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Show Hiuts to Farmers. BY THE 'TAT CONTRIBUTOR." Now that winter is approaching, it would perhaps be as well to discontinue discon-tinue ha3 ing, and turn your attention to getting in your fall saw-logs. No iaitiier can consider his lull work complete until he has his cellar weil supplied with saw-logs. Seated Seat-ed around the blazing hearth of a winter's night, there is no fruit more delicious. A correspondent a-ks us what we think of late plowing. Plowing should not be continued later than ten or eleren o'clock at night. It gets the horses in the habit of staying out late, and unduiy es poses the plow. We have known plows to acquire springhalt spring-halt and inflammatory rheuuiuti.Mii fioin late plowing. Don't do it. To another correspondent who wants us to suggest a good drain on a farm, we would say a heavy mortgage at ten per cent, will drain it about as rapidly as an thing we know of. When you make cider select nothing noth-ing but the soundest turnips, chopping chop-ping them into sled length before cradling crad-ling them. In botiing your cider ue plenty of ice, and when boiled hang it up in ihe sun to dry. A pick axe should never be used in licking apples. It has a tendency to break down the vines and damage the hive. In sowing your winter apple-jack a hoise-rake will be found preferable to a step ladder. Step ladders are liable to Irceze up, and are hardly palatable unless boiled with sugar. lu cutting down nendock trees for canning, select only the largest. Don't throw away the chips, as they make tine parlor ornaments, encased in rustic rus-tic frames of salt and vinegar. The coining cold weather should suggest sug-gest to the humane farmer the necessity neces-sity for a good cow-shed: Pour a pailful of boiling hot water on her back, and if that don't make a good cow-shed her hair we are no prophet, pro-phet, to anybody. Now is the time for planting your winter hay. The pink-eyed Southdown South-down is probably the best variety, as it don't need poling and begins to lay early. |