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Contents for June, 1870. 
Beo Notes— By M. Quinby 20S 
Bii'ds— Great Northern Shrike, or Butcher-bird. . . 111. .220 
Boys and Girls' Columns.— A Rustic Bird-cage— Tho 
Zebu or Brahmin Bull— Chinese Kite Flying, by 
"Carleton" — Winning his Plumes — Puzzles— An- 
swers 5 Illustrations. . 227-22S 
Butter— Prize Essay on Making and Packing 21S-219 
Celory Culture — By Peter Henderson 221 
Classification of Breeds of Fowls 21S 
Brassing and Cutting up Mutton 2 Illustrations. .216 
Early Mado Hay 217 
Farm Work in June 202 
Fence Posts for Heavy Land 3 Illustrations . .216 
Fencing Across Streams Illustrated.. 216 
Fire Hotbeds 223 
Flower Garden and Lawn in June 204 
Fruit Garden in June 203 
Garden Refuse 222 
Green-house and Window Plants in June 204 
Hints on House-keeping Conveniences S IHus.. 203 
Horse Papers for Farmers — No. 5 210 
Household Department. — An Aquarium — The New 
Baby and its Mother— How to Cook Green Peas — 
Strawberry Short-cake— Lyonnaise Potatoes— Can- 
ned Rhubarb 6 Illustrations. . 223-226 
Inarching the Grape-vine 2 Illustrations.. 223 
Jasmine-like Bouvardia Illustrated.. 221 
Kitchen Garden in June 203 
Large-leaved Saxifrages Illustrated.. 221 
Marketing Butter 5 Illustrations . .217 
Market Reports. 204 
Maze at Central Park Illustrated. .224 
Notes from the Pines — Climbing Shrubs — Perpetual 
Spinach Beet — External Appearances — Wooden Hay 
Rske— Winter Decoration of Gardens 222 
Ogden Farm Papers. — No. 6 — Corn for Soiling — More 
Land — High Farming — Deep Plowing — Thomas' 
Harrow — Manure 211-212 
Opium Culture 3 Illustrations. . 22i 
Orchard and Nursery in June 203 
Our Native Frogs Illustrated.. 213 
Prairie Apple or Pomme Blanche Illustrated.. 213 
Preparation of Tobacco Land 218 
President Wilder and Chas. Downing Strawberries... 223 
Pruning Evergreens 224 
Put in Roots 218 
Scarlet Crassula Illustrated.. 224 
Seeds of Perennials 234 
Sheep Dippiug to Destroy Ticks and Scab i lllus . .112 
To Prevent Birds Pulling Corn 220 
Wagon Tail-board Fastenings 2 Illustrations. . 217 
Walks and Talks on the Farm— No. 78 — Fatality 
Among Pigs — Care of Horses — Inefficient Imple- 
ments — Feeding Horses in Summer — Cotswolds and 
Merinos — A Virginia Run-down Farm — Advice to 
Beginners — Raising Beans — Phosphate — Crossing 
Merino Ewes with Xong-wooled Rams 214-215 
What Flowers will Grow in the Shade? 223 
INDEX TO tl BASKET" OR SMALLER ARTICLES. 
Calendar for June. 
Advice 
Am. Entomologist 
Apples for Northern la. .207 
Bark-louse 207 
Bees and Fruit 209 
Bedding for Cattle 207 
Black Ants 207 
Botanical Microscope.. .207 
Bugs onVines 207 
Butter Packing 209 
Canaille 207 
Chinese Primroses 207 
Horticultural School 206 
How many Beans? 209 
Insects on Cabbages 207 
Let Poisons Alone 206 
Lightning-Rods 204 
Maple Sugar 209 
Minn. Hort. Society 207 
Mr. Cameron's Horses ..206 
Paradise Apple Seed.. ..207 
Patrons of Husbandry. . . 206 
Peach Culture 206 
Plant Named 207 
Chocolate Corn 209 Pinning a Young Orch'd.207 
Cider for Vinegar 207: Raising Ducks.'. Ill 209 
Cooking Fodder 209 Red Spider on Fuchsias. 207 
Cranberry Culture 209; Rock-Work 209 
Cucumbers 207 
Currant Caterpillars 207 
Cut Feed 207 
Draining Ponds 204 
"Eating a Mandarin. "..206 
Farm Windmills 210 
First Book of Botany. . . .209 
Fruit-Pre6erving Powdei-207 
Grain Crops 209 
Rose Oil 207 
Salt and Lime Mixture. .209 
Seeds don't Come Up 207 
Southern Agriculturist.. 207 
Spring Water for Ponds. 210 
Steaming Com for Pigs.. 209 
Strawberry and its Cnl'e.206 
Strawberry Exhibition. .206 
Suffolk Co. Hort.Exhib'n206 
Grape Queries 209 Sundry Humbugs.. . .206 
Grinding Scythes. . . .111. .209 Tobacco Smoke for Stu»ep 
Grabs in Lawns 207 
Gum for Postage Stamps207 
Harris on the Pig 206 
Herbaceous Pseonies 207 
Ticks HI 207 
Typographical 206 
Vermin on Cows 207 
Who Buys an Am.Watch?209 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1870. 
Farmers who have their work properly planned 
and laid out, will find little tinic for reading;. We 
would remind those who look to ns for hints, 
that the moist and fertile soil, as it warms under 
the summer sun, will give life to thousands of 
weeds, which must be despatched noio, in their seed- 
leaf and tender beginning, or day by day the labor 
of subduing them will be increased. Procure early, 
suitable implements for all farm work, and keep 
tools sharp and clean. Sets of duplicate tools to 
supply the places of those particularly liable to be 
broken are of great service. 
