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AMERICAN AGJS1-CULTUEIST. 
[June, 
Contents for June, 1873. 
American Pomologtcal Society 210 
Baru-Pail. Home-made Illustrated. . 210 
Bee Notes for June 810 
Board Buildings 2 Illustrations.. 217 
Boys and Girls' Columns— Hunting the Hare — Aunt 
Sue's Puzzle-Box— Some Curious Sea Animals- 
Bridge of Safety 3 Illustrations.. Hit, 228 
Buffalo, A Close Time for the 218 
Carbolic Acid for Pleuro-pneumonia 216 
Cattle, Portraits of Illustrated.. 201, 211 
Cedar-bird Illustrated.. 213 
Cheap Transportation 209 
Chimneys, Sweeping Illustrated . .219 
Farm-Gate, Improved Illustrated. . 217 
Feed-Box, Portable Illustrated. . 217 
Flower-Garden and Lawn in June 204 
Flowers— Twin-Flower Illustrated. .224 
Flowers— Wake-Robins Illustrated. .224 
Fruit Garden for June 203 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in June 204 
nurse Disease, Another ..219 
Household Department— How we Bake our Eread— 
Home Topics— What to Do with Bleeding Wounds. 
4 Illustrations . .225, 220 
Kitchen Garden for June 203 
Land Measurer Illustrated. .219 
Dams, Building 3 Illustrations.. 215 
Market Reports 204 
Notes from the Pines— Harris's Bark-Louse— New 
Lender— Dwarf June Berry— Japan Globe-Flower— 
Difference In Exposure— Grape-Vines— Judas Trees 
—Cabbage Butterfly 222 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 40 — Yield of Jersey Cows- 
Mr. Robeson's Herd — Mr. Beach's Trial— Prices of 
Jerseys— Treatment of Calves — How Long to Milk — 
The Labor Question 211, 212 
Orchard and Nursery for June 203 
Packing and Marketing Prodnce 221 
Pigs, Raising in the Eastern States 218 
Plants, Nat.ve Orchis Illustrated. . 221 
Plants, Virginian Snakeroot Illustrated. .221 
Poultry-House, A Farm Illustrated . .216 
Rain-Gauge, How to Make a Illustrated . .217 
Sardine Fishery Illustrated.. 213 
Steers, Training : Illustrated. . 219 
Vegetable Plant* and Planting 222 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 114 — Manure — 
Freight— Fattening Pigs— Sheep 214, 215 
Wells, Horizontal 3 Illustrations . .218 
Wire-Tightener, A Simple Hhistrated . . 222 
Work, Hints about 202 
Yuccas, Fertilization of 2 Illustrations. .223 
INDEX TO t; BASKET," Oil SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Advice to Immigrants. ..207 Loss of Wool 207 
Ag'l College Funds 206 Luminous Minerals 208 
Am. Pom. Sncietv 205. Machine-cut Clover 208 
Apple-trees Suffering 209|Making Butter by Power209 
Bad Taste in Water 209 Managing Manure 207 
Bones for Poultry 206'Mange 208 
Book Wanted 206jMangels 206 
Botts 209, Manure for Beans 208 
Breaking Colts 205|Mannre for Corn 207 
Bruised Shoulder 205jManure— What to Do ?. .207 
Buckwheat Bran 209 Manuring Salt Meadows. .200 
Burning Bones 207|Mile and Kilometer 208 
Burning Corn. 207lMilking Machine 209 
Butter in Hot Weather.. 206|Mole-plow for lrrigation.207 
Cure for Hoven 207|Moss on Apple-trees 208 
Cement Pipe 207 Mulching Fruit-trees 206 
Cheese Factory in Iowa. .209;Navy Beans 205 
Chicken Troubles 209!N. E. Poultry Club 206 
Chronic Founder 209|Orauge Co. Pails 207 
