OCTOBER. 



secured, shallow tillage by scaling, scarifying, scuf- 

 fling, shimming, or broad sharing, is in many cases 

 preferable to deep working oftener, and especially 

 for wheat, which loves a firm bottom. 



These hints are enough to make a farmer think, 

 which is no inconsiderable point gained. 



GATHER APPLES AND PEARS. 

 These crops are now ready to gather: they should 

 be taken from the trees in a dry season. Some per- 

 sons keep them some time in heaps to sweat, before 

 they are deposited where they are to remain. The 

 safest place is a bricked vault, with broad shelves 

 around, in order that they may not lay too deeply 

 disposed. They should be examined for about a 

 month, and moved and wiped if any moisture ad- 

 heres. This is easily done, if one space is left un-' 

 occupied when the cellar is filled. 



PUT RAMS TO EWES. 



Of all the systems of barbarity in relation to 

 sheep, there is none more prominent than the 

 management, almost wvery where common 20 years 

 ago, of turning a number of rams promiscuously- 

 into a flock of some hundreds of ewes. Where 

 breeding is pursued on enlightened principles, 

 much attention is given to the choice of both ewes 

 and rams, in selecting the lots of the former (50 to 

 60 in each) and in assigning the latter to the re- 

 spective parcels. I have been present with that ex- 

 cellent farmer, the late Duke of Bedford, when he 

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