Agriculture is the most healthful , the most useful , and the most noble employment of man .— Washington. 
VOL. VI. NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1847. NO. XII. 
A. B. Allen. Editor. 
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FARMERS’ WINTER WORK. 
Nothing is of more importance to the agricultu¬ 
rist than to have all the operations of the farm at¬ 
tended to in their proper season. “ Let the farmer 
drive his work, not let his work drive him,” is a 
good motto, which every one will do well to prac¬ 
tise upon. Among those things which can best be 
done in winter, and most inconveniently in spring, 
is the removal of the manure-heaps to their proper 
places. While the sledding is good or the roads 
hard and smooth, the cattle and their owners have 
little to do. All the manure which can be easily 
got at, should be removed to the field where want¬ 
ed. There is no more danger of its loss while piled 
up there and uncovered, than while lying around 
the barn. It will not decompose in severe weather, 
and whenever a slight thaw takes place, a sufficient 
quantity of earth will be loosened from the frost, 
which can be thrown on it. A better plan is to 
have muck heaps, or piles of peat taken to such 
parts of the fields, as it is intended to draw the ma¬ 
nure, and spread them plentifully over the manure 
as it is drawn out. This will absorb all the gases 
from the decomposing manure, while the peat un¬ 
dergoes salutary changes from the air and rain, and 
frosts itself, which tend to prepare it as a fertilizer. 
The intimate blending or intermixture of this with 
the manure when spread on the land will insure the 
