Jtgricv&twre is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man.— Washington. 
VOL. VIII. NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1849. NO. X. 
Messrs, Ai.len, Editors. C. M. Saxton, Publisher, 121 Fulton Street. 
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WORK FOR OCTOBER, NORTH AND WEST. 
General Remarks .—Any portion of the work 
omitted to be done in September, or impracticable to 
be performed from the state of the climate, as recom¬ 
mended in our last number, may be accomplished 
this month, such as — sowing winter wheat and rye , 
the selection of seed corn , threshing grain, fumigat¬ 
ing granaries, cutting and stacking corn, compost¬ 
ing manure, draining wet lands, ^c., §c. 
Fdl Plowing.—Ml stiff, clayey lands, intended 
for spring crops, may be plowed this month, when 
the earth is neither too wet nor too dry. If plowed 
at the right time, and subjected to the winter frosts, 
the texture of the soil will be greatly improved. 
Plowing and Pkmtmg for Orchards .—If you 
design to plant out a young orchard, either this 
fall, or next spring, the ground should now be 
twice thoroughly and deeply plowed, when not too 
wet, turning under at the second plowing a liberal 
coat of compost, formed of swamp muck, charcoal, 
wood ashes, and oyster-shell lime. At the extreme 
