THE farmer’s manual. 
Ill 
Your barn-yards are cleared of their summer’s ma- 
nure, all which is well spread upon your mowing 
grounds ; (see article Manure /) your sheds and racks 
are all prepared ; your stables are rendered tight and 
warm ; your barns, as well as your houses, are all 
patched wherever a shingle is missing; the glass is 
all set in your houses ; your house-doors, and barn- 
doors, are all rendered tight and secure ; your cellars 
are all banked up where it is necessary, and thus ren- 
dered secure from the frosts of winter. Your cider 
is all got in, and put up upon the stalls ; such apples 
as you put up in barrels for the use of the family, are 
now snug in your cellar ; your turnips are dug and 
housed, and your cabbages are all pulled, and such 
as you intend for the table, are carefully set out in 
the driest part| of your, cellar; such carrots, beets 
and parsnips, as you design for the table, would pay 
you well in their relish and flavour, if you will pack 
them in sand, in dry casks. Such turnips as you 
wish to keep late, and preserve from being pithy, co- 
ver under a heap of loose potatoes, where you cau 
conveniently draw them. when wanted; you will pre- 
serve them pure over to the spring. Your French 
and Swedish turnips, will then supply for the sum- 
mer. 
In selecting your stock for the winter, you have 
been careful to reserve such, and such only, as are 
of the best size and form, and such-as show the great- 
est disposition to fatten, at the least expense, and are 
the most orderly and manageable ; having disposed 
of all the ill-shaped, unruly, unmanageable, and of a 
lean disposition ; in this way, you will, in a few years, 
have under your care a perfect stock, if you are care- 
ful at the same time to select the best size and form 
of each kind, to propagate with, or encourage your 
neighbours, by propagating from theirs if they sur- 
pass yours. The cultivation of your farms, by good 
husbandry, has not only taught you how to raise the 
value of your lands, and increase the profits upon your 