Churning Milk 209;Pea-straw Injurious? 207 
Civil Engineer.. 207|Plowing in Clover 209 
Condition Powders 205 \ Potash on Sandy Soils.. .207 
Corn on Muck Land 207i Potatoes without Hoeing.20G 
Cruelty to Animals 206 Pulling Stumps 209 
Diseases of Poultry 208' Pump for Well 206 
Disposing of Patents 209|Pure Bralimas 209 
Do Mules Breed ? 209 Red Pepper for Stretches. 206 
D'ble Carol ina Jessamine20s| Rheumatism in Horses. .206 
Drawing Manure 207, Root Culture 20S 
Egg-eating Fowls 207 Roots, Value of 203 
Encouragement 209 ( Salt for Stock 208 
Everlasting Posts 209 Screw Slump-puller 206 
Farming in Arkansas 20S;Seasonable Suggestions. .208 
Fertilizer for Corn 20" Sheep for the Plains 208 
Flax-seed for Mares 206|Small Butter Packages. ..203 
Flexible Double-tree 209 .Spaving Sows 20S 
Flow of Water 207jSpotted Essex Pigs 207 
Fodder Corn 207 Steaming Fodder 209 
Galvanized Iron Pipe 206 Steaming Food 207 
Garget 2001 Striped Bugs ...20S 
Grass for Woodland 206,Subsoiling and Deep 
Green Mannre for Garden 206] Plowing 205 
Green Manuring 209iSugar from Sorghum 209 
Hay or Corn 206 Snndry numbugs 206 
Herd Lav? in Kansas 207 Swinging-door forPen..20S 
Hollow Horn 208 Three Questions 207 
Horse Powers 207|Ton of Manure 207 
HungarianGrass orMillet 208 1 rial Trip 500 
Inflamed Udder 209iTrusses 200 
Insects from Georgia 208 Turnips every Year 206 
Interfering Horses 208 Using Bones 206 
Jersey Herd-book £06 Veterinary Books 209 
Kansas ;, 9 Wasting (if Frog 209 
Late Corn 207 Wild Garlic 209 
Lime 208 'Windmills 208 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1873. 
To a g°CH!. thrifty farmer, whose land is drained, 
clean, and rich, June is one of the pleasantest 
months in the year. To the farmer who is behind- 
hand with his work, who is planting corn when he 
ought to be cultivating it, and who is hoeing when 
he should be haying, the warm, growing weather 
of June gives little ground for hope or encourage- 
ment. "Astern chase is a long chase." If the 
season once gets ahead of you, it is almost impos- 
sible to catch up with your work. Every fanner 
knows this from experience, but it is a lesson some 
of us are slow to learn. 
In chaffing hay with a railway horse-power, set 
at a given elevation, the lighter you feed the faster 
will the horses he obliged to travel, and the more 
hay will you cut. If the knives are dull, or you 
feed a little too fast, you slow the motion, and you 
will not accomplish half the work that you would 
if the knives were sharp and you fed lighter. Push 
the hay into the machine a little faster, and you 
lessen your power still more, aud the slightest im- 
pediment, even a single corn-stalk, will stop it 
altogether. And so it is with farm work. If you 
get behindhand, the least impediment will check 
your progress. The " season " is the railway horse- 
power. The less you (ax it the more it will do for 
you. Men, ignorant of the principle of a railway 
horse-power, when they find the motion slowing 
yell at the horses — "Get up there, get up " — not 
knowing that the horses are in no wise to blame, 
but that the fault is in their feeding too hard. 
