Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-10-05

FARM WORK FOR OCroBER-October has
come again that busy month of the later
harvest. All hands now must take hold and help
to secure the golden ears and the rich roots and
fruits of autumn.
October is an important month for him who tills
the fields. Corn is to be secured, and the husks
which clothe the corn are of much importance to
him who keeps herd of cattle. Gather up the
fragments that nothing lost, is maxim quiteas
important now as in days when miraculous sup
ply was witnessed
Busy busy! is the answer of the thriving farmer
now to the calls of the idle who lay up no stores
for the winter. | must be busy till my yellow corn
is and my roots dug from earth that will
soon be so frozen that digging will be out ofthe
question. Potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips, and
turnips, now cultivated for farm stock, and all
must be attended to in the sere and yellow month
of October.
The evenings are now long and the stripping Of
corn from The buss must all be done in these even
ings Let no aborer expect full wages at this sea.
son, unless he is willing 10 lend helping hand in
this time OF need. The idle and the desolute may
chew their tobacco in filthy cells, where honorable
select men venture not, lest peradvenure they may
encounter rum bottle and lppling gang, aud feel
under SOME obligation TO enforce the Maine tipping
law.
1t is no easy matter to remain for long time idle
and innocent, and it is generally found that the first
step out oil business is into vice folly, Keep then,
from these come the issues OF HE.
Solomon said, "My son, labor and be7slrong." 1t
is known fact that regular labor strengthens the
arm and gives vIg0r 10 manhood. Idle people are
weak beyond tndu rance-dfonef in society that eat
the fruit OF the honey bee.
The corn harvest cannot be commenced long be-
fore Oclober-Gr corn must have time to mature and
dry IN order 10 be Kept in security. When harvest
tine comes, therefore, it must be employed vgor
ousy till all is secure against the blasts of winter
Put The corn in warm yard harm, and the husk i.
ing may all be done after The night comes when 'no
man can work" ia the fields.
Apples should be picked before the hard rosts
come, aud cider, for unegar, is better when made in
October iban in November. Sorted apples, with
rot in them, are decidedly better for vinegar than
such as are hall rotten and soft, Good apples made
into cider in the latter part OF October worth the
labor OF picking and making. Cider from such APP.
Piles may be kept sweet until June next. And no in.
grrdient is required to be kept with the juice. The
only art required 10 preserve the juice aud keep il
from iermenting and intoxicating, is to exclude it
from the air.
Strong barrels are to be used, and they are 10 be
watched for the first month. In case any swell.
ling Of the cask appears, little of the liquor may
be drawn out through small tap hole. When c.
der is made for the purpose of being kept without
fermentation, il is necessary to strain the liquor
through hair seive. II is the pomace that causes
lHt FlottH ltihththiun " ClueFs
We have had an unusual etippy ofrain in August
and September, and farmers have not been able to
make the improvements on their low grounds which
are expected NJ this season Of the year But We
hope lJr more dry weather ior the latter harvest
Dry weather is "A disderalum for farmers in Sep.
TENDER and October. Grain in the barn is threrhed
better IN dy weather than in wet
Hogs in the pens for fattening must be fed we'll Ia
October. They are latened at less cost now than at
any season Of the year. Give them variety of food
and let them have a clean bed. Pork bears price
now that encourages farmers 10 the hitenng line.
Suffolk pork will bring higher prices than any ia the
market, and you will now find no salesman crying
berkshire hogs" II you credit all that The
droyers say, you will believe that there ia "A great
portion Of Suffolk blood in all their swine
October is the fail month which is suitable Tor
ransplanting apple aud pear trees. As soon rs the
hard lrosts have nipped the leaves and stopped the
circulation Of the sap, these trees may be taken up
and set again. As no mulchine Is proper At this
season, il is essential that small mound of earth
should be piled up around the trunk Of each, to re.
main there Ill spring, for the support of the tree
Mass, Pioughnan.