THE farmer's calendar. 759 



as soon as the time can be spared, turning under fine manure, or 

 muck tliat has been saturated with liquid manure in the barn 

 yard. 



Buckwheat. — Sow about tlie middle of the month, or a week 

 earlier or later. It is an excellent, paying crop, if it can be used 

 IS a second crop, following early potatoes, peas, or some early 

 grain crop. 



rarnips— Sow Strap-leaf, Purple-top, or Cowhorn, or other 

 good varieties, any time during the month. If your corn land is 

 in as good condition as it ought to be, beans or turnips can be 

 put in between the rows to good advantage. In such cases, the 

 corn should be cut up at the ground as soon as it is glazed, to 

 let them have the sun. 



Cabbages may be set out for the main crop both in the garden, 

 and in the field. They are excellent winter food for milch cows, 

 if perfectly sound. 



Soiling crops. — Continue to sow corn for succession, and feed 

 the cows daily at evening, the stalks having been cut one, or even 

 two days, to wilt. Millet and any kind of grain or sorghum may 

 be sown for fall feed, and red clover for feed next June. 



Hoed crops. — Avoid disturbing the soil very close to the roots 

 of corn, and root crops. Work more in the middle, between 

 rows, with the plow, but do the weeding thoroughl}'^ among the 

 plants by hand. Collect the weeds and gleanings from among 

 hoed crops, if abundant, and give to the swine, if they have not 

 gone to seed. 



Hogs will make a vast deal of manure this month, if kept in 

 pens, and well supplied with weeds and other litter, muck, etc. 



Thinning fruit, is a work too much neglected, and the conse- 

 quence is the degeneracy of the fruit, and the failure of the tree to 

 bear regular crops. 



When the tree sets a large quantity of fruit, one-half should be 

 picked off by hand. 



That remaining will be larger, firmer, and often nearly as great 

 in bulk, and will usually bring more money, and will not exhaust 

 the tree. 



Care of Implements.— In buying agricultural machines and 

 implements, farmers should endeavor to get the best, and then to 

 take proper care of them. Some persons, after investing a large 

 sum in ao-ricultural machines and implements, take very little care 

 of them "leaving them "under the weather" when not in use, 

 bleaching and cracking in the sun, or rotting and rusting in the 

 rain Every farmer should have a suitable building for housing 

 machines and implements, and they should always be kept under 

 cover when not in use. A machine housed and painted wil last 

 twice as long as one that is left out under the weather without 



