Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-11-07
from the 'untry Gentleman.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FOR THE
.-EH H MONTH. fa.t

From the G 'unry Gentleman.I
i NOyEMBER---WOR6 FOR THE
q &-E# MONTH. EH.t i
' "The stormy, chin November days begin,
And through the heavens The changing vanors fly;
While at our feet, The .ust'iog foliage willis.
Now; the pert s1urtel, " tn his patterins feet,
Ah.ighted, comes, in kindred colored drifts,
: The watch al qua'i, to shun the hupte''s eye"
EpwAaIs
The last days Of autumn fly apace. Ma
ture has laid aside nearly all her robes OF
beauty and is preparing to wrap herself in
the cold winding sheet of winter. The chill
ing wnds, as they whistle through the for
ests, roar ike raging food Of mad waters.
Jack frost gi'ds the fields with silycry white
ness, and the frozen grass cracklcs beneath
our feet.
The music Of the groves is ended, and the
shrill sound Of the cricket, the grating tones
of the Katydid, and the dolcful music Of 9TH
or nocturnal insects has ceased.
The toil-worp farmer has shouted his char
vest home" and is now finishing up his
work in the field And, although cold storms
and unpleasant weather abound much Of the
time during November, still there is much to
be done on the farm, in order to be prepared
| for winter let us notice a few of the items
| of outdoor work for the present month.
| TUE WAY TO Piow WET GROUND IN THE FALL.
| As farmers cannot complete all their un-
| dcrdrai in one year, nor usually in ten
yea rs, there is a mode >of blowing wet fields
in autumn. which will improve very much
the friability Of the soil, and thus be the
means of producing much larger and bet
ter crop the next season, than when blowing
| ia no, 10, med in the usual Wav
| The first consideration is to lay out the
lands for blowing, up and down the slope, as
nearly as may be. The slope is sometimes
in diagonal direction across the field, and
sometimes field does not all slope in one d.
rcct:on. But where the ground is decidedly
wet, the lands should be up and down the
slope, 50 that the middle flu, rows may carry
off the surplus water more readily than they
would were they made a ross the slope.
When wet land is plowed acrsse the slope
in late autumn, the surplus water will be Ie-
tanned in a great measure, by settling across
the lands, from one middle furrow towards
another, by which the sci! will be kept well
saturated, and sometimes completely flooded
with water. .s-F .... ...,f.
In case field should slope gradually from
two directions, and form shallow valley, the
true way would be to pillow land in the low
est part of the valley, and then let the middle
burrows of all the lands, up and down the
slope or slopes, empty into the main middle
furrow.
Now that the work is laid out the next
step will be to execute it. If the ground is
sod ground, the blowing should be performed
If 1t be done with a single plow-with lap
pod furrow slices, and not with the furrow.
slices laid flat. And more than this, the
plow ing should DO done in narrow lands
not more than sixteen or eighteen feet in
width. Then, after every land has been fin
ished, adjust the plow for running as deep as
the team can draw it, and cut he middle fur
rows six or eight inches deeper than the rest
of the blowing.
After this has been done, let the middle
burrows be shovelcd out, so as to form free
channel for the water, add let the earth which
is shoveled out, he spread evenly each way
from the middle burrows, over the ridges.
One active man with good round pointed
shovel will shovel out long line of such fur
rows in a day /; and the good effect upon thu
crops next season where wet land is trcatat
ia this manner, will amply re.nuneI ate for tn
T labor bestowed. This kind of work can b.
pc. formed when the weather is so unfavora
BILE and cold that werkmen can do little o.
nothing else to good advantage.
Another very important item Of farm labo
for the month of November in this latitude
is .. -.-..s.
| .. MATURING MEADOWS. -. . ....
believe that manuring grass land late i.
5 autumn is no longer subject of doubtful ex
pedicncy among our best farmers. Well con
drcted experiments have proved that it is ia
S better to keep manure housed, and apply it
$ as a top dressing. late in autumn to gras
land, than to apply it in the spring OF tn
year, even il well rotted. Coarse barnyart
: manure applied as a top-dressing to gras
land in the spring will not increase the c"ol
\ half rs much as the same manure would in
y crease it, were it spread evenly over the sur
! face in the fall.
+ The true philosophy Of this matter is here
G In autumn everything tends downward int
7 the EARTH Grass, stubble, leaves, and al
. such substances, return back to the soil. TIL
h temperature of the weather grows cooler AM
. cooler almost every day :. and the variou
. grasses in the soil do not rise to promote veg
S citation IS they do in the spring Of the year
e Therefore when manure is applied i'm late gu
8 tumn almost the entire strength Of the ma
o nurc is carried down iEto the soil, and Their
|. retained a feed for plants until the mex
: spring, when new life Of plants begins, ant
d long and warm days increase the tempera
Z ture Of the soil !; and thus those manuria
8 substances--gases and salts-which prsmot
,fI tho growth Of plant, ars brought mp to tn
|. surface Of the soil, and taken up BY the root
u Of EhaDser i allowed to grow upon tn