Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-29
AGRICULTURAL.
work for the Month.

bEfIEMbEA.
Salt MIXTURE for Stock.-Preparc a mix
turc composed Of equal parts Of salt, well
sifted ashes, and lime. and give to each
head of stock an ounce twice a week. Oys-
ter shell lime is best, as it contains the Phos-
phaic Of lime.
.Sheep.-See that your sheep are provi-
dcd with tar and salt, to which they can
resort at will.
Setting out an Orchayd.-If you design
setting out an Orchard this fall, and your
allotted ground has not been in row Gull
turc. you should manure each acre with
20 double-horse-car OF a compost
formed Of wood s-mould and marsh mud
six parts, one part ashes, and four bush
els Of bone-carth. This should remain IN
heap for some weeks before being applied.
In buying your trees, go to nursery
man of established character for integrity
and truth. Make no purchases al tree
pedlars for if you do, the chances are 80
Of hundred. that you will be cheated
TnEE uAwKERs OR PEDLARs ARE NOT TO
ne RELIED UPON. We deem it to be our
duty 10 put you on your guard.
Cellars.-Havc your cellars cleaned out,
the walls whiie-wasbed, and the floors
strewed with lime or plaster, and by so
doing you may contribute towards sustain
ing your family in health. Don't forget
to put the dirt from your cellar on your
dung heap. :.
Osf-honses-Ifn otrecently done, white.
wash the interior your stables and Cow
shcds-strcw plaster over the floors, as
also over your COW and pig-yards.
Fcnces.-Examine these, and have all
necessary repairs made. Frequent exam.
nation at this season, when pastures arc
almost burnt up, are judicious, as the stock
are very apt TO be troublesome, in search
oil food.
Duchinc and Draiaing.-All wet lands
.l.-Il L. $500. ..Uu VI .i.- -..-rlrs
water, by judiciously constructed bitches
and drains. Wet lands are cold the food
given them is literally wasted. the genial
influence of the suns rays are almost cx-
cluded from the roots ofthe plants; such
lands produce less, and poorer crops, and
cos. more to work them, are later by two
or thrco weeks in maturing their crops,
while they are later in the spring before
they can be worked, and serve to generate
autumnal diseases. 1t is like throwing a.
way money. to lime or mari wet lands
therefore drain yours, you have any, and
thereby add fifty per cent to their produc-
tive value.
Tops and Madcs-See to the saving Of
these at the proper time. as there is long
winter coming, when your stock will re-
quirc all the provcnder you can accumu-
late. to keep them in good condition.
CoU- Stables and Cop-Shcds.-If you
have not such accommodations on your
farm, have them built forthwith, your own
interest and humanity concur. in enjoln-
ing their construction upon you as duty.
Cattle that arc comfortably housed in win
tcr.will subsist upon one fourth less food and
come out in the spring in infinitely better
condition, than those which have to buffet
the storms without covering to shelter them
from the weather.
Ia,nips-If You have not thnned and
worked your ;urnips. do so the first week
in this month. BY attending to this, you
win largely increase their product.
Rats.-lf you have not destroyed these
destructive animals yet,u 90 SO WITHOUT turth-
err delay for every day you permit them
TO roam about your granary and barn,will
he at an expense to you of half a pint of
grain head.
Agricultural Fair-Rccollect that at
the approaching Fair Of the Maryland
State Agricultural Society, it is expected
that every farmer and planter associated
with it will do his full duty-that he will
not only be present himself, but bring with
him the products of his fields, his orchard,
his garden. and his dairy. and be well re-
presented by his stock The concourse &c
strangers from a distance will be great, and
as matter ofpridc. each member of the
association should feel himself called upon
TO contribute full share in giving inter-
est and completeness to the exhibition
Sec to it, that it may be a Aarrea home of
which every agriculturist may be proud.
From the Southern Cuiti,ufor.
Curing Corn stalks for Fodder.
Mn. EpIroR:-I have been, for the last
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