The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-09-09
M;The Farm.
SOWING WHEAT.


for wheat, ought at once to begin-clean
up the field, manure the poor spots with
well rotted manure, plow the land dep
enough to cover the turf and all vegetable
growth. Should the latter be rank, NOW
it off and remove it. AS soon as few
acres are plowed, harrow the same way it
is plowed. to cover up the open places
between the fuuows. When the field is
thus plowed and narrowed one way, cross
harrow, and keep the surface stirred, and
all grass destroyed as it puts up, until you
are ready to SOW the grain. Sow the last
week in the month, by which time the turf
and green vegetation will have decomposed,
and the land become compact rather than
in that loose and friabie state not favorable
to wheat. Much filth in the soil is ruinous
to healthy growth of wheat. Drill in
one and a-half bushels of wheat per acre,
and if the land be light soil, roll after
the drill, or after the blowing in with small
plows, or the iron, shovel plows. Use 200
or 300 lbs, of some superphosphate, that
science or experience tells you is best suited
to your land. Next Winter SOW over it
four bushels of salt and one bushel of
plaster per acre. We believe the best
condition for large yield of wheat is
rich soil that has enough lime in it, good
turf which has been closely depastured
with sheep after cattle-plowed under in
time to nearly be decomposed and the
surface become compact after good harrow
ing with Thomas smoothing harrow, before
the grain is sown.
SEED.-If you have none of your own
that is good, procure the best to be had
from some wheat grower whose statements
can be relied on. Before sowing, wash it
in clean water, then soak for twenty four
hours in steep made of brine with ley
from wood ashes, two gallons to ten of
brine and two pounds of copperas dissolved.
Be careful to stir it often and remove by
skimming, all the light grains, cookie, and
other foreign seeds and scum which arises.
Then dry on clean floor by rolling in slack
ed lime or plaster. You thus have clean
seed, free from weevil, and almost out of
danger from the Hessian fly. On flat lands
where water is apt to lie, it is best to SOW
on beds twenty feet wide, with deep water
burrows between the beds. On any land
it is better to have plenty of water fur
rows. By sowing fallow wheat from the
Goth to the Both of this month, you will
divide the time of seeding your wheat crop,
as that to be sown on corn land cannot
we'll be sowed before the 10th, and even
after the 20th of October.
Maryland Farmer.
KINDS OF POULTRY TO KEEP.-There
are two productions for which fowls are
always in acknowledging eggs and for
poultry-so it is well to keep the breed in
the best condition possible for one or both
these branches of business. And if you
can at the same time have them please the
fancy of the fancier, so much the better,
as they make better customers usually for
surplus stock than the butcher. In some
localities eggs are worth more than poultry,
and it is desirable to have them at par
ticular time of the year. For egg produc-
ton the non sitters should be chosen, and
they will produce eggs when wanted, and
in quantities to suit, if properly fed and
otherwise cared for. If early poultry is
wanted, the non-sitters of good size are
the best to breed from, but if you want to
raise poultry to ship in late Fall or Winter,
Al -.
l prefer a short, stout leg on any fowl.
The bodies of such fowls may not be styl-
ish, but they mean business, and l keep
fowls for profit. There are several biddes
of my acquaintance we'll up to ten years of
age-of various breeds-and cocks five
years and more, vigorous as ever. 1nvari-
ably such are low and broad, compared
with what would be called fancy chickens
of same breeds by fanciers.-PoultryA Argus.
CARE OF YOUNG SToCK.-Some people
have advanced the opinion, and even acted
upon it, that to have hardy stock they must
be exposed to the weather, and not over
supplied with food while young-or, in
OIner WORDS, InaC Gait OF COLI, we'll Ieu
and cared for, will naturally be tender, and
must be so fed through life to be kept in
good condition. This is not so in the first
instance, for stock half kept while young
can never recover from the injury thus re-
ceived, and no after care in feeding can
make as good an animal as would have
been produced by proper treatment in early
life. To keep stock proftably, they should
always be kept in thriving condition, re-
ceiving extra attention while young and
growing, especially during the Winter and
Spring. Good shelter and plenty to eat
and drink are particularly necessary at all
seasons of the year to make valuable horses
or cattle hereafter.-Rural australian.