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The Culpeper Observer

Plain And fancy Job Printing

We would respectfully announce to our friends and the public, that we have supplied our Job Office with a complete stock of Type, and are now prepared to execute, with neatness and dispatch,

Job Printing

Of every description. Constantly receiving New Type, &c., and having an eye to newest styles, he can confidently assure his friends, that orders left with him will be faithfully and punctually attended to, finished in a superior manner, and that as cheap rates as any other establishment in the State.

Orders from adjoining Counties promptly attended to.

The cash must, in every instance, be paid when the work is delivered.

The Farm and Garden.

Farm Work For July

Cultivation of Corn. - At this backward season with the harvest pressing upon the ordinary hands of the farm, it is better to secure additional force whenever it can be had rather than the corn should suffer. The product of corn on all soils not wholly exhausted of their plant food, depends very largely upon thorough tillage. A light loose friable soil, kept constantly stirred and perfectly free from the growth of weeds and grasses, is absolutely essential to the vigorous growth of this fine cereal. It is therefore a matter of the first importance that the cultivator and shovel plough should be kept running through the rows, and that the hoes should be freely employed about the hills until the corn is ready to be laid by. The more the soil is pulverized, and the cleaner it is kept the better will be the chances of an excellent crop. 

Late Potatoes. - These should be attended to. Keep the earth well stirred about them, and if they require assistance give them a top dressing of ashes, refuse salt and plaster. Wood ashes, woods earth and lime mixed together make also an excellent dressing for potatoes.

Turnips.- A light soil, rather sandy than otherwise makes the best soil for the white turnip. In such a soil if it is rich naturally, or has been made fertile the turnip grows rapidly and produces large crops. It is to early to sow the white turnip, but the ground may be got ready for it, and the seeding for the main crop may be made towards the close of the month, or during the first week of August. If Rutabagas are to be cultivated, and they make the finest winter food for stock, they should be seeded early the present month, in drills three feet apart, well rotted manure being first deposited along the course of the drills, or else the sides of the drill well sprinkled with some commercial fertilizer, that is rich in phosphates. After the drill has been formed as if for the reception of 
potatoes, ridged up by two bouts of the plough, the crown of the ridge should be flattened, either by passing a light roller longways of the ridges, or by breaking down the ridges with the back of a rake. - Another finer drill should then be made along the center of the flattened ridge some half an inch deep, along which the seed should either be sowed with the hand, or drilled in. If seeded broadcast, and that is the general although not the best practice, sow about two pounds of seed to the acre. 

Buckwheat.- This grain should be in the ground by the close of the second week in July. If the land is poor give it a moderate dressing of ashes, and bone dust, say ten bushels of wood ashes to one barrel of finely ground bone. Two hundred pounds of good super-phosphate mixed with fifty pounds of Peruvian Guano will also answer a similar purpose.

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