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Contents for June, 1867. 
Abortion in Cows 513 
Agricultural Colleges, Labor in 217 
Apiary for June 204 
Astilbe, Variegated .Illustrated.. 219 
Barn Plans 2 Illustrations.. 214 
Basket Making 4 Illustrations.. 215 
Bedding Plants 221 
Black Snake Illustrated. .215 
Bones for Manure 213 
Boys and Girls' Columns— The Doctor's Talks— Do 
Cats Love Music— Respect the Aged— Baby Xed— A 
Pattern Building— Puzzles aud Problems— The First 
Lesson— Spanish Puzzle . . : 7 Illustration s. .225-226 
Breeding 216 
Cats, Horticultural Value of 219 
Chicken Snake Illustrated. . 211 
C'oid Grapery in June 204 
Decrease of Population in Agricultural District; 217 
Dutchman's Pipe Illustrated . .222 
Encourage the Boys 217 
Farming. Good and Bad 217 
Farm Work in June 202 
Fashion Gossip ~ 224 
Firewood on the Prairies 217 
Flower Garden and Lawn in June 204 
Flower Garden Experience 221 
Folding Fleeces Illustrated. .215 
Fremqntia Californica Illustrated. .218 
Fruit Critic Criticised 221 
Fruit Garden in June 203 
Carden Irrigation 220 
Garden Toad Illustrated. .211 
Grape Trellis 220 
Green and Hot-Houses in June 204 
Hay, When to Sell 216 
Horticultural Society Wanted 220 
Household Department— Stumps. Quills and Counter- 
panes—Miss Collins' Prize Essay... Illustrations.. 223 
Housekeeper's Diary, Prize Essay. 223 
Indian Corn in Drills -. 214 
Kitchen Garden in June 203 
Markets 206 
Milk Snake Illustrated.. 211 
Mountain Sheep Illustrated. . 21S 
Orchard and Nursery in June 203 
Our Feathered Friends Must rated.. 201 
Picking Berries 220 
Plow Clevis 2 Illustrations. .214 
Premiums 205 
Propagation by Layers 222 
Bed Paint in the Garden 222 
Ruts in Roads 217 
Seeds of Wild Plants 222 
Tobacco and other Crops 21G 
Transplanting Seedlings 221 
Tree Frogs Illustrated. . 211 
Walks and Talks on the Farm— No. -I J— Price of Labor 
— Ditching — Draining — Grass — Horse Doctoring. 212-21 3 
Zinc Labels 222 
IXDEX TO ''BASKET,'' OK SHORTER ARTICLES. 
Abortion in Cows 207|Gift Enterprises 206 
Address of J. S. Gould. . .200 Hair for Manure 20S 
American Pomology 207 Harris, Brothers 206 
American Short -Horn Household Recipes 209 
Herd Book \.20i|Keeping Eags 20S 
Agricultural Farmers Ool- Sejv England Agricultu- 
amns 206 nil Society's Fair 207 
Benedict's Time Tables.211 Oil Cake 20S 
Blackberries 207! Paris Exposition 207 
Black Birds and Robins. 208 Plant Lice 20S 
Bomrner on Manure 207/Plows, etc. — Trial of 209 
Catalogues „ 209 Poultry Book 208 
Cider Vinegar ■:■>• n ; ■ ;- Co. Uoit'J Show. 209 
Electricity — Lightuin:_-...20S Record of Horticulture... 203 
Dep't of Agriculture. . .207 R. I. Horticultural Soci'v>09 
Draining for Profit 208 Sheep Fair '.209 
Fine Engravings 206Storm Signals in HarvestSOS 
Fish Guano. -20s Sundrv Humbugs 207 
Forty-one ParkRow. .. .206 Ti^-ht Boxes, etc 207 
Fruit Preserving Sollltion207 Trial of Plows 209 
Fuller's Small Fruit Cat- Washing Compounds ...207 
turist 207 Weighing on the Farm . . 207 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW-YORK. JUNE, 1S67. 
