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NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



Nov. 



and endeavor to interest them in all laudable 

 rural pursuits, and lead them to cultivate a 

 taste for the ornamental as well as the useful. 



My notes for November in the garden will 

 be brief. If previous directions have been 

 attended to, little remains to be done. 



AsPAii^^GUS is a luxury, in early spring, 

 which many scarcely know anything of, but 

 which is easily secured ; and every garden 

 ought to be supplied with a bed. In some 

 localities new beds may yet be formed, by 

 trenching and working in good strong manure, 

 bones, old leather scraps, salt, «fcc., in the 

 bottom soil, making it rich and deep, for once 

 well formed it lasts many years. Procure and 

 set good strong plants, as heretofore directed, 

 and cover with a heavy mulch of manure, &c., 

 for winter protection. Clear off old beds and 

 mulch with coarse manure. 



Cabbage. — Put those not already harvested, 

 into the cellar, or in trenches, before hard 

 freezing weather, as that injures their keeping 

 qualities, though they will stand something o^f 

 a'freeze. If stored in the cellar, they keep 

 best set out, not leaned against the wall or each 

 other closely. They keep well buried in well 

 drained, dry soil, out doors, by digging a 

 trench wide enough to receive the heads and 

 so deep that the heads may be covered four 

 or five inches. Pull off some of the loose 

 leaves and set them heads down, close to- 

 gether, and fill in the soil, raising a ridge, 

 and leave only the roots above it ; spat it with 

 the spade to shed water, &c. With this prac- 

 tice 1 have been conversant many years, and 

 they come out as waoted in the spring, fresh 

 and crisp. I have known others to be set with 

 the heads nearly level with the top of the 

 ground, and then covered with corn stalks, 

 boards end earth. When so covered they can 

 be got at more readily during winter. 



Celery. — Dig and store in boxes in the 

 cellar, setting the plants in the box as they 

 come out of the ground, filling in dirt, and 

 using care not to get any into the centres or 

 heart. 



CuRR.OfTS AND GOOSEBERRIES. — Make Cut- 

 tings at once, if not already done, and pack 

 them down in sand in the cellar bottom. Give 

 the old roots a good mulch of manure. 



Grape Vines. — By many, this month is con- 

 sidered the best time to prune. To produce 

 choice fruit ih^y need cutting back, the new 

 growth, to two or three buds, and the vines 

 taken down and covered, to protect them from 

 sudden changes in the weather. As you prune 

 make and save cuttings, and preserve by bu- 

 rying in sand, or packing in damp moss. 



Squashes and PfMricixs. — These have all 

 been gathered before this, and now we have 

 to see to their winter keeping. They keep as 

 well as any where in a dry, cool cellar, laid 

 singly on shelves. I once knew a man who 

 kept winter ciookncck stpiashes, good and 

 sound, on a swing shelf overhead, in an old- 

 fashioned kitchen till warm weather came. 



The main thing is to have them well ripened, 

 and perfectly sound, and then kept dry, and 

 from freezing. 



Turnips. — Late crops will continue to grow 

 as long as the ground remains open ; but there 

 is danger of their being frozen in, if not gath- 

 ered the fore part of the month. 



W. n. White. 



So. Windsor, Conn., Nov. 1, 18G8. 



Potato Digging Bee. — The Vermont Re- 

 cord and Farmer furnishes the official report 

 of a Potato Digging Committee, represented by 

 F. June, Chairman ; Z. Nearing, Secretary ; 

 and T. Clark, Weigher, which performed the 

 distinguished duty of digging 809 pounds of 

 the Early Rose, from a held belonging to H. 

 C. Merritt, of Brattleboro', we presume, 

 though not so stated. These 809 pounds 

 were the produce of 7| pounds of seed, re- 

 minding us of the wonderful production of the 

 Rohans, a few years since. In rows of equal 

 length, those planted with one eye in a hill 

 yielded 139i pounds ; those with two eyes in 

 a hill, 2031 pounds per row. The product of 

 a single eye in one case was G| pounds. 



Illinois. — At the annual meeting of the 

 Wool Growers' Association of this State, held 

 at Quincy, Sept. 23, A. M. Garland was elect- 

 ed President; S. P. Boardman, Secretary; 

 J. L. Mills, Treasurer, with thirteen Vice 

 Presidents. Resolutions were adopted recog- 

 nizing in the existing tariff equitable protec- 

 tion for the growers and manufacturers of 

 wool ; in favor of selling wool on its merits, 

 and in favor of a hearty co-operation with the 

 manufacturers of the West in an exhibition of 

 wools and woolens in 18G9. 



FARMERS' SHOE GREASE. 



Put into some fire-proof vessel one-fourth 

 pound of lard or soft grease like lard, one- 

 fourth pound of tallow — beef or mutton tallow 

 — one-fourth pound of lieeswax, hilf a pint of 

 neatsfoot oil, three or four tablespoonf'uls of 

 lampblack, and a piece of gum camphor a3 

 large as a hen's egg. Melt the ingredients 

 over a slow fire, and stir them thoroughly af- 

 ter they are melted. Never heat it so hot as 

 to make it boil. Soft grease which has salt in 

 j it will not injure the leather. Now, have the 

 i leather warm, and warm the grease, not so it 

 will flow, but have it so soft that it may bo 

 put on with a brush. Should the leather seem 

 to need it, give the shoes or boots an oiling 

 occasionally. It is not best to dry this shoe 

 I grease all in before the fire, but allow it to re- 



