386 Fall — September. 
bodies, as the frost of autumn has cut down the vegetable king- 
dom. Let us then ripen for the harvest, and be always ready for 
the reaper, death. 
Autumn has come; and as winter is rapidly coming, we shall 
be wise and work while the sun shines; fill our granaries so as 
to be provided for when the storm and darkness overtakes us. 
With thankful hearts w^e look around us, knowing that all our 
wants have been supplied. 
September is the month to prepare our grounds and sow our 
winter crops, such as wheat, and rye. In preparing our grounds 
no pains should be spared to have them deeply plow'ed; to have 
no banks left untouched, and that it be thoroughly pulverised 
with the harrcAv. Although we do not believe that pulverization 
alone wnll make sterile soils produce luxuriant crops, still we do, 
believe it will make any, whether poor or rich, yield in a greatly 
augmented ratio, and this will be the more readily conceded by 
the thinking farmer, when he reflects that in the atmosphere, the 
rain, and the snow, are to be found most if not all the elements of 
fertility, and by having his grounds in a state the best adapted to 
attract and appropriate these elements to their uses, the better 
chance will he stand of being proHted by these fruitful sources of 
enrichment. Again, by deep tillage and minute subdivision of 
the soil, the roots of the plants have a bed prepared, which 
instead of offering any impediment to their embedding themselves 
beyond the reach of frosts — beyond the influence of sudden freez- 
ings and thawings — encourage their expansion, and increases the 
pasture on which they feed. 
In addition to what we have already said upon this subject, we 
will remark, that the sooner ground intended for wheat or rye 
shall be plowed and put in order for the reception of seed, the 
better chance will there be of the crop being a good one, as the 
ground once ready and in good tilth, the farmer may choose his 
own time for sowing. Besides good plowing and fine tilth, it is 
essential that wheat or rye fields should be secured by judiciously 
arranged w'ater furrows, at proper intervals, so constructed, and 
so leveled, as that the water which may fall, will speedily pass 
