Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-04-14
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Farm Work for April,

Its weather moods and consequently
must have the farm work done in
accord with its ever changing, flirting
ways. To-day may be cold and rainy,
tomorrow "a bright warm day, hence
the farmer must be on the alert, and
not, if the weather suits, put off an
hour what is needed to be done, for
the to morrow may prove unfit for
the work that should De done to day.
This month all the plans for the year
should be arranged finally and every
preparation made for the whole years
farming. 1t is presumed that fencing
has all been done, bitches cleaned out
and new ones dug where required.
roads and gates in order and a good
deal Of blowing done. The cows that
are coming in" must be well cared
for, and the same attention given to
ewes about to lamb, and mares that
are to foal. Great care is to De taken
Of the young animals as they are born
so that accidents during their helpless
may be guarded against.
stock Of all Sorts.
Must be strictly attended to this
month, when mos; Of them are she'd
ding their coats and are weaker and
more easily debilitated than they vert
two months ago. Give your horses
good feed, good beds, good hay, good
currying and rubbing-a little salt
and dry ashes, daily, with half pint
each OF flaxseed once or twice week
Give yearling colts and calves two or
three times a week, one or two quarts
to each, of wheat bran or mill fsed
Feed your milking cows literally and
once day green rye and wheat, cut
and placed in their managers. Keep
your sows which have narrowed.
separate in small yards with dry pens
attached. Give them slops besides
dry grain, and to the pigs, all the
scum milk you can spare from the
calves you are feeding by hand. To
such calves give an eighth of pound
of common sugar, mixel with their
milk, or slop made of meal and bran.
say half pint of each in one half gallon
of hot water, four times day-the
last feed at s o'clock at night. aud the
first one at day down. The mix
ture will do if scum milk Is not abuud-
ant. Keep them in the stable or on
small grass plot, with warm shelter
attached. L6t the drink they have, be
Only tepid or AZ warm as cows milk
only. Learn then to lick or eat dry
food and grass as soon as you can.
Ewes with lambs by their sides
should be fed ell with chopped oats
and corn, mixed, and with roots, and
allowed to run on rye field, if you
want your lambs prime for market.
Oats.
If you have as vet failed to SOW your
pats, do so at once. Prepare the ground
we'll, fertilize 1t, and SOW two bushels
to the acre of good, heavy seed. and
do not fail to try bushel of some Of
the newer sorts such as the Russ an.
&c.
Glover Seed and other Grass seed.
If you have not already sown these.
DO so at once, and at this time Of the
year be sure and harrow lightly after
sowing, then roll. This will not injure
but help the growth of the small grain
among which the clover and gras,
seeds are sown. Follow with a ton
dressing of bushel of plaster anu
three bushels of salt, after the grass
seeds have formed their leaves abov,
ground.
Do all you can to prepare as soon as
possible your corn ground by deep
blowing, or blowing three or four
inches deep and snb-soiing each fur
row. Then dress the land with well
rotted stable manure, or 10 bushel. Of
fine ground bone, per acre; or dissolved
South Carolina rock, 400 lbs, per
acre; harrow and cross harrow until
the land is in fine filth and the man
ure thoroughly intermixed. Plan
choice seed and never let a weed be
seen while the crop is growing.
Potatoes.
Plant the most of your late crop
now. Use aplenty Of manure, and see
that the ground was thoroughly pre-
pared and in good condition before
planting.
Hauling out Manueres
Haul ont all the manure YOU can.
putting the fine on the corn or tobacco
land, and the coarse as top-dressing
for your p; s ure lands.
Meadows and Pa turas
If they have stood long or appear
hide bound, scarify them with heavy
harrow, and sprinkle with grass seeds
the naked places; then sow to each
acre ten bushels of ashes, if to be had;
200 lbs, Of super phosphate; 2 bushels
of sault and l Of plaster, mixed well
together before spreading.
Big Results from Little Causes.
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