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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July, 
Contents for July, 1876. 
Am. Pomological Society 252 
Beech in Flower lUmtraUd. . 205 
Bellwort, Large-flowered Illustrated.. '2Qa 
Bolt, How to Malse a 6 lUmtrations . ,256 
Books and Catalogues Received 251 
Boys and Girls' Columns — Doctor's Talks— Aunt 
; Sne^s Cliats — Answers to Correspondents— The 4tli^ 
Aunt Sue Goes to a Spelling Match— Can You Swim 1 
—A Wonderful Cat— Nests and E^'gs— July— Saved 
by a Fish— Annt Sue's Puzzle-Box— Evidences of 
Guiit 9 llUistralions..im-i~i 
Buffalo Gnat 2 lUustralions . . 262 
Cape Heaths, Culture of 26-3 
Clevis Key Illustrated. . 261 
Colorado Potato Bug - 264 
Donkey Show, English 269 
Education among Farmers 259 
Florida Torreya Illustrated. .'26i 
Flower-Garden and Lawn for July 217 
Fruit Garden for July 247 
Granaries and Grain Bins G Illmiraiions. 259 
Greenhouse and Window Plants for July 248 
Hints Aboiit Work 246 
Household Department — Household Inquiries — Tin 
Weddings— Home Topics 267-268 
House Plan ^Illustrations. 254 
Kitchen Garden for July 247 
Locust at Dinner 252 
Locusts, Grasshoppers 2 Illustrations. 261 
Lunch Time in the Field Illustrated. .255 
Market Report for July 248 
Mechanical Powers for the Farm Illustrated . . 964 
Muzzle for Biting Horses Illustrated . .2Ctl 
Obituary, Moses Quinhy 252 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 65— PonUry— Deep Can 
System— Jersey Cows ... 255-256 
Orcliard and Nursery for July 247 
Pear-trees, New Tops on Old 266 
Pilgrimage to Torreya 266 
Potato Hot 263 
Pot-cover, Ru**tic Illustrated. .^iSS 
Poultry, Care of 259 
Science Applied to Farming 255 
Shingling Gauge 2 Illustrations.. HM 
Short-horns for the Dairy 262 
Slitting the Bark of Fruit-trees in Summer 263 
Stables, Clean 260 
Turkey, Darler or Water Illustrated..^' 
Walks and Talks Correspondence 278 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 139— Dry Weather 
— Corn— Wheat — Perfect Manuring— Dipping Lambs 
—Clover Illustrated. . 258-259 
W.astes 261 
INDEX TO "BASKET." OR SIlonTER ARTICLES. 
Ag'l. College 249 Patent Machines 278 
Am. Veterinary College. .249 
Ashes, Wood 279 
Buffalo Gnat 249 
Calves, Scours in 277 
Cheese Factories in 111... 277 
Climates, Dry 279 
Colorado Potato Beetle. .249 
Compost Heap, Making. .279 
Corn for Soiling 279 
Cotswold Merino Sheep. 250 
Patent Rights .251 
Patents 250 
Peach Crop 249 
Peach, Early Beatrice 250 
Potato Bug 249 
Poultry raising 277 
Poultry, Scabbv Legs in. 279 
Prof. Turned Parmer 249 
Quarter -Crack, Remedy 
for 279 
Cows, The Best 277 S.-iles of Short-horns 278 
Cubic Feet in Ton of Hay250 S.awing Machine 251 
Death of G. S. P.arsons. .249 Sheep, Anthrax Fever in 278 
Egg Data 2T9,Sheep,Black-faced Scotcli277 
Feeding for Milk 277 Short - hoi-n Breeders' 
Fence. 'Cheapest 279| Convention 277 
Fish Scrap 2"i0 Silver-tipped Shoes 252 
Fistula, Treating a 279 Skimmed Milk, Value of.a'iO 
Fruit and Produce 249, Sowing Wheat 250 
Fruit Jars 252, Sows, Feeding Breeding.279 
Geese, Bremen andChina250 Steam Motor, Pnrvin*3...277 
Grain from Kansas 2.52 Straw, To Decompose. . .279 
Grasses for the South 250 Sum. Fallowing Wlieat. .2.50 
Guano 249 Summer Resort 249 
Humbugs, Sundry 249. Sunday-School Lessons 
Mill Dams, Construction Uniform 979 
of 250, Tanners' Waste 279 
Mi-xing E:irth with Ma- |Well, Impure 279 
nure .279 What's in a Name 250 
Oregon 250 Windmills for Irrigation. 279 
Grapo Vine Insect.— "G. F.," Lehigh 
Co., Pa. The insect sent is the Grape Vine Flea Beetle, 
Haltica chalijbea^ and not a fly at all. It is sometimes very 
destructive. Hand picking, or sliaking from the vines 
and crushing, early in the morning, when they are inac- 
tive, ia the only remedy we know of. 
A Cistern in Sandy Soil.-" J. L.," 
St. Croix Falls, Wis. A cistern in a soil consisting of 
sand and gravel, should be lined with brick, or the walls 
will he likely to cave in. The brick should be hard 
burned and laid in cement, and then plastered with a 
thin coat of cement. The cement used should be mixed 
with four or five times its bulk of sharp fine sand, while 
dry, and then with water, unlil it is thin enough to spread 
well ; mix with water in small quantities, as it is needed. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTIIRIST. 
NEW YORK, JULY, 1875. 
It would be of great value if we were able, at 
this season, to forecast the weather for 24 hours. 
