DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE AND ITS KINDRED ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



VOL. VII. 



BOSTON, JUNE, 1855. 



NO. 6. 



JOEL NOURSE, Proprietor, 

 Office.. ..Ql'i\cy Hall. 



SIMON BROWN, EDITOR. 



FRED'K HOLBROOK, ) Associate 

 HENRY F. FRENCH, 5 Editors. 



CALENDAR FOR JUNE. 



"These gardens, vales, ami plains, and hills. 

 Which beauty gilds and music fills. 

 Were once but deserts. Culture's hand 

 Has scattered verdure o'er the land. 

 And smiles and fragrance rule serene, 

 W'here barren wild usurped the scene." 



I NE, the first of the 

 bummer months, 

 presenta, in this cli- 

 mate, most of the 

 beautiful foliage, 

 and many of the at- 

 tractive flowers of 

 the year. How eve- 

 ry space seems fill- 

 ed up! How))loom- 

 ing and brilliant 

 all vegetable life 

 appears ? What a 

 polish, elegance 

 and grace, in the 

 grass and flowers of 

 the field, in the 

 young corn plants, the grain, and the 

 light green of the new oak leaves, or 

 the glossy ones of the stately walnut. 

 Everywhere al>out our feet flocks of 

 wild-flowers 



"Do paint the meadow with delight." 



Now we get the grand jubilate of the birds— they 

 are all here in their new dresses, and ask no fee 



I; 



a little neglect now causes not only a lighter 

 crop, hut the partial loss of the preparation of 

 the soil and the application of valuable fertil- 

 izers — so it is a douljle loss. 



The head must now help the hands, and decide 

 where the forces shall move first, and how each 

 particular work shall be done, so that there shall 

 be no losses by delay, or misapplication of labor 

 by doing the work twice over. 



Now the thoughtful and ohserving farmer will 

 put to the test some of the theories which occupied 

 his winter evenings' attention, and enable him- 

 self either to confirm their truthfulness or expose 

 them as fallacies. He will watch the eSect of 

 deep plowing, of fine pulverization, of high ma- 

 nuring, of frequent stirrings of the soil, and the 

 effect of drainage upon plants. 



The most important farm work of the month of 

 June, is that of cultivating the crops which have 

 been put in, so that they shall attain the greatest 

 possible vigor and perfection. 



Hoeing, then, is the key to these results ; stop 

 the hoe and you stop the profits. Nature, kind 

 as she is, will no more carry on the plant to per- 

 fection, after you have started it, without yourjcare 

 and attention, than she will drive the printing- 

 press, or the factory wheel, after they have been 

 constructed by the mechanic. If there Avere no 

 weeds, and the earth alone were to sustain the 

 plants, the hoe might rust in idleness ; but so 



to attend their grand choruses. The happiness l^o"^ ^ ^^"^^ds will invade, and the leaves of 

 is a mutual one, for it is as much pleasure forlpl'^^^^s spread themselves to the sun and air for a 



them to sing as for us to hear ; so we will plant 

 them trees, invite them by kindness and the erec- 

 tion of suitable habitations for such as enjoy a 

 close proximity to our dwellings, and share lib- 

 erally with them the fruits of our care ; and 

 they shall pay us in their own way, by their 

 songs and the destruction of some of the insects 

 that annoy us. ' ' 



It must be a busy month. Crops neglected in 

 June can make but a poor return at harvest time ; 



considerable jiortion of their food, the hoe and the 

 cultivator cannot be dispensed with. 



A close, compact soil, will neither imbibe the 

 generous dews, nor admit the air and warmth be- 

 low. It must be light, porous, and its surface 

 frequently changed ; tlicn it becomes active, ab- 

 sorbing the dews and catching the fertilizing 

 streams which are ever flowing over it from above. 

 Hoe, then, constantly arid thoroughly, if you will 

 reap the full benefits of your earlier labors. 



