DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE AND ITS KINDRED ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



VOL. V. 



BOSTON, SEPTEMBER, 1853. 



NO. 9. 



RAYNOLBS <fe NOURSE, Pnoi'jiiETOKS. 

 Office. ...QuiNCY Hall. 



SIMON BROWN, Editor. 



FRED'K IIOLBRO(tK,i Associate 

 HENRY F. FRENCH, 5 Editors. 



CALENDAR FOR SSPTEMSER. 



"I at my window sit, and see 



Autumn his russet fingers lay 

 On every leaf of every tree; 



1 call, but Summer will not stay. 



She flies, the boasting goddess flies. 

 And, pointing where espaliers shoot, 



Deserve my parting gift, she cries, 

 / take the leaves, but not the fruit." 



Another summer has departed, with its scorch 

 ing suns, and p irching droughts, and the gorgeous 

 livery which sho had put on has faded into wrin- 

 kled age. 



"Turn wheresoe'er we may. 

 By night or day. 

 The things which we have seen we now can see no more." 



The year is on the wane. Its fulness and vigor 

 are gone. " It has reached the summit of the 

 hill, and is not only looking, but descending into 

 the valley below." The grass and cereal grain 

 harvests are gathered in, while our grea^ Indian 

 Corn Harvest waits for more cheering suns, and 

 the fervid September days. In robbing us of sum- 

 mer beauties, N.iture does not leave us without 

 new objects to gratify both the taste and eye. 

 " The Fruit garden is now one scene of tempting 

 profusion. Ihe Peaches and Nectarines have be- 

 come fragrant, and the whole wall where they 

 hang is ' musical with bees.' The rosy cheeked 

 Apples look out from among their leaves, like 

 laughing children peeping tit each other through 

 screens of foliage ; and the young standards bend 

 their straggling boughs to the earth with the 

 weight of their produce." The summer birds have 

 mostly gone, " urged thereto by a prophetic in- 

 stinct, that will not be disobeyed ; for if they were 

 to consult their feelings merely, there is no sea- 

 son at which the temperature of our climate is 

 more delightfully adapted to their pleasures and 

 their wants." The Bob-o-link has put on his rus- 

 set dress, and as he flies towards the South, higher 

 in the air than he ever soared in the summer 

 months, greets us with his valedictory, weet, weetA 

 as he passes along. The Swallows and Martins 



have also gathered up their young and bid good- 

 bye to the summer here. We miss their busy 

 chatterings, as the absence of a prattling child. 

 The Blue Bird lingers a little longer, and the Lark 

 still utters his shrill note on the topmost branch 

 of the neighboring tree. The Flower Garden is 

 almost as gay as it was in June, so that Nature 

 compensates us for the losses of Summer. 



Such are some of the aspects of Nature about the 

 Farm in the first autumnal month ; it is profita- 

 ble to note them and find instruction in their va- 

 ried beauties, and in the wisdom and beneficence of 

 Ilim who hath created them all. There are a thous- 

 and others, too interesting to be passed with idle 

 gaze, and thoughtless heart ; but we had rather 

 talk of them with you under the green tree, or in 

 the social evenings by the first autumnal fires. 



Meadow Mud.— Though urged so often, we 

 must suggest again to the farmer the importance 

 of getting up a large quantity of this valuable ab- 

 sorbent and fertilizer. Haul it upon the uplands 

 ready for the corn land next spring, by placing a 

 large shovel-full in each hill, mingled with a hand- 

 ful of guano. In this process you carry back the 

 vegetable, together with some of the mineral, mat- 

 ter, which has been washed from the hills through 

 a period of hundreds of years. Have it in abun- 

 dance, also, to cover the droppings of- the stalls. 



Fruits. — Gather up all the windfalls and feed 

 them to cattle or swine ; if cooked and mixed with 

 meal, your porkers will pay you compound inter- 

 est on the cost and trouble, and you will destroy a 

 host of insects which would scourge your orchards 

 another year. If any of your trees that were bud- 

 ded last month have failed, stick in another bud 

 now. They will be likely to take, up to the middle 

 of the month. 



Strawberries. — Clean out and manure the old 

 beds, and make new plantations, if it was not doD« 

 last month. 



Nurseries.— Keep the nurseries clean by fre- 



