Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-10-11


| Pampkins.-It will be well to have your pump
kins gathered before they become injured by the
frost. AS to the time of SO doing, your own good
Judgment must determine. Have them carefully
handled in pulling and hauling, so as to prevent
their being bruised. and stow them away IN some
cool place In feeding them out to your hogs and
mileh cows you will increase their value as food, by
having them cooked For hogs especially is cooking
necessary, as it prevents their purging.
Roots of all kinds should be harvested and put a.
way, before being injured by the frost
Time Of putting up hogs to fatten.-The precise
time when this is to be done, will of course depend
upon your supply of mast, to sustain them in thr-
wing condition in the woods. All we wish to impress
in weather moderately warm, than they do in cold ;
and for this reason that in cold weather, of
the food is required to keep up the heat of their bo
dies SO that all distracted in that way tax upon
i flesh and fat.
Orchard Trees-Examine these, cut off all dead
limbs into the sound wood, make smooth surface
to the wound, and paint it with a mixture made of
equal parts of beeswax, rosn, and tar; then brush
the bark of the tree with hard brush and paint
with mixture of soft soap, salt and sulphur, pre-
scribed last month. If the trees are covered with
moss or ross, they should be scraped with an iron
scraper, before the mixture is put on.
If not recently manfred, or cultivated with man
ured crop you should treat your orchard to dress
ing this fall such advised for Young trees last
month. Unfair fruit, and unproductve trees are
the natural results of impoverished soils half fed
infant will be puny and dminutive so will apple
neither can be vigorously grown, without pabu-
lous food.
Planting Young Orehard-Our remarks of last
month upon this subj ect, too full to need any
i thing this: but we will says that every man who
owns farm it to himself to his posterity, to
society, to have good orchard of choice fruits If
he is too far from market to sell his fruit he can use
them in feeding his stock Cooked apples mixed
with meal, will fatten hogs as we'll as corn cooked
apples mixed with meal and chopt straw FORMS with
water one of the best Stops that given to
mich cow to encourage the secretion of milk
mash formed of peck of cooked apple, half gallon
of oats, or chop and peck of cut hay or straw
makes sustaining meal for troopers plough
mans horse-it acts very gentle aperient tends
to loosen the hide and ubrcates the hair gives tone
and energy to the muscular secretons and encoura-
ges healthful elaboration of fat:-and above all
else good apples, whether cooked, or uncooked are
among the greatest delicacies, the most grateful
healthful, luxuries of the table. Therefore if you
have no orchard, plant one, and thereby fulfil the
duties required of vOu by YOUR God and country
i D1asnage-We repeat our advice of last month,
to drain your re ands it is called for by your best
interests. For view of its benefits read an article
in this number headed I" Importance and benefits Of
draining lands"
Mich Coars In addition to the scanty fare of the
pastures mich COWS should receive generous messes
of succulent food, and hay at highland if you
have not already provided warm stabling for their
winter accommodation do so without delay.
Young Stock should be provided with additional
food of nights it is important to bring them into
winter quarters in good condition-equally is it.
to keep them
UorEine animals of all kinds should be treated
we'll
Buckwhcat.-Cut your buckwheat before it is
touched by the frost When about half the grain is
ripe on the heads, is safe time for harvesting
! After threshing, save the straw for your cattle
Corn-stGlks' properly cured, cut into half inch
pieces, and steamed make excellent provender for
cattle, and when mixed with bran OF meal, make a
good mess for mich COWS.
Selling Corn.-Don't sell your corn in the ears
but she'll it. The cobs, when ground into meal,
make nourshing food for mich COWS and other
cattle.
Fall Ploughing.-Stif clay lands intended for fall
cultivation, always improved by fall and winter
ploughing; provided they not plougded when
either uet or too dry. If they need lining lime OF
marl could not we'll be applied better time than
just after they are ploughed When applied il
| should be narrowed in such an application will
make the lime marl tell in next years crop
f Fences.-Examine and repair these.
} Out-buildings-If not already done, these should
be cleaned out and white washed
Lining Of Lands-From 90 to IS bushels of lime
per acre, is much should be put poor lands
at one time-from 40 to SO on lands in good heart
matter, 100 bushels may be advantageously put on
l Twice these quantities of mari may be applied
very advantageously.
! If we were asked which kind of lime we would
prefer! Our reply Woulu oe, thaI maue from oyster
; shells: we taught this doctrine many years ago
q when it almost heresy to do so; but we are
in the habit of saying what know to be true, we
f left the consequence of our opinion to take OF
ITSELF and we are pleased to find, that public sent
ment has veered round, pretty considerably, to our
t way of thinking. There was a timo too " hen mag
nesiam lime was looked upon with holy horror, but
e we repudiated the idea, and that is assuming
its proper position. Gas-house lime started into
public notice. having experimental with it IA years
ago and found it good and that too, is being utiliz
ed, as everything ought to be- that feed plant
fertilize the earth contribute to the necessitie
and comforts of man beast.
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: counsel for the accused, attempted irrelevan
8 ross-examinaton of one Jacob B. Sheys, and cam
. off second best. as below describeci: