Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-05-01
SOUTHWESTERN ONO.
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A. DAYS pass, the magnitude OF the
lo.s hy the March freeze grows upon Us
our flrst discovery was that the Young
clover wss killed, and this seems to
have been total, Zoe three weeks Of sum
mer Temperature had brou.h, u all AZ
and made Il tender. 4 rev farmers
hay. r,-.oNu their fields, but ss"d y.
blsh ami money scarCe, and most ~
them will let the crop 20, and this means
a scarcity of clover aud clover sccd Tor
the future. Then Ne found the oats All
kIlle,l. n has h-rn rule on nv farm
FOR over thirty years, to put In cat. the
fir.t day In March that the land could be
worked, and one year finished seeding
oats February 26th. aud ! never hsd oats
Killed until thl. year. ! recsll that the
year sowed Ia February heavy rain
flooded the land the next dty and an
inch or two of snow fell, then the mer.
curry dropped to dsgrces, sui the lanl
remained iroIen tor two OF three ~eess;
but a. the seed had not sprouted " i'i
No, hurt Il and ! go, fine crop oi oats.
We had drilled Ia our oats this year, AZ
think clover grows better between the
din. than among broadcast oats, and as
N was lust beginning a. show above
yround. aud WAS protected To some ex-
tent by the drill ridges. we supposed v
would escape. hut found u so nearly all
Killed that We have sosn " Over again
All Of our early sown garden y de-
stroysd. ! have always found peas ss
hardy a. oats. aud have sown them Jus,
=. .oon as the land could be worked,
,pd never knew of them being Killed by
frost hsfnr,, although Ne have had AZ
Low q temperature after They hAd "'ih'
an a. thi. which Killed them, bat the
difference l. that then the low temper
turr was for single night, whlle ul'
tim. II froge constantly Tor about thf'e
d,ys. aud then Ne had net hsd n sun
mrr temperature 10 make them tender.
Your corr,-pon snt from Champaign
Couuty. Ohio, says: lit does not pay 10
mai. a garden until the weather tecom"s
settled. March l. too early, and nothing
l. gained BY planting until the earth ls
warm aud cold waves are over. MY
.xp.risnc. does not coincide With hi.,
for notwithstanding this wear "f disaster
4 shall continue 20 plant just as have
don. In the past. for nine years Out 81
ten am from Que To- two weeks ahesd
Of nv neighbors, sud an early garden u
a luxury that Ne can afford to take some
ri.k for. will ssy. however, that such
early planting I. safe only on thoroughly
drained land.
whether any irui, has escaped Se can
not Vet tell. The rsspherries aud black
berries had started, and pear aud Other
trr, fruits were quite advanced, and
we're not heavily mulched; even straw .
berries had formed blossom buds, snd
although some fruit buds have not turn
"a black vet. fear that they will fsll
after hlOssoming.
The weather for the past ten days has
bsen quite s.-,sonable and farm work u
h.lng pushed rspldly. The wheat ~.
so rank that doubt II IL va. seriously y
Injured. a. the roots SIRE well protected
aud Il had not sent up seed stalks yet
90 black land, where potatoes werc
covered with the hoe, the seed frotr, but
ours, on clay land, covered with the
plow, have escaped.-Ohlo correspond
snt Country Gentleman.