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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Contents for August, 1873. 
— • — 
Abortion in Cowa . 297 
American Pomological Society 303 
"At Re6t " Illustrated. .281 
Bee Notes Illustrated . .288 
Blackberry and Raspberry Rust 303 
Boys and Girls' Columns — Attention, t':e Whole — 
Skeleton Leaves — Menagerie Prizes — Wood-chuck 
Trap — Aunt Sue's Puzzle-Box — Rebuses — No Thor- 
oughfare—A Rope Ferry 5 Illustrations. . 307, 308 
Broom-rapes Illustrated.. 301 
Button-hole Bouquets 3 Illustrations. .Mi 
Cancer-roots Illustrated. .301 
Cattle Supply 299 
Churn, Bullard's Oscillating Illustrated. 296 
Clod-crusher Iltust?-aled . .296 
Cockspur Thorn Illustrated. . 301 
Dairy, How to Heat One 2 Illustrations. 3OT 
Diseases of Sheep 299 
Eggs, Directions for Packing 291 
Eggs, Preservation of. 293 
Farm Work in August 282 
Fighting the Fire Illustrated. . 300 
Flower-Garden and Lawn in August 283 
Fruit Garden in August 283 
Globe-Flowers 2 Illustrations. .304 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in August. 284 
Harvesting Beans 2 Illustrations . .290 
Hedgerows, Preparing for 4 Illustrations. .295 
House 1 .old Department — Table Decoration — Home 
Tcpics — Good Yeast ami Sweet Bread — Graham 
Gems — Sour Milk as Food — Bonny-clabber or Lop- 
pered Milk— Cottage Cheese— Parents' Unions — 
Sponge Cake— Poor-Man's Cake— Aprons for Wash- 
erwomen — Wheateft Grits — Canning Green Corn 
and Peas Illustrated. . 305, 306 
Kitchen Garden in August 033 
Living Crow-Trap • Illustrated. .293 
Market Reports 2S4 
Notes from the Pines— The Drouth— Grafting Succu- 
lents—Vegetable Garden— What cmn we Sow iu 
August, ?— Patience with Seeds— Seed Boxes 302 
Ogden Farm Papers, No. 42— Mr. Robeson's Herd- 
Deep Cans — Jersey Calves — Marvelous Butter- 
Poor Farmers 292 
Orchard and Nursery in August 263 
Packing and Marketing Produce 296 
" "" " , > w ""' Illustrated. . 296 
Patrons of Husbandry 2S9 
Plan for a Fair Ground Illustrated.. 298 
Poultry, Directions for Packing 291 
Retinispora pisifera aurea 302 
Rhododendron Show 303 
Seedling -Strawberries 303 
Spanish Mackerel Illustrated.. 293 
Summer Propagation 301 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 116— The Wheat 
Crop— Taking the Risks— Good and Poor Farminc 
—Kill the Weeds— Canada Thistles— " Writing a 
Piece " on Weeds 294, 205 
Western Farming 290 
Wool and the New York Exposition and Salesroom. .290 
INDEX TO "BASKET." OR SHORTER ARTICLES. 
An Excursion 285!Limed Eg^s 287 
Apple Corer and Slicer . . 2S5 Mink 287 
287 Mules ...287 
"" N. Y. State Dairymens' 
Calendar for August 
Artificial Manure 
Bits of Talk 286 
Bony Questions 287 
CactuB in Rooms 285 
Capons and Cnponizing. .986 
Carrots for Cows 287 
Association 2S8 
Oats or Corn 287 
Oyster Shells 285 
Paying Fowls 2S7 
Chicken Catarrh 287 Planting Timber 2S7 
Chickens in Barns 288'Plants by Mail 2S5 
Chimney Decays 288iPlaster and Bone for 
Corn for Soiling 28s| Wheat 287 
Cough in Pigs 287|Preserving Eggs .....286 
Deep Milk Cans 887 [Reducing Bones 285 
Double-furrow Plows 28~iRemedv for Hoven 287 
Double Lily 286,Right Side "237 
Early Lambs 287!Rose Cuttings 285 
Eating After-birth 285 Size of a Ton of Hay.... 288 
Eggs from Sick Fowls.. ,287 : Spring or Fall Colts 287 
Fairs, Fairs 285 Sundry Humbugs 285 
Farmers' Declaration 288 
Fences and Dogs 287 
Gapes and Lice 288 
Going West 288 
Grapes in Missouri 288 
Grass for Name 288 
Grass for Orchards 285 
Gypsum Mills 285 
Horse Record 285 
Thrashing Machines 2S5 
Ungrateful Hens 287 
Variation in Peach 285 
Varieties ot Wheat 285 
Wild Onion 287 
Windmills 286 
Wolr in the Tail 287 
Writing for A ariculturist.-iSo 
Yellowstone Region £33 
Fertilizer for Wlient.— " T. G.," Kit- 
trels, N. C. There is no better manure for wheat than 
barn-yard manure plentifully applied, hut the crop is iu 
danger of being laid unices lime or salt is used in connec- 
tion with it. Where barn-yard manure is not at hand 
some special aotlve manure should be applied with the 
seed. The better the condition of the csop in the fell the 
better it will resist the changes of weather In fhe winter. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1873. 