Hints .Vlxmt Work. 
Clean out the Barns. — This is the only time in the 
whole year when the barns may be emptied of every 
thing. It is barn-cleaning time as much as April is 
house-cleauing time. If you have several tons of 
old hay, let it alone — but if the mows and bays are 
pretty low, make a clean sweep, and see the poles 
and timbers everywhere. Most of the stock are 
then in the pastures, and stable floors can be lift- 
ed and examined. Timbers may be decaying, and 
should be reuewed. Accumulations will almost 
surely be found tinder the floors and near the 
timbers which may soon cause decay unless re- 
moved, and which will be valuable additions to the 
compost heap. Soou the hay will be coming in ; 
and so this work must be done betimes. Store old 
hay and straw where they can be conveniently got 
at after the barns are full. 
Rainy-day Work. — Other work for rainy days is 
mending rakes, horse-rakes, and forks — fitting up 
the hay-rigging for the waggons ; examining and 
putting the mowing machines in order. The clover 
will be fit to cut before we are ready for it — it al- 
most always is. 
Compost for Grass Land. — As soon as the hay is 
off, is the best time to put on manure. A good 
fine compost containing, say, six loads of yard ma- 
nure and ten of muck to the acre, with a few bush- 
els of ashes and some plaster, having been wetted 
a few times with barn-yard liquor and turned and 
mixed well, will make the second crop of clover 
fairly jump, and produce good rowen. 
Indian Corn. — It depends upon the weather of 
the last of May whether we are able to get the bulk 
of the corn crop well plauted and hoed once before 
this month comes in. In fact, half the crop is often 
planted in June. It never begins to grow much 
until hot weather; and so the first week in June is 
not too late for a good crop. Use early sorts so as 
to avoid damage from early frosts. Soak corn for 
late planting, tar it, and roll in plaster. Hoe as far 
as possible with horse-power, employing boys togo 
through and hand-pull weeds. Horse-hoes for two 
horses, having a seat for the driver, make this labor 
comparatively light; the work is much better 
done than formerly, and corn maybe oftener tilled. 
Totatoes are greatly benefited by stirring and 
loosening the soil between the rows. Hilling 
should never be done after the plant is 8 inches 
high, as it causes additional tuber-bearing roots to 
be thrown out, and hence two or more crops of po- 
tatoes of inferior size. Take out grass and weeds 
close to the plants by hand. 
Pasture-land. — Top-dress with plaster, leached or 
quick ashes, bone-dust, or any hand manure. 
Bone-dust 3 bushels, wood-ashes (quick) 4 to 6 
bushels, plaster 1 bushel, makes an admirable top- 
dressing for any kind of grass land. It is excellent 
also for potatoes and for corn. If it stand three 
weeks, and is well shoveled over two or three 
times, it is much improved. Take the stock off 
top-dressed land until after a soaking rain. 
2[oioing-land. — Early in the month go through 
the grass after a rain, and pull docks and other 
coarse weeds. Only a careful man should be trust- 
ed to do this work ; boys are not careful enough 
nor strong enough ; and with the best will, will tug 
and strain at a big root and trample dowu a square 
yard of grass. Begin mowing as soou as the clover 
blossoms, and before the ox-eyes are ont. When 
the latter abound, the grass should be cut before 
they come into full blossom, as fewer seeds will 
mature, audthe hay from them will be much better. 
If the weather be favorable, and the grass light, that 
cut with a machine after 5 P. M., may be put iu 
windrows before 12 o'clock the next day, and got in 
the same afternoon, without turning or shaking 
out, and make almost first quality hay. Heavy 
clover may be cut at evening or after the dew is 
off in the morning, and be tossed and tedded con- 
stantly until it can be raked up, say 2 o'clock, then 
put in cocks ; shaken out by 9 or 10 the next day, 
tossed and turned repeatedly, and secured iu the 
afternoon. Clover hay ought not to be too dry, and 
should either be cured in masses or kept warm either 
by its own heat, which is apt to go too far, or by con- 
stant airing and sunning. In " catching weather " 
JTay Caps are often-exceedinglv useful, paying for 
themselves by shielding the hay from a single storm. 
The best size is probably 4H' feet square. 
Salting Hay. — Six quarts of fine salt to the ton are 
about right, and will go far towards preventing 
must} - mows. If the hay (clover) is very green, 12 
quarts to half a bushel are sometimes applied. This 
may be, however, too much for the good of the 
stock, unless they have other hay at the same time. 
3Iounng Machines and horse-rakes are indispensa- 
ble adjuncts to meadow farming. The horse-fork 
is nearly as important, and the Tedder is fast assert- 
ing its claims. Bullard's tedders of this season, 
we think, surpass those previously introduced in 
strength, handiuess, and ease of draft. 
Field Beans. — Get them in as early as the ground 
can be well prepared. The Marrow is the favorite 
kind in market. The Blue-pod docs better for later 
planting ; and where corn has missed, or as a " sto- 
len crop" with corn. The little Pea- bean is al- 
ways salable. See Basket item for quantity of seed 
per acre of each kind. 
Pumpkin and Squash seed may be planted early in 
the month, best by themselves ; but if among corn, 
give a little extra manure. 
Corn Fodder. — Sow as directed in last month's 
Basket for succession of green forage or for drying. 
Forage Crops. — Nothing produces better green or 
dry fodder than Indian corn ; but this requires a 
soil in good heart. Millet or Hungarian grass may 
bo sown upon light, clean land, with a dressing of 
