Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-03-14
FARGi AND FIRESIDE.

seem to be giving way in spots, would be
greatly benefited, if not renovated by be-
: ing re-sown with mixed grasses wherever
needed, top-dresscd with Z to 10 bushels of
bone dust, or plaster and salt. 3 bushels
each per acre, and narrowed with sharp
toothed harrow. This must be done when
the ground is dry.
| Brood Soaos-Should bring their pigs ear
ly next month, and be well treated, and kept
supplied with dry litter under cover for bed
| ding.
| Sheep Look well to the sheep now. and
take especial care Of such ewes as will have
lambs this month. In bad weather give
grain and good hay, clover hay is best, with
liberal supply of turnips to those ewes
which have lambs. Let them have free ac.
cess to salt, and learn the lambs to eat meal
and mill feed or chop oats, if you desire to
have them large and fat either for the
butcher early or as future breeders. A lit.
tie extra care and cost will pay high III
terest matter.
| Young Stock Feed generously on grain.
ground coarse, like small hominy
Working Horses and Catle-This is a
very trying month to working beasts, and
they should be we'll cared for and highly
fed, with constant moderate exercise to pre-.
pare them for their coming hard labor
Mich Coacs.-Keep these in good order,
and give those you are milking plenty of
Stops warm, at least, not half frozen. A
bucket of warm water with one quart of
meal or shorts, stirred in, and seasoned with
salt will, if given once day, increase the
| flow of milk greatly. Let them, and indeed
all your stock, have plenty of pure, clean
water, and access to salt at all times We
have found a mixture of equal parts of salt
and ashes, gill twice week, very good
for stock of all kinds. 1t may be mixed
with their food, or given alone.
Fences. Let these be put ia proper Or
der, and all bushes and brars cleared from
the corners and sides, as they cause tho
fence rails to decay, and clean fence gives
an. air of neatness to the farm
Clover. Should favorable time come
this month, sow your clover seed, and bar
row it in amongst the wheat and rye The
narrowing will benefit the grain by loosening
the hard crust of the grain fields, formed BY
the rains and drying winds of the winter.
1t is working for the small grain crops
that is highly beneficial. This work may b.
put off until next month without detriment.
Corn DO all the blowing for the corn
crop you can this month, so that it can be
put in good order with the harrow when de-
sired, or afford you the time to cross.plow
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may be in the best tilth for the reception of
the grain when it is time to plant. As
many of our readers live in the Sunny South.
where corn planting is going on at this sea-
son of the year, we would urge them to
plant only on we'll prepared fertile or high
ly MANFRED ground, for otherwise, at the
high price of labor and low price of corn,
the crop will not pay expenses. Better be
month later in planting if the delay will
enable them to prepare the land we'll, and
manure it or fertilizc it with some good su.
per-phosphate, or other grain producing
manure.
Potatoes. -As in this section early pota-
toes pay better than late ones, we would ad-
wise that few acres be planted as soon as
the weather and condition of soil will per-
nit To grow the largest crop, the land
should have been deeply plowed and heavi-
ly MANFRED last autumn, so that now, by
cross blowing and narrowing, the manure
would become thoroughly Incorporated with
the soil. and easily brought into fine filth,
but if this has been neglected, the ground
intended for this crop should be highly ma
nured and plowed deep. and got into fine
condition rThop Low off
apart, and four inches deep in these tren-
ches sow some phosphate fertilizer, at the
rate of 400 lbs. or moro per acre, according
to the strength of the article, or scatter in
the rows well rotted stable manure, and
drop the pieces Of potato 10 or II inches
apart in the rows. If the potatoes are cut
small put two pieces in place if cut in
halves, one piece is enough.
Plaster. IF you have not already done
it, SOW plaster over the young clover and
grain if bushels of salt were added to
2 of plaster, we'll intermixed, it would be
greatly for the better Make free use OF
plaster over your barn yards, hog pens, in
the stables, hen houses. and over such pla-
ces where the slops, ashes and house Stops
are deposited.
Poultry houses. White wash and cleanse
with carbolic soap-suds the poultry houses,
keep clean. use lime and ashes and fresh
earth on the floors of the same which remove
and put in barrels with the droppings of the
fowls once week, and you will be supplied
with valuable lot Of the best fertilizer you
can get Feed your fowls with a warm
mess of meal and potatoes once day, with
grain of different sorts in the morning and
at night Diversity their food. Provide
ashes for busting themselves, and lime,
pounded oyster shells. Coarse bone dust they
are fond of meat scraps and bread crusts,
with meal and husks, mixed and baked in
pones Do these things, and you will have
abundance of eggs, and fat poultry for the
table. Ducks and geese are heavy and gross
feeders
SHoArs IN A BARN CELLAR-A Maine
farmer manufactures manure-thatis is, mixes
it-by keeping four shoats in his barn cellar
where he feeds them raw sugar beets and
quart of corn put down with the manure
every morning He says: "The way they
go for it (the corn) is perfectly lovely.
The manure is rooted, rerooted and rooted
again, until it is worked up as fine as old
manure. The stock is bedded every night"
Chow CHow.-Take quarter of peck
Of green tomatoes and the same quantity
each of picking beans and white onions one