June is a month of severe labor, constant care, 
and unremitting diligence. Throughout the North- 
ern and Middle States the advance of the season is 
astonishing. It bursts upon us every year with as 
surprising a fervor as if we had not experienced the 
same thing ever since ire can recollect. The last 
of May finds the Corn, and similar crops, Sorghum 
and Broom corn, puny aud shivering in their narrow 
blades, pale, and living apparently on the hope of 
sunshine coming by and by. June comes, solstieial 
warmth infuses new life into the plants, they un- 
furl their broad green banners to the warm, moist 
airs, and atmosphere, aud soil and sunshine favor 
their making amends for the delays of Hay. Over 
a considerable portion of the Northern States, iu 
fact, so far as our exchanges aud correspondents 
inform us, the season lias been over the whole, coun- 
try, as with tis, unusually backward. A less breadth 
of Spring grains, especially of oats, has been sown, 
but on the whole the grain crops promise remark- 
ably well. The planting of potatoes and sowing of 
roots have been also much delayed. April work was 
crowded into May, and it is no more than to be ex- 
pected that May work will hinder and complicate 
the proper labors for this month. If we remember 
distinctly, wc have before alluded tothegrtat neces- 
sity, in successful farming, of working with a, deft- 
niteplan for each month and each day, but we ven- 
ture to throw out the hiut again. A plan makes all 
the difference betweeen success and failure — be- 
tween a thrifty, fore-handed well-to-do man. and the 
shiftless, thriftless, worked-to-death plodder, who 
toils on his weary days and years, almost literally 
"taking uo thought for the morrow." 
Do not over work yourselves, your wives, your 
sons, or your cattle. Many a farmer has spurred up 
his growing son to do man's work at 15, and seen 
the boy broken down at 20, an old man at oO. and 
very likely, having learned no wisdom by experi- 
ence, at 40 putting his own boys through the same 
time-honored course. Feed work-cattle of all sorts 
iu a good degree in proportion to the amount of 
•work required of them, and they will seldom be 
ailing if there is steady, hard work to do, and they 
are not strained by extra loads or overwork. 
Mints About Work. 
Clearing up.— It is to be taken for granted that 
however late the season, the manure has been 
hauled out aud, except small quantities of rich 
compost for especial purposes, or the recent accu- 
mulations of fertilizing materials, the barn yards aud 
manure sheds are quite cleaned out. Bams at the 
East at least have been woefully empty for two or 
three months, and ought long ago to have been swept 
and cleaned of hay-seed and litter of all kinds ; 
Old hay and straw compactly packed at oue side, 
yet conveniently come-at-able, and the whole estab- 
lishment put iu order for the coming crops. If this 
has not been doue, do it the first rainy day. 
Cattle stalls, cowbyres and calf pens are empty now, 
for the most part, aud it is a good time, and good 
wet weather work, to lift the floors, renewing them, 
cleaning and drying the beams and sills, painting 
those parts where wood becomes moistened by 
manure, "when quite dry, with hot coal tar, sanding 
thoroughly before relaying the floors. Make gut- 
ters at the same time to carry off the liquids. These 
should be oue part cement aud three of good sharp, 
clean sand. The more time cement gutters, floors 
or walls have to harden before frust. the better. 
Pastures. — Look to the water supply in pastures. 
Nothing dries up the fountains of milk like a lack 
of water. See also that the grass is not fed off too 
close, for any rain may be the last for some weeks, 
and then permanent damage would be sustained by 
over-stocked land. 
Mowing land. — Early iu the mouth it is usually 
well to go through the meadows and pastures, and 
pull or cut up with a spud the rankest of the weeds, 
or tho.se most damaging to the grass and hay. 
Cloivr, if cut early wheu just, coming into blossom, 
and given a light dressing of plaster or of any fine 
compost, will, if the stools are strong, make a vigor- 
ous second growth, and ripen a paying crop of seed. 
