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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



413 



FARMERS' 



WORK FOR JULY, ON THE 

 FARM. 



CORN. 



Let your corn be kept constantly free from 

 weeds, and the earth so stirred about the plants as 

 to be always in a state not only to admit ihcir free 

 and unrestricted growth, but to attract and absorb 

 whatever dews may fall, or moisture existing in the 

 atmosphere. However good soils may be, howev- 

 er congenial to the growth of this particular grain, 

 e.xact and cleanly cultivation is indispensably nec- 

 essary to its successful culture — you may rest as- 

 sured that it is just as essential as manure itself. 

 In the working of the corn we are not the advocate 

 cf that plan which would raise a mound or hill 

 around the plants — on the contrary, we believe that 

 they will grow faster and yield more, whore no hill 

 whatever is raised. Nor are we the advocate of 

 frequent ploughings ; we believe that more than 

 two ploughings should never be given to the corn 

 crop — that one at the proper time is enough — and 

 that whether one or two, they should be at the in- 

 cipient period of the growth of the plant. All 

 ploughings, after the lateral roots have pushed out 

 to any considerable distance, serve only to cut and 

 lacerate those roots, and deprive the stalk and its 

 fruit of its wonted supplies of nourishment, and not 

 unfrequently that much dreaded /ring-, as the plant- 

 ers term it, which so despoils the crop of its right- 

 ful fruitfulness. After the corn has reached two 

 feet ;n height, the cultivator, harrow and hoe, 

 should alone be used. By the judicious use of 

 these implements, all the good to be effected by 

 proper culture may be secured, without hazarding 

 tlje fruitfulness of the crop by cutting off the sour- 

 ces of feeding, and thereby diminishing the chances 

 of abundant production. 



POTATOES. 



Though it is late to put in your fall crop, by 

 proper preparation of the soil, manuring and other 

 treatment, a saving crop may yet be realized ; those 

 who have their potatoes already up, must keep them 

 clean, and the earth in that condition which offers 

 no impediment to the healthful vegetation — taking 

 care at all times to keep a smM furrow, flat at the 

 top, around the vines, to act in the two fold capaci- 

 ty of a recipient of rain and moisture, and to afford 

 room wherem the bulhs may grow without difli- 

 culty. 



THE HARVEST. 



Already, farther south, this interesting labor has 

 been begun, and we trust and believe under auspi- 

 ces the most promising. With us, in ten days, or 

 two or three weeks, wheat, rye, and oats will be 

 ready for a similar operation, and it may not be 

 amiss to remind the farmer, that should riist or blight 

 fall upon the stems of either wheat or rye — and 

 from the present state of the weather there is dan- 

 ger to be npprehended — both grains should be cut, 

 though the kernels may still be in milk ; for no 

 possible nourishment can be expected to be drawn 

 from the stalks of grain after their juices have been 

 indurated by such agency. 



This too is the month for the cutting and curing 

 of hay, and upon this subject we propose to have a 

 word. It is this — the sooner the grass is put into 

 cocks the better, as it is less exposed to the injuri- 

 ous effects of the vicissitudes of weather in that fonn 

 than when in swarth, and cures into hay to much 

 greater advantage, retaining a much larger amount 

 of nutritive matter than when dried in the old way. 

 In storing it, the judicious farmer will not fail to 



sprinkle a small portion of salt over each layer of 

 hay, because in so doing, he will greatly add to its 

 quality, and render it the more grateful to his stock. 



TUr.MI'S. 



Tliose who desire large crops of turnips, with a 

 view of feeding stock, should put them in as early 

 after the loth of this month as possible. Tlie sow- 

 ing of those intended for the table may be delayed 

 a week or two — indeed any time during the month 

 will answer ; but we admonish all against delaying 

 sowing their seed until, as the old custom would 

 have it, the 20th of August. Every prudent man 

 should allow himself time to meet all contingencies 

 that may occur. 



EUCKWHRAT. 



This grain may be put in any time between the 

 first and the tenth of the month, with a certainty of 

 its maturing ; but the sooner the lahor is perfonn- 

 ed the better — and surely no one who likes to see 

 his family enjoying a good winter's breakfast — 

 surely no husband or father, whose happiness is 

 identified with that of his wife and children, will 

 omit to secure a full supply of the material of those 

 delectable cakes, which give so exquisite a zest to 

 the breakfast table. But we will have a word as 

 to the straw ; for v/hile it is our first object to se- 

 cure comfort to the domestic circle of the home- 

 stead, it is our desire not to forget the inmates of 

 the barn-yard. Therefore, let us admonish you to 

 get your grain out early — as early as possible alter 

 your buckwheat is harvested, and carefully put 

 away your straio to be fed to your milch cows as 

 hay. As we have said before, we will here re- 

 peat it — it is just as valuable as so much timothy 

 or clover for them. Custom, hitherto, with most 

 farmers, has consigned it to the dung-heap or cow- 

 yard, as a thing only fit to be trampled under feet ; 

 but enlightened economy would allot it a much 

 higher destiny. When cured with care, and kept 

 from the weather, it makes as good and wholesome 

 provender, as ever went into the manger of cattle. 



