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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Contents for November, 1877. 
Amoug the Farmers, No. 22.— Green Manures— South- 
ern Cow Peas— A Horse Farm— Doct. Agnew's Sys- 
tem -A Hay Barn 422 
Barn, Plan for a Dairy 2 JUuetrations. .425 
Bee Notes for November 417 
Bl iindering from European Practice 430 
Boat-House, How to Build 2 lllusirations. .424 
Boys and Girls' Columns. — Puzzle Picture — Doctor's 
Correspondence, Ornamental Spruce Work ; Polish- 
ing Powder — Aunt Sue's Pnzzle Box — ^Metric System 
of Weights and Measures — The Little Eunaways— 
Aunt Sue's Chats- About Dragon Flies.. .5 llLASi-iii 
Cattle— Grade Cow ' Illustrated. .409 
Cattle— The Hercfords lllvstrated . .431 
Cruel Custom 4n 
Dairy and Ice-house 3 Jllmtratioiis. .425, iiS 
Eggs, ACase for CariTing or Keeping. 2 Mlusti;alious..VA 
Eggs, Production and disposal 421 
Farm Work for November 410 
Feeding Large or Small Animals 427 
Flower Garden and Lawn in November . . . ... 412 
Fruit Garden in November 411 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in November 412 
Harvestsof the World 416 
Hay Presses and Pressing Hay 5 lllusirations . .4S.S 
Herbaceous Perennial Phloxes ........ .431 
Hints and Helps for Farmers— Fastening for Swing- 
ing Doors— Iron Pig Trough— Improved Wagon 
Jack 4 Illustrations. . 424 
House Costing $400 or $500 4 lUwtrations. . 420 
Household Department— Home Topics— Preparation 
of Coffee— Caf6 au Lait— Browning Coffee— Coffee 
and Health— Kitchen Dresses— A Simple Ash Sifter 
Window Transparency— Scroll or Bracket Saws- 
Green Corn and Pickles Slllustratiofis. 431-433 
Ice House in a Barn 2 Illustrations.. 4r2S 
Kitchen and Market Garden in November 411 
Leaks in the B;irn 427 
Manure for Fruit Trees 431 
Market Reports 412 
Notes from the Pines- Mr. Sargent's Grounds- A 
Mosaic Bed — Young Conifers — Mr. Parkman's 
Phloxes— Forest Hill Cemetery 430 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 93.— The Results cf Ten 
Year's Management 418 
Orchard and Nursery in November 411 
Ponllry— The Bronze Turkey 427 
Poultry— The Langshan Fowl 427 
Science Applied to Farming, No. 35.— Potash — The 
German Potash Salts 417, 418 
Seedling Peaches 431 
Sheep, Cross-bred 427 
Sheep, the Oxford-Downs Illustrated.. 4%i. 
Shrubs, The Bladder Senna Illustrated.. ii9 
Skimmed Milk, The Trade in 426 
Small Evergreens for Small Places 429 
Stack Yard, How to Arrange i Illustrations .427,428 
Stove for a Poultry House H Iltiistrations..i2i 
Sweet Potatoes, House for Storing 2 Illustrations . .4^ 
Talks on Farm Crops, No. 9.— Eape— Mangel Wurzels 
—Corn-fodder- Apples 423 
Tim Bunker on the Canning Factory 419 
Trees, A Eemarkable Collection 416 
Trees, Weeping Hemlock Illustrated . .4W 
White Birch on Poor Land 42S 
Why it Pays to Eead 417 
INDltX TO "basket." OB SlIORTEK AnTICLES. 
Adamant Plow 442 
Ag'l. Eii<rine Trial 414 
Alpine Flowers 414 
Army and Navy Journal. 416 
Autumn Hort. Show 416 
Borrowing to Buy a Farm414 
Brahmas for E^rgs 443 
Buckwheat Bran 443 
Butter Factory 414 
Catalogues Eeceivcd 442 
Cliestiiuts, Keeping 442 
Colorado Mountaineer.. .414 
Concrete Houses 414 
Cool Setting of Milk 414 
Cost of Wheat 443 
Eszg-Eatiiig Hens 443 
Fairs of 1877 416 
Fall Plowing 416 
Fodder Culler 443 
Food Steamer 41.'J 
Game Laws of Pa 414 
Georgia Hort. Society. . ..441 
Grape, Lady Washinglou442 
Grasses ;ind Soils 443 
Grasses NnnK^d 
Harastruui: Horse 
Newspaper Horticullnre.441 
N. Y. State Fair 416 
New Zealand Flax 442 
Oats ... .415 
Orange Mannalade 442 
Paralysis in Pigs 443 
Parasite on Owls 442 
Pigs, The Best 415 
Preparing Brine 442 
Produce of Cow 415 
Pollen, Keeping ...442 
Popular Science MonIhiy441 
Postage Stamps, Sending414 
Poultry-house. Clean 414 
Pure Grontid Bone 413 
Ec'ports of Societies.. 443 
Ringt)one 414 
Si-roll Sawyer. ^442 
Sewing Machines 443 
Slicrpin Colorado 443 
Sick Hog 414 
South. Cal. Horticnlturist441 
Southern Emigration . .415 
Sportsman's Gazetteer. . .414 
441 Squashes, large ■ 442 
..415iSiii!dry Hnmhngs 414 
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AMUIIKAIV ACiinCULTVRIST. 
NEW TOEK, NOVEMBEE, 1877. 
