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VOL. V.
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Farm Work for the Month.
It not unfrequently happens that
crops which have been cultivated
all through the growing season with
vigilant attention and skill aro care¬
lessly and untidily gathered. While
the plows and the hoes and the sweeps
can be worked, the interest is un
flaggiog. but too often when the crop
is laid by, tbo race is considered
over, and it is thought both reason¬
able and proper to take a rest. On
the contrary, now is the season for
work, for vigilance, aud for economi¬
cal use of time. A crop made should
be well gathered, and particularly is
this true of cotton. The days are
shortening rapidly. Every hour is
precious. Inclement weather is com¬
ing, and it behooves us then to make
every working moment tell during
the usually bright and genial month
OCTOBER, 187«.
now before us, and, when Winter
comes, to have as much of the crop as
possible carefully housed.
To allow cotton to blow about and
become trashy and stained until
there is a good picking, is a very false
economy both of time and money.
Pick as fast as the cotton opens.
Try to keep up with the fields as
fast as they open, and though you
may not pick as much to the hand
as would be possible by waiting,
what is picked will be far cleaner and
of greater value. Pick, to >, as clean¬
ly as possible, while time permits.—
Tho days are coming when yon It
must pick rapidly, trash and all.
is very probable that this year buyers
will be fastidious—will look for
“choice lots,” and will, therefore,
pick and choose. Those who have
had their early cotton carefully and
neatly haudied, will have the advan¬
tage, and will secure a price which
will recompense them well for their
extra care and expenditure of time. produ¬
Besides, we think that the
cers ought to take a pride in Rending
their crop to market in the best con¬
dition that is practicable, both as to
picking, and ginning, and packing.
CORN.
We do not advise any one, while
the weather is fine and fit for cotton
picking, to stop his hands and go to
gathering corn ; but there aro days
when cotton cannot be picked, and
when corn can be safely taken from
the field and brought to the house.
It does not hurt corn to be a little
wot, and while we would not put
away damp corn in bulk in the dibs,
we know that it is safer to take it out
of the field. There is a class of onr
fellow citizens which is very much
at dieted to employing moonshiny
nights in the pastoral amusement of
slip-shucking others’ corn in the
field, and thus enriching themselves,
to ihe serious loss of those by the
sweat of whose brow the pom was
made. The cure for this, and the
only one we know, is to gather ami
house the crop as quickly as may be.
wheat.
It has been our experience, and
we believe it to bo universally true,
that this is the best month to sow
wheat. If our readers have given
heed to our repeated adcice in regard
to thia most valuable crop, they have
their land set apart for wheat already
prepared for tho sower—deeply and
closely plowed, and finely pulver¬
ized. If this has not been done, let
*o man expect to make a good
wheat crop by sowing seed upon a
rough, cloddy surface, covered with
tufts of grass and weeds, scratched
over once with a “bull-tongue.” We
believe that on many plantations made
where the attempt is now to
raise cotton, and where the attempt
is rarely very profitable, wheat could
be grown with advantage, when the
relative expenditure of labor, time
and money is taken into account.
It is true that wheat cannot be re¬
garded as a certain crop in many
parts of the South, but it succeeds
oftcuer than it fails, and when it
docs succeed it is the best wheat in
the market. Wc do not repeat here
the improvement to the land from a
rotation of crops, and the Increased
supply of material for making manure
which wheat raising affords, because
wc taka it for granted that the*e
facts are universally known and ac¬
cepted. Wheat should bo sown
whon the land is dry. “Sow in dust”
is an old and true maxim. Souk
the seed for a few hour? before sow¬
ing iu a solution of blue-stone and
roll in lime.
PEAS.
Save as many peas as other en¬
gagements will allow; but at all
events gather and put away those
which are needed for seed next year.
If this work is left fur a “ wet spell
when cotton and corn are out of tho
way, it frequently happens that
moldy and spoiled peas are gathered Spring.
which will not sprout in tho
Too little value is attached to this
crop. It is usually wasted to a great
degree, and yet as food for man and
beast there are few better or moro
nutritive crops.
RYE AND BARLEY.
We renew our counsel to sow as
large a patch as can be well pre¬
pared of barley or rye, or a patch of
No.
each, as Wintor pasture. It is of no
use to do this on !* any sort of a
pieco of land,” and in any sort of a
way. It should bo well done or not
at all, and the better and richer the
land, tho better will be the crop, and
the greater the comfort which it will
afford.
OATS.
It is still timo to sow oats, though
it would have been better to have
sown last month.
CLOVER AND ORASS SEED.
Tins raonth and early in November
are tho best seasons to sow clover
and tho grasses. Will those who do
not believe that clover aud grass can
be rained at the South oblige us by
making the experiment ou a small
scale. If they d>, we kaow they
will repeat tho experiment on a
wider area another year.
SWEET POTATOES.
When tho vines arc blackcnol by
frost the potatoes should be dug,
This work should nof bo delayed until
the frost has been so severe as to
penetrate the earth and reach the
tubers.— Ex.
An Important Fact in Grape
Culture .—Wc would moution a laot
which has come within our observa¬
tion und experience, which, if gener¬
ally true, is of some importance. It
is this: That tbfc fruit-bud from tho
base ol the last year’s cane throws
out larger and better developed
grapes than cither the first or second.
The grapes from these buds seem also
better flavored, and generally superior
to thoee on the first and second. In
accordance with this hint we have
adopted tho plan of cutting the cane
at such length as to leave tho third
bud, generally, and sometimes the
fourth, when a good strong one, and
then rubbing off the first aud second
buds, and leaving tho third and
fourth for fruit. Tbo number of fruit
buds left on the vine. If the viucs
are strong and vigorous at three
years, from two to three bunches of
grapes may be allowed to mature on
each without injury —Rural Pacific
Press.