FARMING OPERATIONS FOR JULY.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 22 July 1867, Page 4

FARMING OPERATIONS FOR JULY.

The principal work of the farm should be preparing manure to haul on land so soon as the weather permits. A good compost should have a layer of earth from 10 to 12 inches thick, a layer of dung 3 feet thick, the top and sides covered with earth ; after laying some few weeks turn all over to amalgamate :hem, all ditch clearing should be carted to it. If the weather permits prepare by the plough all land for spring culture ; look after your early calving cows, see that they are kept in condition, and when the milk is required for cream, give the calves some linseed tea with the skim milk. If any cows are to calve in July, they ought,' for about a month before calving, to be baited dally with potatoes, carrots, cabbages, or turnips, or some other varieties or mixture of green food Last year’s calves should now receive hay otherwise they will be arrested in their growth, which, with the best of feeding in the following summer they will not overcome. - Last year’s early pulle.ts begin to lay about the first of July, or even a few days earlier ; and such as seem backward to lay should be fed with buckwheat or barley. A most important general rule in farming is to keep horses constantly employed, it is altogether indispensable, in order to avert less from the great expense of purchasing and feeding horses ; and in no month of the year is it so difficult of observation, the s«il is for the most part saturated \yith moisture, yet when at any time comparatively dry it may be worked with the plough. During wettish weather all practical carting upon roads may be done, particularly in communicating with the market towns and bringing home manures. Cut furze, hedges when in flower, once a year will be sufficient if you are careful to cut oil the flowers a common hook, using a forked''stick in the other hand, will make it a rathe* interesting lightsome job.