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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[July, 
Contents of this Number. 
Calendar for July, 1879. 
Allium, the Neapolitan.. . Illustrated. 267 
“American Jnte”—Wlmt is it?. Illustrated.. 265 
Among tiie Farmers, No. 42.—Granulated Butter- 
Treatment; City Horses at Pasture_ Illustrated. .259 
Apple, a New. Illustrated.. 257 
Babbitting, or Lining Boxes.4 Illustrations. 262 
Bee Notes for July.3 Illustrations. 256 
Boys and Girls’ Columns.—T he Doctor’s Talks: 
Divisibility — Strychnine — Soap-bubble -Big Fig¬ 
ures—Porosity—Atoms— Molecules—Compressibili¬ 
ty. The Fourth of July. The Doctor’s Correspond 
ence : Letters—About Gas—Balloons-Temper in 
Metals—Little Red Lice. Illustrated Rebus. Les¬ 
sons in Practical Entomology. Our Puzzle Box. 
How Russian Fanners Live. Hunting the Wood¬ 
chuck .6 Illustrations.. 272 
Cactus—Cacti— Cactuses.257 
Camp, Texan Cattle Driver’s. Illustrated. .259 
Canker-worm Guard. . 269 
Catchfly, the Oriental. .Illustrated.. 267 
Chickens, Late.264 
Clover-Seed Midge.3 Illustrations. .261 
Club. A Ladies’ Garden .258 
Cow—Keeping on Small Place. 264 
Curcnlio, the Plum. Illustrated.. 256 
Drainage, Something About. Illustrated.. 263 
Farm Work—Hints for July.248 
Flower Garden and Lawn in July. 219 
Food, Consumption of.261 
Food for a Calf. . 264 
Fruits, Ordinary, as Marvels.269 
Fungi—What are Fungi ?.4 Illustrations. .268 
Fungus, The Peach Curl.. Illustrated. .258 
Gapes... .25S 
Grass, Velvet.2 Illustrations.. 266 
Greenhouse and Window Plants.249 
Hints and Helps for Farmers : Clip for Driving Cattle 
—Cave for Roots—Self-Supporting Wagon Jack—A 
Safety Halter—Poke for Breachy Cattle.7 111. .263 
Household :—Home Topics : Getting Along Together 
—Story for Children—Provide for Winter Supplies— 
Thorough Cooking—Mush ; Oatmeal—Bathing the 
Baby. Window Screens and Awnings. Buffalo Moth. 
Household Hints and Helps: Buffalo Gnats—Aniline 
Dyes—Preserving Asparagus—Covering an Umbrella 
—Pudding Sauce—Silverware—Clothes Mottis—Re¬ 
cipes from Ohio.3 Illustrations.. 269-271 
Huckleberrying. Illustrated.. 247 
Humbugs, Sundry. 253 
Hungarian Grass and Millet.260 
Kitchen and Market Garden for July.249 
Lawes, J. B., Letter from...257 
Market Reports.250 
Mending Waste Places. Illustrated. 265 
Milk Cans, To Sink Deep. 3 Illustrations. .265 
Moles and Mole Traps .3 Illustrations. .264 
Nitrogen in Farm-Yard Dung.262 
Oil, a Little. 265 
Orchard in July.249 
Pork, Value of American in England.258 
Plants, Concerning a Few Common.256 
Rack for Hay, etc... Illustrated. .262 
Shed, A Cattle.3 Illustrations. .258 
Transplanting—Some Notions About..2 Illustrations. 268 
Trellises, Wire Pea.269 
Water, liaising Up Hill.2 Illustrations.. 261 
INDEX TO “BASKET,” AND OTIIEK SIIOIiT ARTICLES. 
