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THE FARMER'S CALENDAR. 7(5j 



Weeds.— Cut m wet weather, and bring into heaps for burnin-^ 

 when so wet that the seed will not shell out. It does more harm 

 thau good to remove dry weeds. 



Leaves.— If they are needed for bedding for horses or other 

 stock, there is no better mode of using of them. But, when dry 

 under cover, they make good bedding, and, thrown out with the 

 manure, speeddy decay, through its action upon them. When 

 not required as litter for stock, they should be put into the com- 

 post heap in alternate layers of manure, leaves and sods.— The 

 fermentation will soon commence, and if the pile is built up some 

 four feet high, the internal heat will be sufficient to keep out the 

 frost for the most of the winter, and on shovelling oVer in the 

 spring the whole will be found one rich mass, good foi- the garden, 

 good for the lawn, good everywhere. 



NOVEMBER WORK. 



Manure. — Collect your stores of muck, leaves, and litter of all 

 kinds, and put under cover. Clear up the yards frequently, 

 throwing all manure and litter into heaps, over which spread 

 muck or soil. Bring into the hog yards all sorts of litter and 

 muck. Dust g3'psum over stable floors and on fermenting manure 

 wherever it is. Cut and stack salt marsh hay and similar coarse 

 hay which is produced upon upland swamps ; it is of great value 

 as litter and manure. Lay up the manure in compact heaps, 

 which can have liquids pumped over them as often as they get 

 dry, and keep all manure under cover so far as possible. Nine- 

 tenths of the food of well fed animals comes into the manure, as a 

 general rule. Hence the great value of fattening animals. Bead 

 the remarks in Chapter III. on the value of liquid manure, and do 

 not let another month pass until j'ou have provided for saviiig it 

 and pumping it over the solid manure every week. It icill double 

 the value of your manure from the same stock. 



Weeds Continue the slaughter of weeds as directed last month. 



Every weed allowed to go to seed re-produces thousands. 



Boot Crops. — If not already gathered in our latitude, they 

 should be left no longer. Carrots will bear freezing in the ground 

 less than any. Gather them first, and take them to the barn or 

 house-cellar ;' Mangels and Sugar Beets next ; they may be kept 

 in pits or the cellar. White turnips and ruta-bagas bear mo.st 

 frost, but hard freezing is injurious to them. Protect in i)its, 

 well covered with straw and earth to turn water. If work presses, 

 the roots may be dug and laid in long heaps as compactly as 

 possible, and covered with five or six inches of earth, and when 

 more leisure comes, the pits may be made systematically ; provide 

 ventilation by using drain tiles, loosely filled witli straw. 



