Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-08
Farmer and Gardener.
Get Ready for Planting.

Get Ready for Planting.
Advised by the Germantown Telegraph.
In few weeks more nearly all garden
crops will be in order to put in, and now is
the time to procure the seed and get them
ready for use. OF course the early peas and
onions, if not now planted, should be at
tended to at once. In selecting peas
We would set out, to begin with, the
Extra Early, followed by McLean's
Little Gem, Eugene, McLean's Prolific,
Champion of England and Blue Imperial.
These we should select from the en-
tire list. The Long Scarlet Radish can
also be sown now in a warm border follow
ed by the Early White Turnip-Rooted.
The first crop of Sugar Corn-the large
eight-rowed-should be planted not earlier
than the 18th of this month. if the weather
be favorable, to be followed every ten or
twelve days thereafter with the Evergreen
Sugar, which we have grown for over
twenty-five years, and have not found any
yet to equal it. There should be six or
seven paintings in all, in order to have a
constant supply for the family until hard
frost in October.
Better Hay and Pasture.
Anyone passing through agricultural
districts, say in June when the herbage
must notice how much land is only half or
a quarter utilized, by allowing the un-
checked growth of all sorts of weeds. A
large proportion of this land is pastured,
and the way the poor cattle have to seek
out the little grass from among the over
whelming weeds in source of actual sad
ness These pasture fields, too, are al
lowed to go on producing noxious weeds
for 4 series of years without an effort being
made to get rid of them by the surest
lie known to the observing farmer
.frGquent cultiUation. Then, again, we sec
the same proportion of weeds in many
fields from which the cattle-hay is to be cut
and this is done year after year just as
though cows and other cattle would eat
the weeds any moro readily dry than
green.
1t is as apparent as the sun at monday
that to whatever extent weeds are allowed
to grow Just to that extent is the land
'astcd-in fact worse than wasted. Now
lat this can be avoided is clear and that
il can he proftably avoided in most cases
scarcely admits of doubt. And what is
true Of the pasture fields, is the same
where the herbage is left to become hay.
The good clean field is the exception. Not
only the Ox-eye daisy, but sorrel and plain
tam, anG aSterS OF various KINDS, which
cattle care no more for when dry than when
green, constitute the bulk of what is to be
hay a; and it is tolerably good stuff which
has but one-fourth of extraneous matter.
We have before suggested that our agri-
cultural societies, which give so many and
such high premiums for fast-trotting
horses, might least share little for the
encouragemento of the food which the noble
animal is to eat. Premiums for we'll
grown hay, clean hay, hay from improved
grasses, and well-managed hay fields,
would surely be objects worthy of the at
tention of even Estate agricultural So
ciety,' and we think it will become so if the
press will unite in compending the sub
jects to general attention.
Surely there is no greater eyesore than a
field, looking as if it might produce thirty
bushels of wheat, seventy-five of corn, or
from two to three tons of tirst-class hay to
an acre, allowed to be covered with masses
of noxious of weeds, which can and should
be destroyed. A merchant from the city
who may pass through rural section, and
seeing these myriad Of oxeyed daisy flowers,
will almost invariably ask why they are
there, and if they cannot be e1terminated
and good hay and grain raised instead.