Eveiy farmer might raise his own clover seed in 
most parts of the country. 
Raying will begin in favored spots — warm, moist, 
sunny meadows — and there are many meadows 
which it is worth while to cut early, in order to get 
this much out of the way before the main crop of 
grass is sufferiug for cutting. Such are especially 
those meadows which you can rely upon for a good 
after-math. Cut close on thick sods, but not on 
thin or open ones. Cut with the machine when the 
dew is all off the grass, and if a tedder is used, keep 
it in motion through the gra^s all the time, after it 
has lain about an hour; the more the grass is tossed 
and aired the quicker it will dry. Rake it up while 
the suu is still very hot, having all in winrows be- 
fore four o'clock, andleavingit in cocks bigenough 
to retain the heat well into the night. A good part will 
need but very little suuuing the next day, and ought 
usually to be simply opened and shaken up after 
the dew is off aud the ground hot. Where mowing 
machines and hay tedders can not be used, cut 
while the dew is on, turn once, rake up while warm, 
give the cocks a daily airing and sunning, but do 
the curing of the hay iu the cocks, leaving them 
well made to shed rain and to hold the heat of the 
hay. Never let any dew fall on the loose hay. 
Corn. — Early maturing kinds will do very well 
planted the first week in June ; soak in warm 
water until it nearly sprouts, then stir it about with 
a little previously warmed pine tar until every kcr- 
uul is coated, theu sprinkle with plaster or lime. 
Hoeing. — The use of hoeing is not only to kill the 
weeds, for a clean field is often an unproductive 
oue, but the thorough working and stirring of the 
soil, — equal to a dressing of manure on laud in x>oor 
heart. The use of mere weeders and surface work- 
el's effects but little except the destruction of the 
weeds. It is most useful to cultivate deeply, and the 
one horse plow ; disereetly used between the rows, not 
to hill up too much, but to mellow and work tbo 
soil before the roots get into it, is preferable to auy 
of the cultivators. These implements are most 
useful after the roots begin to fill the soil more. 
First the harrow, then the plow, last the cultivator. 
This doctriue applies equally to corn and potatoes. 
Frequent and thorough stirring by horse pdwi rsu 
as not to hurt the roots, will insure good crops 
on any good soil. 
ifoo* Crops. — Carrots, aud parsnips, and beets, 
may be sowed as late as early iu June with fair suc- 
cess. Rutabagas are preferably sown about the 
20th in good deep soil, well manured and dressed 
with bone dust or superphosphate of lime. 
'White Field Beans may be planted auy time during 
the month. It is best to put them iu drills. Bltie- 
pod or White Marrowfat are good varieties, the lat- 
ter much the largest, the former yielding the surest. 
Green Forage Crops. — Indian corn, sown iu drills 
about two feet apart, is probably the most reliable 
crop for furnishing green fodder during the summer. 
The cost of the seed is au item which, of itself, may 
deter farmers from using it extensively, especially 
when Sorghum will do nearly as well both for green 
and dry use. Millet and Hungarian grass if cut be- 
fore the seed ripens, afford good fodder also, aud 
will do well on soil somewhat exposed to drought. 
Peas aud oats together may be sowed even iu June 
for cutting and curing as hay or feeding green. 
This crop requires a good well mellowed soil, but 
is not especially exhausting. The seed required U 
about two bushels of each kiud to the acre. 
Cabbages. — Sow for late crop in seedbeds, rear 
the land on which they are to be grown, such 
varieties as Flat Dutch, Drumhead, Late Bergen, 
etc. There is ordinarily a good market for cab- 
bages in all our larger cities, and they are fully 
equal to mangels for cattle, and as sure a crop. A 
crop of cabbages is one of the best for killing weeds. 
New land, with a plenty of good manure, is to be 
preferred. Mr. Henderson says that lime in any 
form, (bones or otherwise), will prevent dub-foot. 
