Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-11-26
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Farm work for November.

November comes with threatening aspect
and warning voice. Prepare-prepare :
Cold winter stands behind held back by one
short mounth-short for employers; long, for
those employed. Prepare for winter, all
Farmers, mechanics, landlords, tenants, and that
varied class that aids to make market
Farmers must be ready soon to shelter well
the numerous heads that look to them for add
to deal out food, in regular quantities, to all
such as have not discretion to help themselves
Regular feeding is all important to him who re-
CARDS the growth of his stock, as we'll as to him
who fattens his animals for the market.
The north and west sides of the barn and
cattle yard should be tight. No draft of air
will be needed where the south side is open to
the weather Open sheds are better than close
barns for young stock, but COWS in milk must be
kept warm-the warmest part of barn cellar,
that is open on one side, will not be too warm
for cows
Corn must be harvested soon. 1t has yet
received no detriment in the open field, but it
must not long remain there A load Of it may
be cut each day and run INTO the barn, where
it may be husked in these long evenings and
frosty mornings. This is better than filling up
the barn with many loads at time, where damp
ness will be communicated to the ears and
where the husks are made to cling too close for
rapid SHINING
Potatoes will grow no better now in the hill
than in the cellar. Cannot some ingenious far
mer tell us how much hard labor he saves by
running double mouId-board plough directly un.
der the hills, to loosen the ground and spare
the hoe and hoe-man! Any old plough may be
fixed up in two hours with a second moulder,
that should come forward as far as the coulter !:
thus rendering the coulter guiltless Of cutting
the potatoe The coulter should slope back to
an angle of forty-fyq degrees and when it does
not, the new mould-board may be so shaped as
to form coulter, as the iron poughs, without
a cutter do. Now potato hoes have only to stin
up the loose earth, instead of entering soil that
has become solid to find the potatoes that are
not exposed Rough fields must be dug with
the hoe alone.
Carrots, parsnips, beets and turnips must
Housed within two weeks No man of experie-
ence will trust them out aftet the middle of No
vember One degree north of the latitude of
this place will make difference of one week.
Trees that are to be transp planted in November
must not remain exposed out in frosty nights
Frost spoils the roots, and the trees will rot
thrive if they live through summer. 1t is
probably owing to freezing the roots that so
many of the trees brought here from other States,
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vember shonld beat the earth down about the
roots more close than they would in the spring
for hard lrosts sometimes spoil the roots after
they are covered with earth
Calves want much attention in November
and in the fore part of winter Rowen hay and
roots are good When spring draws nigh they
have now grown older and become used to dry
food. Keep them growing through the win
ter for if their hides adhere to their ribs it is
hard to start them as it is to start the bark of a
tree that has stood long without growing,
Dry wood makes better company than green
Have some dry to kindIe with by all means, and
then burn the green you have not enough Of
the dry Wood ought to be under cover as
early as September, but November is better than
the next month to give it a shelter. White birch
that is split as soon as it is cut is supposed by
many to give as much heat, pound for pound as
oak wood. All wood, as well as all sorts q
peat, is found to produce heat in proportion to
the weight Walnut and white oak are heavy
White pine, dry, will not weigh half as much
Wood might with propriety be sold by weight
were it not for the changes of weather.
Tools must be put in place 1t is quite bad
; enough in summer to spend twice as mucl
time in looking for tools as it would require tc
put them in place each time of use But ii
, November it is still more important to look up
your tools. Chains, bars, saws, axes, hammers
) and picks, are not so easy found under the snow
Fl some ofwhich may be expected before thanks
= giving is past PlOughmm.