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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[September, 
Contents for September, 1870. 
Bam— Plan for a Farmer's Barn *2 Illustrations. .336 
Bee Notes 329 
Birds— The Summer or Wood Duck Illustrated., 340 
Boys and Girls' Columns. — Different Ways of Eating 
—The Doctor's Talks— Something about Insects— 
An Old City— Rebuses 5 Illustrations. .347-348 
Broad-wheeled Wheelbarrow Illustrated. .337 
Cross-breeds and Grades Illustrated. .333 
Cure for Hard-milking Cows 2 Illustrations . . 337 
Fairs for 1870 324 
Farm Work for September 322 
Flower Garden and Lawn in September 323 
Flowers — The Elegant Humea Illustrated . .341 
Flowers— The White-spotted Calla Illustrated. .344 
Foundations for Corn Houses, etc Illustrated. .336 
Fruit Garden in September 323 
Fruit Ladders .3 Illustrations . 342 
Gardens or Greenhouses upon the Roof.. . . 3 llius. . ' "! 
Greenhouse and Window Plants in September ! 
Harvesting Corn. in Tennessee and Elsewhere 
Horse Papers for Farmers — No. 8 L-jO 
Household Department. — A Draped Center-table, or 
Stand— Nursing the Sick— The Bake-kettlc, or Skil- 
let — Something about Pickles — A Farmer's Holiday 
—Domestic Wines — About the Egg-Plant — Melon 
Mangoes— Tomato Pie 2 Illustrations . .-345-346 
In Our Garden 342 
Insects— The 12-spotted Squash-beetle. 2 Illustrations. . 343 
Kitchen Garden in September 323 
Labor-saying in Churning Illustrated. . 336 
Lawn Mowers at Home and Abroad 330 
Management of Pigs in Ohio ; ..337 
Manures in Pastures 333 
Market Reports v 324 
Native Mice Illustrated. .333 
Ogden Farm Papers. — No. 9— Soiling and Pasturing— 
The Corn Crop — Deep Plowing— Imported Sow — 
Record of Milking — Wooden Water Pipes — Farming 
at the East and West 331-332 
Orchard and Nursery in September 323 
Peach Culture: 330 
Shallots 344 
Shrubs— The Bladder Sennas Illustrated.. 341 
Spinach— The Culture of. 341 
Stallions for Common Labor 337 
Steaming Fodder for Cattle 339 
Swivel Clevis for Whiffletrees Illustrated. .337 
"The Society of Friends." Illustrated . .321 
Thirty Cowa on Twenty Acres 338 
Tim Bunker on Old Corn 339 
Tying Materials— Bear-grass Illustrated.. 344 
Walks and Talks on the Farm— No. 81— Wheat Cul- 
ture— Clover Missing — Manuring— Corn for Feeding 
Pigs— Diseases of Swine— DiehF Wheat— Thrashing 
—Apples— Cross of Essex Sow and Chester White 
Boar— Barley— Timothy— Corn Crop 334-335 
INDEX TO "'BASKET" OR SMALLER ARTICLES. 
Agriculturist Strawberry. 328 
Alders and Caraway.. ..327 
Aldlne Press -.327 
Attending the Fairs . .326 
Bark-Louse .327|Oiled Pap* 
X» "Kt—t-^n 9.111 'T». .r. nV. »..»'. 
Mammoth Cluster Rasp'y329 
Money. How to Send 326 
Naturalist's Guide 328 
Newspaper Enterprise. 
Bee-Notes 32!) 
Bl'ck-bugon Cherry-treesSSO 
Black Currants 328 
Caring Sweet. Corn 327 
Castor Pomace 329 
Catgnt 329 
Coleuees and Begonias. . .329 
Crimson Clover 327 
Catting A Cur'g Tobacco32fi 
Drying Fruit 329 
Dwarf Peaches 323 
Early Apples 329 
Eastern and Western Ag'l 
Papers 326 Sparrows. . 
Eucalyptus 327JSnmach 
Pish Ponds and Muck. . .329:Sundry Humbugs 
Flora of Colorado 32S Syrup 
Peach-trees in Baskets.. 
Pear-trees in Hot Weath'r 
Pineapple Fibre 
Plants Named 
Please Notice 
Poisoned Dogs 
Pruning Hedges 
Purification of Cisterns. 
Raw Tomatoes 
Record of Humbugs. . . . 
Root Pruning 
Salway Peach 
Soaking Grain for Pigs. 
Grape Exhibition 326 
Grass for Phi 327 
Green Corn 327 
Harper's Magazine 327 
Humbug Med. Univer. . .327 
Humming-bird Moth.... 329 
Kentucky Strawberry 329 
Lamp Screw Loose 327 
Three Mouths Free 
Tin Roof 
Trans. N. Y. State Soc. 
Upland Cranberry 
Vines on Lightning-rod 
Wheat & Coru in virg'a. 
Wild Animals in Md. 
Wild Wistaria 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1870. 
