Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man. — Washington. 
VOL. VIII- 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1849. 
NO. XI. 
Messrs. Allen, Editors. 
C. M. Saxton, Publisher, 121 Fulton Street. 
WORK FOE NOVEMBER, NORTH AND WEST. 
One of the first and most important pieces of work 
to be attended to this month, is to repair your dwell- 
ing and make all snug for the cold winter that will 
surely come upon all who dwell north of latitude 
forty degrees. Hundreds, aye thousands, of families 
are now living in new log cabins, many of which 
have not been " daubed," that is, the cracks plastered 
with mud or mortar. Do not wait another day. Make 
your houses warm, comfortable, healthy, and your 
wife and children happy. Do not neglect to provide 
them with winter clothes and shoes, before the 
ground freezes. It is cruel and wicked to neglect 
this. 
■Now Secure Potatoes and Turnips. — This can 
always be done in heaps, if carefully covered. 
Smooth off a spot of ground from which the water 
will drain and make a round pile of thirty bushels. 
The best covering in the world is clean, bright, 
sound, rye straw. Commence at the bottom and 
put it up and down straight and six or eight inches 
thick. Now earth up two thirds of the length and 
put on another layer, the buts resting on the dirt. 
Cover well ; and your roots will surely keep. 
Provide Winter Quarters for Stock. — Do not neg- 
lect this. Upon the point of humanity and economy, 
domestic animals should be sheltered. At least, 
give them sheds, or some place where they can 
break off the sweeping blasts from the north. 
Put up Hogs to Fatten. — This should have been 
done last month, or, in fact, in September, just as 
soon as the corn was hard enough to pick for them. 
In truth, it is poor economy to let hogs run out at 
all. Do not put them in the mud two feet deep. 
Set out Fruit Trees. — As you value health, long 
life, and smiling friends, do not let the winter set in 
till this is done. If you cannot set them out, get 
them home from the nursery and bury the roots in 
garden mould and keep them till spring. Do not 
say you "don't know where to get them." Send 
your orders to us, if you cannot do better, and 
we will see that you are supplied by an honest 
nurseryman. 
Guard against Fires. — This advice is for the 
western prairies, where, at this season, much fenc- 
ing, hay, and grain is consumed by the sweeping 
fires, every year. 
Fall Plowing. — If you have leisure, before the 
ground freezes, do not forget that one day of 
plowing now is worth two next spring — breaking 
prairie land always excepted. 
Get Your Sleds Ready. — Never put this off till 
snow comes. There will be some rainy days in 
November, and some long evenings that might be 
profitably devoted to preparing to take advantage 
of the first hour of sledding that comes. 
Get up Wood. — Do not let the first snow storm 
find you without a stick at the wood pile, or rather 
where it ought to be. 
Go to Mill, while yon can. and not put it off till 
the ground is about half frozen. Above all, do not 
borrow. r 
Look out for a Winter School, and be sure that 
you have a good one. To do this, you must have 
a good school house. You can seldom get a good 
teacher to go into a miserable, old, rickety school 
house, nor a cold log cabin ; and if he does, he cannot 
teach your children to any advantage. There is 
such an idea of discomfort associated with the 
place that they cannot learn. And, finally, do not 
forget this month to organize a club, to visit, 
round among all the farm houses during the 
winter, and talk over matters concerning your 
immediate interests \ and if any one has dis- 