Abscess in Cow’s Leg... .279 
Amaryllis, Treatment of. 255 
Ants in Lawn.252 
Association,Am. Science.251 
Association, Millers’.2S0 
Berry Picker, Silver’s_251 
Boats, Building.280 
Boiler Tubes.254 
Breeding, Old Mare.. .. 280 
Buckeye. Victorious_ 251 
Butter, White Specks in.281 
Calf, Feeding a Weaned.252 
Calves, Feeding.282 
California Horticulturist.255 
Cane, Amber. Sugar in...255 
Caponizing, To Learn.. .281 
Cattle, Devon for Daily. .279 
Cattle Contagion, The.. .282 
Cattle, Mooley or Pol led. 281 
Cattle, Shipment of.255 
Charcoal for Plants.255 
Clover. Plowing in. 279 
Coffee Tree.255 
College, Am. Veterinary.251 
Compasses, Land.255 
Corn, East and West....252 
Cow, How to Keep... . 280 
Cow, Jersey. Record.252 
Cows, Spaying, Patent... 281 
Cribbing..255 
Crusher, Bone.251 
Diarrhoea in Ox.254 
Eggs, Packing.281 
Engines, Farm.281 
Epizootic Among IIorses.254 
Express Charges. Stock. .255 
Exhihiti on. Horticultural.250 
Fertilizer, Poor Spot ... 280 
Filter fora Cistern.255 
Flies, Protect Animals..289 
Fodder, Corn for .252 
Foul Foot, in Cow.254 
Garget, or Caked Udder..280 
Girls. Well Educated. .. 281 
Goats, Angora.252 
Gophers..“.252-280 
Grass, Orchard.280 
Harvesters, Self Binding.2S0 
Herd Book, Jersey.. .2S0 
Hogs, Water for.255 
Horses, Doctoring.280 
Horses GnawingTroughs.280 
Horse Kicking, Cure for.252 
Immigration, Increase in.280 
“Impressions.” .254 
Insects. Killing, Manure..255 
Insect Poison.254 
Journal, Veterinary.280 
Land Owners.251 
Language, Beauties of.. .252 
Laws, Dog.254 
Lime and Manure.279 
Liming Sheep Skins.. ..2S1 
Live-for-ever as a Weed. .280 
Maize, Ensilage of.251 
Manure, Preserving.281 
Milk, Bloody. 280 
Milk, Cooling.281 
Milking, Extraordinary..252 
Milk Room Lumber.281 
Mineral for Name.282 
Moore, Silas. Death of. ..251 
Mosses. Coloring. 282 
Muck, Preparing.252 
Nervousness in Cows... .281 
Nursery, a Small Fruit...251 
Nuts and Nubbins.281 
Papers. Sending.250 
Paris Green, Poisoning. .251 
Paris Green, Applying.. .252 
Peaches from Georgia.. .255 
Persimmons, Dried.255 
Pigeon-Berry in Garden..282 
Pigs, Cost of Raising... 281 
Pigs, Jersey Red.255 
Pitch, Quarter or Third..280 
Plants,Exclusive Control.282 
Plows, Adamant.279 
Posies in Iron Pots. 251 
Poultry. Disease of Liver.280 
Poultry-keeping for Profit280 
Pump, the Whi tman.255 
“Pussley ” on Table....251 
Rakes. Horse. .. 255 
“ Rawle’s Janet ”.252 
Reyburn, Hunter & Co...251 
Rings and Hog Cholera..254 
Roller, When to Use.280 
Seed& Crop Information280 
Sheep in Michigan.254 
Sheep. Profit in.280 
Society, Mass. Hort’l_251 
Staggers, Stomach.281 
Staining Chestnut Wood252 
“ Stony Point”.251 
Water, Raising.280 
Weeds. Snap Dragon_255 
Weevils, Barn. 252 
Wheat, Cultivating.280 
Wheat, Mixing of.255 
Wheels, Emery.252 
Windgalls.252 
“ Wrigglers ”.219 
Terms to Africa, etc.250 
Texas, Good News from.251 
Vomiting in Cattle.281 
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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW YORK, JULY, -1879. 
Hints for the Work of the Month. 
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.'] 
Late Haying. —The failure to gather the hay while 
it is at its best, is a too lrequent and inexcusable 
neglect at this season. If farmers could be con¬ 
vinced of how much of the feeding value of hay 
is lost by leaving the grass to become ripe, hard, 
and woody, it would no longer be permitted. 
How to Cure Ripe Hay. —Hay that has been cut 
late may be improved by curing it in the cock in¬ 
stead of drying it in the sun. Being comparatively 
dry when cut it is very soon cured ; and if put up 
in cocks as soon as it is thoroughly wilted, it will 
heat and steam and become much softened, and 
will remain greener than if sun-dried in the swath. 
Cutting Wheat and Rye. —If there was any doubt 
about the best time for cutting grain, the general 
experience last year went far towards settling the 
question. All over the country a hot spell came on 
just as the cutting became general, and the grain 
shrank badly. Had the harvest been a few days 
earlier, the total gain would have been enormous. 