The distressing heat and dryness of the summer 
have been in a. measure relieved by the rains of Au- 
gust. Serious losses in important crops are felt by 
many farmers, and these should, by all means in 
their power, try to make good the deficiency, es- 
pecially of fodder. Hay will be high. Corn-stalks 
arc the best substitute we can get, and if these are 
well secured, we may be able to sell hay, which it 
will he quite worth while to do if we can get a suf- 
ficiently high price, and have enough -left to winter 
the stock. Farmers should contract early, if they 
can make favorable terms for feed. Bran, linseed 
and cottou-seed meal maybe bought better now 
than later. European farmers have suffered from 
the drouth more than we have ; and prices there are 
advancing, both on that account, and on account of 
the Franco-Prussian war, which, at the time we 
write, is so deeply interesting the whole civilized 
world. We shall probably soon feel the effect of 
such heavy drafts upon the productive, labor 
of both countries engaged. The crop of wheat 
is excellent, and far more than is needed in this 
country; while the amount of corn, notwithstand- 
ing the drouth, will be immense, so far as we can 
now form a judgment. It is therefore to be hoped 
that our farmers will realize good prices for those 
things which they may have iu abundance. 
September is the seventh month by name, though 
the niuth of the Calendar. It is the seventh mouth 
of plowing and sowing; the seventh of growth and 
of tillage. It is the month of golden com and 
pumpkins, of golden apples and fair pears. 'Tis 
the month of Farmer's Festivals, of Cattle and Im- 
plement Shows, where there is so much to see and 
learn that the mind wearies at the thought, as will 
also back and limbs before the days of sight-see- 
ing are over. Fairs are to be very numerous and 
very fiue this year. We have never known more 
interest manifested iu them, and the list we pre- 
pare is longer and more complete than usual. Every 
farmer should try to go with his family, and to give 
his hired men a chance besides. 
Hints about Work. 
Full Bams. — The constant destruction of grain 
and grass by a few hundred mice is enormous. As 
soou as the weather begins to cool they will come 
in from the fields and make great havoc. Several 
traps, well baited, and well watched, will thin their, 
numbers, as also those of rats and other vermin ; 
but the farmer should especially guard his premises 
from fire — which the ashes of a pipe, the end of a 
match, and many another bit of carelessness will 
easily kindle. Smokers must do their puffing, away 
from barns and woodsheds. There is no more ter- 
rible thing than afire in the country, and the in- 
surance of house, barn, and stock against it should 
never be neglected. Country insurance rates an; 
moderate, and few farmers can afford not to be 
well insured. This subject naturally suggests 
The Water Supply. — During such a drouth as we 
have had, the wells and springs have stood a severe 
test. Pumping water for cattle is hard work, but 
there are pumps which save a vast amount of labor, 
and to which a hose may be attached, and water 
thrown over garden and lawn, and over house and 
barn in ease of fire. Barns may be supplied by 
Cisterns. — If these can be placed underground, 
and at a higher point than the cattle floor, it, is a 
great convenience ; and it will pay to cany water 
several rods from the eaves to find an elevated spot. 
Draining should be in tie plan of fall work, for 
some thoroughly done every year will not be much 
felt as a heavy expense. Living springs are often 
tapped by drains, and thus a supply of water is se- 
cured at the outlet, which may be turned to good 
account. If not useful as a supply of water for the 
stock yard, it may serve a good purpose in 
Irrigation. — When grouud lies lower than an 
abundant source of water, there is no excuse for 
not irrigating. Irrigated ground must be well 
worked and drained so as not to remain water- 
soaked. When irrigation is well done, it is the 
most economical way possible of manuring grass. 
Manure. — Everything that will rot and that is not 
full of weed seed should be thrown into the hog- 
pen, or made into compost with lime or yard ma- 
nure. We prefer to subject all such material to be 
worked over by the hogs. 
Corn. — See article on p. 338 on harvesting. Com- 
Foclder must be cut before the buts become too 
hard. After drying a few days, bind in small bun- 
dles and stack up to cure. Seed-Corn should be se- 
lected now, by going through the best part of the 
field, picking out the best medium-sized, well- 
tipped-out, small-cobbed, early-maturiug ears, 
where two grow on a stalk, and tying a string a- 
ronnd them near the tip. They will be found in 
the husking and thrown aside unhusked. Do not 
select simply big ears. If the kind is good, the 
medium-sized ones perpetuate it better. 
Grass. — Manure at this season if it has not already 
been done. Leave the aftermath ; neither cut it not- 
feed it off unless it is heavy. Sow grass and clover 
on thin spots, and harrow in lightly with some 
good compost, rolling the surface afterward. 
Pastures may be laid down, sowing mixed grass 
seed with rye ; this will afford both fall and 
spring feed, and gradually give place to the grass as 
summer comes on. 
Potatoes. — If the ground is needed for winter grain, 
dig early ; otherwise, dig for market, if a good price 
is offered, or leave in the ground until cool weather. 
It is slow work to dig potatoes, and a novice will 
seldom allow time enough. 
Boots. — Weeds should be kept out of root crops 
to the last. Hoeing does almost as much good now 
as earlier in the season ; but must be done so as not 
to hurt the wide-spreading leaves. 
Cabbages are greatly benefited by hoeing ; and if 
it can be dene, it will surely pay to take any kind 
of liquid manure to the field in barrels or hogs- 
heads, furnished with spigots, so that pails or 
watering-pots may be filled and each plant given a 
good soaking once or twice a week. A good way- 
is to make a hole with a dibble near the plant 
and pour the liquid into that. 
Buckwheat must be cut before frost. It is not 
worth while to risk much after some of the grains 
are ripe ; the immature ones will ripen out after 
cutting, and if it stands too long, it will shell out 
