Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-22
Agricultural.
From the American Farmer, for November.
Work for the Month.


claim attention on the farm:
Fattening Hogs.-The hogs should be early penn
ed for attening. Their pen should be supplied with
rubbing post-when first put up, they should re-
ceiye two or three doses ofsufphur at all times, du
ring the fattonng, they should be provided with
charcoal and rotten weed and be occasionally allow
ed ashes and salttheir meals should be given them
regularly at the same hours each day for some days
after being penned, their food should be punkins,
roots or other vegetables, cht should be cooked and
mixed with meal. The pens should be provided with
dry sleeping apartments protected from the weather
and the hogs be allowed at all times free to
ward wherein there should be full supply Of raw
materials to be worked up into manure.
Manure Making.-Cover the surface of your cat
tleyard as we advised last month, and make it the
d,g and object of your heart, to increase your dung
heaps Every dollar thus expended, will bring you
five in the increased product of your land next year
And when you shall have made your manure, don't
leave it in condition to be deprecated in value by
the rains and the SUM-
Stiff Clavs.-If you have any such lands, that you
intend for spring crops next year. plough them this
fall when they may be in condition to be poughed
without running into mortar. By exposure to the
rosts of winter their texture will be greatly broken
down Plough them deeply, leave the burrows lap
ped, and next spring. before narrowing, roll them.
Corn Cobs-As these valuable to feed to your
stock don't sell your in the ears but she'll it,
grind, chop up, and steam or boil your cobs, and
you may winter your stock with much less hay
cooked make excellent food for cattle. A peck of
bran. or peck of cob meal and one half bushel of
cooked, cut stalks. will make milch cow fill your
pail with rich milk
Roots of all kinds, should be dug and housed before
they injured by the frost.
Mich Coars and young cattle should all have the
advantage of warm stables Sheds be comfortably
and Clearly kept; have full supplies of food and
ceive, at least twice week. an ounce two of
mixture comprised of equal parts of lime, SALT and
H. H.
day.
Roots when fed to mich cows and other cattle,
should be cut fine and mixed with cut hay straw.
For mich and store CATTLE peck of roots at
meal is sufficient Most roots the better Of being
cooked Potatoes should never be fed raw
Working animals-See that these noble creatures do
not suffer for any thing that is necessary to their
fort AS the cold Increases they stand in the more
need of good warm comfortable quarters. Their stalls
should be we'll ventilated we'll Uttered, and we'll
cleaned they should be we'll fed, regularly watered
and have the salt mixture three times week. By
chOppng Touring your grain, and mix it with cut
hay straw, one-third less will serve that you
will be the gamer by attending to this part of our
advice, while your beasts will actually thrive the bet
ter by the reduction of the grain Corn and cob
crushed together, is excellent food, we'll be-
ing the most economising way of feeding your corn
heep-Your sheep should have shed facing the
south, opening into the yard-the floor of the shed
should all times be kept covered with straw or leaves
in corner of the shed salt should be provided for
them; they shouldbe regularly watered thrice day
and have pine boughs every few days thrown into
their yard to browse upon. If some charcoal were
also placed in the trough with the SALT it would be Of
advantage, in correcting any acdiy of the stomach
of the sheep.
Cou-sheds.-Have you a stable for your cattle if
not do, matter due to humanity. well as call
ed for by your interests. put up shedding. When
protected from the weather cattle be subsisted
hird he
advocate Of generous feeding at all times and under
all circumstances.
Apples.-Gather an, put away your applcs-let
them be hand picked
Ctder-mGk!ng should be attended to early In the
season.
Apple Butter-NIake goodly store of this make
it early, and make it we'll
Granaries and Corn-houses should be we'll cleaned
before the grain is stored in them.
Draining.-All wet lands should be drained.
Fire 1rood-When the leaves have fallen COM
mence to provide your fre-wood, and halt not until
you have enough piled up in your yard to last for
year.
Carts and Uagons.-Carefully overlook these, if
they need repairs have them made at once.
Gearing repair clean and grease these.
Tools and Implements-Ifa any of these need re-
pairs have them made, and put all not in use, away
under cover.
OyciaYd-Have you one! If not. set out one as
we suggested in September. If you have one which
you have neglected, heretofore, make up now for
lost time. Examine your trees and treat them as
we have so often advised you before. Good fruit
cannot be grown without attention and care In the
management Of the trees. The best apple tree in
the world cannot grow good and fair fruit without
there be that in the soil to make it with Apple trees
must be fed, as we'll as human beings, beasts of
! burthen, they cannot successfully labor. car
penter, however sllilful he may be, cannot make a
house. without the materials to do it with; neither
can tree form fruit in perfection without the ele-
ments of It's construction be in the soil.
Our doctrines are-feed the earth and it will feed
you-feed the apple and it will yield fair fruit
| Out-houses and CelLars-These should be cleaned
out and white-washed. Appearance, comfort and
health all combine to recommend the discharge OF
this duty.
Ashes-Take especial care of all the ashes made
on your place, don't permit them to be exposed to
the weather; but keep them under cover. Five
bushels of ashes, mixed with two double horse cart
loads of marsh, river mud muck or peat, will con-
vert the whole into good manure. hogshead or
two of soap-suds would do the same thing-there-
fore among your other savings and utilize them
Poultry Dung.-Have this regularly swept up ev-
cry Saturday, packed away in barrels and sprinkled
over with plaster Dana with force and truth says
the strongest of all manures is found in the drop.
pings of the poultry yard" Next year each barrel
of it will manure you half an acre of land save il
then and add to the productive energies ofyour soil
Don't look upon it as too trlftng matter for your
attention but recollect that the globe itself is al
aggregation of small matters, and that it took the
great architect six day to form it.
Bones-Have these carefully saved in every 20t
lbs of them there are enough animal matter. phos
phate of lime, and other salts TO grow an acre O
wheat. One bushel of bone added to Il load OF man
ure increases it's value one-half.
> Urine.-Save this in every hundred pounds Their
10 70 nor cent of nitrogen in its humid state,