Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-04-28
what the farm has produced has to be-


done.
The farm work in February increases
somewhat. Each day is set aside to do
certain necessary labor. Spring wheat
can be sown after beans, it the stubble ls
ready. or after clOvers, or after the earli.
est sheep fold-fur every farm incident
or event OF nature is OF special i'm
portance to the farmer, and the time
for doing his work is fixed in his mind
with painful distinctness. Peas are sOwn
IN February and stacks of manure bought
for the later spring sowings. Fertilizers,
purchased out of the profits of the farm,
are generally bone. dust, guano, phos.
pilates, SCOT, etc. Nothing relating to
manure is omitted, or unknown. The
composition or manure value of foods
fed to stock are figured on; the placing
OF the requisite quantity on each acre,
no more and no less, is carefully attended
to. The intelligent English farmer must
know the nOurlshing constituents of diff
ferent foods--acorns, artichokes, barley,
bean meal. bean pods, bean straw and
forage, beech mast, buckwheat seed,
bran, straw, cabbage and other foods
which knowledge the American farmer
cares very little to know. Continuing
the work in February, the butter making
and milk selling are increasing in their
demands on the farmers time, and
marketing is in full swing-the market
ing of the separate and distinct products
raised during the year, and the anxiety
to sell for the highest price, and generally
sell the best he has raised. Those pro
ducts, generally marketed in February,
arc milk, butter, grain, straw, hay,
min of A q a
ruary crop, canary bird seed can he sown
The garden calendar for both January
and February includes much preparatory
work: Manure wheeled out and spreao;
rough pruning and telling; planting cab
border. In frames many early vegetables
Each detail of the garden is as important
cessfully attended to If the English
farmer gets living and has few pounds
to spare.
March is one of the busiest months in
the English farming year. Sowing of the
various grains must be completed. That
the land may not fail to yield every
particle of it's strength, grass and clover
seed are sown over the young wheat, or
barley. Potatoes are to be planted,
early sorts III early places. Every bit of
ground with a favorable exposure is utll-
ized for the early crops. The early vege-
tables bring the best prices. Potato sets
saved and sprouted are carefully put out
for an early crop. Carrots, an important
crop, are sown along with turnip seed IN
the rows. Cabbage seed are sown in a
plot by themselves for transplantlng in
May or June. Nature is carefully oh.
served, and her energies discounted and
made to do extra duty by the English
farmer.
Cheese making begins in March. Every
farmers wife has to know how to make
cheese. Gardening season is at it's height.
Young hops are planted in grounds
sub soiled and manured; chic
ory for forage ls planted, and teasels,
plant with stiff prickly bristles on the
head, used by cloth manufacturers, are
sown for transplantlng for the next years
crop. The work of the English farmer
includes the raising of articles for many
besides supplying food for
England's millions, and the growing of
teasels shows how every source of profit
must be looked after.
In April the new work to be done is in
hoeing and caring for the young garden
crops. Land must be prepared for tur-
nips ,and lucern, a fodder plant, is to be
sown; also ssinfoin for the same purpose
The American farmer knows little or
nothing about these plants-necessary
ON the English farm to feed the stock.
Then comes flax and onions. Over the
growing crops the farmer Low spreads
certain artificial manures, such as nitrate
of soda, and soluble manures of all kinds.
The special garden work for March and
April is the clearing of of every weed,
and the hot bed is sown in celery and Gu.
cumbers, and the herb bed sowed. Seed
for second crops of lettuce, turnips and
celery is sown. Young potato shoots are
covered With earth to protect them from
frost at night.
In May the hoeing and wedding of
garden crops is to be done. The COWS
are on early grass, but taken in at night
and their feed helped out by fodder
raised the year before. The pigeties now
receive attention and young pigs are fat
tened for market by the whey from the
dairy and by corn, barley and rice meal.
No refuse is thrown away that contains
any nutriment, and the English farmer
has to study to get the best results with
his stock and to turn an extra penny by
getting an extra price for the best young
pigs and calves. Buckwheat is sown on
poor soil, and special crops for this
month are maze or tobacco, started un.
der glass. Silos are prepared to receive
the forward green rye, trifollum and
other plants.
In June the cultivation of turnips Is
the chief work in southern and middle
England, while other crops need the pa
tient hand d-hoelng where it cannot be
done by horse. Cabbages are trans,
planted between early potato rows. Every
square inch of soil ls used for some pur-
pose. The turnlp fly requires atten-
ton, and the young plants are often TO
be busted with lime dust or brushed over
with paraffin- wetted brushes. In the
pastures thistles must be spudded and
destroyed. Haymaking begins. and cat
tie changed pastures as often as possible
for it makes fat.
Sheep are washed and shorn, hop
vines are tied up and the soil tertilized
by liquid manures while mustard is to
be sown after tares are taken up-tares
are legumipous plants sOwn for fodder.