Connecticut western news., 1876-11-24
FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Ki,ehen Garden.

! AoW UT 4OIAeup dS Inucu OI tue RaTQ6D before the ground freezes as possible, leaving it without narrowing. Gather mp all rubbish and weeds, and burn so that the whole ground will be ready for the blow at any time.
 MANURE.-This and the following month must be devoted to increasing the stock of manure. Provide absorb ents for the stable and privy; dry earth IS best; if this has not been collected, use leaves, woods earth, dry muck, or even coarse marsh hay run through a cutting machine. Let the manure from the henhouse be gathered and put in dry place at least once a month, sprinkle dry earth under the roosts weekly. zS
 Winter protection is necessary in most northern localities, especially fo1 spinach and sprouts. Do not apply until freezing weather, the object being to prevent sudden changes from heat to cold. @
 OABBAeEs.-Beforet the ground freezes hard, open a furrow in dry spot, put down two rails five or six inches apart, and then lay the cabbages, head down ward, upon them; turn the soil upon them from each side so as to cover the heads with three or four inches of earth. If part are covered with hay or straw they can be got at readily during mild spells in the winter. Plants raised from seeds sown in September can now be sci out in cold frames to be kept until spring; set down to the first leaves and do not put on the glass until very cold weather, the object being to keep the plants dormant. Those with soft ol poor heads, if set out in trenches and covered with boards, will make excellent heads by spring. z@ =F'
 RooTs.-Market gardeners store their root crops (except potatoes) in trenches or pits in g dry place from which water will drain of. The trench is opened four feet deep and six feet wide; the roots are stacked in sections across the pit, two feet wide, then six inches oi earth, then two feet of roots, six inches ofaearth, and so on, covering all with eighteen inches or two feet of soil rounded up to shed water. By covering the earth well with litter, the roots may be taken out at any time. If stored in a root cellar they should be packed in earth to preserve their freshness. If the quantity is small, boxes or barrels may be Hseds but if large, bins may be made.
 Celery may be stored in trenches in the, open ground; make them foot wide, and as deep as the length of the celery; pack the plants closely, before severe weather comes. Cover with-a few inches of hay or straw and boards to keep out. water; when very cold weather comes, more straw should be added. Small lots may be stored in long narrow boxes, with few inches oi soil on the bottom, and kept in cool cellar.
 RHUBARB.-Make Q, new bed in the fall, if needed, it starts very early in the spring. Take up a few roots for fore ing; a cask partly filled with horse ma nure placed in warm cellar will an swer. -=... ...-.- ....- -..-
 SWEET PoTAFoEs.-As soon as frost has touched the vines, cut of close tc the ground. Dig on 8 warm, sunny day, and allow them to dry for few hours, when they should be packed ir boxes or barrels with perfectly dry chopped straw, and placed where the temperature will not sink below fifty five or sixty deg. 5i
 PARsNRs.-Dig before the ground freezes, and store as recommended above; part may be left in the ground until spring. -..- -
 Carrots and beets should be gathered before very cold weather, and stored the same as parsnips. Some cut the topt with sharp hoe before lifting.
 Turnips will stand hard frosts and may remain in the ground until freezine cold weather comes. Feed the tops te the cows.-Agriculturist.
 A Model Farm Account.
 The following statement of accoun, for farm in Ireland was recently eive1 to the Agricult4y al Gazette by a cores ponaent. It may serve as a model bal ance sheet:
 Balance sheet of Tillsge Farm of sevent
 statute acres, ending April, 1875 Rotation
 principally four-course. Extent of perma
 nent grass, sixteen acres.
 DEBTOR.