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THE FAKMER’s manual. 
since the first of September, with pumpkins, or car- 
rots, and potatoes well boiled, and mixed with bran, 
or meal, and you are now driving them with Indian- 
corn, either shelled and boiled, or boiled upon the 
cob; this mode of boiling your corn, has been prov- 
ed to exceed in value the same miantity when ground, 
and g'iven in the usual way ; ami thereby the expense 
of toll, and going to ,the mill, are saved ; the pork 
will be equally hard and good. No more exj)ense 
will be necessary, in boiling a kettle of corn or po- 
tatoes, that will hold a barrel, than in boiling your 
tea-kettle, for the same time ; one gallon of water will 
be sufficient, provided you cover your corn, or pota- 
toes close with dry bran or meal, so as to prevent the 
steam from escaping ; where fuel is scarce, this saving 
will be an object of attention. 
You have now collected all your stock from your 
pastures, and closed your fields for the winter. You 
have selected such cattle as you have designed for 
market, and are now closing your sales, particularly 
all horses, not immediately useful and necessary. 
This animal is of the least value to winter over, of 
any of your stock. He requires your best feed, and 
gives you very little productive labour in winter; 
yields you neither beef, nor wool, in the spring, and 
never advances his price in the spring market, equal 
to one-fourth of the expense of wintering, exclusive 
of risk and trouble ; both which are very considera- 
ble. Let your working cattle, cows, sheep, and such 
young stock as you cE^n be sure to feed wdl over 
the winter, be selected as the special objects of your 
winter’s care ; and be sure to market to the best ad- 
vantage all the supernumeraries. The diflerence in 
the value between either of these articles of stock, 
which are full fed, and well kept over the winter, and 
those half fed, and poorly kept, is greater than I 
should dare to name; not only in its value the ensu- 
ing spring, but for all succeeding purposes of such 
stock. 
