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AlVEERICAISr AG-IilCULTURIST. 
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Contents for June, 1877. 
Among the Farmers 214 
Bee Notes for June 235 
Boys and Girls' Columns— Story of the Boot Black — 
Doctor's Talks— Annt Sue's Puzzle Box— Doctor's 
Correspotidence— Aunt Sue's Cbats— The Pet Bird. 
g lUus/nUions 226-228 
Butler, Improved Package for Illustrated. . 21G 
Cattle, Drenching Horns for i Mustraliems. .il5 
Cattle. Maturity of 216 
Dairy Interest, Legal Protection for 21S 
Dogs, Exhibition of, in New York 201, 209 
Door for a Piegery, Swinging 2 Illustrations. . 216 
Flower Garden and Lawn in June 204 
Forest Trees, A New Enemy to Illustrated. . 219 
Frame for Sawing Wood JRuitrated. 216 
Fruit Garden in June 204 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in Jnne 204 
Guide for Sawing Logs Illustrated.. 217 
Hay Beds or Rigging 3 lUusiraiiom. . 218 
Horses, Cross of Arabiau and Percheron % III.. 213 
Household Department— Home Topics— Potato Peeler 
and Slicer— Mosquitoes andFlies— Recipes. 6 i/Z.22.3-225 
Honse Plan 4 Illustrations . .212 
How Flowers are Fertilized 3 Illustrations. . 222 
Kitchen and Market Garden in June Illustrated. .2(H 
Lessons from Russian Agriculture for Am. Farmers . . .21S 
Market Reports for June 204 
Milk for Villages, Pure .218 
Mowing Machines, Lawn i Illustrations. . 219 
Notes from the Pines 2 Illustrations .221 
Nursery and Greenhouse Stock Abroad, Prices of 209 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 88. — Jersey Cattle — Drain- 
ing Swamps— Village Life 210 
Orchard and Nursery in June 203 
Potatoes, Machine for Sorting 3 Illustrations. . 217 
Salt Box, A Self-Closing 2 Mustralions. .219 
Seat of War, Map of Illustrated.. 206 
Science Applied to Farming 211 
Stable Floors, Slatted 2 lllustralions . .217 
Talk on Farm Crops 215 
Vetch in Hungary, Winter 217 
Wool Press, An Effective ltttistraied..2\& 
Work, Hints About, for June 202 
INDEX TO "BASKET," OB SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Agriculture, Department iHydrangea, New White. .208 
of 208;Iron. Composition for 
Apple Piimace, Fertiliz- Welding 2.34 
inj Value of 2081 Jury, A Puzzled 234 
Artichoke, Brazilian 235 Lampass, Treatment of. .2-33 
Barley. Siiring & Winter.2.34 
Bones, Use as a Fertilizei-2.33 
Bread, Brown 205 
Brewer's Grains not Good 
for Horses 231 
Buckwheat, Corn after... 234 
Butter Making, Hardin 
Method of 235 
Bulter, Questions Con 
cernina 208 
Calves, to Prevent from 
Sncking 208 
Cattle, Diseases of 2.31 
Chicken Cholera 235 
Chickens. Gapes in 208 
Cistern .DitHcnity in Mak 
ing 234 
Colorado Beetle and Paris 
Green 207 
Corn Fodder, Preserving.2.35 
Corn, Gypsum on 2.34 
Dog. Shepherd's 23-t 
Exports of Agricultural 
Produce..* 234 
Fairs. Autumn 208 
Fertilizer. ^V heat Bran as20S 
Fleeces, Heavy 2:J5 
Floors, Stable 235 
Fodder Preserved by En- 
silage 2.34 
Legislating Back wards.. 235 
Lime for Composting 
Swamp Muck 234 
Lucern Seed. Gathering.. 235 
Manure, Bommer's Meth- 
od of Managing 235 
ilanure. Sawdust in 2.34 
!\tare. Feeding a Brood. .203 
ilnttou. Weight of Dress- 
ed 234 
Nightsoil, Carting 208 
North Carolina ahead of 
New Jersey 208 
One Man's Meat 2-35 
Peas and Oats for Fodder2-34 
Peat Muck. How to nse..231 
Pigs, An Unusual Occur- 
rence 234 
Pigs, Paralysis 235 
Pigs, Weight of 208 
Plow, American Rotary. .2.35 
Poland China Record 208 
Potato Starch, Manufac- 
ture of 233 
Poultry, Manure for To- 
bacco 234 
Ponltry, Profit in .208 
Poultry, Questions Relat- 
inL' to 208 
Rye Amongst Corn 234 
Food for Fowls, Proper.. 235jSa'.ad, Potato 205 
Foot, How to Treat an jSalt for Stock 207 
Injured 234 Salve for Cracked Teats. 2.34 
Gapes in Chickens 207iSeed Distrilmlinn s.34 
Gas Tar as a Preservative Sheep Raising. Book on 234 
