No. 8. 



On the Sowing; of Gras.t Seed. 



247 



amount of crop that is obtained the common 

 way. As soon as they are up a person should 

 go over them three times a day, and pinch to 

 death with hia thumb and fore-finger allj 

 striped bugs which can be f()und upon them, I 

 and continue this operation until tlie plants' 

 arc beyond their reach. 'J'he best cucumbers ' 

 are the Early Green Cluster, and the Long 

 Green Prickley. The green fleshed Nutmeg 

 melon is most excellent for eating. 



Carrots require a deep rich, sandy loam. — 

 They may be sown in drills a foot or eighteen 

 inches apart, and six or eight inches distant 

 in the drills. The Early Horn is the.earlie.st, 

 and the Long Orange is the best for main 

 crops. 



Beets, Those intended for early crops 

 should be sown as soon as the ground is open, 

 and main crops deferred till warm weather in 

 May. They need a deep soil and plenty of 

 manure, and may be sown in drills one 'foot 

 apart and one or two inches deep, about three 

 inches apart in the drills, afterwards to be 

 thinned to about eight inches. Among some 

 of the best for eating arc the Sugar and Red 

 Turnep rooted. 



Parsneps should be planted as fearly as pos- 

 sible in drills, like beets, and in common 

 with all root crops r&quire a well manured 

 soil. 



Parsley should be sown early in drills one 

 foot apart and one incii deep. 



Salsify, or vegetable oyster, requires the 

 same treatment as carrots and parsneps. 



Onions may be sown about the middle of 

 April, and buried half an inch deep in drills 

 twelve inches apart. When of suitable size 

 they are to be thinned to a distance of two or 

 three inches in the drill. Oneof the best vari- 

 eties is the Silver-skinned ; the Strasburg is 

 good for a general crop. 



Lettuce may be sown as early as is desired, 

 either in a hot bed, or in open ground. 



JSqg plant ma.y be sown in a hot bed, tho 

 sash to be closed to keep in the heat until it 

 is up. In the middle or at the end of May, 

 the plants are to be set out two feet apart in 

 good garden soil. If transplanted too early it 

 will be hurt by frost. 



Celery should be sown as soon as spring 

 opens, in drills half an inch deep, and after- 

 wards transplanted in open ground in proper 

 trenches for earthing. 



Sea Kale requires a deep rich sandy loam, 

 as the roots penetrate to a great depth, and 

 should be sown as early in the spring as the 

 state of the ground will admit, in drills, an 

 inch and a half deep, twelve or fifteen inches 

 apart, and six or eight inches in the drill. — 

 When a year^Id they are to be transplanted 

 more than a foot apart, and blanched by cov- 

 ering them early with sand, gravel, or what is 



much better, inverted pots. Three or four 

 weeks are required for the blanching. 



Tomatoes are best raised by sowing them 

 in hot beds, and afterwards transplanting them 

 into open ground. If the soil is rich, they 

 should stand when transplanted, at a distance 

 of at least two or three feet from each other. 

 — Gen. Farmer. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



On the Sowinsr of Oraits Seeds. 



It must be admitted by every careful obser- 

 ver, that the art of husbandry in this country, 

 has much advanced within the last few years, 

 and the march of improvement in agriculture 

 is still onward ; while at the same time it is 

 evident much remains to be accomplished, to 

 vie with European countries in the productive- 

 ness of the soil. The introduction of root 

 crops, (such as sugar beet, mangel wurtzel, 

 ruta baga, &c.,) by many of our most enter- 

 prising farmers, has been found of such great 

 importance for the feedingof stock, that there 

 is no doubt the cultivation of those roots will 

 soon become general ; may we not also profit 

 by the experience of older countries in the 

 cultivation of the different kinds of grasses. 

 It is a common practice in England, for farm- 

 ers to sow many varieties of grass seeds to- 

 gether, with reference to their time of matu- 

 rity, so that after mowing a crop of timothy 

 or other tall kinds, instead of finding the 

 ground as bare as a stubble field, they have 

 an undergrowth of later varieties of grass, 

 already covering the soil, and shooting forth 

 to maturity; of the latter kinds, white clover 

 holds a very conspicuous rank, being so thickly 

 set as to produce in a short time, a quantity 

 of herbage little inferior to the first mowing; 

 the quality of which for either hay or pasture 

 is supposed to be unrivalled. 



I have been led to these remarks by meet- 

 injT with one of our enterprising farmers (Mr. 

 John Hocker of Whitemarsh, near Flower- 

 town,) who was then purchasing white clover 

 seed at a store in Market street. In tho 

 course of conversation, he informed me that 

 he had sown one bushel of white clover seed, 

 in the month of March last, on seven acres 

 of his wheat ground, which prroluced (after 

 the grain was harvested) a very large, and 

 excellent crop, and that he was so much 

 pleased with the experiment, that he intended 

 to adopt it for the future. He also spoke of 

 several neighbors who would follow his ex- 

 ample the present season. M. C. 



Education is a better .safeguard for liberty 

 than a standing army. If we retrench the 

 wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise the 

 wages of tho recruiting sergeant. — Ed, Ev- 

 erett. 



