APRIL hath 30 days. 1879. With silk the osier plumes her tendrils thin: And buds on leafless boughs begin Against gray skies to twinkle. - DE VERE. Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1 Tu.6. Prince Bismarck born, 1814. Warm. Fair. 5 Sa. Length of night 11h. 4m. Weather alternates with rain 5 Wm. M. Tweed, the ring robber of N. Y., Easter Sunday. and on Fort Sumter, 1861. 13 E &• died, 1865. 5 Abraham Lincoln Farmer's Calendar. WHERE land was laid down last fall, there may be a lot of little stones that ought to be picked up and carted off. The way that some have of piling them up in heaps and letting them lie there, is no way to do it. Get them off and be done with them. Sow clover-seed on fall-sown grass-lands. We ought to grow more clover; it is one of the best crops on the farm ; it leaves the soil better than it found it. Corn or wheat will do as well after a heavy clover crop, without manure, as they will after most other crops with it. The kitchen garden must have its full share of time now; let it be near the house. If it is too old, take up a new and larger sunshine. lot. Dig it deep and make it Am. Revolution begun by rich with manure, put on in the bat. of Lexington, 1775. fall so as to give it time to rot down and get well mixed in with the soil; or if you must put it on now, let it be old and fat with age. No crude stuff where you want to grow nice crops. They all take their food in a liquid form, you know, and it takes time to get it into shape. Pease ought to go in at once, and some of the roots and vegetables. Don't forget to have plenty of small fruits. Nothing better than currants; and strawberries are always toothsome. 15th. Gold 100, 1878. 17 Th. 6 O inf. Low tides. ale 18 Fr. 517th. Franklin died, Frequent and 20 E Low Sunday. 6 C. with southerly Sale 2 days before the Apoge New Moon. 21 ist 35 Full Moon, 6th day, 0h. 41m., morning, W. Day of the Year. Day of Month. Day of the Week. 121 Rises. Sets. of Days. Incre. 1 Th. 4 566 59 14 Fast. 0 310 6 122 2 Fr. 4 557 014 55 2 3 11 125 5 M. 4 517 126 6 Tu. 4 49 7 127 7 W. 4 48 7 I28 8 Th. 4 47 7 129 9 Fr. 4 467 4 18 1 2 kn. 11 23 2 58 419 2 8 kn. morn. 3 58 4 20 4 legs 0 8 4 52 421 4 5 legs 0 35 5 42 4 22 5 6 legs 1 16 28 Fall gently and still, good corn, Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1 Th. (St. Philip and St. James. Fair. 2 Fr. 9 in Perihel. 1st. Wellington 3 Sa. 5 Mo. in Aph. 4 E 30 Sund. af. in Perigee. 6 Tu. Very high tides. 7 W. Length of night 8 Th. runs low. 9 Fr. 62. born, 1769. aged 47, 1878. Napoleon died, Sgressman, died, Cool. 9h. 41m. CARLYLE. Farmer's Calendar. WITH all the hurry of this merry month don't forget to set The time out a few fruit-trees. 1st. John Morrissey, a prize-fighter and con- is coming when we are going to have peaches again, and every farmer ought to try his luck by setting out a few trees every year. Give them a northern or year. eastern slope where a warm Cloudy. spell in winter will not start the Lowering. buds. The old time for turning Treaty of peace betw. France and Ger- the cows to pasture was the 4th Sunday after Easter. twentieth, but it was too late. Catharine E. Beecher, famous authoress, It is best for the cows and best for the grass to get them out 14th. Very low tides. early, as soon as there is a fresh 6C,6 & C. g.el.W. bite. Two or three hours a day 13th. Prof. Jos. Henry, Secretary Smith- will do at first, and keep up the sonian Institution, died, aged 80, 1878. feed in the barn at the same time. Make the change slowly, so that they will not lose a relish many signed at Frankfort, 1871. died, aged 77, 1878. 16 Fr. 15th. Gold 100%, 1878. 17 Sa. 6 h C. Signs of rain. 18 E Bogation Sund. 6 C. for hay. If you wait till the grass starts all over the pasture, and then turn in the cows, they O. 22d. High tides. reject the rank growth and it 22 Th. Ascension Day or Holy Thursday. runs up to seed. They will not touch it; while if they had a nip at it when it first started, they would have kept it down. The short blade is the sweetest. Sow mangolds about the tenth. Get corn in early, and sow sweet corn every ten days, so as to SEarl Russell, Eng. states- have a supply for the table. Carman, died, aged 86, 1878. rot seed ought to go in by the Showers, middle of the month. Don't fail followed by to set out a lot of asparagus; it fine weather. is one of the best things we have. 27 Tu. R. I. legislature meets at Newport. 28 W. 6 H C. {" 29 Th. Low tides. 30 Fr. DECORATION DAY. 31 Sa. O Full Moon, 4th day, 8h. 4m., morning, W. Last Quarter, 11th day, 11h. 24m., morning, W. > First Quarter, 27th day, Oh. 24m., morning, W. Length Day's of Days. Incre. 1S.4 267 29 15 153 2 M. 4 26 7 30 15 211 8 212 9 154 3 Tu. 4 25 7 30 15 3 legs 11 27 4 21 161 10 Tu. 4 237 35 15 12 6 1 2 11267 1 2 7 4 63 3 3 11 7 4 feet 11 48 5 6 1 2 01 0 br. 02 br. 8 37 0 46 9 14 1 37 Then to thy cornfields thou dost go, Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1 E Whit-Sun. Pentecost. Nicomede.] at and wounded, 1878. N. H. legislature 2 Mo. 3 Tu. 4 W. runs low. meets. 5 Th. Very high tides. 6 Fr. Length of night 8h. 52m. 7 Sa. Cool for the season. 8 E Trinity Sunday. at Berlin, 1878. 9 Mo. Frost in places. 10 Tu. 6 C. 12th. 6 C. 111 W. St. Barnabas. died, aged 83, 1878. $12th. Wm. C. Bryant 12 Th. Corpus Christi. Very low tides. 13 Fr. 6 h C. European Congress met 14 Sa. 15th. Magna Charta 15th. 6. 15 E 1st Sun. aft. Cr. C in Apo. 16 Mo. in Perih. 15th. Gold 100, 1878. 17 Tu. Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775. 18 W. 19 Th. signed, 1215. O sup. {Battle of Waterloo, 20 Fr. High tides. Longest days. Signs of a drought. 28 Sa. 29th. St. Peter. 29 E 3d Sunday after Trinity. 30 Mo. 6 h. in Perigee. HERRICK. Farmer's Calendar. No time to lose now. Nature seems to be springing to her The work, and so must we. hoeing and the haying come on about the same time, but they are not so driving as they used to be when we had nothing but the scythe to depend upon. We can cut an acre an hour now; but when I was a boy it took a man a day. This gives us time to keep up with the weeds, and it is a great gain. We have gained all of two weeks over the old style of work; that is, we cut grass two weeks earlier, and it is all the better for it. Earlycut hay, or dried grass, is far better for cows than the hay they used to get. Grasses are best cut in the bloom. If we sow only the early grasses together, and the late grasses by themselves, we spread the labor over a longer season. Sow orchard grass, tall oat-grass, June grass and clover, and you can cut as early as the middle of this month. Then timothy, redtop, fine top, and tall oat-grass will make a mixture to cut later, say after the 4th of July. The swede is to be sown this month, soon after the 20th. Hungarian grass-seed ought to go in about the middle of the month; it is one of the very best forage crops. |