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PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF THE CALENDAR.
Golden Number......... 1
Epact.............. 30
Solar Cycle............ 23
Dominical Letter ...... E
Roman Indiction ...... 5
Julian Period .........6,575
FIXED & MOVEABLE FESTIVALS, ANNIVERSARIES, &c.
Epiphany..........Jan. 6
Martyrdom King Charles ... 30
Septuagesima Sunday ...Feb. 16
St. David......... March 1
Quinquagesima Sunday ... 2
Ash Wednesday .......... 5
Quadragesima Sunday, 1st in Lent............... 9
St. Patrick ............17
Annunciation, Lady Lay ... 25
Palm, Sunday.........April 13
Good Friday............18
Easter Sunday .........20
St. George ............23
Low Sunday............27
Birth Queen Victoria ... May 24
Rogation Sunday.........25
Ascension Day, Holy Thursday.....May 29
Restoration King Charles II... 29
Pentecost, Whitsunday ...June 8
Trinity Sunday .........15
Corpus Christi .........19
Accession Queen Victoria ... 20
Proclamation............21
St. John Baptist, Midsummer Day.........24
Birth Prince Consort ...Aug. 26
St. Michael, Michaelmas, Sept. 29
Gunpowder Plot ......Nov. 5
Birth Prince of Wales...... 9
St. Andrew ............30
St. Thomas .........Dec. 21
Christmas Lay .........25
The year 5,623 of the Jewish Era commences September 25, 1862. Ramadan (Month of Abstinence among the Turks) commences March 2, 1862.
The year 1,279 of the Mahommedan Era, commences June 29, 1862.
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JANUARY, XXXI DAYS.
"Imprimis venerare Deum."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Mould up potatoes; thin turnips; plough up land for next season's crops, until harvest. Let new land lie four months between ploughing and cropping. On low level sites, plough in narrow ridges, and leave well cleared water-furrows within 12,18, or 24 feet of each other.
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JANUARY, XXXI DAYS. [1862.
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1862] FEBRUARY, XXVIII DAYS.
"Agricolis, quibus ipsa procul discordibus armis
Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Harvest month; if possible complete stacking and thrashing for fear of autumn rains. Cut wheat for seed when dead ripe,--for flour eight or ten days earlier, leaving oats and malting or seed barley till fully ripe, but before the grain begins to shake out. After harvest sow winter vetches or stubble turnips.
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FEBRUARY, XXVIII DAYS. [1862.
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MARCH, XXXI DAYS.
"Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Lay down permanent pasture, on potato land or stubble after ploughing; twenty-six pounds Pacey's perennial rye grass, three pounds white Dutch clover, and one pound cow grass make a good allowance of seed for an acre on average soils.
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MARCH, XXXI DAYS. [1862.
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APRIL, XXX DAYS.
"Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?"
FARMING OPERATIONS.--For a field of lucerne sow in this or last month; use twelve pounds of seed to the acre; keep the crop free of weeds and cover each autumn with two inches of short manure. May be cut four or five times a year for hay, and will last from twelve to fifteen years. For red clover hay sow twelve pounds to the acre; for vetches, two bushels to the acre, with a little oats; cut twice and plough in.
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1862] APRIL, XXX DAYS. [1862.
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MAY, XXXI DAYS.
"Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?"
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Lift and store root crops in ricks; put in wheat on light dry soils, also where surface drainage is required; set in order live fences; sow or plant out gorse on sod fences. In sowing, use about one ounce to the chain; set plants about a foot apart. The fence will be good in three years.
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MAY, XXXI DAYS. [1862.
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1862] JUNE, XXX DAYS.
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Sow wheat generally; for newly broken up land use two-and-a-half bushels, otherwise two bushels of seed to the acre. To prevent smut, steep in blue-stone dissolved in hot water (four ounces to the gallon), and mixed with cold water sufficient to cover the grain; dry and sow at once. On wet lands provide for surface drainage by deep water furrows.
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JUNE, XXX DAYS. [1862
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1862.] JULY, XXXI DAYS.
"Patriae quis exsul se quoque fugit."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Sow field peas and horse beans; use 2 bushels of each to the acre. Put in beans like potatoes, but closer, in drills 27 inches apart; peas either the same way, or broadcast, to ensure mutual support; and plough in.
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JULY, XXXI DAYS. [1862.
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1862] AUGUST, XXXI DAYS.
"Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Sow oats early this month, if not done in autumn; sow barley in the end of this month. Use 2 1/2 bushels of each on well cultivated land. Sow grass and clover for pasture on young wheat, and roll lightly in. On a crop just sown, first make the surface smooth and even. Take care that the grass seed is not too deeply covered.
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AUGUST, XXXI DAYS. [1862.
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1862.] SEPTEMBER, XXX DAYS.
"Nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--For a crop of carrots render the surface perfectly smooth; sow in shallow drills about 15 inches apart, with about 4 lbs, per acre. Previously prepare the seed by rubbing to remove the hairs, and mix with moist sand till beginning to germinate. As the young plants grow strong, thin by degrees till 6 inches apart. Treat parsnips the same way. For the best swede turnips, sow this month.
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SEPTEMBER, XXX DAYS. [1862.
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1862.] 0CTOBER, XXXI DAYS.
"Omne solum forti patria."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Barley and oats may still be sown, if steeped and forced previously. Grass may yet be sown on late grain crops. Sow mangel-wurzel this month, treating as for carrots, but in drills 20 inches apart, and thin to 9 inches. On dry soils begin to plant potatoes. Trim gorse hedges, when the bloom has passed off.
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OCTOBER, XXXI DAYS. [1862.
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1862.] NOVEMBER, XXX DAYS.
"Sit tibi cura laniciorum."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Potato planting begins. Cut into sets, using from 10 to 12 cwt. per acre; prepare the land by ploughing, harrowing, cross ploughing, and again harrowing; then draw drills 28 inches asunder, and plant the sets 12 inches apart in the drills, and cover in immediately. Finish sowing mangel wurzel, and begin to sow swede turnips, allowing 2 to 3 lbs. to the acre.
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NOVEMBER, XXX DAYS. [1862.
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1862.] DECEMBER, XXXI DAYS.
"Annum bonitate Tua coronas."
FARMING OPERATIONS.--Thin carrots to 6 inches and parsnips to 7 inches apart; weed carrots by hoeing. Finish sowing swede turnips; plant cattle cabbages; single out mangel wurzel to 11 inches apart. Cut grass for hay when in bloom, and mow close to the ground. Ricking should be finished this month.
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DECEMBER, XXXI DAYS. [1862.
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SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.
* * * * The stellar art disclosed in pictured lines
Lived for mankind, in hieroglyphic signs.--DARWIN.
ECLIPSES IN 1862.
In this year there will be three Eclipses of the Sun, and two of the Moon.
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H. --A partial Eclipse of the Sun, Friday, June 27, 1862, invisible in New Zealand.
Begins on the Earth generally (mean time at Lyttelton) ............... 3 56 p.m.
Greatest Eclipse ...............6 15 "
Ends on the Earth generally .........8 34 "
--This Eclipse will be visible over the chief part of the Great Southern Ocean. At the Cape of Good Hope the sun will rise partially eclipsed, and the obscuration will be perceptible over the centre portion of the coast of South Australia just before sunset. It will be wholly visible in Madagascar and Desolation Island. The magnitude of the Eclipse (Sun's diameter=1) will be 0.924.
III. --A partial Eclipse of the Sun, Saturday, November 22nd, 1862, invisible in New Zealand.
Begins on the Earth generally (mean time at Lyttelton)..................5 30 a.m.
Greatest Eclipse ...............6 2 "
Ends on the Earth generally ......... 6 35 "
Greatest magnitude 0.062 of the Sun's diameter.
--This very insignificant Eclipse will be only visible in a small portion of the Great Southern Ocean, above the parallel of 60°.
IV.--A total Eclipse of the Moon, Saturday, 6th December, 1862, partly visible in New Zealand.
First contact with the Penumbra (mean time at Lyttelton)......4 6 p.m.
First contact with the Shadow ........ 5 19 "
Beginning of Total Phase ........ 6 28 "
Middle of the Eclipse ........... 7 13 "
End of Total Phase ........... 7 59 "
Last contact with the Shadow ........ 9 8 "
Last contact with the Penumbra...10 21 "
Only the latter portion of the Eclipse will occur after the Moon rises in New Zealand.
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V.--A partial Eclipse of the Sun, Saturday, 20th December, 1862, invisible in New Zealand.
Begins on the Earth generally (mean time at Lyttelton) ... ... ... ... ... 2 42 p.m.
Greatest Eclipse ............... 4 25 "
Ends on the Earth generally ... ... ... 6 9 "
Greatest magnitude of the Eclipse (Sun's diameter=l) 0.704. --This Eclipse will be visible over the greatest part of the Continent of Asia, and nowhere in the Southern Hemisphere.
