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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
Contents of this Humber. 
Aconite, the Winter. Illustrated. 227 
Among the Farmers, No. 41.—Money-saving Imple¬ 
ments-Reversible Plow Point—The Sulky Attach¬ 
ment to Plows—Ensilage—Colox-ing and Flavoring 
Blitter—The Lung Murrain.220 
Angora Goats . .226 
Barracks, Cheap and Easily Made.4 Illustrations. 222 
Bean-pulling Machine. Illustrated. .222 
Bee Notes for June . .. Illustrated. .216 
Beets and Beet-sugar.226 
Bog Spavin—Its Treatment. Illustrated. .222 
Boys and Girls’ Columns.—The Doctor’s Talks : Some¬ 
thing About Matter; The General Properties of Mat¬ 
ter ; Impenetrability: Divisibility—Puzzle Box: A 
Metagram Puzzle—Wants a Microscope Badly—The 
Doctor’s Correspondence: Clothes-moth and the 
Carpet-moth; Animal Food Produced by Plants; 
About Wonderful Plants; Curious Movements of 
Plants; Tendril Climbers; Strange African Plant, 
the Welwitschia; Vanilla Bean; Air Plants ; Our 
Oldest City.6 Illustrations. .231-274 
Cactuses in Summer.226 
Calypso, the Northern. Illustrated. .227 
Cattle, Swiss. .. .2 Illustrations. .219 
Clean Cultivation.223 
Cows, Large and Small..221 
Dairy Products, Valuable Prizes for.. .2 Illustrations. .218 
Department of Agriculture...215 
Duck House—A Rock Work. Illustrated. .226 
Editorial Correspondence—A Run Through the Penin¬ 
sula, Map. 217 
Equalizer for Three Horses Abreast.. .2 Illustrations. .225 
Farm Work—Hints for June.20S 
Fish Culture—Its Success Established.224 
Flower Garden and Lawn in June. 210 
Fruit Garden in June.209 
Greenhouse and Window Plants.210 
Hints and Helps for Farmers: Feed Boxes—Feed 
Trucks — A Cheap Yard-Gate — Discipline for a 
Kicking Horse.6 lUustraticms. .223-224 
Household : Decorative Art—Home Topics; Dolls’ 
Patterns—The Kitchen Wood Box—Bringing the 
Baby Up by Hand—More Baby Tenders—The Baby’s 
Hammock; Household Hints and Helps; Fruit 
Dryer—Another Coal Box—Trapping the Mosquito 
—A Scouring Board.8 Illustrations. .229-231 
Humbugs, Sundry.212 
Kitchen and Market Garden.209 
Ladder for Orchard. Illustrated.. 228 
Manure, Spreading.216 
Market Reports.210 
Meat, Over Fattened. 3 Illustrations. .221 
Moles—Traps and Poisons. 216 
Notes from the Pines: About a Wild Garden—A 
Rock Work—Rue Anemone — Liver Leaf—Dog’s 
Tooth Violet—Wild Gingers, etc.228-229 
Orchard in June .209 
Ox Yoke. How to Shape.2 Illustrations ..221 
Pearl Millet—“Farmerand Granger,” Peter Henderson215 
Pearl Millet, How to Dry. 218 
Plowing with the Swivel Plow. ... .221 
Poultry House, Mr. Kemp’s. Illustrated ..226 
Prizes, Valuable Dairy.218 
Provisions, American, in England.224 
Reels, Garden, Once More. Illustrated. 229 
Ridger for Roots, etc. Illustrated ..225 
Roots.222 
Science Applied to Farming, No. 52.—A Talk with Our 
Experimenters—Last Year’s Work—Failures and 
Successes—Lessons to be Remembered—Questions.224 
Sheep.225 
Sheep—Shaded Pasture. Illustrated.. 207 
Shingles, Making Split and Shaved... .9 Illustrations. 223 
Sweet Corn for Fodder.225 
Turkeys, Care of Young.223 
Turkeys, Disease Among.220 
Turkeys, Rhode Island. .225 
Violet, the European Dog’s-Tooth. Illustrated. .228 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” AND OTHER SHOUT ARTICLES. 
