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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[November, 
Contents for November, 1872. 
Amaranth, Willow-leaved 421 
Artichokes, Jerusalem - 419 
Boys and Girls' Columns— Our Guessing School— 
What I know about Skates— Are Tou ready for Win- 
ter?— Auut Sue's Puzzle-Box— Making Shadows 
Illustrated., 4Z7, 428 
Bulls, Two Jersey Illustrated.. 411 
Bulls, Why Thorough-bred are Vicious 418 
Cold-Frames, Thawing and Freezing »f 423 
Farm-Level Illustrated. .418 
Farm Work in November 402 
Fish-Scrap or Guano 419 
Flower Garden and Lawn in November 404 
Flowers Lyon's Turtle-Head Illustrated. AH 
Flowers,' Prince's Feather Illustrated. .431 
Flowers, Sage, White Scarlet 431 
Forests, Our.. 
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Fruit Garden in November 403 
Grapes at the Pines 433 
Greenhouse tnd Window Plants in November 404 
HousehoU Department- White Wire-Ware-Home 
Topics-A Little Rest-Good Books for Mothers- 
Underclothing for Cold Weather-Squirrel Stews- 
Chicken-Stufflng— Thanksgiving-Day, How Shall we 
Keep— Chopped Pickle— Smoky Paper-Iiangings, 
to Clean— Straw Matting, to Wash-Roots 
4 Illustrations.. 435, 436 
Kitchen Garden in November...... ..........403 
Manger for Stalls or Stables, Movable Illustrated. . 416 
Market Reports : 404 
Milk and Butter, Turnip Flavor in 415 
Milk, Two Cents a Quart .411 
Notes from the Pines— Melons — Strawberries — Cen- 
tanrea Clementii— Brackets— Arundo Donax— Sow- 
ing Seeds— Sowing-Board— Making Drills— Choyote 
-Grapes . 
43-2 
Ogden Farm Papers. No. 34— Buying Hay— Fattening 
%hoats— Abortion iu Cows— Grass— Visitors— Writ- 
ing Letters ■ «1,413 
Orchard and Nursery for November 4W 
Pastures, Old or New ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ - ■ 413 
Pear, Muskingum 2 Illustration! (..424 
Pigs, Chin»se Illustrated. A\Z 
Pigs on Hotel Refuse, Keeping . . ... . . . .413 
Pipes and Tiles, Cement Z Illustrations . 417 
Plum, Beach or Sand Illustrated. .424 
Potato-Rot 4 Illustrations.. 422 
Roots, Preserving 423 
Seeds, Hardness of Tropical ...... ......423 
Sheep, East Indian and Gibraltar Illustrated.. 413 
Sheep, Winter- Feeding for 2 Illustrations. .416 
Sleds, Lock for J £}' st '' a ' e( i-^ 
Turkey, The Thanksgiving Illustrated. .419 
Walks and Talks on the Farm, N«x 107— Drilling 
Corn— Thorough Tillage— Summer Fallow— Weeds 
—Wheat Midge— Wheat— Mustard— Meat 414,415 
What is a Chromo 410 
Who We Are and what We Do 410 
INDEX T9 "BASKET," OK SHOKTEK ARTICLES. 
Agricultural Labor 437; Jersey Cattle Club 407 
A?ricult'l Paper Wauted.437j JerseyHerd-book.Vol. 11.409 
Apiculturist and Floral Kerosene Oil and Lamps.409 
lQ a i ae 409;Leaves, Gather 405 
Apple or Quince ? 437'Lemon and Orange-trees. 409 
Apple' Seed 409iLightBrahmas and Heavy 
Blackb'ries as Snbstitute406 1 Eggs 407 
Blackberries, White 406;Lime, How to Use 407 
Blunt's Mushr'm-StrainerlOo Live-f»r-Ever 40o 
Bonedust for Meadow.. . .407 Many Matters 40o 
Bridgeman'3 Gardener's Milk, Concerning 437 
Assistant - 407 Mulberry-tree, Wants a. . .406 
Bronchitis 407iMusliroom Culture 405 
Butter, Regarding 407iN. J. State Fair 4to 
Cattle Disease inEngland409 N. Y. Stato Fair. . . 
