The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-27

advantage IN this when there is a lar~.
hitter, as they can be made fat. hand
some pigs without drawing too say,er.,
~ upon the SOW. The directions giver
ABOVE ioi the care of COWS before and
after dropping the cali are nearly al
appicaole to swine, as the same eener
al principles prevail
NOW get the hotbeds started. and
put IN such seeds as are desired
early cabbages, lettuce and tomatoes
certainly, while others NAV he added
according to the taste of thegrower on
| the wants OF the market to which he
takes his produce. To make the hot.
bed, use fresh horse manure miyad
with leaves; put this in two or three
feet deep, and trample hard Allow il
TO heat and fork it over at least tbraf
times' repeating the trampling each
Ulme. AT the last time cover with
ABOUT SIX inches OF earth. Now allow
Ihe temperature to rise and fall AGAR
before sowing the seeds. it is some
trouble to do this, but no more thar
1t Is to ride mile or two each tinf
plants are needed for the garden. anf
II near a village, plants may be sold r.
those who only want a dozen or sofo1
their gardens at prices which will MAKE
it profitable.
oats should be put in as early as
the ground can be made ready. Max
ing 1t ready, however, means some
thing more than turning it over with q
pillow. 1t should be dry enouph To mi.
verlze with pillow and harrow, II the
ground is too wet for this it Is better
to wait a few days for is to dry of. ae
the loss OF time will be more than
made up by the greater progress which
the roots will make in the soil if it is
properly prepared. Let the manure
| be well worked into the ground before
sowing the seed. Few farmers now
SOW grass seed along with oats. Ii the
oats are sown to be cut for fodder on
Tor ensllage, they may be sown at the
rate OF four bushels of seed per acre
which makes them so thick as to
smother out and kill the grass which
starts 1T the same time. Ii sown for
gram, the oats will or should be cut in
q not and dry time, and the RAYS oil
the sun are too powerful for theyoune
and tender plants which have grown
IN the shade. The richer the land is
made and the better the growth OF
oats, the more likely is the grass to be
killed when the former is taken
on. 1t is therefore a much better
pfactlce to SOW the oats alone, and
alter they are taken off, plow the
stubble IN, or cut it in with the disk
harrow and SOW grass seed in August.
Peas and potatoes may be put in
TINS month IN favorable locations,
though the same remarks which were
| make when speaking of oats, in regard
to having the soil so that it would be
pulverIzed instead of being simply
turned over, are applicable to these
ana all other crops. For peas it is
better that the manure should be
worked into the surface OF the ground
rather than plowed under very deep;
then put little fine manure or a good
phosphate along the drill, and cover
about three inches deep. 1t is better
| to leave the earth level or a little
| higher than that between the rows or
early paintings, lest the furrow fill
with water and freeze after the peas
are up. The frost, snow or a freezing
| OF the ground does not seem to iniure
! the pea vines after they areupif water
! does not stand among them.
| Nor are potatoes much injured, even
| by freezing the stalk down to the sur
face OF the ground, if it does not pene-
trate deep enough to freeze the roots.
In fitting the land fol- potatoes it
should be remembered that the true
root or feeder of the potato is always
below the tuber, and thereforeiti is bet
ter to pillow under the manure rather
deeply. If artificial fertilizer is used in
hiltor drill, that also should be plowed
below the seed, and scattered so that
the roots may be led to branch out
we'll
Potatoes require liberal manuring,
and will usually pay well for an in
crease OF manure over the amount
usually used. Gardeners, or "truck
| farmers" as they call themselves on
| Long Island, will frequently put two
carloads of New York stable manure
on an acre. Then they will use from
| 200 to 1000 pounds of phosphate
| in the drill (they nearly all follow the
drill system), but they expect to get
| large crops of potatoes, and get them
| to market early. Three Or four hun
bred bushels per acre are common
crops there, although their land is no
better than New England land, and
much poorer than some OF our good
land.
Onions also are a crop which should
90 in as early as the land can be made
ready. They require heavy manuring.
Land which has been in this crop be-
| fore is better If the maggots have not
got into it. In fitting a new piece to
SOW to onions it should be MANFRED
heavily. 1t would have been better il
| this had been done last fall, but if it
was it will do no harm to do it again
this spring. 1t should beplowed deep.
". and it should be land that is well
drained, and deep soil. Harrow and
cross harrow until the surface is dry
and as fine as an ash heap. Remove
stones, sods and anything likely to In
terfere with the easy sowing OF the
seed. Then SOW hardwood ashes at
the rate of hundred bushels per acre,
or amply thousand pounds of a good
superphosphate and harrow or rakeit
! in, Sow in rows about nine inches
apart, using from four to five pounds
OF seed per acre. This application on
the surface will give the young plants
a start which will make them show as
soon as the weeds. But as soon as
the rows can be seen they should be
hoed out, as but slight delay will make
it difficult to remove the weeds with.
out injury to the young onions. A
careful hand can run an iron-toothed
rake over the onion bed when the
onions first come up, and destroy
most OF the weeds without injuring the
onions very much. Ii sown a little
thickly, the few that are hurt by the
rake will rot be missed. Ii the rake Is
run across the rows instead Of alonl
them it will more thoroughly kill the
weeds in the rows, and reduce theharC
| labor OF wedding.
There is not much to be done IN TIT
orchard this month excepting to put
tarred paper around the trunks OF TIM
trees. and cover with printers ink, o.
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