AND RURAL ECONOMIST. 365 



SEPTEMBER. 



A correctly calculating cultivator will make even his hogs la- 

 bor for a livelihood. This may be done by throwing into their 

 pens potato-tops, weeds, brakes, turf, loam, &c., which these 

 capital workmen will manufacture into manure of the first 

 quality. Page 190. You cannot sow winter rye too early in 

 September. If it be sowed early its roots will obtain such hold 

 of the soil before winter, that they will not be liable to be 

 thrown out, and killed by frost. Page 130. It may be sowed 

 early to gieat advantage in order to yield green food for cattle 

 and sheep, particularly the latter, in the spring. Winter wheat, 

 likewise, cannot be sowed too early in September. Page 112. 

 Attend to the barn-yard, and see that it has a proper shape 

 for a manure manufactory, as well as other accommodations, 

 adapted to its various uses. Page 77. You may as w^ell have 

 a hole in your pocket, for the express purpose of losing your 

 money, as a drain to lead away the wash of your farm-yard. 

 True, it may spread over your grass ground, and be a source 

 of some fertility to your premises, but the chance is that most 

 of it will be lost in a highway, or neighboring stream. 



Ploughing. Page 281. Stiff, hard, cloggy land intended to 

 be tilled should be ploughed in autumn. Fall ploughing saves 

 time and labor in the spring, when cattle are weak, and the 

 hurry of the work peculiar to that season presses on the culti- 

 vator. A light sandy soil, however, should not be disturbed by 

 fall ploughing, but lie to settle and consolidate through the 

 winter. Select your corn intended for planting next season 

 from the field, culling fine, fair, sound ears from such stocks as 

 produce two or more ears, taking the best of the bunch. Page 

 32. You will consider well which is the best method of har- 

 vesting corn, and adopt one of the methods mentioned by judge 

 Buel. Page 31. If the husks and bottoms of your corn, when 

 stowed away for winter, are sprinkled with a strong solution 

 of salt in water, (taking care not to use such a quantity of the 

 solution as to cause mould,) and when dealt out are cut fine 

 with a straw cutter, they will make first-rate fodder. Do not 

 feed hogs with hard corn without steeping, grinding or boiling 

 it. The grain will go much the farther for undergoing some 

 or all of these operations, and if adue degree of fermentation is 

 superadded, so much the better. 



NOVEMBER. 



In many situations it will be excellent management to rake 

 tip ail the leaves of trees, and the mould which has been pro- 

 duced by their decay, which can be procured at a reasonable 

 expense, and cart and spread them in the barn-yard as a layer, 

 to absorb the liquid manure from your cattle. Likewise it 

 would be well to pl£ice quantities of them under cover, in situa- 

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