"VVe are rapidly approaching better times. Al- 
ready business is improving, and tliere is a promise 
of an era of prosperity. Although "the melan- 
choly days " of autumn are come, everything con- 
spires to encourage us. We have had a fine season 
for fall sowing, and our grain has gone into the 
ground in the best condition. The fall work is 
generally ahead, and every farmer is busy. Circum- 
stances generally, have greatly tended to make 
farmers contented with their position. They have 
been taught that the farm is a secure haven in 
times of business storm and disturbance. That the 
profits of farming, it not large, are safe and certain. 
In Nevada, where farms and gold and silver mines 
lie contiguous to each other ; it is the farmer who 
makes the greater profit, for it is proved by the 
statistics of the State, that the capital invested in 
farms yields a better and more regular return, than 
does that employed in the mining the precious 
metals. For one paying gold mine, there are fifty 
that either do- not pay, or that totally ruin the 
owners. On the contrary, there is not one farm 
that does not pay a fair return, and many that pay 
richly for good management. The time is past, for 
another long perioti, when there will be so mucli 
talk about "the boys leaving the farm." They can 
not find a better place, and hundreds of young men 
are now leaving the cities to go upon farms. Com- 
fort and happiness will, as in the past, dwell with 
the frugal and industrious, and in the history of 
the world the most notable instances of private and 
public virtue, have been found amongst those 
whose lives have been simple, unpretentious, and 
laborious. The first battle of the Eepublic was 
fought by farmers, and its great sustaining power 
will always consist of the farmers first, who are the 
iTiOSt numerous class of citizens, and after them the 
Intelligent artisans, mechanics, and other industri- 
ous workers. There are other classes who are 
equally useful, but being in a great minority, thus 
exert a less influence. But the farmer who feeds 
the world, and those who house and clothe it, must 
always exert a preponderating influence in pro- 
portion to the intelligence they possess, and the 
skill with which they perform their several labors. 
Hints for VTork. 
JFdU Flowing. — Don't let the plow rust in the fur- 
owe. So long as there is any plowing to be done. 
let It be done at once, and as soon as finished, 
clean off the plow, grease, or lime-wash, the mold- 
board and share, and put it away in the tool shed. 
Gather up all tfie tools, clean them, coat the wood 
work with crude petroleum, or some common lead 
and oil paint, and store them in their proper 
places. Tools will last twice as long if thus kept. 
Prepare for Winter. — Whatever preparation is need- 
ed for winter, should be be begun now, or before 
snow falls. A little foresight saves much trouble. 
Stacks should be well protected, and the cover- 
ings repaired, if necessary, (see article on page 437). 
Store a sufficient supply of fodder and litter in the 
barn, and over the stables and sheds for present use. 
Thrashing. — A two-horse tread-power and thrash- 
ing machine mill be found very useful. These ma- 
chines are made very portable, and are easy to be 
moved from place to place. As one set can do the 
work of several farms, money may be earned by 
thrashing for the neighbors after the work at home 
has been done. With these machines thrashing is 
done quietly and easily, without any of the "hurly- 
burley " of a hired set, and without waste of grain 
or straw, or overworkhig the horses. 
Corn-Musking.—ViWa the use of machines, and 
the need for economy in every form of labor, all 
the so-called "poetry of farm work" has disap- 
peared. The old-fashioned corn-huskings in the 
bam will soon no more be held, and, along with the 
old-fashioned festive "harvest homes," will be 
soon only remembered in story. These homely 
frolics must give way to more sedate and less costly 
labor, and now the sooner the corn-husking is out 
of the way, the better. The fields should he cleared 
at once, and when everything is under cover, there/ 
will be time for more comfortable frolicking indoors. 
Take care of the Fodder. — When corn is huskert, 
the fodder should always be carefully set up, if it 
is not yet thoroughly cured. We some time ago 
referred in these hints to the manner of setting up 
shocks, and the number of hills in each. A cou.ple 
of considerate Western correspondents kindly wish- 
ed to inform us in regard to the number of hills 
put into a shock, stating the number to be from 144 
to 256. We were well aware of this, but were 
speaking of the manner of putting up shocks to 
stay put up, and to save the fodder in the best way, 
and not merely to be heaped together for harvest- 
ing the corn. Moderate-sized shocks will cure bet- 
ter than very large ones, and 25 or 49 hills make a 
shock large enough to bind. House or stack the 
stalks as soon as dry enough to be safe i^om mil- 
dew. While drying in the field, four or more 
corn shocks may be put into one fodder shock. 
Moots that have been gathered, should be made se- 
cure in the pits before the cold weather comes on. 
Look out that there is ample ventilation from the 
bottom to the top of the heaps. Three-cornered 
spouts, with a number of holes bored in each, to 
admit air, may be put every 8 or 10 feet apart in a 
long pit, or one for each email pit. These will 
cariy oH the heated air which arises in all newly 
made pits of any sort of roots, which would cause 
rotting were its escape not thus provided for. 
Soo'.s that have not beai fiarvested, may be suffered 
to grow so long as the weather is mild. Late tur- 
nips will make considerable growth now, during 
the cool -weather. As soon as one or two sharp 
frosts have occurred, these late crops may be taken 
up ; but this is not likely to happen, unless in far 
northern localities, until the end of the month. 
FrozeriLeaves are injurious to cattle,and shouldnot 
be given to them, but carted to the compost heaps. 
Morses should be provided with blankets for use 
when exposed to storms. These may be procured 
very cheaply, and their cost will be saved more 
than once or twice during the winter. We do not 
approve of using blankets in the stable, however 
cold the weather may be. This practice makes the 
horse more sensitive to cold when brought out. 
Blankets are for use only to protect against unu- 
sual exposure, and when the horse is warm. 
Winter rations for a work horse, may now be given 
safely. Our practice is to mix half a bushel of cut 
hay or fodder, with 3 pounds of feed of oats, corn^ 
and bran ground together, for one feed for each. 