of Wood 2.33'Shecp, Shropshire 208 
German Millet 207|Small Fruit Culture in 
Goat, Angora 233 New Jersey 208 
Grass I'orReclaimedMarsh jSociety, Am.PomologicaI208 
Land 234 Sprouting Seed for Late 
Grass, Hinigarian 234 Planting 207 
Hogs in N. J., Heavy 235 
Houev Locust and Catal- 
pa Seeds 234 
Horse. How to Treat a 
Biting 208 
Horse, Swelled Leg in a. 233 
Horses, Export 234 
Horses.Proflt of Breeding2-34 
Humbugs and the War. .207 
Strawberries 208 
Thoronghbred,What con- 
stitutesa 2-34 
Tribune HorticuUnrally 
and Agriculturally . .235 
Warbles 2.33 
War, Effects of Russian 
on Auier. Agriculture.. 20S 
Wire Worms 283 
Calendar for Jnne. 
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Steaming Food "H. A.," Jo Davies Co., HI. A 
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cover, might be used for steaming fodder, is described in 
the Amerioan Agriculturist of Dec, 1875. (Price 15 cts.) 
AMERICAiV AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1877. 
The reports of the growing wheat crop are gen- 
erally favorable. A large majority declare the con- 
dition of the crop to indicate a full average, and 
more than half speak of a promise of above an 
average yield. A comparatively small number 
of places are threatened with a partial loss of 
crop, California presenting the least hopeful con- 
dition, on account of a serious drouth. So far as 
our own observation and information extends, we 
consider the promise of the crop to be very favora- 
ble, and if dry weather should not interfere, a fair 
harvest may be expected. At the same time, the 
country is bare of wheat, and the foreign demand 
is larger than usual. The experience of the past 
few years goes to show, that there will be no dan- - 
ger of " over-production " in the future. We need 
not fear to raise as large crops as we can. The 
foreign market is large and steady, and will need 
all we can produce in the way of grains, meats, 
provisions and dairy produce, to supply it. The 
low prices of the past few years have brought 
this about, and therefore have not been by any 
means an unmitigated evil. While we have been 
depressed and troubled by a reduced income from 
our farms, which has sorely embarrassed those 
who have been in debt, this has been the means 
of stimulating farmers generally, to do better by 
their farms than they had formerly done. In 
no previous period has stock been so much im 
proved as during the few years just past, and we 
have, in consequence, found a market in England 
for meat, which has saved our home market from 
demoralization. At no time before the present, has 
there been so much of artificial fertilizing, and 
never before so anxious inquiry about the possibili- 
ty of enlarging the crops, and using the most effect- 
ive economy in farming operations. In the mean 
time thousands of persons are entering into agri- 
culture from other industries ; the wave of western 
emigration has broken upon a shore, where the 
land, although valuable for pasture, is not arable, 
and it now flows back again upon the neglected 
lands of the East, which are being restored again to 
their former fruitfulness, by means of more skill- 
ful cultivation. There is now a closing up of scat- 
tered ranks,and the farming interest is becoming con- 
solidated. As population may increase, during the 
next twenty-fire years, to double its present limit, 
and we have a hundred million mouths to feed in our 
own country alone, all the resources and skill or 
the farmer wiU be taxed to meet the demand for 
his products. The value of farms can hardly fail 
to Increase year by year, on these accounts, and it 
wiU be the farmer's interest to see that he neglects 
no means of making his more valuable property 
pay a higher interest than now. This can only bo 
done by making it more productive. 
