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Put the colts which you have been breaking to a little heavier 

 work. A good place to try them out in company with older 

 horses is on the drag and on the roads. The dragging of the 

 roads at this season of the spring will result in easier travel 

 throughout the entire year. 



If the manure has not been put upon the garden and potato 

 patch, do not neglect this longer. It will be best to use stable 

 manure with as little straw in it as possible, since it will more 

 easily become incorporated with the soil and there will be less 

 danger of potato scab following its application. 



Repair the pasture fences and trim any large hedge that 

 needs attention. All the odd jobs about the farm should be given 

 careful attention during this month, since the season's work will 

 approach rapidly. 



If you grow your own cabbage and tomato plants be sure 

 to get a hot bed going. Trim the berry bushes, grape vines and 

 fruit trees. 



MARCH 15-31 



Do not neglect to drag the roads repeatedly. It is well to 

 practice this after each shower. 



If you have put off the sharpening of the discs and plows 

 until now, do not neglect it longer. 



Look carefully after the farrowing sows and lambing ewes 

 and other stock. Provide your mother animals with clean quar- 

 ters and clean beds. The beds should be changed often and a 

 large quantity of litter provided each time. If you have not 

 already provided materials for balanced rations for the mother 

 animals, by all means do so, since the start which the young are 

 given will determine to a great extent their future development. 



Plan to have everything ready for the opening of field work. 

 In the southern districts you can easily begin plowing sod for 

 corn fields, plowing old ground for oats or spring wheat, bar- 

 ley, etc. Do not destroy the crop residue of the previous season. 

 The corn stalks should be cut up with the disc or with the stalk 

 cutter, instead of being raked and burned. The straw stack 

 should be spread uniformly over the field rather than destroyed 

 by fire. 



By this time the strawberry bed should have the winter 

 covering removed to the pathways. The lawn will be improved 

 by a dressing of well rotted manure. 



APRIL 1-15 



Begin sowing oats, barley, spring wheat and other small 



