The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-08-14
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AUGUST WORK ON THE FARM.

greatly unless fresh green feed is furnish
ed to the cows Trimmings from the
root crops or the corn-felds will still
yield good feed every night for week
or two. But it is best to have piece
of fodder corn especially planted for
this purpose. If nothing else can be
given them, a pailful Of bran Stops for
each one will be of great service. Cows
that are once allowed to shrink in their
milk, will fall into a habit of doing it
always.
SHEEP.-Late lambs should now be
weaned. The ewes should be closely
watched and MIXED dry every second
evening, if necessary, until quite dried
off. Rams should be separated from
the ewes except those from which lambs
in January are wanted. Where there
is every facility for taking care Of and
disposing of such early lambs, they are
by far the most profitable. Commence
to feed rams for their fall work. If a
thoroughbred ram is to be purchased,
do it at once while there is good choice.
SwINE.-Pigs or hogs to be fattened
SHOULD be put up now. They will make
more growth in a month now than in
two months by and by. Give them
plenty of pure water and dry clean pens.
Sows bred on the first of August will
farrow in sixteen weeks, or about the
1st of December. With warm, good
pens, pigs may be raised without
trouble, making good porkers in the
Spring. If pigs are not wanted, then
they should not come until March, and
the boar should be shut up in the mean
time.
SELECTING SEED-As it is by select
ing seed and carefully preparing and
planting a portion of the ground spe-
cially for the growth of seed, that i'm
provements in farm crops are made,
it would be we'll not only to select seed
wheat for the fall sowing with care, and
to free it from seeds of weeds even by
handpicking if necessary, but to prepare
and SOW portion of the field wit IN
more than usual care for the production
of seed for next years crop. Much
may be done in this way to improve the
crops, and instead of farmers paying
high prices for seed to persons who will
take this care, they should do it for
themselves and save this tax.
SuNDRY MATTERs-Insurances that
have lapsed should be renewed, and
where there is none it should be secured
without delay. Insurance is a tax for
safety that no person should grudge to
pay. All those machines and tools that
are now out of use should be cleaned
and put away in safe place Any oil
rags used in cleaning should be care
fully burned; if thrown in corner
carelessly, they may take fire spontan-
eously and destroy much property
Now is good time to weed out the
stock, to get rid of Improbable animals
and procure better ones There should
be constant effort to increase the value
of livestock by procuring thoroughbred
males. choosing the best females to
breed from, and selecting the best of the
produce for stock.
THE DAT STUMBLE should be plowed
as soon as the crop is harvested, so as
to start the shelled grain into growth.
No more blowing is needed Keep the
surface cultivated or narrowed This
will kill thousands of weeds from newly
dropped seeds. BY keeping the surface
mellow, the bottom is keep from becom
ing too dry and hard.
LIME.-If lime is to be spread upon
an oat stubble which is to be sown to
wheat next month, and clover in the
Spring, it should not be drawn from the
kiln until the ground is plowed, when it
can be dropped at once on the field in
heaps of one bushel two rods apart each
way This will give exactly 40 bushels
per acre, which is fair dressing The
first shower will slake the lime and
cause it to fall into fine powder, when
it may be spread evenly in square,
one rod each way from the heap, with
a long handled shovel This is by far
the easiest way of handling lime
OLD PASTURES may be renewed this
month by cutting off the brush, bushes,
ETC., little below the surface, burning
them and spreading the ashes Then
go over the ground with heavy sharp
toothed harrow and tear up the surface,
spread some lime and top-dress with the
scrapings of the stables and yards, sow
some fresh seed and roll.
STACKS of grain or hay should be
well topped off or matched, the fodder
saved will pay the cost.
RooT CROPS will need thinning Sc
verely. Every supernumerary plant is
really weed, and should be pulled out
with other weeds Twelve inches apart
is near enough for ruta bagas and tur-
nips.
FALL PLowINa-Clover sod for wheat
should be turned perfectly fiat and rolled
to compact the sod Six inches is deep
enough for the blowing The sod should
not be cross-plowed, but the soil worked
fine.
ORCHARD AND NURSERY.
Drouths are likely to tell upon newly
planted trees this month, and particu-
larly upon those which were improperly
taken up, and had poor roots. A mulch
even at this late date, may save many
which would perish without it. =
WEB WORMS are often found in album
dance upon fruit trees at this time; if
they are upon small twigs, cut these off
and burn; when they infest large limbs
they must be removed with the hand.
INsEcTs-Large quantities of i'm
mature fruit are often found under the
trees; this is the work of insects allow
the pigs the run of the orchard, or have
the fruit picked up and the insects de-
stroyed, to prevent crop for the COM
ing year.
BUD whenever the bark is loose
enough to lift readily, and when we'll
ripened buds can be had. Keep the
sticks of buds moist until used
MARKETTNG-In order to get good
prices for fruits, they must be carefully
assorted and handled, as upon this
depends the profit or loss of the business
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