The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-11-15
Agricultural.
Hints about Farm work for November.

Some farm srs are always behind hand |
in doing their work, and this month
frequently finds them not at all prepar.
ed for its chilling blasts.
Buildings not In good order should be
repaired without delay, all foul places
cleansed thoroughly and heavily white
washed or sprinkled with lime.
Cellars under houses should be scru-
pulously cleansed, and, II possible to
avoid 1t, should never be used for stor-
ing vegetables, las they do not add to the
health of the family.
Aninta'S should be studiously protect
ed, but only in thoroughly ventilated
stables. Their food should be given
four or five times during the twenty
four hours, 50 that none of it need be
refused because il is"mussed"or soiled.
Many farmers whose experience has
been varied prefer this plan, thinking
IL more economical, and more servicea-
bic to the animals than feeding only
two or three times day. For horses
and neat stock, place Jumps of rock salt
In the managers. Food must be varied
to suit the kind and condition of ami.
mails. lie who would prosper as stock
breeder or dairyman, cannot learn too
much of the animal economy. Com
Portable stables save food, and very ma.
terially assist in maintaining animals
in good condition. Cleansing the hide
and frequent rubbing will promote
health. 1t has become quite a common
practice with some farmers to curry and
rub down their neat stock and we trust
1t may become universal.
Keep Jdttentng animals on full feed,
but be careful to vary the food sufficient.
ly to cause good appetite.
HOgS should be fed on cooked or soak.
Ell corn, or cornmeal, almost entirely
towards the last days of their fattening.
Throw lime and ashes, in small guam.
titles, on the floors of the pens from
time to time, and occasionally feed a
littlo sulphur.
Young animals ought not to be made
tender by too close housing-should be
treated gently and with fam iliarity.
Steers and Colts may thus be brought
to condition that will make it a very
easy task to break them into the woke
or harness.
S4edS, at least thirty feet wide, wi
low posts and opening into a ward on
the sunny side, surrounded by build.
ings or high fence, are highly approy-
ed OF for sheep and young stock. They
thus have an opportunity to exercise in
the open air and sunlight, retiring to a
well Uttered protection at their pleas
ure. Care must be used in feeding, that
the weaker animals may have fair
play.
Manure making should be prosecuted
with the utmost vigor. AS long as the
weather permits, occupy every spare
hour in collecting muck, pond mud,
leaves, sods, ditch scrapiugs, and Or
ganic deposits, to be thrown under cat
tie, IN the hog-pen, or manure. yard
Q Recollect that manure is the floating
capital of the farmer, and if benefit is to
be derived from its use, care must be
taken that it does not float off literally.
Devote study and thought to this part
OF your farming, but do not spare the
muscle, for much can be made by a
proper manipulation and commingling
of materials,
Top dressing may be pursued as sug.
gested last month, and the hints there
given as to ditches, drains and drainoqe,
should be needed as far as possible dur
ing this month.
Heary land may be plowed, provided
II is not so wet as to be sticky, and we
should prefer the lap burrows, that a
greater amount of surface be exposed to
the frosts of Winter, and the ease of fl
tration increased. By all means use sub.
soil plo ws in this month, If practicable.
and get the coarser manures under for
next years hoed crops.
Li0h land, that is not wet, will be
benefited by being rolled after plowing,
and will be all the better if heavily
mulched with coarse manure, leaves.
straw, refuse hay, rushes, or any mater
ial that will keep the surface from blow.
ing away.
frat should be carefully culled over, |
and all that is sound wiped dry, and
laid away on shelyes,i in dark cool rooms
or dry celiars-as uniform tempera-
ture as possible being kept up. Gut sci
onS ioB grating, and pack away in saw.
dust in good cellar until needed. Cut
tines ofcurrants, etc, may be set as long
as the ground is open and friabIe,
Cellars and pits for vegetables need
close watching, that more protection
may be given when the cold weather
begins in earnest. Plants in cold frames
should get all the sun and air they can
enuure. spinach and other crops left |
out should be protected with litter
thickly laid on. AN Nroots should be i'm
mediately gathered and stored in pits,
except that portion of the parsnip crop |
interded for Spring use, which will be |
betier or in the ground, if standing
water Is not allowed on the beds. Crane |
vines should be carefully pruned-the |
concord, Isabella and .Catawba not as |
closely as the finer sorts. Some sorts in
cold latitudes will need to be laid down |
ana covered with earth for the Winter.
This is also true of tender rasp5erries. |
Strawberries should be carefully covered,
and no stagnant water allowed on the |
beds.
Feeding Horses During Winter.
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