Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
agricultural.
Hints AbOut Work.

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have a moist time the opportunity should not
be neglected to have the blowing done early,
and then to kill several crops of seeding
weeds with the harrow. If the weather il
hot and dry, no better time can be found for
burning weeds along stone walls, or cutting
and burning those in the field or in the meadow
that are in seed. If the fall work that can be
done at this season is finished, look to the
swamps and to the draining of boggy ground
where too much water stand in ordinary sea-
SONS. Rainy-day work is plenty. There is
grain TO thrash and prepare for market
peas and beans also the corn house to put
in order, and apparatus for grinding and
cooking pig feed. Withal save time to at
tend fairs. and by all means exhibit some
thing.
AppIs.-Windfalls are full of worms usu-
ally. Pick them up regularly, and feed to
the pigs all not fit for cider, or at least for
vinegar
Beans should be pulled as soon as the pods
seem well matured. Thoy will cure in a
loft better than in the field, and a few may be
cured on a barn floor. In the field, stack
them between stakes to keep off the ground
and thrash when dry.
POtatoes.-Dig as soon as ripe-provided
there is not much rot among them-in which
case use Judgment. If they can be dug and
sold before they rot much, well if they can
be fed with profit, do 50. Do not put them
into the cellar to become a mass of corrup-
ton, and make it necessary to overhaul and
throw them away by and by.
Pulling corn fiddler is a Southern practice
which we DO not approve of. IF it seem best
to pull leaves this year, do not do it until the
grain is glazed. Topping is much less OBJ
iectionable-in fact, we do not object to it in
the case Of large, coarse-stalked varieties.
This, too, should never be done until the
glazing of the kernel shows that the grain
has its full size. No doubt it is a damage
to the corn, but there is proportionate gain
in the feed, which is very valuable. Cutting
up at the ground has much in its favor. The
field is as good as cleared at one operation.
and may be plowed and sOwn at once if de
sired-provide ed the stocks are made on a.
few lines as possible, staading very close.
Taking twenty five rows the longest way
through the field, it is no very great labor
to close on the middle row, taking twelve
hills on each side, and so make a stock to
every hill on this row-leaving pillow lands of
one hundred feet or thereahouts in width,
which should be plowed :" inward - or ''right
about The grain must be well glazed be-
fore the stalks are cut. 1t loses scarcely per-
ceptibly in weight, while the stalks and leaves
are saved. One days or half a days drying
after being cut up will save the fodder from
injury from severe frosts, which would other
wise render it favorless and of little value as
fodder.
Cattle and horses will eat corn leaves and
husks well they will eat almost the whole
of the toppings, but unless it is cooked they
will not eatall the but stalks. However. II
cut up and soaked, they will eat a good portion
of them, especially if busted with a little
meal or oil-cake. What they refuse is worth
we presume, half as much as manure as it
would be if eaten. The immense waste of
feeding corn fodder on the ground is, that
but a comparatively small part is eaten and,
the rest is utilized as manure to but a mail
extent. Corn fodder, sown for the purpose
should be cut as close as possible, bound in
small bundles, with new rye straw, and set
up against rails laid on crossed stakes, or
in crotches against a fence, or in open stocks
to dry. 1t will not mold enough to hurt it
unless it lies long fat upon the ground.
Roots.-Beets, carrots, parsnips, and tur-
nips, make astonishing growth this month.
Keep them clear of weeds, which sap The
very life of the soil. 1t is an excellent plan
to run a one-horse subsoil plow between the
rows. If crowded roots of all kinds may be
thinned to advantage, and surplus sent to
market or fed to stock. Hogs will grow fast
on the diet, though it is not very fattening.
Buckwheat is greatly injured by even a
light frost. Be prepared to cut and put in
little cocks or gaves as soon as frost threat
ems. The tops should be gathered and bound
at the top. more to p~rolOng the drying and
to prevent the wind scattering the grain,
than to make the little gavels shed rain.
Many kernels, half formed when cut, will
fill out at the expense of the juices of the
haulm.
Livestock of all kinds require good feed
ing, for they lay on flesh and fat much more
readily in mildly warm weather than when
it is colder, in cool weather better than in
cold, and when severe weather comes, it is
almost impossible to make cattle and hogs
hold their own unless warmly sheltered.
Animals in good condition are easily main
tanned 50, unless exposed to great cold, for
they are already as if well blanketed. Hor-
ses and sheep bear vicissitudes Of weather
better than other stock if they have enough
to eat, but if either is allowed to run down,
it is hard to get them up again.
HoGs.-Feed old corn (ground) if you have
TIT gives them a splendid start Grind
and cook all grain fed to swine if you would
get the full benefit of it. There is a differ
ence of Is per cent. in favor of grinding
alone, and we doubt not nearly or quite as
much more in favor of cooking. However.
there is probably little loss in feeding g nub-
bin" and soft corn whole, if fed early, and
1t makes a relishable variety. A few hand
fuls of charcoal mixed with some ashes and
little sulphur, makes an excellent tonic and
regulator for almost any kind of stock, and
especially for swine. 1t will be eaten readily
If a little meal be thrown upon it. The
prospect is that grain Of all kinds will bear
a low price, and the best way to get our
moneys worth will probably be to have the
pork tattened early, and held ready to kill or
market.
Beeves that are to be ripened off and mar |
keted this fall should be early in condition 10
sell, and held ready for shipment at the
shortest notice.
Grass. IF the aftermath is to be cut. do
it in this month, and if you can manure with
fine compost or some g hand manure " after
wards. This gives a chance for q good COW
ering to grow, to protect the roots of the