Food Jar Fowls. 435 
a high temperature, in a cellar adjoining the kitchen, or perhaps 
in the kitchen itself. 
Collecting apples and fruits for winter should be attended to as 
soon as convenient. Apples gathered from the tree before they 
are over ripe, keep better than those which are allowed to hang 
on the trees till they are frost-bitten. 
Corn should be picked, and the stalks secured for fodder, under 
cover if possible. 
If you have any fall plowing to do it should be particularly 
recollected that during October and November, ground intended 
for spring crops should be plowed. At this season of the year, 
teams are strong and the weather cool, and moreover, sward 
grounds^ plowed in the fall for spring crops, our experience teaches 
us, produce much better and are easier tilled, than when plowed 
in the spring. 
During this month most garden vegetables should be secured, 
such as beets, carrots, cabbages, &c. 
The last of this month is a proper season for transplanting most 
kinds of fruit and forest trees. Beans are often neglected, and in- 
jured by the fall rains, they should be gathered and secured as 
soon as ripe. 
AZOTE FOOD NECESSARY FOR FOWLS. 
A letter was read before the British Association from M. Sace, 
of Neufchatel, Switzerland, giving an account of some experi- 
ments in the feeding of domestic fowls. He states first, that fowls 
to which a portion of chalk is given with their food lay eggs, 
the shells of which are remarkable for their whiteness. By sub- 
stituting for chalk a calcareous earth, rich in oxide of iron, the 
shells become of an orange-red color. Secondly he informs us 
that some hens fed upon barley alone would not lay well, and 
that they tore off each others feathers. He then mixed with the 
barley some feathers chopped up, which they ate eagerly and di- 
gested freely. By adding milk to the food they began to lay, and 
cease plucking out each other's feathers. He concludes that this 
proceeding arose from the desire of the hens for azote .food. 