American Jute.212 
Am. Pomological Society.211 
“ Archery”.211 
Ashes, Plaster.214 
Babbit Metal.240 
Barb Fence.241 
Bones, Utilize Without a 
Mill.215 
Buchan’s Sheep Dip.212 
Calves, Raising Without 
Milk .215 
Cats in Poultry House....215 
Clover, Second Crop.214 
Collection of Orchids....212 
Common-Sense Chairs.. .212 
Compost, Materials for...215 
Compound Microscope...212 
Cornell University.213 
Lilly Butter Worker.... 215 
Liming Sheep Skins.213 
Maple Sugar.241 
“Mark My Paper ”.240 
Metric System. 214 
Mules, Ship to Africa.., .240 
Mustard Crop.215 
Nest, An Improved.214 
New Haven Horticultural 
Society.211 
Nurserymen, Florisls. 
Seedsmen.211 
Oats and Barley.214 
Percheron, Sale of.211 
“ Weak Backs.212 
Pleurisy in Cows. 213 
Plowing Under.214 
“ Plymouth Rocks ”.215 
Cut, and Cabbage Worms.240 Qniuby's New Book.211 
Disease of Live Stock... .211 Rape Before Wheat.241 
Dogs. New Work on.211 Rectum, Protrusion in 
Egg-Eating Hens.214J Swine.241 
Erysipelas in Colt.. _212:Salt for Sheep.214 
Fertilizers from Bones.. .213 “ on Wheat.215 
Fisk & Hatch “4 per cts”.211 i Saw-Dust.241 
Fire, Safety from Engine.214, Seeding Meadows.214 
Fodder, Peas and Corn.. .2141 “ Marsh. 214 
Food, Artificial.214jSheep Wash of Tobacco.212 
Gardner’s Grappling Ap- IshingleMachines.214 
paratus.212 Soldiers’ Claims. .213 
Garget,.215'Soiling Cows.215 
Gas-Li me.240 1 Splenic Fever,Remedy for211 
Grass Without Plowing..215 Steaming Apparatus.213 
Harrowing Young Oats. .214 Stock, Pure Bred.214 
Haying Tools.212 Sweeny in Horses.240 
Horses, Canadian.214 Swine, Jersey Red.215 
Horses Gnawing Feed- [Tin Trade.241 
Troughs.211‘Tumors in Cows Teats. ..214 
Horse Spoiled .214 Vine Named.241 
Hungarian for Cows. .. .214 Warts, to Remove.214 
ImpositionuponFarmers212 White Grub. 214 
Knuckling.241! Whitewash Outbuildings.214 
Land Decision,Important212,“ Wrigglers” in Cistern.211 
Land Plaster.241, Yellows. 213 
Light Brahmas.21PYour Name.240 
Calendar for June, 1879. 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1879. 
Hints for the Work of the Month. 
\The Hints and Suggestions in these columns are 
never copied from, previous years, but are freshly pre¬ 
pared for every month , from the latest experience and 
observations, by practical men in each department.'] 
Orchard Grass.—In a late season like the present, 
early grass for pasture or for cutting, is unusually 
valuable. The great difference between grasses in 
earliness, is strikingly seen when one has a field of 
Orchard grass adjoining one of Timothy. Orchard 
grass is too much neglected, and those who have 
never grown it, may try it with great advantage. 
That it is the earliest to start in the spring, comes 
into blossom with Red Clover, and both are ready 
for cutting in the best condition at the same time, 
are by no means all its valuable points. 
Hay .—Recent investigations threaten to upset 
some popular notions. It has long been supposed 
that early cut hay is more valuable than that cut 
later. If the judgment of the cows were a test, 
there would be no question about it. They will 
leave the riper hay, and even refuse to eat it at all, 
if they can procure that which has been cut earlier. 
In the writer’s dairy, the milk falls off more than 10 
per cent when the young hay is changed for that 
cut two weeks later. This is sufficient' to support 
the general opinion in spite of chemical analyses, 
which go to show that ripe hay is heavier, more bul¬ 
ky, and contains more nutritious substance, than 
that cut earlier.—Perhaps the operations of the 
chemist' can extract more nutriment from ripe hay 
than can the cow’s stomach ; but as young hay feeds 
more profitably, it seems best to cut early. 
