The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-04-17
HOW TO WORK.

from the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIsT for
April which the farmers will find profit
in studying and applying.
HOW TO WORK.
As order is kept by having a place
for everything, and keeping everything
in its place, so work succeeds best when
it is rightly done, and at the right time.
There are best and a worst way of
doing everything, and a best and
worst time for doing it. One who has
well considered his seasons work and
has a list of all that has to be done will
go right; one labor will succeed another
with regularity, and each will be we'll
done. Every job should tell. There
should be no making holes and filling
them up again on farm, no handwork
where machines can be used no small
weeds left to grow large; no manure
kept wasting by the rain or baked in
the sun while crops arc starving for
it; no work done twice over no cat
tie starved or allowed to suffer and fail,
to be restored at a greater cost than
they are worth; everything should be
ahead, and work must be driven and
not be allowed to drive. The head
must guide the hands always.
HIRED MEN
Get the best hands, and KEEP them.
When man has become used to his
work and his employer, he is worth
more than stranger There is a way
of making men interested in their work,
of satisfying their selfrespect, treating
them courteouslv and reasonably, Civ
ing them credit for success, while hold
ing them strictly responsible for fail
ures, and above all. by paying them
promptly and literally, that will make
their work worth double what it would
otherwise be- AS land advances in
price, more labor must be expended on
it to make it pay profit and by and
by we must have a settled laboring
class. We are now in process of edu-
eating this class of men, and must do
it by good management. Give each
hired man a copy of the AGR1CULTURIsT
to read and study; the money it will
cost in year will be saved every
month.
FLOWING, NARROWING, AND ROLLING.
Begin as soon as the ground is dry
and mellow, and sow as soon as it is
prepared Where the soil is mellow it
is not necessary to barrow before sowing
unless the drill is used The use of the
roller after sowing is invaluable at this
season. 1t compacts the soil about the
seed and levels the surface for the har
vesters. The roller is an almost in
dispensable field implement
FODDER CROPS
Barley and vetches, or oats and peas,
may be sown in succession every 10 or
IA days up to May, for cutting green.
For the dairy there are no more valua-
BILE crops; 9 10 bushels of barley or
oats, and - of vetches or peas, may
be sown with the drill or plowed in with
three-inch furrow. 1t is difficult to
cover peas with the harrow. If allow
cd to ripen, the cured straw and grain
makes excellent winter feed, when cut
into chat, for horses, cows sneep, or
hogs.
NARROWING WINTER WHEAT.
There is no harrow so well adapted
to this useful work as the Thomas har-
row. The wheat is greatly benefited,
and the grass and clover-seed sown is
more likely to catch.
ARTIFICIAL FERTILIZERS.
We must use more artificial fertilizers
or farming cannot pay as it ought to do.
As farms become worth more, more
working capital is required, and the
chief need of this is to provide good
fertilizers The value of fertilizers is
now we'll understood They must be
applied early and with the seed. For
barley, oats, clover, and grass, apply
$50 lbs. of superphosphate oflimc, and
and 100 of nitrate of soda, per acre
Sow them, finely powdered, broadcast
half each way, to get an even spread
as soon as the seed is covered. The
first rain will carry them into the soil.
Let those who doubt, experiment upon
one acre.
PLASTER
Sow one bushel per acre upon young
clover or oats, as soon as the growth is
started. Seymour's broadcast sower,
costing about $40, will SOW bushcl or
less upon an acre with perfect regular
ity; it also sows all other fine fertilizers
broadcast. 1t always pays to use
plaster at $40 ton or 40 cents
bushel
PASTURES
Harrow old pastures with sharp
toothed, heavy harrow, scatter some
fresh seed and 200 lbs of fine bone-four
per acre over them, or give them dress
ing of fine, well-rottcd yard manure
y few bushels of lime and one of salt
will he useful.
LIVE sToCK
When hurried with work, don't for
get the stock. For lice apply linseed |
oil and the curry-comb or card
should be worked moderately at first |
If the shoulders are inclined to chafe, |
battle them with salt and water, wash |
off the salt, rub dry and apply crude
petroleum. This is healing applica-
ton for gals or bruises. Wash the
feet and legs when muddy, and wipe
dry. Give some bran or oat meal in |
their drink Give cut feed at noon. and |
long hay at night Clean them thor
oughly at night. This is important to
their proper rest
COWS AND CALVES.
The treatment of cows must depend
on circumstances A COW in full flow
may proftably get all the food she can
turn into milk. When she is turned
out to grass the feed of meal should
not be cut off. She will take three or
four quarts or more of mixed meal and
bran in day without getting fat, if she
is the right sort of COW, and pay for it
in milk with a good profit If she is
not the right sort, it will be best to get
rid of her Daryinr is now the most