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Work for Spril and early part of May. 



Vol. 111. 



and thus make the best amends you can for 

 confiding this useful grain to the care of an 

 exhausted soil. Sow two bushels to the 

 acre. 



As soon as tlie ground is suKceptible of being 

 put in good order, is tl)e time to get in your 

 barley. If your ground be not g-ood, and you 

 have not the means, of manuring, you had 

 better omit sowing. But if your ground be 

 good, or you can manure it well, then plough 

 and pulverize thoroughly, and if the season 

 be propitious, you may expect from 30 to 50 

 bushels to the acre. The quantity of seed 

 per acre is from 2 to 2^ bushels. Prior to 

 sowing, it should be soaked, drained and rolled 

 in plaster, or ashes. 



GRASS SEEDS. 



It will be well to sow what grass seeds you 

 may design to put in, as early this month as 

 possible, whether it be on ^our grain fields, or 

 with your oats. Be sure to sow thickly. 



SPRING RYE. 



We have no experience in this grain, but 

 the earlier it is got in the better. Quantity 

 of seed per acre 1^ bushels. 



HEMP. 



Put in your seed early. 



POTATOES. 



Put in a few bushels for early use, and 

 whether you plant in hills or drills, do not 

 ppare manure ; for verily potatoes are as heavy 

 feeders as the Knight of Eastcheap. Plough 

 deep, pulverize your ground as fine as a fiddle, 

 and keep it clean afterwards, and you will 

 not fail to have a good crop, provided you take 

 our hint and manure well. Did you ever see 

 a hog grow well, and put on the port of an 

 Alderman on thin potations 1 If you have not, 

 so will you never get a heavy crop of pota- 

 toes unless you attend to their diet. 



EARLY TURNEPS. 



Take our advice and sow a little strip of 

 ground in early turneps. The 16th of an 

 acre will give you as many as will serve your 

 table from June till August; and why should 

 you let your family be without this acceptable 

 vegetabicvWhcn you can procure it with so 

 little trouble, and at such little cost"! 



ROOTS FOR STOCK. 



If you desire to keep your cows well to the 

 pail next winter, take this our advice ; for 

 every [en put in an acre of Mangel Wurtzel, 

 or Sugar Beel. This quantity of land in 

 either, will keep them, with the usual allow- 

 ance of hay, in excellent condition, and ena- 

 ble you to make three pounds of butter to 



every one that you can make without roots of 

 some kind.* 



Preparation of the Ground. — If your 

 ground was in corn, potatoes, turneps, or 

 any other cleansing crop last fall, and you 

 did not fall or winter plough if, do so now 

 immediately — in a few weeks, say three, put 

 on 20 loads of good fat manure to the acre, 

 spread it evenly, and as spread, give your 

 ground another ploughing, as deep as you can 

 well go with your team : then harrow twice 

 or thrice, and roll. This done, lay off" your 

 furrows, north and south, two feet apart, when 

 you must drill in, or handsow your seed, 

 which should be dropped about sioc mches 

 apart in the rows, two inches deep, and cov- 

 ered with a rake, taking care to draw the 

 back of the rake over the drills when covered, 

 so as to press down the earth. When your 

 beets come up and get of a tolerable size, thin 

 them out so as to stand 12 inches asunder. — 

 Keep them clean and the ground well stirred, 

 and you will be sure to make a good crop. 



Prior to planting your seed, soak them in 

 warm witer in which saltpetre has been dis- 

 solved: drain and roll in plaster. When the 

 plants have leaves the size of half a dollar, 

 strew a bushel of plaster to the acre over 

 them while the dew is on. 



Tools and Implements. — Look up every 

 thing under this head on your place, and have 

 them put in the best possible order ; by so do- 

 ing you will save yourself much trouble and 

 disappointment 



Fences. — Attend to your fences and put 

 them all in order. 



Cows. — Give your cows that are to calve 

 this month, generous slops. 



Sheep. — Be kind to your sheep during this 

 month, and particularly to your ewes. 



Horses. — See that every one of these useful 

 animals on your farm are carefully attended, 

 curried, fed, and salted. 



Having attended to the interests of the 

 farm, let us go into the garden, and see what 

 we can do therein to increase the luxuries of 

 the table, and gratify the generous pride of 

 those noble wives and mothers, whose chief 

 objects are to please their husbands and secure 

 the comfort of their families. 



IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Cabbages. — If you have been so prudent as 

 to provide yourself with a hot-bed, and have 

 cabbage plants growing therein, be particular 

 to open your glasses daily so as to inure them 

 to the open air, — and about the middle of this 

 month you may transplant them into the open 

 ground. Prior to their removal, Iiowcver, let 

 the ground be well prepared by thorough ma- 

 nuring, digging and pulverization. 



If, however, you have not a hot-bed, or 



* Do not fail to put in a quantity of thu Bugar beet. 



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