off the ground in time to allow its being planted in corn, with the land 
improved by the rotation. 
Cutting and housing the tobacco crop makes great progress during 
this month. The housing and curing of the tobacco crop is much more 
than one-half of the work of raising tobacco. See that the plants are 
not bruised or broken when being cut and carried to the barn. Much 
of the profit in tobacco raising is lost by inexperienced men curing crops 
into a type of tobacco not wanted by the market. 
September is the month for the preparation of land for wheat. It 
should be deeply plowed, and should lie undisturbed for a week or two, 
and then the surface soil should, to the depth of three or four inches, re¬ 
ceive the finest breaking with the harrow and roller possible to give it. 
Wheat needs a firm foundation for a good root hold. 
WORK FOR OCTOBER* 
Wait for a touch of frost in the air before seeding wheat, even though 
this should make the seeding late. The time spent-in waiting may almost 
always be wisely spent in better fitting the land. The system of cutting 
the stalks of corn at the roots and shocking in the field is growing in 
favor. The ear, blade and stalk are thus cured together. After the corn 
is pulled from the stalks, do not allow the stalks and fodder to remain 
in the fields, wasting, a day longer than can be avoided. If you have 
facilities for cutting and shredding the fodder, let this be done at once, 
and pack the product away tightly in the barn, or in a closed shed. Ex¬ 
clude the air as far as possible by this tight packing, and the feed will 
keep perfectly. Never fear if it becomes hot. If it is not damp with rain 
or dew, it will not spoil. If you have no facilities for cutting and shred¬ 
ding, then stack the stalks in the barn or under a shed, or, failing in these 
conveniences, make them into stacks outside, and cover with a few 
boards to shed the water. 
Irish potatoes should be dug as soon as the vines die down and the 
tubers become ripe. Dig when ground is dry. Leave in sun just long 
enough to dry them. Fifty bushels is enough to store in one lot. If put 
up in heaps on high, dry ground, cover with straw only until after the 
tubers have passed through the sweat, which will take from ten to four¬ 
teen days. If rain should threaten before they have finished sweating, 
cover with boards to keep the straw dry. After they have cooled down, 
cover the heaps with six or eight inches of soil on the straw and beat 
solid. The secret of keeping potatoes and roots of all kinds during the 
winter is to maintain as nearly as possible a uniform temperature, not in 
excess of forty-five degrees. 
Take every opportunity of pushing on the work of fall plowing. Do 
not delay in having all necessary repairs made to cattle barns, stables and 
sheds. Stock should be housed in comfortably warm quarters, to pre¬ 
vent loss of profit. All implements and tools not in use should be brought 
into the barn or tool shed and be cleaned, and working parts greased. 
WORK FOR NOVEMBER. 
Have convenient to your farm buildings an abundance of straw and 
bedding material, so that the stock may be housed comfortably and the 
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