

DKVOTED TO AGRICUIiTUKE, HORTICTJLTTJKE, ANT> KZNDRED AKTS. 



NEW SERIES. 



Boston, August, 1868. VOL. II.---NO. 8. 



K. P. EATON & CO., Publishers, 

 Office, 3-1 Merchants' Row. 



MONTHLY. 



SIMON BROWN, ) ^^^^^^^ 

 8. FLETCHER, 1 Editors. 



WORK FOR AUGUST. 



AYiNG is now 

 completed, ex- 

 cept on the wet 

 meadows. The 

 crop of upland 

 hay has been 

 abundant and 

 the most impor- 

 tant means of 

 carrying the 

 stock through 

 another winter 

 is thus secured. 

 The fodder corn 

 to keep up the 

 flow of milk, is now coming into use, and those 

 who have provided a good supply of this, will 

 find the advantage of it. This is much better 

 than feeding off the second growth of the 

 mowing lots. The grass in the pastures, even, 

 if not short, is less succulent and juicy, and 

 will yield less milk than it did in June, and 

 there is no better substitute, nor one more 

 easily obtained than corn ; the use of which for 

 fodder is extending, even in the West, where 

 we see by our exchanges that the cultivation 

 of it is recommended. 



The grain is mostly secured, and the crops 

 generally throughout the country have been 

 bountiful. But the farmer's work is not done, 

 for as he works not only for the present, but 

 for the future, he must not only secure the 



harvests of the present year, but be prepar- 

 ing for years to come. Much of the work of 

 this month and the next must have reference to 

 the future. 



This is the besb month for ditching the low 

 lands, as they are now comparatively free from 

 water, and for laying drains where they are 

 needed ; also for throwing out a supply of 

 muck for compost during the coming winter, — 

 thus managing so as to kill two birds with one 

 stone. Use the muck from the ditches for the 

 compost heap, and thus avoid the old ditch 

 banks, that used in former times to disQgure 

 the meadows. 



The hay of the wet meadows has been less 

 valued of late years, especially by the milk 

 farmers than formerly, and consequently the 

 meadows have been neglected. But such 

 hay is valuable, if cut in season, for young 

 stock, and for dry stock, and as a resource 

 when English hay is short. By proper ditch- 

 ing, much of it may be greatly improved in 

 quality. No prudent farmer will neglect his 

 meadow lands. 



But whether the muck is obtained from 

 ditches or not, see that a good supply is thrown 

 out, and placed in such a position as to be easy 

 of access at all seasons. There is nothing that 

 will add so much, and at so cheap a rate, to the 

 compost heap — and that is so valuable to our 

 old and sandy soils. 



Nature has made wonderful provision for the 

 wants of man, which he will gradually learn to- 



