, 1861-11-07
Agricultural Items.


remain on the pasture, and do not give them
more than six quarts once day. After
feeding them ten days you may give them
seven quarts per day, il your cattle are at
large. Feed at the same time Of day as
nearly as possible. If you want to get
them fat soon, by the iltst of November,
give them six quarts twice a day. Increase
very slowly, but never give them their full
feed until cold weather, if that should not
be until January. If you feed heavy, have
half as many stock cattle as fat cattle to fol.
low. If you can, get cattle TO follow com
ing four years old. If you can get chance,
sell your fat cattle the first opportunity,
and putas many more in their place. When.
ever you can get price sufficient to make
a reasonable profit, sell and buy more.
HARvEsTrxo BEASs.-The Agrieult,trist
says: 1t seems to be supposed by some,
that beans should remain in the field un.
gathered, until they are fully ripe and ready
to shell out. Experience shows that this is
neither necessary nor wise. Watch for the
time when the leaves Of the plant begin to
turn yellow, and the pods become plump
and hard. Then pull and stack them in the
field loosely, putting few stones or cross
pieces of wood underneath each stack, to keep
the bottom tier dry, and, to promote ventila-
tion Of the whole, do not forget to stake them
firmly, to prevent the stacks from blowing
over. Beans so managed will ripen a good
deal after being gathered, and will command
q much higher price in market than if they
had been left standing longer, and so been
nipped by the frost, and dragged and soaked
in the mud. Let them remain thus stacked
until dry enough for threshing.
FREsH ToMAroEs AND BEANS IN WIxrEP.
We printed sometime ago q mode that
we saw highly recommended for preserving
fresh tomatoes and Lima beans, which was
accompanied with very little labor or ex
pense. A friend informs us since that he
has followed it for years, and that it an
swers an admirable purpose. It is simply
to prepare Q strong brine-pure salt and
water-in q proper vessel, into which the
tomatoes or beans, having been picked un.
broken, are dropped, and kept beneath the
pickle by board and weight, until wanted.
We know, for we have eaten beans pre-
served in this way, as late as February,
that they are nearly il not quite as good as
when cooled. This is certainly deserving
Of general trial, snd is within the reach Of
all.
HABIrs OF rIfE APPLE BoREH.-A cores.
pondent Of the Mdine Farmer, who has paid
much attention to this destructive insect, states
as the results Of bis observations: that the
absence Of the sawdust or borings about the
trunk Of o tree is no proof Of the absence Of
the borer that the bOrer works downward,
sideways, or roundabout the second year,
working close to the bark, and girding the tree
so far as he goes, and It is not until after the
second year that he makes straight course
upward and inward, TO come out probably on
the other side; that there are often several
borers in the same burTov, at least during
the first and second years and that it Is
better to kill the tree in searching for them
with the knife and the chisel, than not to
find them.
CoNcRE1E FLooEs.-The lower floors Of
all the cellars Of houses should be com.
posed Of bed of concrete, about three in
ches thick. This would tend to render them
dry and more healthy, and OF the same time
prevent rats from burrOwing under the walls
from the outside, and coming up under the
foors--the method pursued by these yer.
min where houses are erected on q sandy
soil. This concrete should be made Of
washed gravel, and hydraulic cement. The
common mortar, mixed with pounded brick,
and washed gravel, make q concrete for
floors nearly as good as that formed with by
draulio cement. Such floors become very
hard, and are much cheaper than those Of
brick or fagstone.
PLowING IN WHEAT AND MANuRE.-The
following method Of plowing in wheat,
which has been practised for twenty years
by farmer near Dundas, c. W., Is given
in the GeReses Farmer. After the land had
been prepared in the ordinary manner, man
ure Is spread on the surface early in Sep.
tember, the wheat sown on Immediately and
both narrowed once over. The wheat so put
in has invariably yielded one-third more than
that sown in the usual manner the same year,
and though Il takes longer time TO make its
appearance, It is never Winter.killed, nor Is
It later in ripening.
PREPARrso GRouxD FOR A GARDEN.-The
preparation Of ground for q garden should
be made late in the fall, If possible; but Il
neglected then, it should be attended TO as
soon as the ground is dry enough in the
spring. Ater spreading good coat Of
manure over the whole, the ground should
be plowed deep and well; spading would
be much better. The roots, such as rhubarb,
asparagus, herbs, perennial, flowers, strawber-
ries currants, etc, should have their full share
Of manure, and the ground be as deeply
cultivated as possible around them.
DrTcHIEo SLoUeHs.-On every proper
occasion do something towards ditching
your sloughs. If they are already ditched
and plowed, sow on them crop Of oats or