Mowing Machines are now indispensable. The 
scythe may be used for cuttiug about fence corners 
when the wasteful zigzag rail fence is used; but so 
far as other uses go, it may be hung up out of the 
way. In choosing a mower, the chief points to con¬ 
sider are, lightness of draft, strength and simplic¬ 
ity of construction. With these, one has economy in 
use, durability, convenience of handling, and ease in 
keeping in order—points of the utmost impor¬ 
tance. There is one other point worth noting, which 
is safety in case of a run away, or when mowing a 
rough field, and there is danger that the driver may 
be thrown upon the cutting bar. The cutting bar 
should always be well in advance of the driver, but 
never directly ahead of him. 
Curing Hay in the cock is preferable to sun dry 
ing. The sweating and fermentation improve, and 
prevent heating in the mow or stack. The writer 
prefers to put up hay, after the dew is off, in moder¬ 
ately large cocks,—four feet wide and high,—after 
it has lain spread in the sun for one full day. It 
may thus stay safely for a week, if necessary, and a 
hay cap will protect it from a 34 hours’ rain. The 
day it is drawn in, a man should start early and 
throw open the cocks, to get a final airing for two 
or three hours before it is taken up. 
A Horse Fork should be in every ham. In the 
hurry of haying, the cost of a horse hay fork may 
easily be saved in one week, by rapid unloading. 
Cbm.—Late plantings of corn may he made up 
to the middle of the month. Some early sorts, and 
some new varieties which claim to be extra early, 
may he tried as an experiment. It will pay very- 
well to make late plantings up to July for fodder,, 
planting in drills 3 feet apart, with about 13 grains 
to the foot in the drill. The large kinds of 
Sweet Corn are the best for fodder. Triumph* 
Marblehead Mammoth, and Stoweil’s Evergreen* 
are suitable for this purpose. The common opin¬ 
ion, that sweet corn is better for fodder than field 
corn, is well founded ; but there is some difficulty 
in curing the stalks, which is easily surmounted 
however, and which will be noted in season. 
Frequent Cultivation is essential to successful: 
corn growing. The cultivator should be kept going 
this month through the corn and the root crops,, 
about once a week. It matters not that there are 
no weeds in sight, it is not alone to kill weeds, that 
we cultivate and hoe, but to loosen the soil, and by 
that means, to stimulate the growth. 
Summer Fertilizing .—The experience of the past 
few years has often shown it to be useful to give a 
light dressing of fertilizer to the corn, just before the 
last cultivation. This helps the earing, and renders 
many ears productive that would otherwise be abor¬ 
tive. The fertilizer should be worked in with the 
cultivator. A mixture of poultry manure, ashes* 
and plaster, will be useful; or the prepared artifi¬ 
cial corn fertilizer, may be used in place of this. 
Foots .—Early Blood beets, and Sugar beets, may 
be sown early this month. Mangels will now re¬ 
quire clean culture, and vigorous thinning. Ruta¬ 
bagas may he sown from the first to the 35th of 
this month, upon land that has not been prepared 
in time for earlier crops. 
Fodder Crops .—-The rye ground cleared by this 
time, may be immediately prepared and planted 
with fodder corn or oats, the latter to be followed 
with late turnips as the oats are cut for feeding; or 
Hungarian grass may follow the rye, and he cut 
off in time for sowing rye again next fall. A 
good plot of cabbages will be found useful for 
fall and early winter feeding of cows, and if plants 
have been provided for, they may be set out on the 
rye ground, or some other piece of rich moist soil. 
Working Horses .—An ample bedding of fresh 
straw will do much to induce a tired horse to lie 
down and rest. Clean grooming, and an occasional 
washing will also greatly encourage restfulness and 
improve the appetite and health. Over-feeding is 
not judicious, and will not restore flesh lost by hard 
work and want of comfortable rest. To prevent 
galls, the harness should be washed and kept soft 
with castor-oil. If vermin attack the harness, a 
little powdered aloes rubbed in with the oil, will 
keep them away from the leather. 
Cows and the Dairy .—Now that winter dairying 
has come into vogue, it does not pay to pack but¬ 
ter for sale in competition with fresh creamery 
pails in winter. A change has come over this busi¬ 
ness, and it is no longer advisable, unless under ex¬ 
ceptional conditions, to keep butter stored away 
for sale. The most profitable butter now is that 
sold fresh in small tubs or pails. This change 
should be noted and provided for as soon as may 
be. It also affects the management of cows, and 
these are now brought in fresh at any season of the 
year, so as to keep a constant supply of fresh milk. 
With the “perfected butter colorings,” as they are 
called, June grass color has paled in comparison, 
and is now of less consequence. “June ” butter* 