In August, as soon as the farmer has secured his 
crops, he ought to be able to take a, T.>a,ti.,n v'o 
Viave a hard-working neighbor who was compelled 
to serve on a jury for ten days. He came back to 
his HiTin and his work as fresh as a horse that has 
had a month's run at grass. Previously he "was 
somewhat despondent. He visited his ei'.y friends, 
and found that, like himself, they were not free 
from eare and anxiety. He took courage. Lite 
assumed a more cheerful aspect. He felt healthier, 
stronger, and richer. He was more satisfied with 
his lot in life. He mowed the grass iu the front 
yard, and took mure interest in his wife's flower- 
beds. The corn and potatoes were treated to 
deeper and more thorough cultivation and au ex- 
tra heeing. Weeds were mown in the pastures, 
on the road side, and the fence corners. The suck- 
ers were stripped from the apple-trees. The cows 
were treated to a little extra food at milking time. 
Plenty of kindling was provided for the kitchen 
fire. The harness was oiled, the horses hetler 
groomed, carriages were washed, the bolts tight- 
ened, and the tires reset. On Sunday he was at 
chmrsd ten minutes before service commenced, 
aud proposed to his children to stay to Sabbath- 
school. While others had a wilted look, and when 
addressed said it was " dreadful hot," he shook 
hands heartily and said it was "charming weather." 
That ten days' rest made him ten years younger. 
He renewed his youth. He put new life and spirit 
into all the labors of the farm. He did double the 
work, and did it twice as well, and had plenty of 
time to read t lie Agriculturist through, and is 
talking about subscribing for Hearth and Ilome. 
The truth is, lie was a new man. lie had worked 
and worried himself sick. He needed rest. Needed 
intercourse witli his fellowraen. Needed to get 
his thoughts out of the ruts they had been so long 
running in. There was nothing the matter with 
his machinery. It was a liitle rusty. It needed 
cleaning aid oiling and tightening the bolts. Little 
things fret t,ed him. The failure of his wheat crop 
worried him until lie could not sleep nights. The 
thought of paying his interest on his mortgage 
threw him into a oold sweat. The low price of 
wool took away his appetite. He went to bed tired, 
and got up uurefreshed. He thought the bottom 
had fallen out of farming. He had made up his 
mind to sow nothing but Mediterranean wheat in 
future. Now he has concluded to give his fallow 
an extra plowing, to spread a little manure on it, 
and sow Dichl. lie will not leave a weed iu his 
corn field. He will ditch his low land a^d get out 
some swamp muck. He will thatch his hay-stacks. 
He will paint his implements and put up ilia 
machines. He will pickle his seed wheat to pre- 
vent smut. He will dip his sheep and lambs and 
tag them. In short, he will do, and promptly, 
whatever his judgment tells him ought to be done. 
Hints about Work. 
Modern Farming demands energetic work. We 
can not plod along iu the old beaten trod;. We 
must have our wits about us ; all our faculties 
must be bright and active. 
We mast Work Hard ; but our work need not be 
for any great length of time of the back-breaking, 
muscle-straining order. This kind of work should 
be left to those who can not do anythiug better. 
A Farmer should Study Himself. He should know 
his own strength. He can not do but a certain 
amount of work. He should he very careful not 
to waste his power. 
The Coming Farmer will require more sleep and 
better food than some of the old-school philoso- 
phers recommended. He will eat more meat, aud 
use more coffee aud less tobacco and whiskey. 
Energy is what a farmer needs. He must put 
more force, spirit, aud pluck into his work. He 
must be wideawake, and wake up those who work 
for him. 
Look Ahead. — Let the work of to-day^be well and 
promptly done ; but, at the same time, lay plans 
for to-morrow. Harvest the crops now on the 
ground, but make such preparations as will insure 
better crops next year. 
Winter Wheal needs better culture than we have 
been giving 11. We must make the land lieher, 
cleaner, ami mellower. The better the variety the 
better land and better culture will it require. 
White wheat, as a rule, requires better land than 
red wheat. Red Mediterranean is probably one of 
the hardiest varieties of winter wheat we have, and 
on poor and medium soils, with nothing more than 
ordinary cultivation, usually proves more profit- 
able than white wheat. 
Wheat after a Spring Crop, iu nine cases out of 
ten, requires manure. The best artificial manure 
for wheat is probably Peruvian guano, say 200 lbs. 
per acre, sown broadcast, and harrowed in. Nitrate 
of soda, where it can be bought for 4c. or 4}£c. 
per pound, is well worth trying, especially in con- 
nection with phosphatic guauo or superphosphate. 
Sow 100 lbs. of nitrate per acre when the wheat is 
sown, and 100 lbs. iu the spring. 
Weeds — On many farms weeds spring up iu 
wheat, barley, and oat stubbles by the million, and 
soon go to seed. It is a good plau 10 go over the 
field with a mowing machine. If the weeds are so 
far advanced that the seeds will mature after the 
plants are cut, rake them up with a wire rake and 
burn them. 
All Stubble Land not seeded down should be har- 
rowed immediately after harvest for the purpose of 
starting the weeds. Afterwards kill them with a 
plow or cultivator. 
Cultivating Com in August is one of our own 
practices which we do not indiscriminately recom- 
mend. We do it to kill weeds. We do not know 
that it benefits the corn ; we are sure it is a benefit 
to the land. It is a disgrace to have a dirty corn- 
stubble. No farmer can hope to have clean luud 
unless he has clean corn. 
Pull the Weeds out of potatoes. Let no weeds 
go to seed anywhere. 
Se-.d Over "Hints" for Last Month. The season 
Is 60 late that much July work will have to be done 
in August. 
Hay will be vmy Searee ne«t winter. In many 
