The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-11-11
Work for the Farm, Household, &c,
in November.
ANIMALS.

heeP 'hem always Improving Com
fort for the animal is money in tho purse
of The proprietor. Take them up early
for the animals sake, for the pastures
sake, and for their manure. Provide
warm sunny sheds for young cattle, close
sheds or boxes for colts, open but warm
sheds for sheep, where they can have the
range of a dry yard
BARNS AND STABLES.
A clapboard loose or gone, or a great
crack under the door, lets in the cold, and
the horse.or COW must have more fuel for
the fire within the body to counteract the
cold from without. Pure air is essential,
but let it not come in chilling currents
upon man or beast. With ventilators
above for the escape of bad air, there will
generally be enough good air stealing in
almost insensibly through the seams and
crevices; if not, admit it from some point
where il will not blow directly upon the
animals. Every stable should have one
glazed window, and better several.
BUTTER
May be made almost as well at this
season as in June, if the feed of the cows
is good enough. Sugar-beets and carrots,
with plenty of sweet hay and corn-stalks
cut up and favored with bran, corn meal,
or cotton seed, or other oil,cake, with salt
as continent, will secure the cream
which will make yellow butter without
annotto, and plenty of it.
CELLARS.
The fetid air from decaying vegetables
is as bad MS the malaria from q swamp;
hence be very careful in storing vegeta-
bles and in frequently examining those al
ready in the cellar, TO remove all roots
and leaves beginning to decay. Thor
ough draining, ventilation, and plenty of
lime whitewash, are good, both for the
things kept in the cellar, and for those
living above it. A little hydraulic limo
mortar, with bits of stone aud broken
glass, are good shoppers for rat-holes.-
The best cellar temperature is one as low
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and equable as possible above freezing In
fact little frost is better for apples than
too much warmth. Potatoes endure
rather more warmth than apples and 9th
or fruits; these must be kept cool, but
sweet potatoes will bear quite a high
temperature, and should be put in the
dryest and warmest part of the cellar
Sashes with double glass and an interven-
ing thin space of confined air, are nearly
equal to stone walls, in shutting out cold.
Protect the exposed walls with a bank of
earth outside, or what is neater and bet
ter, spent tan-bark, if it be conveniently
accessible.
Dampness and frost combined, injure
it for food, and especially for seed. Much
of the corn brought to this market is sold
as unsound." The sooner it can be
husked and placed in dry cribs, the better.
The crib should never be more than three
or four feet wide, and let abundant open
ings be left, by Stats at the sides. The
caves should project far over the sides Of
the courthouse, to prevent storms beating
in upon the sides. A rat-terrier dog
chained under or in the courthouse, is the
best rat.trap.
Usually keeps better in the bin than in
the NOW or stack, especially where mice
abound, while in the bin il is ever ready
for market. Do not burn the straw, even
in the new rich prairie regions. Let the
cattle lie on it. If it can not be used, let
it lie even five or ten years; there will
in that time surely be some place that
will be benefited by an application of
well-rottcd vegetable matter. Clean tho
grain well for market A bushe of chatf,
foul stuff, or shrunken grain in 100
bushels will lower the price of the whole
from three to four cents per bushel-an
important difference, and one which will
pay we'll for an extra tanning and screen
ing,-Ameriean Agriculturist.