The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-20
Flaming I'm Autumn Work.

CIohin4 tp Autu"u "oEA
Every snug farmer has great salts
faction in putting his premises in COM
plete order for the winter, before the
severe cold arrives. He don't leave
anything in q slipshod style. All IS
neat and finished. Why cannot every
one do sol We will give little good
handy practical advice to those who
have hitherto been negligent. Take some
bright cool morning when you feel
fresh and vigorous, and with pencil
in your right hand and memorandum
book in your left-or if you have no
memorandum book the back of letter
even, will do-and then spend an hour
in looking over your premises and
about your buildings. Note down on
the spot, very briefly, Ill that should be
done. A single word or two will be
enough for single item. Here you
will see gate with defective hinge
or swinging open for want OF a fasten-
ing. Motto it down. Six boards are
loose Oh the barnyard fence-the stable
floor needs two new pieces of plank
you have no good feeding boxes
for your cattle-the cold wind
sweeps under the COW. shed-a pane
of glass is broken in the carriage-house
your pigs are wet and uncomfortable
in their pen for want of sufficient roof
your corn fodder is spelling because
the shocks or stacks are not set upright
or capped-yonder is pile of brush on
your meadow, and there is neglected
surface drain on your wheat field, and
so on. Do not be afraid of writing
down more items than you can attend
to-make the list as large as possible,
and then you can select the most ur-
gent, if not able to do all. After this
list is completed look it over carefully,
and underscore all that need immediate
attention and do these first, or copy it
of, arranging under three heads, those
items that must be attended to immedi-
ately; second, those which are indispen-
sable, but not so hurryiHg; and thirdly,
those which ought TO be done, but may,
on q pinch, be postponed to another
year. You will then see Mt q glance just
what is to be done; and if you have not
found it out before, you will now, that
q maa will do at least twice as much in
the same time, if he has all his work
Systematically arranged before his eye.
Let us suggest little more in detail.
Do you see that heap of manure yonder,
that covers in part the stable sill and
rests against the barn boards Is is
decayiBg the timber and the manure is
wasting. You intend te draw il out
next spring for your corn 7 1t will be
worth twice as much if you draw it now,
and your yard will be left with neat
appearance and your buildings unin-
iured. Draw out the manure and spread
it as evenly as possible on the grass
land which you intend to invert next
spring for corn. The rains will dissolve
the enriching parts and carry it down
into the SOIL ready for the young crop
OF next year. Every load will thus be
worth double o. triple the value you
will get from it if spread next spring,
left in Jumps, and but little mixed with
the soil.
You say you did not get time to I'M
derdrain that wet field this ear, as you
intended. tbs not yet too late. You
may do it in December if you have
your tile ready to put in. Plow the
burrows with common pillow, and shovel
out the loose earth, aud go down thus
as far as the pillow can be run. This will
save you the labsr of using the pick
for loOsening up the hard earth-unless
the ground admits spadiug out without
resorting to the pick. Then, if YOU
have ditchipg piow, You may 90 as
much deeper as you like, shoveling out
the loosened eaIth by hand. As soon as
done, lay in your tile, and cover itI
slightly, which will render it safe from
any earth falling into the ditch during
the freezing aud thawipg which fol-
lows. But you ask-"How am | to cut
bitches in December, when the earth
freezes as hard as flinti' This way
always have plenty OF loosen
ed earth in the bottom of the
ditch every night, aud this, being
loose and porous, will not only prevent
the hard earth below from freezing, but
it may be easily broken up and shovelled
out in the morning. The earth in mar
row ditch dug more than q foot deep,
will not freeze in the day time ose-tenth
as fast as on the surface-so you will
have no trouble while working at it. If
yon have ditching- pillow, always run it
along the bottom several times Just be-
fore quitting at night, so as to leave
several inches of mellow earth to pro.
tect the bottom from freezing: or if the
work is done by hand, let the ditchers
loosen up the soil we'll with their picks
the last thing at night. If the drain is
q short one, little straw sprinkled
along the bottom will help. Now. in
order to get a good start, commence
your drains before the ground freezes
up, and pillow and shovel out till they
are foot deep, after which the bottom,
If loose, will not freeze much, and they
may be completed and tiled at any con-
venient time for month afterwards.
Look now at your barn-yard. Do you
see that large fine stack of straw, with
hollow or depression near tho TOP,
where 1t IS letting in large quantities
OF water at every rainl 1t is spelling
the whole stack. Throw off the top and
onlid 1t over again better, and save all
your valuable straw. 1t is very com
mon 10 despise straw because it is cheap
snd refuse matter, but il has many i'm
Portant uses and should be saved. How
"ucn more comfortable horse will be