, 1872-11-20

IL We TEIuS6 TO puICuA51 Bo1k Dl1Uh
and brickbats, they win cease to be
offered to us, and we shall have q good article:
The former, by hauling his brick, sand, and
lime, and making the mortar, and tending ma
son hlmseH, will find that the cost Of putting q
basement to his horse-barn, and even to the
large farm barns, is nota very expensive or mys-
terious undertaking.
a stable that you can drive your team inside,
when you como from market on cold day, is
quite agreeable, both to team and driver, and
often saves them from bad colds. There is no
particular reason why the farmer should not
make himself and team comfortable, at
least when it can be done at small ontlay of
ready cash. These economies are much in de-
maud at this time, when the farmer is 30 poorly
paid for bis labor, and, at present, the only way
out Of it is By making the best possible use Of
our means. We cannot afford to hire skilled
workmen at skilled prices, but must turn skilled
1yorkraen ourselves. A bricklayer at 81 day and
board in the country, with corn at 18c, ia little
rough @ on IN US US of the Elral districts. very much
doubt if these gentlemen Of the trowel and the saw
would take the best hundred acres OF corn
as q present. In the harvesting, shelling, and
hauling to market, they would sink many if they
paid the Prces f9I the "ts f bnssy tney DE-
must hayo a change,-one that will place the
skilled labor of the farmer on par With the
skilled labor of the mechanic.
OUR F1RRr sNow-sToRM.
Most people have M abiding faith IN the equl-
some other cause, often ornits this supposed
annual visitation and default is entered, and
abe wise ones exclaim We'll, declare the 9 ola
which has a regularity that throws the equinox
the 18th OF November is the period
OF our first snow-storm on this line of latitude,
40 degrees. For more than fifteen years have
observed this, and do not remember IN omis-
VnJnnfanr gfcrn1a in advance nf
this, as Was the case on the 18th Of October,
1870, when We had touch Of winter that cost
the farmers large share of the apple and pota-
to crops. have no reasons to offer for the
regularity Of these storms beyond the fact Of
their occurrence, and that the seasons changes
naturally bring them. No doubt, now that the
thing is we'll established, the weather.wise will
be able to account for their regularity in the
nua1 calendar. There is a moral to this that
Try to religious1y observe, and that ies, to have
the apples, potatoes, and vegetables all housed
before the 18th. But this year, on account of
the shortness Of help, and the heavy crops, the
apple crop was only secured on the 9th, and it
would require three days to yet secure the pota-
there WAS no premonition Of our unusual snow
storm. Monday had slightly changed the
appearance, which gave warning to all potato
diggers, and the work in hand was hurried up.
Then came Thursday, yet more threatening, and
one Of the boy-pickers left the field. 4 hand
WAS called in from other work to take his place.
Wednesday morning was cold and threatening,
and neither of the boy-pickers, who had been in
| the orchard day after day for four months,
put in an appearance, and all the other hands
! had to turn into the poteto-patch, which was
cleared before night, and Thursday. the 14th,
the storm came. It had been travelling from
the farther North, and at Dubuque. on the 18th,
gave ample warning that it had not delayed its
annual visitation. -
Thus comes the first shock Of winter, the
triumph Of the north wind, that tells us, in no
gentle whisper, to hurry up the work OF the sea-
son. and to Put things in order for the 1sg'1aar
and garden, and orchard. But, after a few days,
we ahall have mild, gentle weather, in which to
complete the huBking, the plowing, the pruning
Of tie grapes, and tie pruning Of the orchard
and we should not forget to visit the nurseries If
| We are in need Of fruit, shade, or forest trees,
and to either set them out, or heel them in, that
| they may be ready for the spring-planting:: Il
! they are planted. bank them up 3 foot high, to
keep of the rabbits, and to proven heaVing out
by frost and the swaying Of the winds.
RURAL.