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August 18, 1821
Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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August agricultural calendar advises farmers to remove noxious shrubs with scythe and hook, avoid cutting second hay crop to preserve soil health, and sow rye early for better rooting before winter.
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AGRICULTURAL CALENDAR.
AUGUST.
The farmer stands in no need of instruments to kill time: but let him employ his bush scythe and hook industriously this month in killing the noxious shrubs and bushes: The sap is now up and doing, & for this reason, labor is more profitably bestowed on this kind of business in August than at any other period of the year. The branch being now destroyed, the root will soon die
Have you a supply of hay of the first cutting for your stock?
If so, pray be advised to cut no rowen. This is a general rule. There may be some exceptions. Nothing but necessity can justify the farmer to crop his mow lands with the scythe more than once a year; and that necessity, if yielded to, will be very likely to continue with this practice. Starving land, though not so inhuman, is quite as unprofitable as starving cattle.
The scythe in autumn takes off the winter garment: it robs the land, not only of the manure, which nature strives to afford by the aftermath, but exposes the roots of the grass to the chilling, killing winds of winter. Should you attempt to remedy this evil by a coat of artificial manure either in the autumn or spring, you will find the growth of the succeeding season later and more feeble than it would have been if the second growth had been left to decompose on the ground. Besides, this is the cheapest manure; it is ready out & well spread. If you are afraid the rowen will be too luxuriant, turn in your oxen & cows (no horses) for a short time before the frosts set in.
This is esteemed the best month to sow Rye. It should have time to take root & spread before the ground freezes; less seed is necessary, if sown now than at a later period.
AUGUST.
The farmer stands in no need of instruments to kill time: but let him employ his bush scythe and hook industriously this month in killing the noxious shrubs and bushes: The sap is now up and doing, & for this reason, labor is more profitably bestowed on this kind of business in August than at any other period of the year. The branch being now destroyed, the root will soon die
Have you a supply of hay of the first cutting for your stock?
If so, pray be advised to cut no rowen. This is a general rule. There may be some exceptions. Nothing but necessity can justify the farmer to crop his mow lands with the scythe more than once a year; and that necessity, if yielded to, will be very likely to continue with this practice. Starving land, though not so inhuman, is quite as unprofitable as starving cattle.
The scythe in autumn takes off the winter garment: it robs the land, not only of the manure, which nature strives to afford by the aftermath, but exposes the roots of the grass to the chilling, killing winds of winter. Should you attempt to remedy this evil by a coat of artificial manure either in the autumn or spring, you will find the growth of the succeeding season later and more feeble than it would have been if the second growth had been left to decompose on the ground. Besides, this is the cheapest manure; it is ready out & well spread. If you are afraid the rowen will be too luxuriant, turn in your oxen & cows (no horses) for a short time before the frosts set in.
This is esteemed the best month to sow Rye. It should have time to take root & spread before the ground freezes; less seed is necessary, if sown now than at a later period.
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Agriculture
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Agricultural Calendar
August Farming
Shrub Removal
Hay Management
Sowing Rye
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August
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Advice for farmers in August: use scythe and hook to kill noxious shrubs and bushes while sap is up; avoid cutting rowen hay to prevent soil depletion and allow natural manure from aftermath; graze oxen and cows on rowen if too luxuriant; sow rye this month for better rooting before freeze, using less seed.