFARNI,
cABBAoEs AND POTATOES.

To properly prepare for plant, and care
for three or four acres of cabbages will re-
quirc considerable labor and sound prac-
tice before the work can be done cheaplv.
The same is true Of potatoes. Better aud
more profitable to plant one acre the first
year, and fertilize and cultivate in the
best manner, than to plant three acres and
have the work half attended to. For cab
bages, send TO some responsible scotsman,
and get a pound of the premium Flat
Dutch; SOW this in drills in the open
ground, about the last week in April
When the seed is sown Mt this time, the
plants will be large enough TO set in the
open field by the LIST Of June. Plow the
ground five or six inches deep, and run
subsoil in the bottom of the furrow. This
will lift and loose without turniug. To
grow cabbages for profit the ground must
be rich, deep, and mellow. Cabbages will
pay handsomely at $50 per ! 900 when
there is market near where they are
grown. For potatoes plant the Early
Rose reports speak favorably Of this var
iety for field culture. 1t is the most proilta-
bleearl Y variety that is grown in the East.
Sweet potatoes require different treatment.
Buy bushel or two Of the Nansemond TO
raise plants from. Start them in mode
rate hotbed, about the first of April.
With proper care the "sprouts will be
large enough to plant In the open field by
June. The sweet potato forms an excep-
tion to the general rule, and will yield
more and larger roots on light, shallow
soil than on "a mellow, deep soil. The
common method Of preparing for planting
il, TO open a shallow furrow and in this
furrow scatter some well-rotted manure.
This manure is then covered by throwing
IA couple Of furrOw slices from either side,
forming II ridge. On the to Of such n
ridge Il plant is set, say every two feet.
Sweet potatoes arc also grown in hills,
3I3 putting the manure In hole, and
then drawing the soi, over it, forming a
hill Fix or eight inches, above the level
Of the surface. In each hill plant is set
in June, selecting cloudy day, If possible,
for transplanting. The after-cultivation
consists in keeping the surface loose, and
free from weeds, the larger part of which
can be done with horse and culti-
vator.
PROTECTED POULTRY FARM,
A Marylander advertises that he would
" undertake to establish an immense poul!
y
fresh laid in December, and 100000
chickens batched in January and Febru-
AIRY, and raised FOR sale a. Spring chickens,
with corresponding success at other sea-
sons Of the year, provided he could meet
with some one having land and capital for
whom he could carry out the enterprise.
Rough lumber and nails, are all that
would be needed for roosts and coops,
which would be made by the party him
self
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