Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-04-28

peas, fodder and rye. Flax is pulled and
the land prepared again for late crops ot
turnips and mustard. Eve lambs are
weaned and put on poorer pastures
Horses not worked SO hard are turned
out to grass at night to save fodder
Drain tiles are laid. General cleaning
out OF bitches and streams is a part OF
the July work.
In August is heavy harvest
work. Wheat is cut before dead
ripe as the last operation of the ripening
plant is to thicken the coat of bran on
the gram, and there is more flour in a
bushel of wheat cut before that stage
than after it: The English farmer knows
this and the miller pays accordingly.
Oats are cut little green in the straw
to prevent their shaking out IN the wind.
Barley is never cut till dead ripe, it being
required to be all of one stage of ripe
ness. Fallow work is proceeding and
weeds burned this month. Trifollum, a
species of clover, is at once sown where
wheat has been harvested, for a fodder
crop. IN stock, milk yields more cheese
in the autumn months and COWS must
have extra green food carried to them
besides their pastures. Swine bring
forth their second htters and sows for
future breeding are put on better pasture
II the reader is an American farmer he
can begin to see how the English tenants
have to look after matters as regular
labor never dreamed about in the aver
age American farm house.
In September the harvest proceeds.
With the hemp crop as soon as the seed
is set on the female plants the male
plants are to be pulled and tied in
bundles and carried to the sleeping pond.
Corn (wheat) ricks are thatched. On all
the wheat land now begins the work of
applying fertilizers-lime, 80 to 100
bushels to the acre-marl, chalk and
clay. Sheep are put on rape and early
turnips and dipped. Pigs are put up to
fatten. Breeding for early lambs begins.
In October wheat sowing begins after
plowing. The crops are rotated, with
great care. Preparing the land for
spring crop OF beans, carrots, parsnlps
and mangles is part of October's work,
together with harvesting OF potatoes
Feeding cattle are brought in and fed on
cake and fodder; cows at night. Steam
ed small potatoes from the field are given
to fattening pigs, with meal. Hop pick
ing is to be done. In the garden roots
are to be dug and stored and lettuce and
cabbage planted out for the last matur-
ing rays of the sun.
The work in November is gathering
the root crops Of the field and sowing
wheat as fast as they are gathered, and
the land fertilized. Turnips are put in
pits near buildings. Threshing of grains
ia going on. The straw ls cut in chaff
and salted for fodder Beef and mutton
stock are fed literally to crowd on them
the last ounce of flesh. Pulped turnips,
oil cake and meal are fed cattle now.
The fences are to be planted, mended
and cut. and posts and rails repaired,
for the English land owner requires his
property to be kept in good shape at all
times. Osiers are cut this month and
burrows and surface drains are prepared
for meadows.
December closes the years work.
which seems to have left no time for rest
since the January preceding. It is a
carting month-grain to market, stones
to roads, tile to drains, manure to fields.
There is always something to do with
in every month of the year.
Cattle are in stalls and kept warm, dry
and clean. Sows have had their third
litter. Milk for sale is taken from COWS,
as cheese making was finished in Octo-
Der and November, and the manure cart
kept going to all the fields for the next
spring crops.
All OF this work the English farmer
has to know about and do. His holidays
are few, his labor steady and severe.
He is the creature of the weather. A
failure Of part. OF his crops and low
prices for his produce means delin-
quency in rent, and falling behind in
the struggle which can only be regsined
by extra labor and good years. The
abundance Of crops in America is begin
ming to be felt by the EnQllshman III the
reduction of prices for his own potatoes
and wheat. In stock the tendency is the
same. The English farmer has got to
can needs little to know. The English
man must be a good cheese maker
and keep posted on the modern improve
ments in cheese making or else his pro-
duct finds slow sale in the market at
lower prices. The art of cheese making
requires skill and no product of the COW
is Of more profit; butter making is less
complex but equally important.
In 1891 the farming operations, as
we'll as the dairy, we're disappointing
in England. Bad weather was largely
the cause.
The English consumer who has a
choice of markets has. as rule, the finest
and most nutritious of food supplies to
select from. In every article. the result
of pains, labor and skill is shown in per-
fection-work which no American farmer
has yet consented to do. Yet complaints
are loud and frequent at the unremuner.
alive prices at which the English farm
products are sold. The cost of fertilizers,
the expense of farmlngj generally is too
great for profit to the tenant, after his
rent is paid. Often the stock markets
are glutted, as in 1891, and cattle which
had cost 80 much pains to fatten were
sold at rulnous prices. Rain last year
also spoiled large part Of the hay crop
and turnips did not make over half q
crop. The redeeming feature in prices
was advance in wheat not
responded to by the American market.
The increasing importation of foreign
wool have made the wool market highly
unsatisfactory to the English grower.
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