MILLET. 



Up to the 15th of this month, this grain may be 

 sown. In six weeks from the day of its being put 

 into the earth, if sown on good, warm, light soil, it 

 will be tit for cutting for hay. As a cleanser of 

 grotinds intended for timothy, there is nothing su- 

 perior to it. As soon as the millet is off, the stub- 

 ble should be well harrowed, tlie timothy seed 

 sown, a light harrow passed over it, and then the 

 ground should be rolled. 



CABBAGES. 



Those who would desire to keep their cows well to 

 their milk through the winter, should put in at least 

 one or two acres of this productive vegetable — in 

 g-ood ground they will yield 40 tons to the acre, 

 and we need not say, that that quantity of 

 green food in mid-winter would be most acceptable 

 to your milch cows, and tend greatly to incresw 

 the quantity of milk and butter yielded by them. — 

 Farmers^ Cabinet. 



his brow. We certainly had no idea that his 

 Lordship had such powerful competitors, as the ox 

 now exhibiting at Egyptian Hall proves he incon- 

 tostibly has in the United States. The proprietor 

 has given it the name of Brother Jonathan, and 

 describes it as the wonder of the creation, 

 weighing 4000 pounds, or 500 stone ; measuring in 

 length about twelve feet ; in height, over the 

 shoulders, five feet eleven inches ; and in girth ten 

 feet nine inches. ' It is six years old, of a beautiful 

 dapple bay color, and was bred by the Honorable 

 Isaac Hubbard, in New Hampshire. The animal 

 is in excellent condition, but not overloaded with 

 fat like those monsters exhibited at the Smithfield 

 cattle shows in December ; of a breed somewhat 

 between the Durham and the Devon, and in every 

 point beautifully proportioned. According to the 

 opinion of breeders it might be fed to weigh fully 

 a thousand pounds more. Those fend of exhibi- 

 tions of this sort will be highly gratified by a visit 

 to Brother Jonathan. 



The "Honorable Isaac Hubbard," we presume, 

 is only a natural blunder of the English editor — a 

 personage comprehended, probably tlu'ough igno- 

 rance, of the Hon. Isaac Hill and Mr Hubbard (if 

 that was the gentleman's name) who bred the ani- 

 mal for exhibition. — Boston Courier. 



The Great American Ox. — This beautiful 

 animal, which was exhibited at several places be- 

 fore its owner transported it across the Atlantic to 

 convince John Bull of the fallacy of his belief that 

 men and animals in America are a diminutive race, 

 attracts great admiration in England. A Liverpool 

 paper thus alludes to it : — 



If Earl Spencer does not look to his laurels 

 brother Jonatha-n will ere long pluck them from 



SOILING MILCH COWS. 



The Zoarites, a religious sect of Germans, on 

 the Muskingum river in Ohio, keep their milch 

 cows constantly in the stall and feed them with 

 offal of the milk, hay, roots, &c., and they are said 

 to yield an extraordinary quantity of milk — some 

 twenty quarts a day through the year. They also 

 pay particular attention to their cleanliness. Their 

 stalls are thoroughly washed daily, and the water 

 used for this purpose, is carefully collected in res- 

 ervoirs, and applied, in the form of liquid manure, 

 to their hot houses and gardens. 



In a late communication to the British Board of 

 Ao-riculture, it is stated that thirty cows, one bull, 

 four calves, and five horses, were fed through the 

 summer from fifteen acres of clover, sown the pre- 

 ceding year. The labor of two men and two wo- 

 men was sugicient to tend them, and the nett pro- 

 duce of the season, in butter, from June to October, 

 was £19 105., nearly $90 from each cow. — Silk 

 Culturist. 



Frying Pork. — Take one fresh egg, beat it, add 

 half a gill of sweet milk, and a sufficient quantity 

 of flour to make a batter, freshen and fry the pork 

 as usual : then dip the pieces in the batter, which 

 will of course adhere, replace them in the fat, and 

 after a little more frying, a light and delicate cake 

 will enclose the meat, and thus constitute a dish 

 for a middling sized family, which will tempt the 

 palate of the most fastidious. Try it ladies. 



To DRIVE Bugs from Vines. — The ravages of 

 the yellow striped bugs on cucumbers and melons 

 may be effectually prevented by sifting charcoal 

 dust over the plants. If repeated two or three 

 times, the plants will be entirely free from annoy- 

 ance. There is in charcoal some property so ob- 

 noxious to these troublesome insects that they fly 

 from it the instant it is apphed.— Indiana Aurora. 



The President of the United States has left the 

 seat of government on a visit to his native State. 



Accounts from Great Britain represent the crops 

 as highly favorable. 



