FEBRUARY hath 28 days. 1877. We cannot kindle when we will But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled. MAtt. Arnold. Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1Th.Heavy gale, Pleasant, 2 Fr. Purifica. of V. Mary. Candlemas Day. 3 Sa. Length of night 13h. 54m. 4 G Sexagesima Sunday. but 5 Mo. 4th John Rogers burned at Smithfield, 6 Tu. 10th. Reverdy Johnson died, aged 79, 1876. 7W. 8 Th. 9 Fr. 1555, O. S. Farmer's Calendar. Use IT is the time to cut grafts and pack them in damp moss or sand. Put on the true names, and keep them safe and ready to set in the spring. Don't let slip any means to save manure. a straw, if you have it, for litter, and if not, get up a lot of leaves or dry muck. It is a handy thing to have a few cart-loads of dry muck and as many of forest leaves in the shed or the lean-to. Have a compost heap, not too furious 68 C. 6. 253, 1650, O. S. 10 Sa. C. C in Apogee. 11 G Quin., or Shrove Sunday. far from the back door, and let 14th. 6 h C. 12 Mo.11th. 8 HO. 6 % . all the wash, the soap-suds, and 13 Tu. Shrove Tuesday. High tides. the waste from the house go into 14 W. Ash Wednesday. St. Valentine's Day. it. There is no need to have the 15 Th. Gold 113 1-4, 1876. with fiercely heap right under the nose of drifting doors. everybody. Plenty of room out Use loam, ashes, and muck, and keep it topped with boards, so as to make it look tidy. Cut, split, and haul up wood to use for the year; then pile it right up and let it dry 16 Fr. 17 Sa. 18 G 19 Mo. 20 Tu. 21 W. aged 73, 1876. 1st Sund. in Lent. 6. actress, died, aged 60, 1876. greatest elongation W. in 8. in 8. Low tides. WASHINGTON born, 22 Th.1732. 23 Fr. runs high. there. It makes better fuel so, winds, than to let it lie to rot and wateris near log. A good cat is about the at hand. best trap for rats and mice, it is so easy to set. To stop rat-holes in the cellar, mix a lot of hydraulic cement with broken bottles. Corn keeps Shell only as Save the pig Pick over the they'll do 'em 25 G 20 Sunday in Lent. It is a sure cure. you want to use. corn and the nubbins. They'll come in play by and by. apples in the cellar. Cows will eat the specked ones, and good. This is work for a rainy day, but if it is snow, it is all the same. 1877. MARCH, Third Month. Astronomical Calculations. 60 61 Last Quarter, 6th day, 5h. 17m., evening, E. Rises. Sets. 1 Th. 6 355 50 2 Fr. 6 345 52 62 3 Sa. 6 325 53 63 4 S.6 305 54 64 5 M. 6 29 5 55 65 6 Tu. 6 27 5 57 66 7 W. 6 25 5 58 67 8 Th. 6 24 5 68 9 Fr. 6 22 6 69 10 Sa. 6 206 11 S. 6 19 6 Length Day's of Days. Incre. h. m. h. m. m. Full Sea,D's D 4 11 472 44 10 27 104 104 legs Rises. D Souths. h. m. h. m. 3 14 0 Boston. Place. h. h. 1 1rei. 5 19 10 28 5 40 11 10 114 113 feet 5 57 11 50. 75 16 Fr. 6 10 6 8 11 582 55 9 2 76 17 Sa. 6 86 9 12 12 58 8 3 0 1 h'd D. M. D. W. In sugar camps when south and warm Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1 Th. St. David. 62. WHITTIER. Farmer's Calendar. Fair, A WORKSHOP is a good thing 2 Fr. Length of night 12h. 40m. on the farm. Look about and in Aphelion. 3 Sa. U. S. 45th Congress meets. but 6 Tu. see what tools need to be fixed. Doesn't that old cart want a little paint? A coat of paint on the ploughs, the wagons, the mowing machines, and most kinds of farm tools, will save the wood work, and pay two or three times its cost, to say nothing about looks. Grease and paint are uncommonly good things for iron and wood, if you'll only take the trouble to put them on in the with right place. To save in little 6h C. things, to save time and wear and weather, in Apogee. 10 Sa. { New Hampshire. 