THE FARMER'S CALENDAR OF MONTHLY WORK ON THE FARM 



JANUARY WORK. 



Prepare for the coming season by reading and laying out your 

 plans. Determine what implements, seeds, roots, potatoes, trees, 

 etc., you will want for planting and order them in good season'. 

 Secure the best seed. A few dollars for wheat or oats, that will 

 yield ten bushels more to the acre than you are now getting, and 

 heavier at that, will prove a good investment in the end. 



Farm Hands. — We have previously advised that farm hands 

 should be kept the year round. A great deal of work is neglected 

 In the winter for want of help. Now is the time to cut fire-wood 

 and get out timber, fence sLuff, bean poles, etc. 



A Work Shop, provided with the most important carponter3'» 

 painters', and metal workers' tools, is what every farmer should 

 have. Let it contain a bench with vice, nails, screws, a hammer, 

 hatchet and drawing knife, saws, planes, chisels, centre bits and 

 stock, and other carpenters' tools, paints, pots, and brushes, of 

 two or three sizes ; assortment of files, cold chisels, monkey 

 wrench and other wrenches, a hard-wood block which will do for 

 an anvil, a soldering iron, sh • "s of tin, wires, rivets, etc.; besides 

 a good stock of boards and timber of various kinds. Add to this 

 a few simple articles of the harness makers' kit, such as awls, wax, 

 thread, rivets, with "set" punches, and leather. Instruct the boys 

 in the use and care of the tools. It will develop mechanical in- 

 genuity. Thus provided, many a profitable day's work may be 

 done. 



Bidld^'noH. — Lay out all yo-:r plans for new buildings and alter- 

 ations or repairs of old ones, and get out the necessary material 

 to be seasoning. Nothing makes a worse job than unseasoned 

 timber. Remember that manure wintered under sheds is worth 

 double that wintered in the open air, and if you havn't shed room 

 enough calculnte to build more in the spring. It is poor policy to 

 let form buildings run down; keep every board nailed tight, 

 foundation stones firm, doors on their hinges, etc. 



Orchard.— 8ee that fences and gates are tight, to keep out all 

 domestic animals. Sprinkle young trees with blood to keep away 

 rabbits, and tramp the snow around the trees to prevent the worK- 

 in^ of mice. Make surface drains where needed. Cut scions 

 when the trees are not frozen, label carefully, and keep in a cool 



rpillar are readily 



remove them now at any cost or trouble. ^^^ 



