Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-12-24
Farm Work for December.

Blow Blow ye wintry winds, and bid the far.
mer to ward of your force.
Winter has come, cold cold winter. The sun
has lost its power. The north winds rule on land,
and stormy ocean. Come mariners away; and
tempt no more the treacherous deep, while Boreas
holds the reins.
Frosty winter-welcome to youth whose warm
blood quickens with approach of leisure--of holt
days skates, and sleds, and rackets. The time
may come when you will hail with heartiest pleas.
ure the returning sun, and bid warm weather wei.
come When your frosty heads will cover and re.
treat before the elements that mock old age.
The first Of the farmer, when winter comes,
is his live stock that looks up him alone for sus.
tenance. They are dumb and need his special care.
They suffer more from neglect at this season than
in March, for their forage is entirely changed in a
day. and dry food is substituted foI sweet pastures
The round turnps that you have carefully stored
should now be freely parcelled out They gain
nothing by keeping, and they liable to be spoil
ed by frost. They will never be more seryiceable
TO your young stock than in the month of Decem.
ber Feed out freely now and you shorten their
winter-their time Of dry fodder.
Cows in milk, and fauipg oxen, need roois-
Cows may have turnips, and carrots, and beets.-
Too many turnps may njure their milk. But one
peck each day, given with regularity 10 a COW, has
injured no milk that we have ever tasted.
The old horse will care but little for your turnip
feed. But carrots he will not forget after he has
been once introduced to them. Carrots give old
dobbin glossy coat and nimblc gait, without en-
gendering govt, or breaking out his grinders in
munching. Feed pretty full in these first cold days
and you will need the less in March.
If the rye, and oats, and wheat, and barley are
not all threshold they should be- for fear of rats aud
mice and dirty hens. The only apology that can
be offered for deerring this business to December,
Is the want of leisure arising from imnrovemen, q
on the farm. We have had so much good out door
weather, since the grain harvest that we have hard
ly had time 10 look into the grain scalfolds.
Wood should be hauled in the winter season.
and December is usually the best month for this
business. January and February are more windy
months, and the SHOWS are piled up too deep for
good shedding
Country Schools should be constantly attended
in winter while the funds hold out. Parents and
guardians, see that young people lose not days
attendance on your district schools. One induI-
gence leads 10 another and certificates in excuse
are only plague TO the master.
An order to have your boy dismissed half an
hour before the school closes, creates as much and
more confusion in large school than hardness in
the morning. Don't perpex faithful schoolmas-
ter by interfering with your special legislation
General laws are more equal and the rules of the
school must be established by him who presides
over il.
II the master proves tyrant, as some masters
will, let him be punished by the regular tribunals
He must be made TO know, if he knows it not, that
he has not absolute power 10 do he pleases with
his charge. II he Furnishes unredsonabiy, he is
himself liable to punishment.
full knowledge Of this truth will not weaken
the authority OF reasonable master and children
cannot be made more unruy by knowledge that
the master cannot play the tyrant with impuny