The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-09
sEAsONABLE HINTs.

MAKE ALL SNUG FOB WINTER.-
Before continued cold weather sets in
see that your pits of vegetables are In
a proper condition for Wintering. If
there are any indications of decay
sort them over and repit them. If
they 20 into the Winter sound, they viii |
usually remain so until spring. In
covering pits where straw is placed /
next the vegetables, let 1t be sc least (
four inches thick. covering over this |
with aboutsix or eight inches of tine |
earth. Then place on another four |
inch covering of straw, and six Inches
more Of earth over all, and the pit |
will be safe from any ordinary winter
weather. If very extreme and long
continued cold is apprehended, little
manure thrown over the heaps will
prevent freezing Bgzt we have never
had the frost peuetfete the two SIX 20
eight inch coverings of straw and
earth. IF earth Is placed next the
vegetable, owing to the increased diff
Guilty of taking then from their holes,
il Is the best plan TO make the first
covering of earth only sufficient to
cover the heaps nicely, and then apply
the two coverings Of straw and earth.
The frost penetrateS the earth to the
straw, and this being non-conductoc,
containing air.spaees, the cold sledom
goes beyond TO do damage to the pits.
1t will secure crops more petectly
than two feet Of simple earth.
Is THE CELLAR BANKED UPf-f
not, lose no time in doing it. The
contents of more cellars are injured
by being cooled down to freezing
point earIv in the winter than from
all other causes. The frost once in,
IL is a most difieult matter to get out.
Most farm houses need the protection
of banking also, to make the living
rooms comfortable il winter. 1t IS
unsightly It is true; but still, It Is
better than suffering from colds and
the other diseases incident to uncom-
Portable apartments. a little bank
ing also about the COW stables and
barns will make vast difference IN the
comfort of your animals during the
winter. and their value next spring.
Cattle half frozen during the winter
often do not recover their previous
autumn value during the succeeding
summer. Above all things, do not
allow your stock to be exposed to the
cold rains and slest of late autumn
and winter. Every ounce of fat con.
sumed in eoUnteraeting these effects
detraets just so much from the money
value of the stosk, even ittheir eomf0ri
was Of no consequence. The lnhabI-
tauts Of villages and cities who have
to buy the whole Of the food Tor thell
horse and COW understand full vel
the value of protection. The lesson
once learned by farmers is not otter
thereafter forgotten.
TIE PRoPERCAREoF FARM Stock
nTtTnn fwnaka anf
snoW. sad ice, and, what is more try.
ing than all else to farm stock, driving
and chilling rains. Have you pro
videa your cattle with proper shelter
If not no time Is to be lost. Do no
turn them into the stoek-yardt Il
shift for themselves. Give then
suitable quarters where they can b
drv and warm; aud then haul prope
food to them. Sheep especially war
gheltering from the wind and rain
and the closer they are placed IN "a
sheep- barn-alRays providing prope
veutslation-the better they wall VIE
ter. They should be carefully grade
the strong from the weak, she eve
and veathers from the lambs; Cd
rams from all. It pays il wool
well A in mutton to feed grain evel
dav. There is no more pernicioJ
practice than TO allow sheep, or,
tact anv other animal to becon
moor and weak, and then to atteml
40 raise them up In the spring by ext
feed. IL Is one Of the fruitful sourc
NJ their dropping their wool mise
aonabIv. because the very act OF i
creasing the condition suddenly, OF |
animal. If poor, causes it TO shed
coat, if near the proper season
doing so. III
THE FARM AND TIE CITY.
TO ne E,fHor Of the AdVlree:
am farmers boy, eighteen yes
old. have good health and a cOmmo
sehool education. Father offers mi
TAR chance If I stay on the farm,
4 have q taste for life In the CT
What do you advise me to do.
JOHN -
Probably j Ohm" Is but one Of b
a miIIioa young men in the Unit
Stafes who, like him, are longing
rscape from the imagined dullness
fhe fsrm 70 the apparent gaYety Of
eitv.@W What counsel should be CIV
ehem2 The importance to the
seIges and society Of right decis
= incalculable. Ie will not do to ?
Tend that the subject Is disposed
ina lamp By the four words, st
- he farm" Il il sometimes
that the farmers boy should not
Tow his fathers calling. The ca
must aauGltlt 4i@a rosa 0le9ds y
eIe and bIaiu from the meadows
she hilts. or b9Ea. themselves cut
the inten = o. tAslE q4n e1ls. .S.