The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-10-15
A sEpTEMBER DAY IN THE COUNTRY.

Under this head some one Of the writers
Of the New York Evening Times puts down
this neat little sketch:
This is the season for the pippins and the
pears to riDen, and the clusters Of grapes tC
put on their richest purple. The weather is
warm vet, but at night the wind whistles
around the corners Of the house as II 1t were
cold, and the leaves crowd close to each other
on corner Of the stoop, like shivering sheep
on winter days, TO keep each other warm.- -
Uncle Isaac has been over since morning,
walking up and down the cornfield, with the
short handled hoe, cutting the stalks and lay
! inr them in Winrows. And now he has geared
] up the wagon to three times the usual length,
and placed the skids on it, and drives off to
| load the corn and draw it up to the stack
yard. Here several lengths Of fence have
been put for the purpose, along which we
dispose Of it, not so thinly that the wind will
| blow it down, nor yet so close that the air
cannot draw through it readily.
1t will be pleasant week or two hence,
when the open air is chilly, but the sun beams
warm into the sheltered places, to sit hour,
! BY hour between these rows to husk out the
c0m-pleasant to watch the gradual growth
of the hard -kerneled thick k-rOwed ears, out of
which will be manufactured our hOminy and
johnny cakes. We will mind to save out some.
of the finest, largest ears, and stripping back
the husks without breaking them off, hang
them up in the garret for next years seed
The newspapers are always advising us to GO
into the field to select tie seed ears, but it
strikes our folks that we can better make
the selection now, while the whole crop
passes in review before them. And that they
are not much mistaken, is evident from the
fact that the ears Of the variety they cultivate,
L "a
introduced. But it would be remarkable
| field Of which all the corn was OF the first
quality,
The second heap grows too, but not SO rap
| idy. 1t is made up of sound small ,or unmark-
able ears, which our busy journeymen, the
| pigs will manufacture into sweet hams, saus-
ages, and spare ribs. And there is a third heap,
| composed Of the soft or mOuldy ears, aud the
''nubbins,'' for the cattle The fatting oxen
will enjoy them, and the dairymaid will then
| add another pan to the long line on the shelf,
TO accommodate the increased quantity of
milk she expects while they are being fed out.
The boys take turn around the yards to-
night, after school, to hunt up the dock or
other weeds that may be found. For these
pests will often grow unobserved under the
| fences Of the most thrifty, while the grass Is
1 tall and green. But now that the pasture
has been cropped close, they stand exposed in
had emminence, their seeds almost ready to
rattle out and propagate the mischievous
blood. The lads pull them up gently, lest
they should scatter the seeds, and carry them
to the oven, where alone they will be harmless.
For, cast into the pig pen they are as good as
sown with the wheat or planted with the po-
tatoes aud cast into the street, the next heavy
rain washes them down into your neighbOr's
| hollow.
But Deucy at the back door is waving her
apron, and screaming to father, that somebody
| isin the house, who wants to see him. Who
can it be2 Jerry to buy up the fowls at two
potatoes2 The collector for the school taxi
The minister on his pastoral visit2 The cor
poral to warn HIM to trainingl No, it is un-
Gle Mode with a load Of peaches. He sellt
them at dollar a bushel in payment for q lOi
of hoop poles hecut IN your woods last spring
4 OF course you vail do it, for the girls oil wau
peaches enough, once, and mother wants to d,
up lot in sugar, and she was saying to .dal
that she would like to pickle some according i
Aunt Sally recipe, and then, you can &c
your book squared by the means. taS
5 But the suh is already blazing in The bran
J ehes Of father Hnntling's ''vergal0o" year
} tree,--now its rim touches the tops Of til
g NOrthside" woods. The old geRtlema
secs how late It IS, and calls Milton 10 turn Iii
horses into. The 'ipiekle;l' to Jenny that til
/ flies are not sosbad bat that she could atteni
! to her milking, aud 10 ''bub1 t0lpek the crib
door and hide the key nndeF The eill--adding
t as he perceiyes thefTaggant odoFQf the bake
; spples Just passing from the wen to the spP