THE farmer’s manual. 
Stand over the winter ; nurse your late potatoes ; weed 
turnips; hoe and weed ruta baga, &c. Finish dig- 
ging early potatoes. Finish pulling late onions. Con- 
tinue to clip your strawberries. Continue to gather 
your seeds as they ripen. 
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OCTOBER AND, NOVEMBER. 
Gather from your garden all winter vegetables, 
before the hard frosts commence, particularly winter 
squashes ; dry and house them carefully. When the 
frosts commence, let not a weed, nor the seed of a 
weed have a place in your garden. Gather your ce- 
lery in dry weather, and pack it in boxes with dry 
sand, in a warm cellar, leaving the tops and leaves 
open to the air. Gather ruta baga, beets, car- 
rots, parsnips and turnips, and secure them in a 
warm dry cellar. If you pack in casks, or boxes, 
such as you design for the table, they will richly re- 
pay your trouble in their extra relish and flavour, 
particularly your turnips, which may thus be kept 
sweet over until spring. This may sometimes be 
done, by covering them under a heap of potatoes, 
upon the ground. Ruta baga will not become ripe, 
and obtain its best relish, until February, or March; 
it will then supply the place of the turnip, and hold 
its relish through the summer. Transplant strawber- 
ries on to rich beds, in rows of 10 inches asunder, 
and in hills 10 inches distance in the rows, and cover 
the beds lightly with straw, or other litter, and this 
with horse-dung. 
DECEMBER. 
Continue to transplant such strawberries as you 
have neglected the last month ; this must be repeated 
