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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[August, 
Contents for August, 1870. 
Achyranthes Lindenii 303 
After Haying • 293 
Bee Notes— By M. Quinby 289 
Bowman's Root, or Indian Physic Illustrated.. 301 
Boys and Girls' Columns.— The Latest Street Toy— 
Among the Spice Islands— About Puzzles and Re- 
buses— A Snako Levee — The Book of Life— Going 
into the Country — Taken at his Word — Answers 
2 Illustrations. . 307-303 
Camellias in Window Culture ■. 302 
Cotswold Sheep in their Fleeces Illustrated. 281 
Cows— How often do they Drink ? 2 Illustrations . . 296 
Cranberry Culture 3 Illustrations. .302 
Crimson Clover Illustrated. . 297 
Currants . . 301 
Farm Work in August .2S2 
Field Culture of Sage 303 
Flower Garden and Lawn in August 2S3 
Flowers— A Native Crinum Illustrated. . 303 
Frnit Garden in August 283 
Grazing Mutton Sheep 299 
Green-house and Window Plants in August 284 
Harvesting Pea-nuts 289 
Horse Papers for Farmers — No. 7 290 
Household Department. — Bottling and Corking— 
About Keeping Cool — Poisonous Hair-Dyes and 
Cosmetics— Cooking Tomatoes — Graham Mush — 
How to use Canaille — Hints on Cooking, etc 
G Illustrations. .305-306 
House— Plans for one Costing $2,200 to $3,000..4/ta.2SS 
Kitchen Garden in August 2S3 
Left-handed Plows 299 
Market Reports 284 
Mezquit Tree Illustrated. .301 
Ogden Farm Papers.— No. 8— The Corn Crop— Soiling 
— Milk Record — Deep and Shallow Plowing — High 
price of Jersey Cattle — Mare Failiug to get with 
Foal 291-292 
Orchard and Nursery in August 233 
Realizing an Ideal 299 
Returning from the Hunt Illustrated . .300 
Rye Crop— Its Profitableness 297 
Sea-Otter Illustrated . .293 
Stocking Large Ponds with Fish 29S 
Strawberries — Notes on New Varieties. 4 Illustrations. 304 
Sulphur for Mildew 303 
Tobacco in August. 2S9 
Twelve-spotted Squash Beetle Illustrated. . 302 
Uses of Salt-Marsh Sod 293 
Vitality and Propagation of the Scab-Mite 298 
Walks and Talks on the Farm— No. 80— Advice to a 
young Tennesseean — An Englishman's Experience — 
Farming is Hard Work — Lawes & Gilbert's Experi- 
ments in Sheep Feeding 294-290 
Warbles, ((Estrm bovis) 2 Illustrations.. 290 
Water— Management of Flowing Water 3 lllus..Wi 
White Whale, or Beluga Illustrated. . 293 
i;n}EX to "basket"' on smaller articles. 
Arbor Vitres .' 2.85 
Artists 286 
Ashes vs. Guano. 287 
August Butter 287 
Budding 286 
Cabbages, Am. &Foreign£85 
Cabbage Trouble 287 
Characteristics of Amer 
Horticulture 235 
Churns 287 
Colorado Potato Beetle . . 237 
Constitution of Ag'l and 
Hort'l Societies 287 
Cows Holding up Milk. .28' 
Cranberries upon Upland287 
Crops in Illinois 285 
Destroying Persimmons. 287 
Fairs.! 285 
Fallen Apples 2S7i 
Fine Hollyhocks 2S6 
Fleas upon Dogs 2S7 
Forcing Asparagus 2S6 
Four-leaved Clover 2S5 
Geranium Sporting 285 
Herstine's Raspberries.. 286 i 
Implement Trial 285 
Importation ot" Animals. 286 
Industrial Exhibition 287 
Is Red Clover Poison ? . .289 
Labor from Castle Gard'n287 
Large Box-tree 286 
Meehan's Nursery 
Mice or Moles? 
Minks 
Money, How to Remit. . 
Mr. Drcer's Establishing 
New York Papers 
N. Y. State Fair 
N. Y. State Poultry Soc. 
Oats Cured as Hav. 
Old Seeds 
Onion Seed 
Patented Articles. . 
Pear Blight 
Plants Named 
Pomologists in Cal. 
Potatoes from Seed 
Pres't Wilder Strawberry 
Purification of Cisterns. . 
Self-milking Cows 
Slugs and Striped Bugs.. 
Spurrcy 
Sundry Humbugs.. 
Superphosphate Recipe.. 
Swamp Meadow Parings 
Tan for Hot-beds 
The Season & the Crops. 
Tobacco in Conn 
Turnip Fly 
Vinegar Making 
What Shall he Plant ? . . . 
Wild Lilies 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW TORK, AUGUST, 1870. 
Relief from the hardest of the summer labor and 
care comes to almost every farmer in August. Af- 
ter spring grains are harvested, and the buckwheat 
and turnips are sown, and the latter hoed and thin- 
ned out,and the early apples are marketed, and prep- 
arations are made for winter wheat, though still 
there is work enough for his men and teams, he 
has time to draw a long breath and look about a 
little. Even the farmer may take .his family for a 
visit to a neighboring county, to the springs, or to 
the sea-side ; and some are "wise enough to do it. 
