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Planflns^ Jlpph and Pear Treen. 



Vol. III. 



have an eye to; for if at the commencement 

 of the fodderinnf season they be in i^ood plight, 

 the probabilityof their g^oing well tiiroutrh that 

 critical and trying period will be infinitely 

 greater. 



GATHERING AND CURING FODDER AND TOPS. 



No time should be lost in gathering your 

 blades and tops, and recollect that as soon as 

 they are dry they should be brought in from 

 the field and placed out of the weather. By 

 protecting them from rain you add greatly to 

 their intrinsic value as provender, besides ren- 

 dering them much more palatable to your 

 stock of all kinds. 



GATHERING AND PRE.SERVING POTATOES. 



As soon as your potatoes are fit for digging, 

 take them up, and be sure to put them away 

 with as little exposure lo the sim as possible, 

 and care should be taken to bruise them as 

 little as possible. 



TURNEPS. 



By stirring the earth around your turneps 

 early this month, you will add much to their 

 growth and increase their product. 



BEETS, PARSNIPS, CARROTS. 



These roots should all be taken up and put 

 away this month. 



PUMPKINS. 



As your pumpkins ripen, gather them and 

 jnit them away in a dry warm room. It is 

 important that they be housed before being 

 exposed to the frost of the field. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



As you cut your buckwheat put it into 

 sheaves, — these must be set up in the field, 

 and after a day or two bring them in and 

 thresh them out immediately. The sooner 

 this latter work is done the better, as the 

 grain will thresh off much easier and with 

 a great deal less loss. Afler your straw 

 is threshed stack it away carefully, taking 

 the precaution to salt each layer of it. — 

 If you do so, in mid-winter when your 

 provender is most wanted, it will afibrd you 

 an excellent resource for your milch cows, the 

 which will cat it with avidity, and to which 

 it will prove a highly nutritious food if it has 

 been properly cured. 



WHEAT AND RYE. 



Those who have not sown their wheat and 

 rye should get it in as early as possible; but 

 no one should think of sowing either without 

 first steeping the seed in strong brine or ley, 

 and rolling it in lime, or ashes. 



HOGS. 



As soon as the range in which your hogs may 

 be running ceases to be a pasture, put them 

 up, and if you design commencing your feed- 

 ing with pumpkins, boil them, as by so doing 



you not only render them more nutritious by 

 concentrating the saccharine matter, but by 

 destroying the vegetable acid you depriye 

 them of the power of scouring your hogs, a 

 thing always to be avoided if possible. Once 

 a week while your hogs are fattening, throw 

 either rotten wood or charcoal in to them. — 

 Either will correct the acidity upon their sto- 

 machs, and keep them to their appetites. 



CORN HUSKS AND SHUCKS. 



These should be stacked away with alter- 

 nate layers of hay and straw, and be well 

 sprinkled with salt. By taking this precau- 

 tion yon will find that their value as winter 

 food will be greatly enhanced, and that your 

 cattle will eat them as readily as they do their 

 hay, and if they be not so nutritious, they will 

 be found to be good, strong, subsitantial win- 

 ter food. 



CABBAGES. 



Towards the latter end of this month put 

 away your cabbages : be sure to do it before 

 the frost injures them, and they will keep 

 much better. — Farmer and Gardener. 



Planting: Apple and Pear Treesi 



Which is best, to plant apple and pear trees 

 where they are to stand, and form orchards, 

 or to plant them in a nursery, and then trans- 

 plant? 



We suppose that our friends, who have 

 laro-e nurseries, would recommend the latter, 

 but we are more than half inclined to believe 

 that the system of planting the seed where 

 the tree is to remain, is best. We know ma- 

 ny trees that have sprung up spontaneously 

 in pastures and by the sides of fences. They 

 usually make hardy, thrifty trees, while some 

 that have been transplanted arc tender, and 

 seem to be continually subject to some ill or 

 other. They can be engrafted after they ob- 

 tain sufficient size. 



Again, we know of several pear trees that 

 have sprung up in this way, that are perfectly 

 hardy; not at all affected with t!ie blight, and 

 arc orreat bearers. We merely suggest the-e 

 things to elicit information, not supposing that 

 our observations have been sutficiently evfen- 

 sive to establish any facts in the case. — Maine 

 Farmer. 



Time is money. For this reason, cheap aa 

 stockings are, it is good economy to knit them. 

 Stockings that are knit wear much longer 

 than those that are wove; and they can be 

 done at odd minutes of lime, which would 

 otherwise be lost. 



What cannot be done by one stroke, may 

 be effected by many; and application and 

 perseverance have often succeeded when all 

 other means have failed. 



