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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[May, 
Contents for May, 1872. 
Abyssinian Wart-Hog 
Apple, Mathews 
Bee Notes for May. 
Beets aud Ruta-Bagas, Tranplantiug. 
....Illustrated.. ViS 
.... Illustrated.. 182 
160 
.... Illustrated.. ISi 
Boys and Girls' Columns — Boys and Girls' Pictures — 
More Prizes Offered — Addresses Wanted — Boys and 
Girls' Bird-House — Aunt Sue's Puzzle-Box — The 
Whistle-makers 4 Illustrations . . 1ST, 1SS 
Calves, Disease in 179 
Cattle-Barn, Western Illustrated. .KB 
Cattle, Dutch or Uolsteiu Illustrated. . 161, 163 
Cattle, Polled Illustrated.. 173 
Corn, Implements for Cultivating 3. Illustrations. 17.S 
Cotswolds, Shearing Illustrated . .180 
Crossing and Hybridizing 1S1 
Evergreens for Protecting Fruit Trees 182 
Farm Work in May 103 
Flower Garden and Lawn in May 164 
Fodder-Corn, Planting 176 
Food for Pigs, Cooking 170 
Fruit Garden in May 163 
Fuchsia Culture Illustrated. . 184 
Garden-Seeds, Raising— Carrots 183 
Garden Workmen, Expert 1S-1 
Grape-Vine, Variegated Illustrated. . 1S1 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in May 164 
Harrows, About Illustrated. .172 
Horseradish, Growing 183 
Household Department — Support for Quilting-Frame — 
Hints for the Household — Odds and Ends— Home 
Topics — Economy in Furniture— Oilcloth — Moving 
Marbles and Mirrors 4 Illustrations.. 185, 186 
Ivies, Plain and Variegated Illustrated. .181 
Jerseys ill Nova Scotia 172 
Kitchen Garden in May 163 
Lawns and Grass-Plots 1S3 
Manure from different Animals, Value of 168 
Manure, How to Manage 2 Illustrations .177 
Market Reports 164 
Matbew Apple Illustrated.. 1S2 
Moles and Mole-Traps .' . Illustrated. . 169 
Notes from the Pines— Coniferous Evergreens — 
Golden Yew — Broad-leaved Evergreens — Bulbs- 
Covered Things — Herbaceous Perennials — Trial 
Things — Colacasia Esculenta 1S2 
OgdenFarm Papers, No. 23— " Gilt-edged " Butter- 
Butter Utensils— Artificial Coloring 3111.. .170, 171 
Orchard and Nursery in May 163 
Peanuts, Culture 179 
Plowing, Ridge and Furrow 178 
Post-Holes, Digging 2 Illustrations. .176 
Sawdust, How to Use 178 
Sheep, now to Dress a Illustrated. . 172 
Sheep-Rack for the Field Illustrated. . 176 
Soot as a Manure, Value of 170 
Strawberries, How Many to the Acre 1S3 
Stumps, How lo Pull Small Illustrated. .176 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, No. 101— Chemical 
Manures— Weeds — Manure — Raising Cattle — Lambs 
Merino Sheep— Keeping Mangel-Wurzels 174, 175 
Wart-Hog. Abyssinian Illustrated. .173 
Watches, How they make, at Marion 1G0 
Windmills for Farm Work Illustrated. .177 
Wool-Box, a Good 2 Illustrations. .179 
INDEX TO '•BASKET," OK SHORTER AIITICLES. 
