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one or more loads could be hauled to the field each morning, 
before freezing. Basements ordinarily .warm can be cleaned a 
number of limes during the winter. Open sheep, or other 
sheds can be cleaned as often as there comes a general or par¬ 
tial thaw, no matter how green or coarse, if lain upon or run 
over by the stock. 
In regard to the second query, where to put it, I will say, fall- 
sown rye can be covered all over, any time before it com¬ 
mences to grow in the spring. Bye will come up through it, 
and however coarse, it will be out of the way of the reaper, 
and not in the way of the mower if seeded down the next 
year. So far, I have never failed of about doubling the crop 
of rye, or of a good seeding to clover and timothy, and with 
an ordinary amount of rain, a good yield of grass for years. 
In all cases of winter hauling I would spread as fast as hauled. 
It can be spread upon land to be plowed for corn, upon pas¬ 
tures, or any place except grass land that is to be mowed the 
coming season. 
In addition to the above winter work, every practical far¬ 
mer will find a years’ wood to fit up, materials for fence to be 
prepared, rails split and hauled to the places needed, and per¬ 
haps laid up. Posts split, sharpened, hauled to the place to be 
used, ready to be set as soon as the frost is out of the ground, 
when it can be done with one-half the labor required after the 
ground becomes dry and settled. Corn cut and properly set 
up and bound with wet rye straw, can all be hauled, husked 
and fed in the winter, the corn being well cured, and the fodder 
much more valuable than it is after being handled over a num¬ 
ber of times, breaking off and losing many of the leaves. 
Materials for building and repairing can be hauled, and most 
of the wood-work completed. Hay racks and farming tools 
may be made and repaired ; apple and other fruit trees mulched, 
which many think necessary to secure a good crop. These, 
and other things too numerous to mention, can be done in the 
winter, which will save taking valuable time from the putting 
in, cultivating and securing of crops in the busy months of 
spring and summer. 