Cattle, Value of Choice.. 409 
Cherry, Mahaleb 406 
Cider, Keeping Sweet.. .409 
Comfrey 407 
Concrete Builder, Practi- 
cal 406 
North Pacific Railroad.. .405 
Now for Congress 406 
Nuts from Rusty Bolts, 
To Remove 409 
Orcli ard Grass and Clover407 
Ozone and Plants 406 
Calendar for November. 
Cow Leaking Milk 406 Pictures, Value of Large 
Cow To Dry a 407 and Small 437 
Cracked Hoof 407 ! Pink Katydid 409 
CroDS Rotation of 407'Plants Named 406 
-"« PlowingTwice forWheat.409 
Potato-bug Destroyer 407 
Potato Disease 406 
Potatoes, Diseased 405 
Poultry Houses 407 
Puff-ball, Giant 409 
Records of the Weather.. 405 
Rose, a Fine White 406 
' Death in the Pot " 409 
Death of J. C. Thompson406 
Directory, A Novel 405 
Discovery, An Old 405 
Double Fruits . .406 
Ducks, Aylosbury 405 
Engines, Road and Farm 406 
English Persistence 406 Salt as a Fertilizer 4o7 
Farmer a Despondent. ..407;Shares Harrow.Toeth for.437 
Farmers' Clubs 407|Sheep, Catarrh in . . . . . .437 
Farming on Ten Acres. .437!Sheep-TicksCar.Acidfor409 
Fence, Another Patent. . . 437 Soiling.To Prepare for. . . 407 
Fly- Antidote, Agreeable.406 Stamps, No more 405 
Fodder-Cutters 437 Starch Factories 437 
German Almanac 405 SteamFarming and Crops409 
Grapes, Fall or Spring Steel Engravings and 
Plantin<»of 409 Lithographs 405 
Grass for Wet Meadows.. 406, Stock- Breoders'Convcn, .405 
Green Zinnia 409] Strawberries, Upright. ..409 
Guann— Is it Injurious?. 409| String of Questions. ...406 
Hand-Glasses 409 Stumps, Blasting 437 
Hickory and Chestnuts. .409 Summer Fallows 407 
Hoo-s inEng. and U. S...407 Sundry Humbugs 405 
Horse Education 407 The Flower-Garden 409 
Horse and Cattle Powder.409| Turnip-fly ,Destroy'g.the. 406 
Horse-power? What is a.409i University of Miss 437 
Horses, Clydesdale 437 Vienna Exposition 406 
Horse' sFoot.Disease of a.407 Walnuts, Persian 406 
Horses, Slobbering in. ..409 What is the Matter? 437 
Hort.Soc NewburghBay.437lWb.eat, Improved Sorts. .437 
Bow to Preserve Sheep. .409 Wheat or Oat-Chaff 437 
loe-plant, Vareigated. . . ,406|White Browallia 409 
Irrigating, Power for. . . .407 Willowrpoles for Raftens.407 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1872. 
Winter is rapidly approaching. What we do 
must be done quickly. The days are getting 
shorter and shorter, and the weather colder and 
more uncertain. November on the farm seems to 
an outsider a dreary month. A city -visitor won- 
ders what pleasure we can find in such a life. He 
is glad to get back to the gas-lit streets and the 
warm and cosy rooms of his city home. Sitting 
in his comfortable chair, by a bright open fire, in a 
well-furnished library, reading the evening paper 
or talking with his friends, he may well be excused 
for congratulating himself that he is not a farmer. 
From his stand-point, farm-life seems dull, and 
dreary, and dirty ! He forgets that the faithful 
performance of duty gives happiness. The farmer 
has plenty of work to do. And he finds pleasure 
in doing it Digging potatoes and putting them in 
the cellar is dirty work. A farmer, with his panta- 
loons stuck iu his boots, walking through a muddy 
barn-yard, or milking in the rain, is not an attrac- 
tive picture. Carrying swill to the pigs is not an 
ennobling occupation. It is no use to deny it. 
But we have known politicians to do dirtier work 
with less benefit to themselves and the country. 
Farmers should guard against plodding. Let us 
work when we work. Let us put spirit and force 
and energy and thought into all that we do. Let 
us study to economize labor— to apply it to the 
best advantage. Let us discipline ourselves. 
There is much in a farmer's life to call out all the 
best, highest, aud noblest faculties of our nature. 
