Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-11-07
Hints for November.

Look out for the we'll. See that there is
no drainage towards it. Provide spouts to
carry all Stops away from the house on to the
grass, and make surface drains, or raise a
wide slopiDg mound around the we'll to carry
of all the water to a distance before it can
soak down. The soil around buildings is con-
tinually being saturated with impurities
which will naturally follow the course of the
water and will in time find their way into the
well. From there 1t goes into family use in
many ways. 1t is used as a beverage it is
used for bathing, and the skin absorbs it it
is boiled in the kitchen, and the vapor con.
tinually inhaled. Pure water is one of the
most valuable articles of household use.
Keep your stables clean. Sweep out the
dust and cobwebs that have been absorbing
the foul odors for years. Clean out the mus
ty chat in all the cracks and corners about
the managers. Take down the inside lining
when it is filed with straw or chat and put
in fresh supply. Take a garden syringe
and sprinkle the whole with lime water. Take
up that double floor in the stable and clean
out that sheet of rank filth which has worked
in between the planks. By going into close,
warm constable with your clean clothes on
for few minutes and noticing how long you
will carry the odor of it, you will learn how
penetrating it is No animal enjoys the odor
of its own excrement, and when this odor is
all about the managers and feeding places their
health is affected.
Ascertain the cost of wire netting that is
fine enough to keep out MICE and see if ii
would not be cheaper to make a corn crib out
of this material, with cover of the same,
than to have the whole crop besmeared and
part of it destroyed.
If there is a lot of foul seed in your grain,
sift it out without using. Most of the ma
chimes are claimed to separate the grain from
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it. Oats should be free from sand before
they are fed to horses, and all grain should
be clean before it is fed or ground. Nearly
all seeds are valuable feed for chickens, but
sometimes they are killed by eating smart
weed seed when they are small.
Arrange now for next years garden. Have
it in long strips so it can be plowed with as
little turning at the ends as possible. Have
the fence around it tight enough to stop poul-
try, and far enough from the plowed part so
you can turn the team on the grass, which
will leave good place for the women folks
to spread the clothes in the summer where
they will be safe Plow it this fall and put
coat of good manure on the fresh burrows and
let it soak in. Beets and parsnips may be
planted in the fall just before the ground
freezes, and will come up when it gets warm
enough in the spring.
If there is not grange in your town, start
Out az OuCe anu get up IdTuerb cluD. NO
matter about any elaborate and binding ICON
stitution and bylaws, " but club together and
talk over matters, have an entertainment, and
get acquainted with your neighbors Now ia
the time to begin. Don't wait till the roads
get 80 bad that you cannot go anywhere, and
then wish you had started earlier
Pick up the stones by the roadside and top
out and straighten up the walls Such work
will save more valuable time in the spring.
Get your ice-house ready and then you can
handle the 'cold comfort" when it gets thick
enough and before the deep SHOWS come on
it. Ice is a sure crop in New England, and
there is no more reason for farmers going
without ice in the summer than there would
be in going without potatoes in winter.
Look to the drains before the ground freez-
es Clear the rubbish away from the outlets
If you have young wood lot, you can add
to its value by cutting out the useless bushes
and trees that are broken or injured thus
giving the rest better chance to grow.
Look at the windows in all your buildings
Fasten in the glass with putty if it is loose
and wedge the sash into the frames so they
will not rattle and keep you awake nights and
jar the putty off If there are any loose
saddle-boards or shingles on the roof, fasten
them at once. See if the chimneys are safe
and if not, build them over and plaster them
inside and out.
Clear up the orchard. Pick up all limbs
that were broken off in gathering fruit or
otherwise. While you are about it, clean the
eggs of caterpilars off the limbs.
Put fresh horse manure over rhubarb plants
and let it remain in pile through the winter,
to be spread around in the spring Bend
down the stems of hollyhocks and such plants
instead of cutting them Off If they are cut
the water runs into the stump and freezes
and rots the roots.
Set out all the small fruits this fall. Get
everything done now that can be as we'll done
in the fall, and then you can start in the
spring without going back to finish the fall
jobs
Look over your pastures and see il you
cannot plan to divide them into three parts,
30 as to have one part for sheep and two for
cattle.
Get some of the native ornamental vines or
shrubs from the swamp or forest and set
them about your grounds. You enjoy these
things while you are working in sight of
them, but your wife, shut up in the house,
cannot see them. Provide for her pleasure.
Mirror and Farmer.