THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE, 



319 



CALENDAR OF AGRICULTURE. 



The sowing of all grain crops must now be 

 finished as fast as possible, and also of lucerne and 

 flax seed. Finish the preparation of grass meadow- 

 grounds. Sow vetches for green food, and grass 

 seeds on wheat and barley tilths. The surface of 

 winter wheat lands will be rough and stale ; harrow 

 the land before sowing the grass seeds, and again 

 after the seeds are sown, and roll with a heavy- 

 weight. 



Get prepared as quickly as possible the green 

 crop lands ; and towards the end of the mouth sow 

 beet-root in drills well dunged, and 28 inches 

 apart. Steep the seeds in weak solutions, and dry 

 with hot lime. Plant potatoes in drills 30 inches 

 apart, and well dunged with farm-yard manure in 

 a half-putrefied state. Use sirong sets newly cut, 

 very moist dung, and in a large quantity. Cover 

 the new drills quickly, and roll them down. Be- 

 fore the land is drilled, apply hot pulverized lime 

 at the rate of 200 bushels per acre, and spread it 

 evenly, and harrow it in immediately ; or strew the 

 hot cinders evenly over the ground, and the sub- 

 sequent workings of the land will mix the lime, 

 which will be powdered by the dampness of the 

 soil. This mode requires an earlijr application, 

 but it must be very beneficial to the land, by 

 reason of the damp and moist exhalations that will 

 be evolved during the dissolution of the hot cinders. 



Early crops will now require both horse and 

 hand hoeing, as carrots, lucerne, wheat, beans, and 

 peas. 



Paring and burning of land will now be done in a 

 good season; burn the turves moderately, into a black 

 torrefied mass, as in that state there is present the 

 most carbonaceous matter. It is the best method 

 yet known for bringing into cultivation all lands 

 that contain much fibrous, inert, and ligneous 

 matters. 



Burn, for application by the drop drill for tur- 

 nips, all vegetables, and earthy substances found 

 on roadsides and ditch banks, also moss and all 

 combustible matters. 



Rye and watered meadows, winter barley and 

 vetches, will now be ready for soiling cattle in the 

 yards, and for being consumed on the ground by 

 ewes and lambs. The food is best used by being 

 cut, aud placed in racks, which are regularly moved 

 over the mown ground. Fold the sheep nightly 

 on the mown space, allowing in the fold two square 

 yards to each animal, and two nights on one place. 

 All bare grounds and inferior grass lands may be 

 much improved by the folding of sheep on the 

 surface. 



The lambing season will now draw to a close. 

 When beet-root and cabbages fail as food for the 

 ewes, use oats and bruised oilcake mixed, and a 

 portion of salt. Remove the stronger lambs to 

 the pasture-fields. 



Attend to the milch cows and the suckling of 

 calves. Give the cows an ample supply of juicy 

 food, natural or prepared : to the calves as much 

 milk as they will take. When begun to be weaned 

 at the end of IG weeks, give them, in racks in the 

 calf pens, young vetches, bruised cake, bean and 

 barley meals boiled, and linseed jellies, with chalk 

 and rock salt to lick. The latter article will quicken 

 the action of the digestive organs, and the former 

 will correct the crude acidities of the stomach. 



The last remaining fattening bullocks will be 

 sold during this month. Use oilcake in finishing 

 oflf the animals. The most backward in condition 

 must go to grass. 



The season of curing bacon being over, all pigs 

 on hand must go on for summer stores, and come 

 in for early winter fattening. The earliest fat 

 lambs will now come in for sale. 



During wet weather, carry all the dung from the 

 cattle yards, to the heaps in the fields, and litter 

 the yards afresh for the summer soiling of cattle 

 and horses. 



Prepare, by ploughing, harrowing, and rolling, 

 the fallow lands for green crops, keeping most for- 

 ward the ])ortion to be sown with Swedish turnips 

 next month. Plough clay lands for wheat fallows. 



CALENDAR OF GARDENING. 



Kitchen Garden. 



Asparagus will now come forward, and must be 

 cut, 80 as not to injure the crowns by too rigid 

 incisions, or by uselessly wounding the adjoining 

 shoots. Seakale beds are sown in single rows at 

 four feet distant, or in double rows at two feet 

 asunder. Sow lettuce, radish, and small salading 

 twice or thrice. Sow peas, the Prussian and sci- 

 mitar ; beans in the most approved sorts ; borecole, 

 including Scotch kale, and Brussels spi'outs ; 

 broccoli ; for winter and spring, white Siberian 

 hardy ; and the late dwarf cabbages and savoys 

 will supply successions, if sown early and late in 

 the month, Spinach repeatedly ; silver onions very 



thickly, for drawing young. Onions for bulbing j 

 and leeks, if not already sown ; carrots, parsnip, 

 and red beet — all in the first days. 



Celery — Seymour's v/hite, and hardy red — in 

 gently warm-leaf beds. Nasturtiums and aroma- 

 tic herbs. 



Kidney beans of both kinds, if the soil be warm 

 and dry ; sow early, and before the ] 5th. 



Plant potatoes ; artichoke suckers, if well-rooted, 

 in prepared beds, choosing showery weather. 



Transplant lettuces (but expect them to run), 

 cabbages, cauliflowers, and seakale ; and prick out, 

 in beds of very rich soil, consisting chiefly of reduced 

 manure, a number of celery plants to become stocky. 