Artesian Wells 16' 
Ashes, Wood" 167] 
Beans, Culture of 16o' 
Bricks, Efflorescence on. 166 
Broom-Corn 165 
Buck wheat Fallow 166 
Buffalo Bull-Calf lfiG 
Bull, Wants to Purchase. 166 
Oastor Pomace llil 
Cattle. Brittany 167 
Cattle, Devon 166 
Cattle, Grubs in 166' 
Cattle, Twin 167; 
Charcoal-Dust 165j 
Clover, Alsike 166: 
Compost, Clark's 166 
Concrete Buildings 167, 
Cows, Saltpeter for 167 
Cribbing, Cure for 167 
Drain-Tile or Stone !.... Ids 
Earth-Closets 167 
Farm, Six-Acre 167 
Fashions, Where they 
Come from 166 
Fits or Megrims 167 
Fowls Hating Feathers. .167 
Frnit-Trces, Washing with 
Lye 167, 
Grain, Harrowing WintcrlGG 
Grass. "Quack" 167 
Grub in the Head 167 
Horse-Hoe. Shares 167 
Horseradish 166 
Horses, Percheron 168 
Humbugs, Sundry 166 
Ice-House, Imperfect 166 
Leached Ashes and Hen- 
Manure 166 
Lime and Salt Mixture. ..167 
LimeforCorn in the Hill. 166 
Manure, How- much to 
the Acre .166 
Manures, Price of Chemi- 
cal 167 
Meadow. To Improve a.. 166 
Me?.:, !otton-scod 160 
Mulching with Wheat- 
Chaff..: 167 
Paint, Averill Co 165 
Plaster on a Meadow 160 
Plaster, Sowing 167 
Plow, What is a Jointer.. 168 
Plowing New Ground. ..165 
Potatoes after Corn 167 
Pump, a Tasteless 166 
Quinces, Manure for 166 
Roofing Material 166 
Roller. Section 165 
Saw, Lightning . 165 
Seeding to Grass after 
Corn 1C7 
Sheep, Cotswold 167 
Stock, Purchasing Impr'd. 165 
Stock. Which? 167 
Sundry Humbugs 166 
Swamp Muck, How toUse.166 
Tobacco Stems 166 
Washing, to Prevent Hill- 
sides: 167 
WetLand.To Seed Down.167 
Winter in the North-WesllliS 
Wire, Cost of Fence 166 
Calendar for May. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, MAT, 1872. 
The busy season is upon lis. On our own farm 
we find more work to do in May and October than 
nny other two mouths in t.lLC year- Alriy is pmjiliA 
tically the "seed-time," October the "harvest." 
As "we sow so shall we reap. Much of our success 
for the year will depend on our labor this month ; 
and the amount, character, efficiency, and the eco- 
nomy of our labor this month will depend very 
much on the care, forethought, and wisdom "with 
which wo have laid our plans and prepared for 
their prompt execution. This is a lesson which 
every farmer of experience has had abundant op- 
portunities to learn. He is the wise man who 
takes the lesson to heart. We can not now fully 
atone for past negligence or mistakes, but this fact 
should not discourage us. We should forget the 
things that are behind, and press forward. The 
man who never makes a mistake is to be pitied. 
The growing man, the man who is learning, the 
man who is destined to do something in the world, 
is the man who makes mistakes and profits by them. 
He tumbles down, but gets up and pushes on- 
ward. It is better to stumble than to stand still. 
Hints al>:iul M'ork. 
Take Care of your Health. — Few people realize 
what health is worth until they lose it. It is easier 
to prevent disease than to cure it. The character 
of our farming is undergoing great changes. We 
arc usiug more machinery, keeping better stock, 
raising choicer varieties of fruit, grains, potatoes, 
roots, and grasses ; are buying more or making 
better manure. Now, all this requires brains. We 
are aware that there is a great deal of nonsense 
written on this subject. But it is undoubtedly a 
fact that a man cau not long use his brain as an in- 
telligent, enterprising American farmer is now 
compelled to do, and work and worry at the same 
time, without abundance of nutritious food. If he 
undertakes to do it ou fat pork, potatoes, bread, 
and cake, his health will certainly give way. The 
American farmer of to-day needs and must have 
more fresh meat. Better patronize the butcher 
than the doctor; better sell fewer eggs and buy less 
medicine. We have heard a farmer say : " Food 
that is good enough for my men is good enough for 
inc." He may have been right. But the farmer 
who thinks and works too, needs better food and 
cooking than he who merely works with his hands. 
