THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 



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Your barn-yards are cleared of their summer's ma- 

 nure, all which is well spread upon your Mowing 

 "rounds; (see article manure;) your sheds and racks 

 are all prepared ; your stables are rendered tight and 

 warm ; your barns, as well as your houses, are all 

 patched wherever a shingle is missing ; the glass is 

 all set in your houses ; your house-doors, and barn- 

 doors, are all rendered tight and secure ; your cellars, 

 are all banked up where it is necessary, and thus ren- 

 dered secure from the frosts of winter. Your cidei 

 is all got in, and put up upon the stalls; such apples 

 as you put up in barrels for the use of the family, are 

 now snug in your cellar ; your turnips are dug and 

 housed, and your cabbages are all pulled, and such 

 as you intend for the table, are carefully set out in 

 the driest part of your cellar; such carrots, beets 

 and parsnips, as you design for the table, would pay 

 you well in their relish and flavour, if you will pack 

 them in sand, in dry casks. Such turnips as you 

 wish to keep late, ami preserve from being pithy, co- 

 ver under a heap of loose potatoes, where you can 

 conveniently draw them when wanted ; you will pre- 

 serve them pure over to the spring. Your French 

 and Swedish turnips,*will then supply for the sum- 

 mer. 



In selecting your stock for the winter, you have 

 been careful to reserve such, and such only, as are 

 of the best size and form, and such as show the great- 

 est disposition to fatten, at the least expense, and are 

 the most orderly and manageable ; having disposed 

 of all the ill-shaped, unruly, unmanageable, and of a 

 lean disposition ; in this way, you will in a few years 

 have under your care a perfect stock, if you are care- 

 ful at the same time to select the best size and form 

 of each kind, to propagate with, or encourage your 

 neighbours, by propagating from theirs if they sur- 

 pass yours. The cultivation of your farms, by good 

 husbandry, has not only taught you how to raise the 

 value of your lands, and increase the profits upon your 



