PUMPKINS.
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We hold that there is no more valuable
food for stock than pumpkins, although the
seed which are highly diure.ic ought to be
taken from them before they are fed away.


The great difficulty We have encountered
has been IN keeping them. bu. we fnd the
following directions for this purpose, given
In meeting of the Farmers Club in New
York: "A pumpkin. the growth of the year
PrevIons, was presented bv farmer from
Red Bank, who remarked that he had
found 1t an easy m1tter to keep them
through the winter, and had nearly sue
ceeded in keeping them two years. He
directed that the dead ripe ones only should
be selected to be preserved These should
be carefully laid upon the bottom of cart,
and carried TO shed having a southern
exposure. On the bottom of the shed must
be layer of rails and then a layer of pump.
kins. When this is completed, then ii
must be built up with another layer Of rails,
so placed as no: to press on the. pumpkins.
and SO on Till the shed is full. Lei the
pumpkins remain here until you are afraid
of their freezing. As soon as this is the
case, they must be taken TO the kitchen.
and put on shelves nailed TO the cross
beams"


The pen and the rails, which keep the
pumpkins from coming in contact may all
do well enough; but we should like TO see
a farmer storing away his pumpkin crop
on his k'tching shelves, That fellow was
thinking Of pumpkin pies.--SO~thern
Planter.