Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-11-20
From the American Farmer.
WORK FOR NOVEMBER.

We have now entered upon the las. month
of autumn, and it behooves US all to 60 in
to full examination of what We have done,
and what remains to be done; for it is only
by such examinations that the prudent hus-
bandman can economist time, keep the labor
of his estate under his control, and save
himself from that most embarrassing rela-
ton of a farmer, behind with his work-a
relation which, above all others, tends to
impede the road to success, and render eX-
ertion perplexing both to mind and body.
With this admonition against the impolicy
of permitting the work to get behind hand,
we shall proceed to state few of the nu-
merous things which should be promptly
attended to on the Farm.
Corn CRoP.-Among the first things to
be attended to, are those Of gathering and
Aushing of corn. All delay, after the corn
is in a condition for cribbing, in the perform
ance of these labors, but serves to impair
the interest of the farmer and planter; as the
fact of its exposure subjects the crop to the
depredations of the biped and quadruped
races, and not unfrequently tempts the beast
of the homestead into those habits of fence
breaking, and leaping, which adhere to them
ever afterwards. Therefore, we say to all
our brethren, get your corn in, and have it
husked and slowed away, with all possible
despatch after it shall be sufficiently dry for
those purposes.
The price of corn is now on the advance,
owing to tI1e.bad prospects of the grain crops
of Europe; and from the failure in some
parts of our own country of the corn crop,
and its shortness in others, we have no
doubt but that it will continue to advance
until it will bear just relation to the ex-
pense and trouble of productions With this
pleasing prospect ahead, we sincerely hope,
that every corn grower will feel himself
called upon to do all that in him lies, to
save all that he has made, and profit by
every rise in the market.
CoRNHUsKs AND CoRNsTALKs.-As the
hay crop has been very short one through
out very large portion of our country, it
should be prominent object with every
corn grower, to gather and place u2ader
coUer these excellent substitutes for hay and
fodder. OF cornhusks, every farmer is IA
miliar with their value as food for cattle:
but it is, and has been, too much the Gus
tom of all, to look upon cornstalks as Of nc
value except when trodden into manure in
the COW yard-and too few take the trouble
even to avail themselves of them for such
purpose. To all then, we say, that, if corn
stalks be gathered and housed soon after
the corn shall have been stripped off of them
that every ton of them which may be thus
saved, will, if cut, prove to be the equivalent
of three-fourths of ton of the best hay as
food for cattle, and that, if they be steamed
they will be equal to ton.
Corn CoBs.-In view of the scarcity OF
long provender, we cannot omit calling at
tention to this excellent, but too often vast
ed resource. Corncobs, as we have shown
in former number, are rich in nutrition,
containing, in proportion, of 4 to gas much
nutritious matter as the grain which may
have been shelled off of them. This being
the case. no farmer can, without being charge
able with wasteful disposition, suffer them
to he lost to his stock as food. If crushed
before being fed, their value will be greatly
enhanced.
FALL PLoUGH1NG.-All stiff, tenacious
clays, should be .ploughed through the fall