The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-03-21
"CL0DHOPPER. -
Care of StOck-The Supply of Fire.
wood-RaisiHg PotatOeS--Earjy
Vegeta5ieS-GrdSS and Clover.

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Ed. HIGHLAND NEws--The March
winds are upon US, and all careful
farmers will look carefully after their
domestic animals to see that they
are kept in good flesh, as from this
time until grass is the most trying
period of the whole year upon them.
1t is the commonest thing in the
world to let farm stock get poor
every spring, losing nearly as much
in the winter as they had gained the
previous summer. There is no
economy in this as every pound of
flesh lost by pig or calf is just that
much value gone forever, and takes
time and feed to restore it. The
most economical method of rearing
farm animals is to keep them steadily
growing all of the time. It is much
cheaper to put steer into market at
two and half years old by careful
feeding than to stint it, so as to have
to feed it six months to a year longer
to get it ready for sale. There is
much more profit on a March pig
THAT is made ready for market the
next winter weighing 25o TO 800
pounds, than one that has been "win-
tered over" to attain the same weight.
Work horses want to be fed grain
Regularly now, and put to hard work
gradually, increasing their labor very
slowly as they get seasoned. Colts
intended to be put to work for the
first time should be handled very
gently, not allowing them to do any
hard pulling, until they have reached
it by easy grades.
A good supply of stovewood should
be stored in the shed, enough to last
all summer. 1t is a very bad ar
rangement to have to stop work in
the busy crop season to get wood,
and besides wood prepared now and
placed in the dry is worth a great
deal more than when fresh cut, and
is boon to. the good housewife,
which she will appreciate most heart
lily.
Early potatoes may be planted
anytime now; the sooner the better,
and those having surplus can, for
extra early, be sure of a good round
price for them. The easiest and the
surest way that I know of to raise
potatoes is to plant them as the
ground is plowed. Plow deep and
drop them in about every third or
fourth furrow, taking care to place
the seed on the side of the furrow at
about one half of its depth. The
next furrow covers them. When the
plowing is done the potatoes are
planted, and unless the ground is in
, very fine condition it should be we'll
narrowed; though this may be left
until the potatoes begin "to peep
through the ground" There is no
more profitable farm crop, when
{ managed properly than potatoes.
n It is high time peas, lettuce and
'' early radishes were planted. A little
freezing of the ground will do them
no harm, and the ground a great
deal Of good,
- It is astonishing how few farmers
0 understand the. great benefit that
r, plowed land receives from a good
freezing or two. The minute divis-
). ion of the soil thus secured is equal
to several harrowings, and much
!, cheaper.
n To miss a stand of grass and clover
is a great misfortune; much greater
than the loss of the seed and labor
J. It spoils the proper rotation of crops
y and in this way does an irreparabIe
injury. Every careful and observing
K farmer has discovered that the fertil
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