Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — Early or Late Planting. [ARTICLE]

Early or Late Planting.

; Is it best to plant as early as possible or to defer the work as long as can be safely done? This is a question in which all farmers are interested, and to which eaehyear they are practically obliged to reply. While there are many advocates for each of these extremes, I think there' is a “ golden mean” which will lend to much better results. Either of the extremes is open to grave objections, which do not tie against a time half way/ between. It is true, as the advocates of early planting claim, that, if the seed iB got into the ground vety earty, ‘ the wojk is tyne and out of the way of other tilings which then need attention. But the objections to this course are that the ground and weather are so cold earty in the season that the seed ■either rots in the ground or else is a long' while coming up; often falls si prey to wire-worms; the plants, if any appear, are tender and grow, very slowly, while the which are more hardy, at onoe go in ftnd possess the land. Lhte planting is not Open to these objections, but it is open to some which are quite serious. - If the season is back-

ward and the planting is put off as late as possible, the plants are not large enough to be hoed more than once before haying-time, and there is danger that the crop will not be fully matured before the autumn frosts. I think the best way is to begin the preparation of the 4and, quite early; plow, and get it Deariy fitted* to receive the seed. Keep plowing and fitting hut do not put in the *eed until both ground r *nd weather ’are pi an®. Then go over the land with a harrow in order to destroy. the weeds which have started up andwlso to make a fine bed for the seed, and do the planting as soon as possible. Then the crop will get as good a start as the weeds, grow rapidly, be ready for the second or third hoeing before time for getting hay, and have abundant time in which to gqt perfectly ripe.—Country Gentleman. . ,