It has been truly said that no one can succeed as a 
breeder unless he is a gentleman. And it is no less 
true that to attain the highest success a farmer 
must be a man. The field that demands the most 
attention is himself. Ho should aim to root out 
every had habit, and to develop every manly 
quality. He must be prompt, regular, systematic, 
thoughtful, energetic, industrious, orderly, kind, 
not easily provoked, temperate in all things, econo- 
mical, hopeful, and patient. 
We are very sure that there is no occupation 
more useful and honorable than agriculture, and 
none in which there are more frequent opportuni- 
ties for the cultivation of every noble faculty. 
Hints about Work. 
It is a good plan to write down a list of every- 
thing that has to be done before winter sets in 
on the farm, in the garden, in the orchard, in the 
wood lot, in the barns, sheds, horse and cow sta- 
bles, corn-house, piggery, hen-house, cellars, etc., 
etc. Consult with the members of your family 
and the hired help ou the subject. Encourage 
them to give an opinion as to the best way of doing 
the work and how long it will take. Go as much 
as possible into details — especially im regard to th« 
implements, tools, etc., that will be needed. 
TRW to do first is an important question, and 
should have careful consideration. Tou must take 
the uncertainty of the weather into account, and 
aim to plan so that whether it is wet or dry, cold 
or warm, there shall he no loss of time aud no loss 
of or injury to crops. It shows bad planning to 
husk corn in the barn during warm, dry weather, 
and afterwards to dig potatoes in a snow-storm. 
The Most Important Work for the month is the 
care and management of animals. In our anxiety 
to push forward the labor of gathering and secur- 
ing the crops we too often neglect to give that daily 
attention to our live-stock, on which so much of 
the loss or profit of farming depends. 
Horses. — Avoid as far as possible exposing horses 
to storms. When on a journey aim to feed at the 
regular hour. If nothing more can be done, take 
along some corn-meal and put a quart in a pail of 
water, and stir it up while the horse is drinking. 
It will greatly refresh and strengthen him. Many 
horses suffer from dyspepsia, and one great cause 
of it is irregularity iu feeding and giving too much 
grain when the horse is fatigued. When a horse 
has been exposed to a storm, and comes home in 
ah exhausted condition, give him a warm bran- 
mash. Put two or three quarts of bran in a pail, 
aud pour on two or three quarts of boiling water 
and stir it up. Then add cold water sufficient to 
cool it to the temperature of new milk, and give it 
to the horse. Blanket the horse and nib his head, 
ears, and legs dry, and afterwards rub him dry all 
over. Many an attack of colic would be avoided 
by these means. We think many farmers err in not 
feeding their horses more grain. It would be better 
to work harder, or at least more constantly, and 
feed higher. Of one thing we are very sure : not 
one farmer in ten grooms his horses sufficiently. 
It is a shame to a man to leave a horse at night, after 
a hard day's work, until he has been rubbed clean, 
dry-bedded, and all his wants attended to. 
Corns. — During storms cows are far better in a 
dry stable or shed than in the field. A little extra 
feed in the shape of corn-fodder, hay, bran, or corn- 
meal will prove very profitable. It is a good plan 
to flesh up a cow at this season. You will get it 
back again in milk next spring and 6ummer. 
Young Cattle should be liberally fed and pro- 
vided with comfortable quarters. It pays to give 
a growing animal all the food it can eat and digest. 
Sheep. — There is nothing 60 essential to the health 
of sheep as dryland, shelter from storms, and fresh 
air. Low, wet land, dirty yards, and close, damp 
quarters are fatal to their health and vigor. In dry 
weather, no matter how cold it may be, sheep are 
better in the field, but during storms they should 
be brought into the yards, and kept dry. If they 
do not go under cover of their own accord, they 
should b» driven in and shut up until the 6torm is 
over. Animals do not always know what is best 
for them. " Nature " is all very well, but reason, 
observation, and experience are far better. But we 
repeat that the shod or barn must be dry, clean, 
and well ventilated. At this season of the year 
grass is often too succulent and deficient in nutri- 
ment, and it is very desirable to give sheep access 
to good hay, and half a pint of grain each per day, 
or a pint of bran, can often be fed to great profit. 
Long-teod and South-Down Sheep, which grow 
