Year: 1861

venture upon in regard to Farm Work dur
ing this month. The fall operations of
ploughing and seeding are over, and only
those minor details which enter into the
regular economy of the homestead are now
to be considered. We mi ght, however, en-
large here upon the manifest propriety of SO
taking time by the forelock as to make all
needful preparations for the coming winter.
Ghe wants of the household now claim fair
share Of attention or coal should be
laid in-a good supply of either being abso-
lutely essential to the comfort of the family
during the ensuing months AS matter
of course due care should also be taken that
the stock of all kinds are well sheltered, and
due provision made for their wants Fences
should be looked to gates mended, and new
ones constructed to take the place of the
troublesome old fashioned bars. Farm i'm
plements should be repaired if they need it,
and swingle-trees roughed out and got ready
to supply the place of such as may chance
to break when the spring ploughing has
commenced A farmers library of choice
books and periodicals on subjects connected
with agriculture and with subjects of family
interest and instruction should also be con-
sidered an essential for country home, for
there are many days and all the long winter
where books of the better class Will
be found, apart from the information which
they convey, happy means of filling up
the hours which, in the absence of society,
sometimes hangs heavy on ones hands,
But these are matters which we merely touch
upon, our principal duty is to show what is
&o ho dana kbo f,rn, Tho cbIof
points to be attended to are as follows:


FATTENING HOGS.


Wherever hogs are fattened in the best
and quickest manner and therefore the most
economical, it is great point gained to have
good pens constructed with sleeping apart
ments attached. Every pen should have a
rubbing post in the feeding yard. AS it is
to be presumed that the hogs are to be made
to work for their living by breaking up the
rough litter of their yards into rich fertil-
izing compound, it is good thing to furnish
them with abundance Of litter for that pur-
pose, removing it frequently and bringing
back in return fresh supplies to be converted
likewise into manure. The sleeping apart
mcnts should be kept warm and clean and
dry at all times. Into the yard of the pen,
woods mould, leaves, long straw, marsh
mud, in short all the materials which 90 to
form compost should be occasionally emp
tied and at intervals carted off. When the
hogs are first penned for fattening it is of
service to them to furnish them at intervals
of two days apart with few messes of bran
or meal sprinkled with tablespoonful each
OF -four Of sulphur and copperas, to cleanse
the system and act as a tonic on the digestive
organs. AS to their food it may at first
consist of apples, pumpkins, roots and other
vegetables, cooked and mixed with brown
stuff or corn meal, the quantity of the latter
being gradually increased until in addition
to the usual slops from the house nothing
but pure corn is furnished them. In a
troug in each yard there should always be
kept supply of rotten wood or charcoal to
correct acidity and keep the animal in health
The hogs should be regularly fed three times
day and at stated intervals. The time for
putting up hogs to fatten must be regulated
by the supply of mast in the woods as soon
as this begins to fail, the hogs should be
called up and driven into the enclosures
provided for them


COLLECTING MATERIALS FOR MANURE


All kinds of rough matcrial-leavcs,
woods earth marsh muck, the scrapings OF
bitches, the turf Of hedge rows, &C., &c.,
should be collected during this month, and
either hauled into the barn yard or into the
field for the purpose of being converted into
compost.


FALL AND WINTER PLOUGHING.


All stiff adhesive clays, as we remarked
last month, are benefited by being ploughed
in the autumn and left rough to the action
ofthe frost during the winter months. Light
soils, however should not be disturbed, and
with regard to clays great care should be
taken that they are not ploughed while in
wet state.


ROOTS OF ALL KINDS.


Dig and store these away before they are
injured by frost.


MICH COWS AND YOUNG CATTLE


These should be we'll cared for. Com
Portable shelter is indispensable, and will be
found not only conducive to their health but