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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[November, 
Contents for November, 1871. 
Anemones and Ranunculuses 2 Illustrations. .424 
Autumn Colors of Foliage 423 
Bee Notes 40S 
Bone Mills Illiistrattd.An 
Boys and Girls' Columns — Street Shows in London- 
Aunt Sue's Puzzle-Box— Puzzle Picture— The Doc- 
tor Talks about Bears 2 Illus'-ations . . 427, 428 
Cattle— Herefords 2 Illustrations. 413 
Cattle— Holsteius 2 Illustrations. .401 
Colorado Immigrant 413 
Couch or Quack Grass 419 
Egg Farm Illustrations. All. 412 
Evergreens from Seed ' 123 
Fall Plowing of Corn Stubble 419 
Farm Work in November 402 
Fish-Ponds— Slaking 419 
Flower Garden and Lawn in November 404 
Fruit Garden in November 403 
Fruit Growing about Leavenworth 422 
Greenhouse and "Window Plants in November 404 
Household Department — Raisin-Seeder — Egg-Beat- 
ers — On the Treatment of Husbands — Letter from a 
Housekeeper — Chicken-Pie, Pumpkin-Pie, French 
' Pickle, Tomato Preserves, Carrot-Pie, Dried Parsley. 
8 Illustrations. .425, 426 
How to Become a Florist 423 
Ice-House with Cool-Room 3 Illustrations . .417, 418 
Kitchen Garden in November 403 
Lucern in California 415 
Making Cut Shingles 6 Illustrations. .419, 420 
Market Reports 404 
Oats with Wheat 418 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 22— Number of Hands Re- 
quired—Prices of Butter and Feed— Deep Milk-Pans. 410 
Orchard and Nursery in November. 403 
Paving Barn-Yards 2 Illustrations. 416 
Piece of Copper Wire 5 Illustrations . . 416 
Plants and Seeds by Mail 423 
Plants for a Small Greenhouse 421 
Plants— Ladies' Tresses Illustrated. .424 
Plants— Partridge Pea Illustrated. 421 
Plants — Virginian Agave Illustrated. .421 
Preserving Roots 417 
Riding on Horseback, No. 7 Illustrated. .411 
Sheep Hurdles Illustrated. .41S 
Shelter for Stock 418 
Snow-Drops 2 Illustrations. .424 
Topping and Tailing Turnips 419 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 95— Ground-Ivy 
and Red-Root — Steaming Food— Wintering Sheep — 
Cotton-Seed— Chicago Swine Show— Magie Pigs. 414, 415 
Water-Rams.. 2 Illustrations. A15, 416 
Winter Grazing 415 
INDEX TO "BASKET," 
Advice to Seedsmen 406 
Apple and Pear Orchard. 409 
Ashes, Time to Apply. . .407 
Ayrshire Herd-Book 409 
Bee Notes 408 
Brick Clay. 407 
Cabbages and Onions 409 
Chicago Papers 409 
Cider and Cider Mills 408 
Civil Engineering 408 
Composting Muck, Cot- 
ton Seed, etc 408 
Crops and Prices 408 
Curry-Combs and Cards.. 407 
Draft of a Roller 407 
Drain-Tile Machine 407 
Fire in Chicago 409 
Fires in Mich, and Wis. .409 
Gas-Lime 409; 
Glanders 407' 
Grass in Wheat 407 
Great Nettle... 409 1 
Guide to New York 409' 
Having Things Handy. . .409, 
Horses Slobbering 407, 
Honse-Fly 409 
Large Egg 409 
Lice on Poultry 407 
Lime for Fruit-Trees 407 
Little Pigs again 408 
Love-Powders 406 
Low Mallows 40S 
Lucern 408 
Maple Seeds 409! 
OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Mulching Raspberries. . .409 
Native Grapes 409 
Negretti Sheep 409 
Oxeye Daisy 40S 
Pears Cracking 407 
Peat and Turf 407 
Plants Named 409 
Plowing Under Buck- 
wheat 40S 
PoBtage-Stamps 409 
Prairie Parmer 407 
Preserving Eggs 406 
Sassafras— To Kill 407 
Sawdust 40S 
Seed Wheat 407 
Sending Grapes 409 
Sheep Poisoned 407 
Some Pumpkins 409 
Southern Cabbage Best. 409 
Stock at Large 408 
Suction Pumps 408 
Sundry Humbugs 406 
Surfeit 407 
Thrashing Clover Seed.. 407 
Trenching a Garden 406 
Ventilating Ice-Houses. .407 
Weeds Plowed Under. . . .407 
Wheat and Clover 407 
Wheat for Name 407 
Wire Fences 407 
Wood Ashes for Wheat.. 406 
Work on Architecture.. .406 
Worn-out Lands 408 
Young Farmer 406 
A "Baker's Dozen," 
Thirteen for Twelve. 
Every Hew Subscriber to the American Agri- 
culturist for 1872, xchose subscription comes to 
hand during November, will be presented with the paper 
the rest of this year without charge, if the 
name be marked new when sent in Take Notice, 
tliat this offer extends to All New Subscribers, 
whether coming singly, or in Premium Clubs, or other- 
wise. (This will help those who now begin to make 
up lists for Premiums, for they can offer to each new 
subscriber a bonus of an extra month, and still count 
these names in Premium Lists.) 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1871. 
November ! One more month, and the year 1871 
will be numbered with the past. How rapidly the 
months and years eome and go ! We can not stand 
still. The farmer has to deal with matter that is 
ever changing. Aud an accurate knowledge of 
these changes is essential to the highest success. 
