THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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CALENDAR OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sow oats and barley on dry lands, and in dry 

 weather; also vetches, peas, beans, and flaxseed. 

 Sow lucern on well-prepared ground, trenched, or 

 very deeply ploughed, and richly dunged. Sow 

 carrots and parsnips ; best on rich warm sandy 

 loams, in good condition from previous usage, 

 without the present application of fresh manure. 

 Steep the seeds in leys of urine, and dry them 

 with lime. Sow sainfoin, and dress the young 

 plants with gypsum. Apply artificial manures as 

 top-dressings on young wheats, barleys, and 

 clovers; soot and salt, malt coombs or rape dust, 

 nitrate of soda, pigeon's dung, and gypsum. Sow 

 cabbage seed for summer plants, and lay composts 

 on grass lands. 



Plant hops, and place the hills six feet distant 

 each way; apply well-rotted dung, and put four 

 sets in each hill, one in each corner, and cover 

 them lightly with earth, leaving the upper end 

 of the set just in light of day. 



Continue the planting of forest trees, and of 

 young hedges ; but cease if dry weather sets in. 

 The cutting of underwoods will now be finished. 



Watered meadows may now be stocked with 

 light animals. Set traps for vermin, and spread 

 molehills. 



Plough fallows for green crops, and also clay 

 lands for bare fallows, if the weather be dry. Shut 

 up the fields that are intended for hay, and finish 

 laying composts on grass lands. In wet weather 

 thrash grain, and carry manure from the yards to 

 heaps in the fields. 



In some, or rather in many situations, this month 

 is the busiest with the ewes dropping lambs. Feed 

 largely with juicy succulent food, as beet, cabbage, 

 and turnips ; and use the necessary shelter, which 

 in many situations is as necessary as ths food it- 

 self. The shelter sheds must be littered frequently 

 to keep them dry ; best with chaff and very short 

 straws. Remove the ewes and lambs to the 

 pasture fields from the lambing ground regularly, 

 as the lambs get strong. 



Keep the poultry houses dry and warm, and set 

 all kinds of eggs for hatching ; feed well, and pro- 

 vide clear spring water. 



Finish the killing of hogs for bacon, and keep 

 all young pigs for summer stores, and for early 

 feeding next winter. The last fattening bullocks 

 must now be sold, or pushed forward by superior 

 feeding. The long days will now require a greater 

 supply of food, as daylight always induces animals 

 to eat more. 



CALENDAR OF GARDENING. 



Begin early to dig, manure, and sow plots for the 

 main crops of peas, beans, and all the summer 

 vegetables. Sow carrots on sandy loams without 

 fresh manure ; beet and parsnips on stronger lands, 

 with dung placed low in the ground. 



The soil must be rich for cabbage, Brussels 

 sprouts, cauliflowers, and kales ; cauliflowers over 

 dung in trenches under the roots; guano water is 

 a good manure for them. 



Transplant and sow summer-hearting cabbage. 

 Sow Dutch red cabbage seed, and green curled 

 savoys for Michaelmas. 



Sow the best French lettuce seeds, round spinach, 

 and repeat in every three weeks ; the winter prickly 

 spinach will yield freely in showery weather. 



Sow early in the month the true Spanish onions, 

 for large bulbs, and the others, being for mere 

 common kitchen use ; the ground should be 

 deep and rich. London leeks are sown to be 

 transplanted. 



Sow radishes on light and rich grounds that are 

 moist and warm : a frame and lights are always ad- 

 vantageous ; a sprmkling of Dutch turnip, a lit- 

 tle celery for succession, small salading, and 

 nasturtiums for pickle, parsley, basil, and pot 



herbs, namely, fennel, dill, borage, burnet, chervil, 

 are to be sown during the month. 



Plant thyme, sage, marjoram, lavender, rose- 

 mary, and rue. 



Plant early potatoes, ash-leaved kidneys, cham- 

 pions, and others that ripen in August, on peaty 

 and sandy lands ; two settings are sufficient for the 

 season. 



Plant trees or shrubs by the middle of the month ; 

 puddle-in the roots, and cover with dung, or 

 drought may set in, and fatally check the growth. 



Sow hardy annual flowers by the middle of 

 the month, as dianthus, Indian pink, cockspur, 

 mignonette. The half-hardy are reared in frames. 

 Herbaceous plants may now be set or divided, and 

 put into new situations. 



Cut box, plant edgings, and turn over gravels, 

 or put down fresh ; sweep lawns, and keep every 

 place in neat order. 



Keep a pit, bricked or cemented, to receive all 

 litter and vegetable refuse, the straws and drop- 

 pings of dung, wetted occasionally with liquids 

 and suds from the dwelling-house. A good ma- 

 nure is thus obtained, even by those who keep 

 neither horse nor pig. 