13 Tu. C. 6 ? C. 14 W. O eclip., invisible in U. S. tear, to stop the leaks and the wastes about the house and the barn, is the true secret of success on the farm, but a little money and time spent in keeping things C. up to the mark, is often the best way to save. A lot of odd jobs can be done now, and so save 20 Tu. O ent. 9. SPRING BEGINS. time by and by when the work flurries begins to press. There are the runs high. walls to put up, the fences to fix, of snow the bushes in the pasture to cut, the wood-pile to see to. 69. Palm Sun. Annunc. or Lady Day. ought to grow up and be a big thing. Nothing like having a in Perigee. or plenty of wood on hand. A lot 25th. 1st day of the year in Old Style, of well dried wood saves time, changed, 1752, to January 1. rain. temper, and money. Where Raphael born, 1483, O. S. 30th. Reservoir at Worcester, Ms. bursts lands were laid down last fall, its dam, causing immense damage, 1876. Good Friday. Warmer. 30th. Very high tides. there are the rocks to pick, as soon as the snow is off. Sow on clover seed at the same time. 92 2 M. 5 40 6 27 12 473 44 563 Last Quarter, 5th day, 11h. 45m., morning, W. h. m. h. m. h. m. h. m. m. 91| 1|S.|5 42|6 26|12 44|3 41| 4|18| 93 3 Tu. 5 39 6 28 12 493 46 94 4W.5 37 6 29 12 523 49 95 5 Th. 5 356 31 12 56 3 53 96 6 Fr. 5 346 32 12 583 55 Full Sea, 's Boston. Morn Even Place. 319 320 3 3} thi. | 0 4 4 18 321 322 43 51 kn. 5 kn. 1 48 6 4 223 100 10 Tu. 5 276 36 13 102 12 Th. 5 246 38 13 14 4 11 14 Sa. 5 20 6 41 13 21 4 18 0 1 105 15 S.5 196 42 13 234 20 F. 106 16 M. 5 176 43 13 264 23 0 3 107 17 Tu. 5 16 6 44 13 284 25 1 4 108 18 W. 5 14 6 45 13 31 4 28 1 5 109 19 Th. 5 126 46 13 344 31 1 6 31 110 20 Fr. 5 11 6 47 13 364 33 94 6 127 91 93 feet 4 3 9 47 When the warm sun, that brings Seed-time and harvest, has returned again, Aspects, Holidays, Events, LONGFELLOW. Farmer's Calendar. As soon as the frost is out of Variable the ground, there is many a loose rock in the field and the pasture that will come out easy, now that the earth is soft, but if you leave it a few days till the land is hard and dry, it will take ten times the 4W.6 C. runs low. 6 Fr. 7 Sa. 8 G 9 Mo. superior. Cin Apo. Very low tides. work. When the earth is fit to plough and crumble down mellow, sow oats and other spring 10th. A. T. Stewart died in New York, grains. Pease, also, and some leaving fortune of $50,000,000, 1876. 10 Tu. d h C. 11 W. in 8. 12 Th. 15th. Gold, 113 1-2, 1876. 13 Fr. 69 C. 17 Tu. 18 W. 20 Fr. runs high. Battle of Lexington, 19 Th.1775. 21 Sa. uncertain of the garden seeds ought to go weather. in right away, or as soon as the ground can be ploughed or forked over. Ashes and lime are good Pleasant. for old garden soils, but it is worth while to lay out a new and larger kitchen garden, not far from the house, and to make it a more important part of the farm. A farmer with a good garden, full of vegetables, such as celery, lettuce, beets, rhubarb, and asparagus, with a lot of small fruits, like currants, strawberries, and cherries, is about as in Signs of a coming storm. HC. Low tides. 22 G 30 Su. af. East. Cin Peri. 23 Mo. St. George. 24 Tu. O. CO. 25 W. St. Mark. the season. 25thOliver Cromwell born, 26 Th. 1599, O. S. 27 Fr.. dependent of the butcher as any Cold one need be. Sow carrots and for plant potatoes. Fruit and shade trees can be set out now, or they may be taken from the nursery and heeled in, to be set out when there is time. Look out for plenty of roots. Stems and tops won't amount to much without roots. Get the cattle out to pasture an hour or two a day, when the grass starts, but keep up their feed. Showery. 28 Sa. 27th. Very high tides. |