Hints for VForli. 
Plant every thing possible, early this month. Early 
kinds of com may be put ia the grotmd until the 
middle of the month, with certainty of ripening as 
soon as late sorts planted earlier. Or it may be 
planted closer for fodder. 
Fodder Corn is one of the most valuable crops, 
especially for a dairyman. By and by we shall 
probably begin to preserve corn-fodder in pits and 
trenches, just as brewers' grains are now kept 
by many American dairymen, or as corn-fodder is 
preserved by many foreign farmers. The process, 
known as ensilage, was fully described, with illus- 
trations, in the American Agriculturist for June, 
1875. It would be well to refer to or procure this 
number, and study the process. Eodder-com may 
be planted in rows 2^^ feet apart, ivith seed dropped 
two inches apart in the row. Cultivate with horse- 
hoe as soon as the com is above ground. 
Beans are becoming a more profitable crop, now 
that additional attention is given to them. When 
planted in rows 21 feet apart, 4 or 5 beans may be 
dropped every foot. By planting with the Albany 
planter, the beans maj' be dropped in a continuous 
row, 3 iuches apart. The seed should go into light 
land, at least 3 inches deep in the moist soil. 
Potatoes will need very close attention. It is not 
at all improbable that many careless farmers will 
lose their crop through inattention, and that the 
price will again be high in the fall. The Colorado 
beetle may be kept down by care and Paris Green, 
as has been frequently explained. (See page 207.) 
[" Potato Pests," a new book, sent, post-paid, from 
this office, for 50 cents, will be very valuable]. 
Cultivation, thorough and frequent, will greatly 
help all drill-sown crops, as com, potatoes, and 
roots, enabling them to resist dry weather, and 
make a strong growth. This is very important for 
the potato crop, imder the attacks of the beetles. 
Ruta-Bagas should be sown this month ; refer to 
the directions for root crops in previous months, as 
to preparation of the soU. Two pounds of seed 
per acre, should be sown, and it will be better to 
sow in drills, either with a hand or horse-planter. 
The rows may be made 27 to 30 inches apart., and 
300 lbs. of superphosphate, drUled with the seed, 
will force the crop ahead of the fly. If the fly at- 
tacks them, use finely slacked lime, dry sifted coal 
ashes, or soot, freely sifted over them. 
Mangels or Sugar Beets should be ready to hoe and 
thin out. 12 to 15 inches apart, is a proper distance, 
and vacant spaces may be filled by transplanting 
plants from places where they are too thick. Take 
up the plants with a trowel with the earth around 
them, without disturbing the roots. Share's horse- 
hoe is excellent for cultivating these root crops. 
Summer-FaHows. — In some rare cases it may be 
well to summer-fallow. To kill weeds that are dif- 
ficult to destroy and very plentLtul, or to break up 
raw, heavy day soils, this nearly obsolete operation 
may stiU be practised. But now it can rarely pay to 
keep the soil idle a whole season, when there are 
so many green crops that may be grown to advan- 
tage for cleaning the ground, and artificial fertiliz- 
ing is so well understood. When a summer-fallow 
is thought advisable, begin by plowing deeply this 
month, before weeds have seeded the ground. 
P-eparmgfur Harvest. — No time should be lost in 
getting ready for haying. It would pay to procure 
a mowing machine and a horse-rake, if money has 
to be borrowed for the purpose, where ten acres of 
hay have to be made. In choosing machines, dura- 
bility and ease of working should be looked to first ; 
low price is a secondary consideration. Some 
valuable improvements in harvesting machinery 
have recently been noticed iu the American Agri- 
