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.iince the first of September, with pumpkins, or car- 

 rots, and potatoes well boiled and mixed with bran, 

 or meal, and you are now driving them with Indian- 

 corn, either shelled and boiled, or boiled upon the 

 cob; this mode of boiling your corn, has been prov- 

 ed to exceed in value the same quantity when ground, 

 and given in the usual way ; and thereby the expense 

 of toll, and going to the mill, are saved; the pork 

 will be equally hard and good. No more expense 

 will be necessary, in boiling a kettle of corn or po- 

 tatoes, that will hold a barrel, than in boiling your 

 tea-kettle, for the same time ; one gallon of water 

 will be sufficient, provided you cover your corn, or 

 potatoes close with dry bran or meal, so as to pre- 

 vent the steam from escaping : where fuel is scarce, 

 this saving will be an object of attention. 



You have now collected all your stock from your 

 pastures, and closed your fields for the winter. You 

 have selected such cattle as you have designed for 

 market, and are now closing your sales, particularly 

 all horses, not immediately useful and necessary. 

 This animal is of the least value to winter over, of 

 any of your stock. He requires your best feed, and 

 gives you very little productive labour in winter; 

 yields you neither beef, nor wool, in the spring, and 

 never advances his price in the spring market, equal 

 to one-fourth of the expense of wintering, exclusive 

 of risk and trouble : both which are very considera- 

 ble. Let your working cattle, cows, sheep, and such 

 young stock as you can be sure to feed well over 

 the winter, be selected as the special objects of your 

 winter's care ; and be sure to market to the best ad- 

 vantage all the supernumeraries. The difference in 

 the value between either of these articles of stock, 

 which are full fed, and well kept over the winter, and 

 those half fed, and poorly kept, is greater than I 

 should dare to name ; not only in its value the ensu- 

 ing spring, but for all succeeding purposes of such 

 nock. 



