DEVOTED TO AGKICULTURE AND ITS KINDKED ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



VOL. X. 



BOSTON, NOVEMBER, 1858. 



NO. 11, 



JOEL NOIUSE, Proprietor. 

 Office. ..13 ComrERCiAL St. 



SIMON BROWN, EDITOR. 



FRED'K HOLBROOK, ) Associate 

 HENRY F. FRENCH, Editors. 



OAiBNDAR FOR NOVEMBER. 

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'"Tis the year's eventide. 



The wind, like one that sighs in pain, 



O'er joys that ne'er will bloom again, 



Moans on the far hill side. 



The air breathes chill and free ; 



A spirit, in soft music, calls 



From autumn's gray and moss-grown halls, 



And round her withered trees, 



Leaves, that the night wind bears 



To earth's cold bosom with a sigh, 



Are types of our mortality. 



And of our fading years." 



November mornings 

 are often cold and 

 dark, and a dull, 

 sombre feeling 

 'pervades the whole 

 day. But if the 

 pleasant, cheerful 

 weather does not 

 lead us to go brisk- 

 ly about our du- 

 ties, we must set 

 about them under 

 the spur of neces- 



sity, for they must 



be performed. The corn 



must be husked and the 



giain threshed. The roots 



must be taken out of the ground, if 



they have not been already, and 



carefully secured in the cellar, and 

 it is to be hoped you have a big pile of them. 



Now the fields have become "brown and sere," 

 and the cattle can find nothing green and succu- 

 lent, — you will begin to appreciate the value of 

 turnips, carrots and beets. Before the ground 

 freezes there are many things to be done. If you 

 need any drains about the house and yard, to 

 carry off the rain-water that is apt to trouble 

 you by its accumulation upon the frozen surface, 

 see that they are made in the right place, before 

 the ground freezes. A little forethought in this 



respect may save you much inconvenience before 

 the ground thaws in the spring. 



Now is the time to get a large heap of muck 

 into the barn-cellar, or if you have not got the 

 muck, dry loam. It will soon be frozen, and then 

 it will be more work to handle it, and it will not 

 be mixed so freely or so well with the manure. 



See that everything that needs protecting 

 from the weather is properly attended to at once. 

 Cover the asparagus bed and rhubarb with a 

 good coating of horse-manure^ A dressing of 

 fine old muck and ashes, spread on the straw- 

 berry bed, and this covered with leaves, or mea- 

 dow hay, straw or fine boughs, will prepare it for 

 an early start in the spring. Isabella gravies are 

 the better for being laid upon the ground, and cov- 

 ered, either with earth or hay or boards. We pre- 

 fer a covering of soil alone — and the method is 

 as follows : — Dig a shallow trench three or four 

 inches deep with the hoe, as long as it may be 

 needed, then lay the vine into it, gathering in all 

 the side shoots. Then lay across two or three 

 old boards or stakes, step on them and press 

 down the vine and throw on the soil which had 

 been removed from the trench, and enough more 

 to cover the vine efi"ectually. In the spring, after 

 the soil gets warm, remove the earth carefully 

 from the vine, and lift it from the trench, and 

 replace it on the trellis. One great advantage 

 of this mode of treating the gi-ape is, that the 

 vine remains in a uniform temperature, and does 

 not freeze and thaw with the change of the 

 weather. We have never known vines winter- 

 kill that were treated in this way. Have the cel- 

 lars well ;.ecured, and see that the hens have a 

 warm, dry place, with a plenty of gravel and 

 ashes for them to wallow in. See that the swine 

 are provided with a warm, dry sleeping place, 

 secure from the driving wind and snow. They 

 are fond of warmth, and will not thrive without 

 it. A little care for poultry and pigs will be well 

 repaid, and the creatures will be much more con- 

 tented and comfortable. 



