National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-12-05
Farm, Garden and Household.
Hints About Farn,.Work.

pared for its chilling blasts.
Buildings not in good order shout
be repaired without delay, all for
places cleanscd thoroughly, and heavil
whitewashed or sprinkled with lime.
Cellars should he scrupuously clean
ed, and, il possible to avoid il, shoul'
never be used for storing vegetables, a
they do not add To the health of the
family.
Animals should be studiously pro
tected, but only in thoroughly yentila-
ted stables. Their food should be
given four or five times during the
twenty four hours, SO that none of 1t
need be refused because il is 'muss-
ed or soilod. Many farmers whose
experience has been varied prefer this
plan, thinking IL more economical, and
more serviceable 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 condi-
ton of animals. He who would pros
per az n stock breeder or dairyman,
cannot learn too much of the animal
economy. Comfortable stables save
food, and very materially assist in
maintaining animals in n good condi-
ton. Cleansing the hide and frequent
rubbing will promote health. IT has be
come quite a common practice with
some farmers to curry and rub down
their neat stock, and we trust it may
become universal.
Keep fattening animals fully fed, but
be careful TO vary the food sufficiently
to cause good appetite.
ell Ia. t.1
soaked corn, or orn-meal, almost en-.
tirely toward the last days of their fat
tening. Throw lime and ashes in small
quantiti, on the floors of the pens
from time 10 time, and occasionally feed
little sulphur.
Young animals ought not TO be made .
tender by too close housing should be
treated gently and with familiarity.
Steers and colts may thus be brought
to a condition that will make it very
easy task to break them into the yoke
or harness.
Manure making should be prosecuted
with the utmost vigor. As long ms the
weather permits, occupy every spare
hour in collecting muck, pond mud,
leaves, sods, ditch scrapings, and or
Ranic deposits, to be thrown under cat
tie. in the hog pen, or manure-yard.
Heavy land may be ploweu, provided
1t Is not so wet as to be sticky, and we
should prefer the lap burrows, that
greater amount of surface be exposed
to the frosts of winter, and the ease of
filtration increased. by all means sub
sol pillow in this month, if practicable,
and get the coarser manures under for .
next years hoed crops.
Light land, that is not wet will be .
benefited by being rolled after blowing.
and will be all the better if heavily
mulched with coarse manure, leaves,
straw, refuse hay, PUSHES, or any ma ,
terial that will keep the surface from
blowing away
Fruit should be carefully culled over. ,
aud all that is sound wiped dry, and {
iald away on shelves, in dark, cool
rooms, or dry cellnrs-ns uniform A
temperature rs possible being kept M. ,
Cut scions for grating, and pack away
m sawdust in good cellar until need. {
ed. Cuttings of currants, &c, may be
set ms long as the ground is open and ,
friable. !
Cellars and pits for vegetables need ,
close watching, that more protection :
may be given when the cold weather be- n
gins in earnest. Plants in cold frames +
should get all the sun and air they can r
endure. Spinach aud other crops left .
ont should be protected with litter -
thickiy laid on. All roots should be o
immediately gathered and stored in "
pits, except that portion of the parsnip W
crop intended spring use, which will Il
be better OIL IN the ground, if standing O
water is not allowed on the beds. ~
Grape vines should be carefully pruned -
the Concord, Isabella, and Catawba I
not as closely as the finer sorts. Some n
sorts Ill cold ATTITUDES will need to be -
laid down and covered with earth for -
the winter. This is also true of tender a
raspberries. Strawberries shonld be ~
carefully covered, and no stagnant wa n
ter allowed on the beds. Pen altd PlO,p. !,
Large and small Farms. C,
There are some arguments of general u
application IN favor of the cultivation "
II land in large tracts or farms. Proba- 50
ply tbs most plausible argument is the b'
tie tter economy with which one man sc
II intelligence, who has n suificiency Sc
'f capital, can cultivat I'd control ali nc
business necessarily connected with n &c
adapted to the use of labor-sayiny ma III
'hincry, as in blowing and seeding the ia
rang pillow may be used instead OF the bl
'ihgie ploW, which is only adapted to :.
mall fields. In the use of the three dl
'ihB plcV SIX horscs and one man can pi
How more acres of land in n months as
ime than three men and six horses with Do
lngle plows can, and thus the wages l.
nd board OF two men are saved. If /
hree men, with three plows, can plow dt
II an average of acres day in small WI
elds, when the bouts are short and III
oou deal OF time is consumed in turn IL
lg around, then one man with three ST.
ang plow and the same number of bl
orses, IN large field. where the bouts wi
re long, Will average five acres a day. wa
hen, III month of 20 working DAYS. ca'
ne gang plow will pillow - acres NOR, l1'
ahd than the three single plows, at las
n expense less than that necessary to tw
m the three single plows by the WAGES de
nd board OF two men. BY this reason zlr
Is proven that the large farmer. with Ito
is three-gang pillow, can pillow 1870 acres to
land for $50 less than it will cost the at
mall farmer to pillow III acres. drt
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In the P0puiar Science Monthyy there
snort article relative to the power ron
endurance manifested bv the Iarvn po,
some insects, and among them of he
'e bot fly. 1t mentions case whore tho
piece of the stomach of dead horse l;o,
llch was covered with bot worms. was ora
read on board, and spirits of tur. nro
'ntine was poured on the worms: We, I
ter an hour not one was detached from Mr.