. Turner's North Carolina almanac : for the year of our Lord ... . assel. Keep it clean and the soil stirredeight days or oftener. Dont disturb theroots in plowing. Peas.—Push this crop to your utmostcapacity. Work well those alreadyplanted and continue to plant all avail-able land in early varieties. Where vinesfor ploughing under, or hay is the object,peas may be sown up to the middle ofAugust on rich land. No better prepara-tion for a wheat crop than to sow downnow in peas, the land intended for it. Ruta Bagas and Turnips.—Sow a few ruta bagas and turnips toward latter partof the month for


. Turner's North Carolina almanac : for the year of our Lord ... . assel. Keep it clean and the soil stirredeight days or oftener. Dont disturb theroots in plowing. Peas.—Push this crop to your utmostcapacity. Work well those alreadyplanted and continue to plant all avail-able land in early varieties. Where vinesfor ploughing under, or hay is the object,peas may be sown up to the middle ofAugust on rich land. No better prepara-tion for a wheat crop than to sow downnow in peas, the land intended for it. Ruta Bagas and Turnips.—Sow a few ruta bagas and turnips toward latter partof the month for an early fall crop. Tur-nips should be planted on rich groundonly. Cowpening and breaking up everyten days is admirable preparation. So isbroadcasting manure and plowing in, fol-lowed by dragging and harrowing—thencross plowing, dragging, etc., again. Anexceedingly fine tilth is also essential toa good crop—hardly less so than grey soil is best adapted to the turnip,but it will grow on any, when treated asabove. ath Month. AUGUST, 1909. 31 MOONS PHASES. D. H. M. ©Full Moon, 1 4 0 Last Quarter, 8 6 56 ®N8W Moon, 15 6 41 D. H. M. > First Quarter, 23 10 41 ©Full Moon, 3011 54 1 o u IQQ ASPECTS OP PLANETS ANDN. 0. CHRONOLOGY. QQ a a8 1. 8Sa 1 § o t Dark of the Moon plant seedthat fruit in the ground. Light of the Moon plant seedthat fruit in the light. SL Eighth Sunday after Trinity. Days length 13 honrs 59 minutes. c Mod Tue We Thu Fri Sat 7 7 8: 9 10 11 11 a 432110 6 18 4 ^I^Lammas Day17 49^^^ Hot, thunder storms17 34 ^ in Perigee i?am 17 Dobbin d. 2 Wilder d. 187316 46 Brooks habeas corpus,187016 29 Hon. A. Henderson b 1768 .«£. rises morn ^ 8 18 0 30 ^ 8 53 1 28 ^ 9 23 2 22 9 53 3 14 «©? 10 24 4 5 w^ 10 53 4 55 7 20 8 11 9 09 50 10 40 11 34eve 27 Ninth Sunday aft^r Trinity. Days length 13 hours 46 minutes. 891011121314 C Mod Tue We Thu Fri Sat 12131314151617 6 586 666 556 546 53 5251 16151515151


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