The Portland daily press., 1884-11-05
AGRICULTURAL.
Hints for November.


Look out for the well. See that there is
carry all slops away from the house on to
the grass and make surface drains, or raise
wide sloping mound around the we'll to
carry OFT all the water to distance before it
can soak down. The soil around the build
ings is continually being saturated with i'm
purities, which will naturally follow the
course of the water and will in time find
their way into the well. From there it goes
into family use in many ways. 1t is used as
a beverage; 1t is used for bathing, SO the
skin absorbs it; it is boiled in the kitchen,
and the vapor continually 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
musty chaff in all the cracks and corners
about the managers. Take down the inside
lining when 1t is filed with straw or chaff
and put in fresh supply. Take a garden
syringe and sprinkle the whole with lime
water. Take up the double floor in the sta
BILE and clean out the sheet of rank filth
which has worked in between the planks.
Ascertain the cost OF wire netting that is
fine enough to keep out mice, and see if it
would not be cheaper to make corn-crib of
this material with cover of the same, than
to have the crop besmeared and part of it
festroyed.
Arrange now for the next years garden.
Nave 1t 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 poultry and far enough from the plow-
ed 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 /.
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.
Pick up the rocks by the roadside and top
cut and straighten up the walls. Such work
will gave 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 sure crop in New Eng
land, and there is no more reason for farm
ers going without ice in the summer than
there would be in going without potatoes in
winter.
Look to the drains before the ground
freezes. Clear the rubbish away from the
outlets.
If you have a young wood lot, you can
add to its value by cutting out the useless
bushes and trees that are broken or injured,
to give 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,
fastcn them at once. See if the chimneys
are safe, and if not build them over and
plaster them iuside 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 caterpillars off the limbs.