The good it does cannot be measured. If it took 
every cent of the profits of the entire year it would 
often pay. Who knows when this incessant drive 
and worry, which seems to be the very life of many 
farmers, and into which they inconsiderately force 
their poor, work-worn partners, will end in a fit of 
sickness or in the quiet of the church-yard ? Bet- 
ter rest, and enjoy life a little, now and then. — You 
will enjoy the final rest as well, and add essentially 
to the grand sum total of human happiness. 
SSints sil>ow* Work. 
Buckwheat. — If any is to be sown so late as this, 
it should be put in at once. Excellent crops are 
often raised, but there is considerable risk of early 
frost. However, taking one year with another, it 
is generally successful ; and the finest, plumpest 
grain in our experience fills during the cool nights 
which threaten frost but do not bring it. Farther 
south there is little or no risk of this sort, Buck- 
wheat for green manure will make a good growth, 
sown as late as the 15th. 
Turnips. — Quick growing varieties, known as 
Common, English, or Sweet turnips, may be sown 
up to (he 10th, and will give good returns, espe- 
cially if in drills, with a little superphosphate 
or bone-dust sown upon them. If the crop is put 
in in a small way, mark ontthe land, sow the seed, 
1 pound to the acre, cover very lightly and sow 
150 to 200 pounds of superphosphate of lime upon 
the drill either by hand or with the seed drill. If 
the seed drill be used, the manure must be sifted 
through a coarse sieve. It is, as a rule, too late for 
Ruia-bagas to do anything. 
Tobacco. — This season is a critical one with the 
tobacco plant, and special care is required in top- 
ping and worming, and great injury often comes 
from hail or high winds, which cannot be guarded 
against. See article on page 2S9, on Tobacco. 
Soot Crops may be hoed aud thinned where nec- 
essary. At all events, keep the weeds down and 
the ground mellow. A one-horse subsoil plow 
run between the rows of carrots, mangels, ruta- 
bagas, and parsnips, is often of great service in 
loosening the ground, admitting air and moisture. 
Corn Fodder. — It is important when corn, sown 
for fodder, gets its full growth, and is sweet, succu- 
lent, and tender, that it should be cut and cured be- 
fore it gets the toughness which comes on after the 
ears begin to fill ; bind in small bundles, and stook. 
Winter Wlieat. — The preparation of the land for 
winter wheat was discussed in the " Hints about 
Work," for July, and this covered a good deal to 
he done in August. If wheat follows spring oats 
or barley, either plow shallow and work the sur- 
face with harrows or cultivators to keep it loose, 
and to kill the weeds, and plow in a dressing of good, 
fine compost, just before sowing in September, or 
plow in a dressing of manure of a little coarser char- 
acter, as soon as the oats or barley are off. Work 
the surface over to kill weeds and make it mellow, 
two or three times, according to the weather, and 
drill in the seed without plowing again. Wheat 
may be sown the last week in August, in many lo- 
calities, with the best results ; but it is usually best 
to give a little more time to the tillage, and not to 
sow before September. There is a very great dif- 
ference in land, and the same treatment will not 
do for all ; but any land that will bear a crop of 
weeds will stand a good deal of surface tillage. 
The small grains require manure near the surface, 
and deep plowing is rarely desirable ; and hence 
the great value of Shares' harrow, which acts like 
a series' of little plows each turning a neat furrow. 
Grain and May Slacks and Protection. — It is better 
to put hay and grain under a roof than to make 
stacks, but those who have not room in the barns 
must stack their crops. Stacks will settle, however 
well built, and rarely settle evenly. We like the 
Dutch four-post barrack with its thatched or board 
roof, very well, though heavy and cumbrous. It 
protects the contents sufficiently, and may be put 
up in a hurry. The system of making long, nar- 
row heaps, and setting crotched posts at the sides 
with poles between them, upon which 13-foot 
boards may be laid to make a roof, is not so good ; 
for the center of the roof needs support which it is 
difficult to give, and the hay, etc., is more exposed 
on one side. If a permanent roof is to be made it 
is best to give it a double pitch. 
Straw. — The great and increasing value of straw 
at the East, and wherever paper is made, is leading 
fanners at the West more and more to save it in 
better order. Powerful presses will put a ton of 
straw into as small bulk as is desirable for railroad 
transportation; that is, it is found to be undesira- 
ble to put more than 10 to 12 tons in a common 
freight car, and one will hold this quantity of hard- 
pressed hay or straw. 
Top-dressing Grass. — Sow grass and clover seed 
where the sward is thin through winter-killing or 
burning, and put on as liberal a top-dressing of 
good compost or tolerably well-rotted yard manure 
as yon can afford. We hardly dare to set a limit 
to the profitable application of manure to the 
grass crop. With manure enough we do not 
doubt a heavy crop might be cut in June, Au- 
gust, and October, where now we cut but once. 
After-math hay, or rowen, is rarely or never cut on 
most farms, so far as our observation goes. 
Irrigation. — Whoever has brooks or springs 
which may he led in small streams over grass land, 
ought not to neglect doing it. One properly irri- 
gated acre is worth two or three dry acres ; and the 
art of thorough irrigation and the best way to man- 
age the water is easily learned. 
Work in the Swamps. — Ditching so that muck 
may be got at, clearing swamp land, and similar 
work can often be done during the bight of the dry 
weather of summer, when men and teams can go 