Althoiifch in no country in the world is the eummer 
climate more favorable for harvest operations, (and 
few have so good a one), yet for the want of 
accurate knowledge of the premonitory symptoms 
of thunder showers, and other changes of the 
weather, farmers are often caught with their crops 
exposed, and suffer damage and loss. The farmer 
should have as accurate a " weather eye " as a sai- 
lor, for he is equally interested in changes of the 
weather. Except in very rare cases, the admirable 
weather reports of the Signal Office, can not be 
made available in time to be of use to the farmer, 
who must depend upon his own skill and tact in 
predicting the weather. We have found an aneroid 
barometer a very sensitive and tmstworthy guide, 
and do not call to mind a single instance in which it 
failed to give warning of the approach of even a 
thunder storm some hours before it arrived. The 
backward motion of the index, is a sufficient 
notice to use every precaution against getting 
caught, but not of itself a warning to quit harvest- 
ing, for rain does not always follow a barometer 
falling. One needs onlv lO make things safe as he 
goes ; to cap the .shocks, to liaul in what i.3 expos- 
ed, to hasten cutting grain that is ripe, and protect 
shocks with hay-caps or top-sheaves. "Forewarned 
is forearmed," and the warning is all that is needed. 
Some apparently threatening storms pass over with- 
out rain, and in such cases the little labor of pre- 
paring for them, is more than compensated by the 
sense of security one feels in being ready for the 
worst. Tliere is little probability of higher prices 
for grain. There is nothing to regret in this. 
Business recovers slowly from its depression. 
Labor is everywhere a drug. Laborers gener- 
ally are in such straits that cheap food is needed 
for their proper subsistence. The Avay to improve- 
ment seems to lie in fair if not abundant crops, and 
low prices. The farmer can not thrive while gen- 
eral business is depressed, and business matter.f are 
evidently settling down on a basis of low prices. 
If a calico dress costs only a dollar, those who 
make the material, must buy their food at propor- 
tionately low prices. It is the same with other 
clothing, shoes, iron, and all those things which 
enter into general use. The prices of these being 
now very low, if the prices of food are not propor- 
tionately low, some must suffer. 
Bints about ^Vork. 
Harvest IFoci.— Field labor can hardly be subject 
to the same rules as in-door work. The more quick- 
ly the crops can be harvested and housed, the safer 
they will be. Extra hours can scarcely be avoided 
when the rush of work comes, and reasonable 
men will not object to it if the work is fairly com- 
pensated. In many years of farm work, we have 
always finished up at 4 o'clock on Saturdays, and 
never worked on a Sunday, yet never lost a pound 
of hay or of grain by observing these rules. 
Batldnef is not only a great preservative of the 
health, but it greatly promotes comfort. If there 
is no convenient shed or out-building, where a tub 
of water can be used for tliis purpose every even- 
ing, arrange a portion of the barn for bathing. 
Take a washtub with two or three pails of cold 
water, a large sponge or piece of flannel, and a 
piece of CastOe soap. Dash a few spongetuls of 
water over the whole body, then wash with soap 
and water, rinse off, and rub dry with a coarse 
towel. This is a part of the daily training of the 
professional athlete, as it hardens the muscles, 
induces healthful and not debilitating perspiration, 
and sound restful sleep. Induce the hired men to 
bathe every night ; they will work all the better. 
Horses should have every attention that can ease 
their labors. It is not humane to turn a horse that 
has worked all day in the reaper, into a poor pas- 
ture, to pick his feed during the whole night, or 
lie and rest with a half filled stomach. (See article 
on clean stables, on page 280). If liorses are turned 
out at night, they should first be well fed. Wash 
the legs with carbolic soap suds. Give drink fre- 
quently. Fresh cold water from tlie weU, is highly 
injurious, the water should be as warm as the air, 
and a handful of finely ground meal, should be 
stirred in each drinli. 
Cows will need some succulent feed. The thin- 
nings and suckers from the corn-field will supply 
this. Let a boy take a wheelbarrow along a few 
rows, and gather a mess of fodder every afternoon. 
Slierp, — The fly which produces the " grub in the 
head," (dktnM ovis), will trouble the flock. The 
sheep, when that is present, will run with their 
heads to the ground, and stamp with the fore feet. 
Kub some pine tar on their noses, and keep it fresh 
and sticlcy. Tar is a good tonic, and helps sheep 
to resist other parasites. Keep them out of low 
wet pastures, which produce "rot." Milk the 
udders of ewes which have lost their lambs. 
See that the lambs have fresh tender pasture. 
" Roughness " will not do for lambs. 
Hai/. — Clover and orchard grass ought to have 
been cut before this. If not cut, lose no time in 
doing it ; every day's delay greatly reduces the 
value of the hay. Timothy should not go past full 
blossom, unless to be left for seed. Red-top may 
be cut last of all. If there are a few loads of fine 
manure on hand, they will be of great use upon 
the freshly mown meadows. 
Cuttimj Grain. — Everything should be fully pre- 
pared before harvest is begun. Wlieat and rye 
that is left until dead ripe, may be thrashed as it is 
cut. It is best to cut before this period is reached. 
When the grain is firm but still soft, so that it can 
be pinched in two with the tlviinb-nail, it is in 
good order for cutting, and will not shell out. Oats 
do not ripen evenly, and may he cut when the 
largest portion of the crop is ripe. Cut as much 
as possible when the dew is on, to prevent shelling. 
Cut barley as nearly ripe as may be. The conditions 
being right, it is safest to cut, bind and shock grain 
the same day. If a sudden shower comes up, it is 
soon secured. As binding and shocking must be 
done, no time is lost in doing it at once. 
(JiMivailng Orops. — Com and roots must not be 
neglected. Keep the ground mellow and free from 
weeds. Nothing helps so much as this to over- 
come the effects of dry weather. Cultivate no root 
crops or beans while the soil and plants are wet. 
Colorado Ibtato Beetle— Gi'te this insect no rest. 