This is agricultural science, pure and simple. 
There is nothing in it to frighten a farmer — nothing 
iu it, certainly, that should excite his contempt. 
He must study these changes, and then apply his 
knowledge to the daily duties of the farm. It is to 
set forth, unfold, illustrate, aud apply this knowl- 
edge that is the great aim and work of the American 
Agriculturist. We know its importance. We glory 
iu the work. We fully and freely admit the im- 
portance of good government, of cheap and rapid 
transportation, of mechanical inventions, and of 
manufactures, trade, and commerce ; but, at the 
same time, we know and feel that farming is the 
basis of our material prosperity. Our aim is to 
lessen the cost and increase the profits of raisiDg 
our agricultural products. 
Those who live in large cities, with their thou- 
sands and tens of thousands of poor men, women, 
and children struggling to obtain the bare neces- 
saries of life, fully realize the importance of cheap 
bread. Cheap, wholesome, highly nutritious ani- 
mal food, also, becomes daily of more and more 
importance as the masses of the people become 
more active, energetic, and intelligent. The thou- 
sands of young men (aud young women, too) who 
use their brains, as well as their muscles, require a 
more nutritious kind of food than the mere plod- 
der. The necessities of our agriculture on the 
one hand, and the requirements of the ever-increas- 
ing number of active, hard-working, intelligent 
consumers on the other hand, demand more and 
better animal food. 
When iu the city, we realize the importance of 
cheap bread, and a more abundant supply of nutri- 
tious meat. On the other hand, when at home on 
the farm, we have a farmer's desire to get good 
prices for our products. We know that farmers 
work hard, and seldom receive adequate compen- 
sation for their care, labor, and anxiety. Our 
profits are too small. As patriots, we want to see 
cheap bread and cheap meat ; as farmers, we want 
higher profits. We believe both these ends can be 
attained. How, it is the aim of the Agriculturist 
to explain. Aud, in preparing our monthly hints 
about work, as well as of other articles in tho 
paper, this object is steadily kept iu view. 
Hints about Work. 
Live-Slock. — We would urge our readers to keep 
ever before their minds the idea that an animal is, 
so to speak, a machine that, from the day of its 
birth to the hour of its death, is constantly in mo- 
tion. It never stops ; whether asleep or awake, in 
summer or winter, night aud day, it is ever run- 
ning. And the power required to keep it in mo- 
tion is derived from the food, or from flesh and fat 
previously stored up iu the animal. In the aggre- 
gate, farmers lose millions of dollars every year 
from not understanding and acting upon this sim- 
ple truth. There are thousauds of calves, cows, 
and steers that on the first of next April will 
weigh no more than they do now on the first of 
November. All the food they consume during the 
winter is used merely to keep up the auimal heat 
aud sustain life. Aside from the total loss of food, 
au auimal so kept, especially a young auimal, is 
not iu a healthy condition, and it will take several 
mouths of good feed in the spring to give it a good 
start. An animal that will not pay for liberal feed- 
ing had better be sold for whatever it will bring. 
TJie low p>ice of Stock affords a favorable oppor- 
tunity for purchasing good animals. Weed out 
the herds. The preseut depression will only be 
temporary, and you can now pick up good, thrifty 
animals at cheap rates. It certainly will not pay 
this year to winter a poor pig, cow, 6heep, or steer. 
Sheep. — The same remarks arc generally true in 
regard to sheep, hut, at the present time, not with 
equal force. There is au increased aud increasing 
demand for sheep and wool, and it may pay better 
to winter a poor flock of sheep than to dispose of 
them. Better, however, sell the poor ones, and 
buy younger, healthier, and more thrifty sheep. 
Look out for Storms. — Have the barns and sheds 
in readiness, and be careful not to let the sheep be 
exposed to severe rain. Nothing is more injurious. 
Do not Confine Sheep in Close Quarters. — An open 
shed is better than a close, ill-ventilated barn. The 
moment the rain is over, if the sheep are still wet, 
they will do better and dry quicker out of doors in 
the wind than in a close barn, the atmosphere of 
which is saturated by the moisture evaporating 
from the damp wool. Dry cold seldom or never 
hurts sheep. Damp quarters and wet laud are ex- 
ceedingly injurious. 
Give the Sheep some Dry Pood. — Grass at this sea- 
son is comparatively innutritious. Let the sheep 
have all they will eat of it, but at the same time let 
them have access to racks filled with hay or straw. 
If they are not thriving, give a little grain — two 
bushels of oats per day to one hundred sheep. 
Breeding Ewes should he served this month or the 
beginning of next. A little extra food at this sea- 
son is particularly desirable. It will tend to secure 
more, better, and healthier lambs. Do not over- 
tax the ram. If allowed to run with the flock, do 
not place more than sixty ewes with one ram, and 
if he has not attained his full growth, not over 
forty. In either case, give him from a pint to a 
quart of oats per day. Give a little salt every day. 
Sheep like Exercise and Fresh Air, and it is desirable 
to let them run out on the pastures every day as 
long as they can get a bite of grass. It is a great 
mistake to suppose that they will not eat dry fod- 
der as long as they can get at the grass. Give them 
all the hay aud straw they will cat, and let them 
run out every fine day, aud they will thrive aud 
stand the winter better than if shut up too early. 
Fattening Sheep should gain rapidly this month. 
Let them run out on the pastures, and give hay and 
straw, aud half a pound of oats or corn per day. 
Swine. — Select out the best 60WS for breeding ; 
and if you have no good ones of your own, buy the 
best you can find. Unless you propose raising 
breeding stock, you do not need to buy thorough- 
