Litchfield enquirer., 1837-11-23
nR1Er HINrs FOn NovEnrprn.

As the farmers wOrk is now generally completed, implements should be cleaned, dried, and laid aside. Every farn,er should have building fer his carts, ploael,s, l,ar- rows. hoes, rakes. GCc. There should be a place for every thing and every thing in it's place. in order 10 prevent looking halfa day at a.Iime for lost tools. Tools will last much Iongcr if painted, and now is good time to d" the work. glS @r Wherever practicable, plongi, the grohnd for spring crops. Look ahead for next spring, or you will get in your seed too,late.
 Employ leisure time in repairing fences, to prevent hurry next season..
 Preserve all your refuse apples fnr Cncd- ing hogs and cattlO during winter. They are worth more than potatoes. as has been proved by experiment. and weighing.
 To salt pork properly, it is essential on to imbcd the pieces completely in salt. Place layer of salt on the bottom, then layer pork in the usual manner, filling the iniersticos. and so on. till the barrel is filled. Use plenty of sall. it will not be lost. SaItpetre, when used, should be in very small quantities, say 4OOlh part. Some add small quantity of sugar. - To cure hams, mix bushel of good salt with pound of nitre, rub the hams well with the mixture, and put them down. Hub them again in few days that they may absorb the salt more evenly. In about four weeks. (sooner. if the pieces are smalO wash them and hang them up in the smoke house. The following mixture has been recommended as good for hams. One pound salt, one ounce niire, pulverized and mixed. added to two quarts of molasses; the pieces are to he thoroughly rubbed with this, and laid flesh side up, and suffered to remain three weeks. sgIts<
 IN THE GARDEN, few vegetables re- main to be gathered; cabbages should be taken up on warm dry day, drained in an inverted position of such water as they contain. and properly protected from wa ter and too great dryness, and from frost. They may be thus protected in various ways. Ono is t0 place them in cellar. with the roots buried in box of earth.- Another is to place them in a row in dry part of the garden, in an upright position, the ROOTS and STEMS buried, and then CO., vering them with two broad boards or slabs in the form of root, and burying these, with earth. Another is to separate the loose leaves, and bury them in conical pile, precisely as turnips and potatoes are treated. When put in the cellar, they should be dry and clean, otherwise in warm weather they will cause unwholesome air.
 Near the commencement of winter, lay down tender exotic grape vines, first pla- cing few stones on them to keep them down, until two or three inches of earth is thrown on the vInes, when the stones are removed and the vacancies supplied with earth. 3@f'a@ 9saa
 All tender shrubs need protection before winter. Flexible stems may be laid down; stiff upright ones may be protected by in- casing them well with the branches of fever- greens. All transplanted bulbous roots will also need protection. 4
 Asparagus beds. when the tops are dead {, should be cleared of. and layer of dung one or two inches thick spread evenly over.
 Seeds of parsnips. carrots, onions, &c. may be sown in autumn to advantage, if done so late that they will not vegetate be- fore cold weather. Early peas may be sown to great advantage, if there is no dam ger from mice. A writer on gardening says: To cultivate parsnips, SOW the seed in autumn soon after they are ripe, by which means the seed will come up early the following spring, and let the plants get strong before the weeds will grow to injure theni.' 3y e4 sa rg IA s .f .As.f5 sfs 1pI.sf.
 All vacant ground should be ploughed ar spaded, to be subjected io the action oi winter frosts, and to be in readiness as ear- y as possible in spring.-[ Gen. Farmer.
 s TEE MIND BEYOND THE GRAVE. , We cannot bnt feel that we are beings of two-fold nature-that our journey to inc tomb is short, and the existence beyond it immortal. Is there any attainment that we may reserve, when we lay down the body We know, ina, of,he gold that per- ishes, we may take none wiih Us when dust returneth to dust. Ofthe treasures which tho mind accumulates, may we carry augh, with US to that bourne, whence no travel- Ter rctorns? We may have been delighted with the studies of nature, and penetrated into those caverns where she perlecls her chemistry in secret. Composing aud dc. cOmposing-c changing matter into namolpss lorIns---pursuing the snbilest essences through the air, and resolving even that air into its original elemenis--what will be the gain, when we pass from the material to the immateriai, and this great museum aud laboratory, the time-worn earth, shall dissolve in it's own central fires? We may have become adopts in the physiology of man--scaBBing the mechanism of the eye, till light itself unfolded iis invisible laws of the ear. it's most hidden reticnlations confessed their mysterious agency witl,