Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1885-04-17
farmers' Guluma.
Give fools their gold ~ hnaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sows n field trains n flower,
Or plants a tree. Is more than all.

Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
who soyvs a field trains n flower,
Or plants a tree. Is more than all.
Farm Work for April.
Capricious April is again with Us
and tells plainly that summer is close
at hand and it is no time now for the
worker of the soil to idle or delay, if |
he expects fruitful return for hie |
labors. All seeds have their time fol |
sowing and bearing and it is we'll that |
every farmer should know the fact and |
as a rule embrace the earliest oppar
tunity that the condition of the sol |
and the state of the weather permit,
to sow the seeds of such plants and !
vines as are suited to that particular
time. The past winter has been so
exceptionally cold and wet that much
farm work usually performed in win
ter has been delayed and could not
have been done at the proper time,
hence April this year is crowded with
an unusual amount of work usually
performed in winter. 1t behooves every
farmer therefore to be active and ener-
getic this particular month. Oats
should have been sown two months
ago, but now, if on we'll prepared
ground and enriched they may pro-
duce a paying crop.
Nanure.-Haul out all the manure
you have been able to gather and make
the past winter. Top dress your
meadows and hay fields with it, and
the balance spread on the tillage land. !
Sow plaster over it as soon as spread.
for the purpose of fixing the ammonia.
Spread the manure as fast as hauled
out The plan of clubbing it in small
heaps is wasteful and pnnsensical.
ClOuer and other Grass Ssels.-Ift
not sown before. do so now on the first
occasion that the earth is dre enough.
and follow the suggestions we made
last month as TO this important mat
ter. Try above all things TO have a
good stand of grass. In this crop there
is fertility of soil, health anl fatness
for stock and the germ Of farming
prosperity.
obacco-Strip and CO d,tion this
crop and look we'll to he beds of the
growing plants.
Tree Planting. DO all vou can this
month in setting out Chestnut and
Locust trees for fencing stuff-frurt
and ornamental trees and forest trees
also
Corn.-Prepare the land intended /
for the corn crop, by heavy m nuring,
under draining when necessary, deep
plowing and thorough pulveriziug by
the harrow, that it may be in fit con-
dltion for planting the crop the latter
part of this month or early portion OF
the next. 1t cannot be too often re-
peated, "that the best cultivation corn
gets is before it is planted"
Meaaows.-After the middle of
March not hoof should tread upon
the meadow however tempting it may
be to Craze favorite animal. Go over /
the meadow and break and scatter any
heaps of dung that may be found
clean up by the roots. briars, small I
bushes, or noxious weeds, and if pos /
sible, top dress With fine manure or
fertilizer, or if nothing else, dress
with plaster, after re- seeding the thin
set or bare places, aud lightly harrow
the whole before rain.
Suaf0wer.-It is not often that We
suggest the planting of special seeds,
especially of such as are grain, flower
aud vegetable. Once only we remen-
ber before of having urged the pro-
priety of sowing sunfower seeds. Sow
them as soon as the weather permits,
though any time during the next two
months will do rather than not at all.
Let the aesthetic plant (thanks to that
cranky Englishman) b. seen every
where about your tenant houses, fences,
waste places &C., for it is an acknowl-
edged absorbent Of all the malarial
gases and a preventive of the various
diseases originating in malarial or
other noxious airs. 1t is ornamental,
useful and of much market value. On
the farm it has been proven a sure
cure for founder in horses, quicker in
relief than any remedy We have ever
tried, and is admitted to be great
food for fowls, productive of fat and
health, and marked egg producing
excitant, while the old and experienc
ed doctors recommend the seeds as a
remedy for asthma in the human fam
lily. OF its commercial value, it is
only necessary to refer you to the
market quotations to prove it highly
valuable as crop, being bought by
oil manufacturers, who make luscious
oil from it for salads, &C., equaling
Lucca's oil, of which, we seldom get
taste, unadulterated with cur cotton
seed oil, expressed here and shipped to
Italy to be put in the bottles with a
spoonful of true oil and re-shipped as
the best "Lucca oil'' at fifty times its
cost. But above all the stalks and
leaves and seed heads make the best Of
fire wood exceeding in heat and bright.
ness both wood and coal and lasting
nearly as long for bulk as oak or hick-
ory wood. 1t seems to us under all
circumstances that this plant should
not be neglected in the general cul
ture of every farm. 1t is easily grown,
and requires but little working, while
it is not so exhaustive as likely to be
condemned on that account. For
these reasons we advise its cultivation
to larger extent than heretofore.
Potatoes. require rich
fertile soil and frequent cultivation to
keep the soil loose that air and mois-
ture may easily percolate. The main
crop Of potatoes for market should he
planted now, so as to be ready to be
dug to supply our markets b tween
the rnsh of the early crnn from the