Doti't Take down the Stores. — Keep a fire iu the 
living room night and morning. If you have a 
good old-fashioned hearth, so much the better. 
Keep a good fire ou it. Nothiug is more pleasant 
or healthy. But do not think because you have a 
fire you must shut the doors. Iu moat localities, 
until the laud is better drained, people will suffer 
more or less from malaria, nurd work before 
breakfast should be avoided as much as possible. 
Let the Children Sleep. — Our bright, active, intelli- 
gent American boys and girls need a good deal of 
sleep. Make them go to bed early, snd then if they 
can sleep until breakfast-time let them. 
Do not Work the Sous too Hard. — Ever since boys 
were, men have been iucliued to abuse them. Aud 
the better the boy and the worse the man, the 
more likely is the boy to be "put upon." The 
poorest tools are given to him and the most dis- 
agreeable work. Did you ever know an average 
man who selected the hardest cows to milk aud 
gave the boy the easiest ? Did you ever kuow a 
man who would go for water and let the hoy sit 
down and rest in the field while he was gone? 
Lii't-Stock. — The animals on the farm need extra 
care aud attention this month, and yet, owiug to 
the pressure of other work, they arc very apt to be 
neglected. Recollect that a farmer's success de- 
pends very much ou the judgment with which he 
manages his live-stock. Almost any farmer can 
raise corn aud potatoes, but not one farmer iu ten 
has the qualities necessary to manage horses, cow6, 
sheep, and pigs to the best advantage. It requires 
good judgment, a kind disposition, promptuess, 
systematic regularity, a keen eye to detect the first 
symptoms of lameness, indigestion, want of appe- 
tite, sluggishness, waut of vigor, etc. When one 
animal is takeu sick, it should be taken for granted 
that, as a general rule, there is some defect or 
neglect iu the food or management, not only of this 
one, but or all the others. At any rate, the matter 
should be investigated. 
Indigestion. — In nine cases out of ten, especially 
with horses, sickness in animals is caused by indi- 
gestion. Waut of grooming, dirty, ill-veutilated 
stables, starving one week and over-feeding the 
next, not feeding at the regular time when on the 
road aud then giving too much grain when the 
horses arc exhausted by fasting aud labor, giving 
too much food at noon and too little time to eat it 
in, feeding immature grain and musty hay — these 
are among the causes of indigestion. 
Sheep. — Do not turn out to grass too soon ; and 
as long as the grass is succulent give a little hay. 
Milch Cows. — At tliis season grass is often too 
succulent. There is not nutriment enough iu it in 
proportion to bulk. And it will generally pay to 
give the cows iu the yard some hay to eat during 
the night, and a little "cut feed"— say one peck of 
hay and two quarts of fine middlings — the first 
thing iu the morniug. A good cow at this season 
gives a generous flow of milk, and it is unwise not 
to supply her all the food she can digest 
Horses. — When horses have been fed grain all 
winter, and have not worked regularly, it not uu- 
frcquently happens that they have little appetite as 
warm weather approaches, and when put to bard 
work on the farm lose flesh rapidly. They need a 
change of food. If it is possible, give them a few 
carrots, or, in the absence of these, a bran-mash, 
sufficient to relax the bowels. If oats have been 
fed in the winter, give a little corn iu the ear by 
way of change, varied with " cut feed," consisting 
of chaffed hay and corn-meal or fine bran, or, bet- 
ter still, oatmeal. As a rule, nothing is so good as 
oats— and this year oats arc nearly as cheap as corn. 
Barley is also cheap, and by way of a change there 
is nothing better for farm horses than boiled barley. 
Boil it until it bursts open, aud add a little salt 
and mix itwith chaffed hay. There is nothingtliat 
will fatten a horse so soon as boiled barley. 
Three-horse Teams should be used wherever pos- 
