Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-11-04

pOSeu TO freezlnS, IL not occu coOl, OcCdy ~
/ the crown. Growth ceases with beets after a
! few sharp frosts, hence they should be dug
and housed early. Carrots are also liable to
/ injury from freezing, and the first frost that
stiffens the soil should be signal to harvest
beets and carrots with alacrity, if not already
! done.
! Winter Grain. -Top-dressings are some
times recommended fer application early
this month. These are of two kinds. One
acts chiefly as mulch, and is often very use
I full. Poor composts of sods, peat, ETC., made
with but little manure, or with lime, ashes,
guano, fish manure, castor pomacc, or some
/ thing of that kind, if they have lain until
! fine and uniform, may be spread on pretty
! literally, and the ground rolled. Guano or
some fine - hand manure > may be sOwn on
/ to quicken the growth of late crops, and to
promote tilering when the stand is thin.
/ Do not trust common farm hand to plow
the water burrows Or surface drains about or
across grain fields. Keep them nearly on a
level, but with a uniform, slight fall.
Housing 1r Stocking Corn Fodder.-Corn
stalks dry so slowly that it often takes all the
fair weather IF autumn to dry them. 1t is
rarely safe to leave them in the field after
the middle Of the month, and they make
much better ijdder if housed as soon as they
are dry enough Whether in stacks CT under
inward, and inclined slightly upward, SO that
rain ard thawing snow will all be carried off.
BuiLdlaqs.-Look well to the roofs caves
trougs and weather boarding of all build
din.ss Where everything is not snug and
tight few nails will adj greatly TO the du-
rabiIity OF barns and sheds If stables have
only single outer walls. line them with bog
hay. 81 other litter, stuffed between an inner
boarding CT lathing and the weather boards.
BIZ : 4 favorable season for outside painting.
as the weather is seldom SO dry as to be very
dust. New paint Is not disfigured by small
Insects flies, etc, sticking TO it. as often
happens at other seasons.
boads-Employ spare time of men and
teams III putting the farm roads in good re-
pair and protecting them against washing
during thaws or rains.
Fences.-Tear away all fences not absolute
ly necessary We believe that small farmers
who keep only four or five head Of cows and
heifers well afford to get chain-tethers
for their animals and keep them tethered
while grazing, rather than be at the expense
of putting up many interior fences. Gram
fields must be securely enclosed, and fences
between neighhors and along the highway
should be looked to, before the ground freez-
es, and weak posts strengthened by stakes,
or reset.
Manure may be carted out if it can be
spread and plowed in, or put into compost
heaps with sods or muck, or even put in
heaps and covered with two or three inches
of soil. The swamps and rOadsdes. old
fence rows and the woods, should contribute
TO the supply of material for composts to be
made now, or to be made up during the
winter by mingling the vegetable mold with
manure as it accumulates. To get rich, fine
manure for spring grains, flax, garden use,
and many other purposes, build up heaps,
consisting of alternate layers of strawy stuff,
fresh manure, and litter, from the stables,
and wet the whole now and then by pump
ing barn-yard liquor over it to saturation-
1t will all rot down before spring and become
fine and uniform. See article on shelterlng
manure, on page 4OS.
/ Hogs gain flesh and fatten very rapidly
during most of this month Feed regularly
all they viii eat, and only ground or cooked
grain EreFy few days it is well to mix a
few handfuls of charcoal and ashes from a
wood fire with their food, or to throw them
little charcoal dust and corn mixed and
slightly moistened 1t keeps them in good
condition, and sharpens their appetites.
After hogs are fat enough to kill it is easy
TO keep them so awhile, even in severe wealth
or but when it is very cold they must be IN
very warm quarters or they will eat great
deal and not gain pound This month is
the time to prepare for litter of pigs in
March These will be old enough to consume
their share of milk when the cows come in
Sheep should have dry sheds, sunny yards,
and be fed from racks and troughs Grain
ing should commence as grass falls, and the
fiocks should be divided that those placed
together are about of equal strength The
high price Of linseed cake and meal vii pre-
vent their use to great extent Corn Il
the natural substitute, and a good one, but
it must be used with greater caution. Keep
sheep constantly and gradually gaining.
| Ewes served in \ 1yember will yean in April :
\ that is in $50 days
/ Horses-It is good thing to give farm
horses the range Of weedy stubble and other
fields late in the season. They eat great
many weeds as other forage fails. We keep
our horses too warm, a rule, for the sake
of giving them smooth coats Make it rule
never to give 4 horse feed or water until he
has stood an hour after coming in off the
road or from hard work, rub him down a:
he comes in, throw a warm blanket over him
and remove it when he is fed, within ar
hour Never leave a warm horse TO cool of
in drafts Of air or in the wind out-of doors
4 horse stable should be light, airy, ant
roomy \ horse that does nothing will d.
well on hay alone, watered twice day, anC
: daily. Keep the stable always clean.
Beef Cattle This season is the best il
the year. perhaps, for putting flesh upor
beeves. They must be fed at each meal al
that they will eat with a relish and diges
; thoroughly, SO as to be hungry when the time
, comes for feeding again. All success, W.
3 may say, depends upon appetite, and this up
on health. 1t is promoted by an occasional
change Of diet, by the use of the card an'
curry comb, but above all by punctuality il
giving stalled cattle their feed. Litter wei
and save every drop of manurial value. Thes
are the feeders principal profits. Keep TIN
, stables warm, but the air pure Quiet am
darkness important.
Co,1s-Keep them quiet. Feed corn stalk
cut fine, soaked twelve hours, with meal upo
them If possible, keep water before COW
ali the time. See article on butter making
1t will pay those having good. warm milk
, rooms to make butter, hover, Will require
liberal feeding with corn meal, rye, bran
canielle, or something of the kind.--Agrl
culturfst.
UNEQUAL YokING.-Farmers sometime
make what we regard as great mistake i
mating their working cattle, not needing tn
: Injunction concerning unequal yeking. True
the advice has special reference to coupiin
: men and women, still it is not the less al
/! plicable to the junction of animals OF lowe
+, grade A large and small OK yoked togethe
!; present anything but pleasing sight. Th
' incongruity is too glaring to give pleasure
In such cases it is customary to attempt
adjustment Of the balance by giving the sma
IS OK an increased amount of leverage IN I'll
IF yoke. but the success of such a proceeding
Il rarely very conspicuous. There is an III
l. equal coupling, too, in regard to tempe
l. which it were better to avoid A really
cious animal is rarely benefited by conta'