The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-08
F1RN And HOME.
Farm RdkingS.

Farm Rakings.
THERE is nothing better for hot-beds
than leaves mixed with barn-yard ma
nure, as they produce heat for long
time
IT is safe calculation to plant seeds
in a hot-bed six weeks before the time at
which plants can be set out in open
ground.
other sharp instrument, the peach trees
wherever the gum is escaping, and kill
the gs.ubs.
ORDER your garden seeds at once.
Seed wheat can be cleaned up; seed corn
shelled wood all cut and piled up.
Clean up your yards.
| FoR full success with clover our prai-
RE soil should be plowed from twelve to
fifteen inches deep. Let no soil scratch
er be frightened at this
IF not done before, trim currants,
grapes and gooseberries cut up the cut
tings SIX to ten inches long, and bury be-
low frost for spring setting.
THROW your coal ashes around fruit
trees and under currants and gooseber-
ries. Don't throw away or sell wood
ashes, but use them around your peach
and other fruit trees.
BEssure to have the ground where you
put onions next spring rich, and, to make
it so, cover it over with manure now,
running over it iii the spring and raking
off all the coarse parts.
AS THE spring opens, and before put
ting In crops, let every farmer see that
all the manure on the farm is hauled out
and spread where corn or other crops
are to be grown. 1t will not do to neg
lect this important matter in farming.
PREvENTIvEs in cases of hog cholera
are evidently of far more value than
specifics. Give hogs bituminous coal,
ashes, salt Carefully, copperas Gn linn
tied quantities), charcoal, and such veg
etables as can be furnished.
THE National Egg and Butter Associa-
tion recommend giving to chickens
afflicted with cholera a "blue pill, ~
known to the apothecaries, so soon as the
chicken is seized. Ii it is not relieved
by next morning, give another pill
To GROW good roots from cuttings of
ounces, currants, gooseberries, flower
ing shrubs, etc, it is well to take of
the cuttings the first open spell,
and bury in earth, SO that they will
callous over before planting out in the
sprin5.
SO THAT our farmers may know what
their Eastern cousins pay for fertilizers,
we quote cat New York, guano from
$50 to $62 per ton; dry ground
fish guano, S45 ground bones, $45
ground gypsum, 80 super-phosphates,
from $40 to $50; nitrate of potash,
cents per pound sulphate of potash,
cents.
Now IS the time to purify your chicken
houses to prevent disease. Burning sui
phur in the houses; sprinkling with car
bolic acid whitewashing with hot lime
cleaning out frequently; providing new
nests; providing literally ashes, char
coal, burnt oyster shells, lime, gravel,
pure water, will aid in stopping or ward.
ing off disease.
In arranging for the corn crop this
spring be careful not to have too many
acres and too few hands. Twenty-Five
acres per hand is enough. Corn should
be plowed at least five times, and the
weeds which escape the plow must be
removed by the hand or hoe. Cultivate
it SO as to increase the average product
and keep the farm clean of weeds.
AT recent discussion at farmers
club, the following conclusions were
made: That in putting in corn-stall
ground to wheat it is not best to stir the
ground very deep, but stir all the sur
face, if possible. Flowing under stalks
and sowing or drilling afterward is no
as good as sowing and cultivating will
double-shovel or sulky pillow and drag
ging same way as cultivated, so as no
to drag the wheat in the burrows.