

DEVOTED TO AGRIC JLTURE AND ITS KINDRED ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



VOL. IV. 



BOSTON, JULY, 1852. 



NO. 7. 



RAYNOLDS & NOURSE, Propbieto:.s. 

 Office Quincv Hail. 



SIMON BROWN, Editor. 



FRED'K HOLBROOK, > associate 

 HENRY F. FRENCH, 5 Editors. 



FARM WORK FOR JULY. 



"Our Saxon fathers did full lightly call 



This month of July, 'Hay-tnoimth,' when all 



The verdure of the full-clothed fields we mow, 



And turn, and rake, and carry off"; and 60 



We build it up in large and solid mows. 



If it lie good, as everyhody knows, 



To 'make hay while the sun shines,' we should choose 



Right times for all things,' and no time abuse." 



July is usually a hot month. The sun has at- 

 tained its extreme of splendor and heat ; under its 

 influence the buds and blossoms are developed into 

 foliage and flowers, and captivate our senses by 

 their exquisite structure, and delicious fragrance. 

 The seed so lately cast into the ground has sprung 

 into heautiful living plants, covering the earth with 

 verdure and the promise of coming crops. Small 

 as they then were, they now have produced plants 

 weighing many ounces, and filled with life and 

 beauty the open, barren blank of spring. None 

 can have failed to observe this wonderful change, 

 and lift the heart in gratitude to Him whose con- 

 stant care is over all. 



Late Sowing. — There is still something to be 

 done in committing seeds to the ground. Cabbage 

 and cucumbers may now be sowed for late pickling. 

 Turnip seed scattered among the corn often pro- 

 duces a fine crop without material injury to the 

 corn. Sow during or immediately after a gentle 

 rain, and cover with a hand rake. 



Grounds which it is desired to appropriate to 

 grass may be conveniently laid down at the last 

 hoeing by keeping the surface level, and sowing 

 and raking in the seed as the hoeing is performed, 

 while the moist earth is near the surface. Be lib- 

 eral with the grass seed ; every year's experience 

 strengthens our convictions that the farmer is just 

 about as wise in stinting his grass seeds as the 

 commander of an ocean steamer would be in lay- 

 ing in a hundred tons less coal than necessary to 

 take his ship to Liverpool. 



If the grasses you wish to cultivate do not occu- 

 py the ground, others that 3-011 do not fancy so 

 well will. There is no surer way to drive out 



white weed, sorrel, chiccory, dock and mallows, 

 than to supply the grass seeds so liberally as to 

 cover the entire surface with their stools. Three 

 pechs or a bushel of red top and twelve quarts of 

 herd's grass to the acre is little enough. Six or 

 eight pounds of clover seed may be sown upon the 

 snow in March. 



Weeds. — Ah! here are our old friends again. 

 But we cannot afford to keep them, though there 

 i3 a world of beauty in each. Like all living things, 

 they seek to perpetuate their kind, and will deposit 

 countless thousands of their minute seeds to make 

 sure a future crop. Faithful, constant hoeing only 

 will prevent their being in the ascendant ; and this 

 continued for two or three years, dressing in the 

 mean time with well composted manures, will era- 

 dicate them so that they will annoy little after- 

 wards. The garden that has been tended with 

 care must not bo neglected now that haying and 

 other duties press upon the strength and time. 



Short Pasture. — The weather favorable for hay- 

 ing is not likely to keep the pastures green and 

 luxuriant. The milch cows, therefore, require at- 

 tention. They must draw upon something more 

 nutrient than the east wind or pasture browse in 

 order to present you full udders night and morn- 

 ing. Until the "cow corn" is fit to cut, give them 

 a daily feed of shorts or oil meal with cut hay, or 

 mow the patches of grass in rich spots where it 

 would be likely to lodge. 



Haying. — This is the prime work of the month, 

 requires the closest application and taxes the 

 health and strength severely. Let it be performed 

 quietly and systematically, without hurry, confu- 

 sion or noise ; then it will be well done ; and as 

 you feed from your ample bays through the winter 

 they will yield the fragrant perfumes of summer, 

 and repay you in the fat ribs and glossy skins of 

 your stock. 



Health. — Do not be tempted to over-exertion. 

 It is not by a few surprising efforts that the steam 

 engine penetrates the solid rock, or lifts enormous 