To grumble at. the season is equally tin reason- 
able. A man who keeps his machine well oiled 
and the knives sharp, aud who feeds steadily, will 
cut three times as much hay as the man who wastes 
one-third of his power by dull knives aud unneces- 
sary friction and another third by slowing the mo- 
tion. And so it is in farming. On drained land a 
soaking rain makes easier plowing ; on the wet 
land it stops plowing altogether, and by the time 
the sun has evaporated the water the land is hard 
to plow, and turns up cloddy. The scasou is not 
at fault. No season ever suits wet land. The 
remedy is either to drain or not plow at all. Wo 
•need not carry out our illustration. We all know 
how discouraging a thing it is to work poor,weody, 
uudrained land. No farmer en such land can be 
blamed for being behindhand with his work. He 
is to blame only if he is content with such a system 
of farming, and makes no efforts to drain, enrich, 
aud clean his land. 
Hints about Work, 
The Seaacm is Late, and much land is yet to be 
planted. 
What shall we do with it? — No farmer likes to 
change his plans, but it is sometimes, though not 
often, wise to do so. 
Land Intended for Corn, but which you have not 
been able to plant, may be summer-fallowed ; or it 
may he planted with buans, or sown with turnips 
or buckwheat ; or if none of the6e plans suit it may 
still be planted with corn. 
Early Corn is best for late planting. 
Soak the Seed for 24 or 36 hours, changing the 
water every eight or ten hours. 
If the Soil is Moist aud Mellow, soaked seed will be 
up in two days, and the plants, now that the 
weather is warm, will grow rapidly from the start. 
One of the Essentials of good corn culture is thus 
secured — a vigorous and healthy young plant. 
If Vie Ground can not be (jot in Good Condition, 
better give up the idea of planting corn. It is a 
crop that requires too much labor to make its cul- 
ture profitable except under favorable conditions. 
With Potatoes there is even a still greater neces- 
sity for planting at the proper time, and for having 
the land in good order. It is a crop that requires 
much labor per acre, and it is specially important 
to get a large crop per acre. It will cost as much 
to plant, cultivate, aud dig an acre of potatoes 
that yields 75 bushels per acre as one that yields 
150 bushels. 
One of the Best Crops of Ivtatoes we ever raised 
was not planted until the first week iu June — but 
the land was rich aud in good order. 
Beans have been a very profitable crop with far- 
mers who make a business of growing them, and 
who take pains to have all the conditions favorable. 
They may be sown any time this mouth — the earlier 
the better, provided the land is in good order. We 
plant in rows 2 ft. 5 in. apart, and drop three to 
five beans in a hill one foot apart in the rows. 
Cover from one to two inches deep, according to 
the size of the beans — the larger the deeper. 
Turnips require rich soil and the best of culture. 
The reason so many fail to grow satisfactory crops 
of roots is because the land is not properly pre- 
pared. The soil can not be made too mellow. 
Mangel-Wurzel should have been sown last month, 
but if the land is in good order, and not too dry, 
the seed may be soaked for two or Ihree days, and 
when this is done it is not too late to sow this crop. 
Ruta-JDaijas or Swede Turnips may be sown any 
time this mouth. If possible, drill them iu imme- 
diately after 1 lie last plowing. Use plenty of seed, 
say two pounds per acre. Thin out as soon as the 
plants are iu the rough leaf. 
The Vest Remedy for the •'Fly" or Beetle is good, 
moist, mellow soil, aud a dressing of 200 lbs. of 
superphosphate of lime per acre. The latter has a 
wonderful eftect in pushing the youug plants. 
Dusting the Hants with Slaked Lime, plaster, and 
ashes in the morning, while the dew Is on, will 
check the ravages of the beetle aud otherwise 
benefit the crop. 
Air-Slaked Lime is good for this purpose, but, 
contrary to common opiniou, it is no better than 
fresh water-slaked lime — aud, in fact, if there is any 
difference, the latter is the more caustic. Three 
bushels of lime, two bushels of plaster, and ten 
hushels-of wood-ashes would be about the proper 
quantity per acre — but more will do no harm. The 
ashes must be dry, so that they will adhere to the 
leaves. If you have not ashes, put on lime and 
plaster alone. 
Killing Weeds is the great labor of the month. 
And let it be understood that uul«sa ' the 6«ason Is 