In the writer’s field, stopping the cutting for the 
4tli of July holiday last season, caused a loss of 
8100 in the quality of the grain and in shrinkage of 
weight and bulk. As soon as the grain is solid, 
hut will still crush dry between the finger nails, 
it may he cut, and hot weather will not injure it 
in the shock as it will when standing. Dead ripe 
grain is not only less valuable, but the straw is 
worth less than if cut three or four days earlier. 
Hay Caps will serve a good purpose upon grain 
shocks, and are much more secure than cap sheaves. 
Rake the Fields after the grain has been drawn ; 
the labor will be well repaid. 
Protect the Horses.—A cotton sheet will be found 
a great protection to the horses working in the 
harvest field. It screens them from the heat, from 
flies, and from dust, and the labor of cleaning them 
is lessened. As mentioned last month, it will be 
found desirable, when horses are washed, to use a 
soft sponge and water in which some carbolic soap 
has been dissolved. This cools the skin, assists 
perspiration, removes the strong pungent smell, 
greatly refreshes the animals, and drives away files. 
Where there is a river near by, a bath in the even¬ 
ing will be agreeable and safe, if the horses are 
kept in the water only two or three minutes, are 
driven home at once and rubbed dry. 
A Scraper for the Horses may be made of a piece 
of old scythe, with the edge dulled on the stone ; 
with this the sweat or moisture, after washing, may 
be easily removed. 
Green Feed for Horses.— Give a share of the green 
fodder when horses do not run at pasture. If at 
pasture at night, a generous feed should be given 
before they are turned out. 
Corn should not be neglected in the hurry of 
harvest. Frequent cultivation hastens growth and 
the maturing of the crop. To see the difference, 
leave a row or two uncultivated. Much hand work 
later in the season may he avoided by a little work 
with the cultivator, and by keeping the weeds down. 
Fodder-Corn may yet he sown. A rye or wheat 
stubble may be plowed and planted in drills with 3 
bushels of com per acre. The large Western or 
Southern corn, or Evergreen Sweet Corn, may he 
used. Some extra good ammoniated superphos¬ 
phate, with potash added, or special corn-fod¬ 
der fertilizer, should be sown broadcast and har¬ 
rowed in before planting. Dropping the fertilizer 
in the drill does not answer well for corn when 
other manure is not used broadcast. 
Roots.— Sow Ruta-bagas early this month, and 
White Turnips later. Superphosphate of lime, or 
fine hone dust, is specially adapted for these crops. 
A stubble may be prepared for them by giving 
one good plowing and harrowing; a cross har¬ 
rowing a week later will kill many small weeds. 
One of the hand garden drills will sow these small 
seeds. The ridger or marker, described last month, 
page 225, will he found very useful in preparing 
the ground for these crops. 
Potatoes. —After early potatoes are dug for market, 
they may le followed by 
Cabbages. —In planting late cabbages on potato 
ground there is no need to plow the whole area be¬ 
fore planting. Plow open furrows, 3 feet from cen¬ 
ter to center, and mark out by cross furrows 2 feet 
apart. Drop a forkful of manure at each crossing, 
close the furrows over the manure, and set the 
plants in the lines of the cross furrows. After the 
planting is finished the ground may be worked out 
with a light plow or a cultivator. 
Fodder Crops. —Hungarian Grass, common Millet,, 
or the Golden Millet, may he sown this month for 
green fodder or hay. A bushel of seed per acre 
may he sown, though rather thick seeding, the 
fodder will be all the finer and better for it. Millet 
that was sown in May should be cut before the 
seed is ripe or the fodder gets hard, unless the seed 
is wanted. Millet seed makes an excellent addi¬ 
tion to ground feed when mixed with corn and rye. 
Buckwheat may be made profitable upon a piece 
of rough or newly cleared ground. No other crop 
is so effective in mellowing rough cloddy land. 
The seed in northern localities should be sown be¬ 
fore July 12th; otherwise early fall frosts may 
catch the crop. Grass and clover may sometimes 
be sown successfully with buckwheat this month. 
Seeding to Grass alone. —Last year the writer 
sowed a piece of fallow ground to Orchard-Grass and 
Clover, on the first day of August. The ground 
was thoroughly prepared in July, and was top- 
dressed with short manure harrowed in. Three 
bushels, 42 lbs. of Orchard-Grass seed, and half a 
peck of clover were sown, and covered by drawing 
a smoothing plank diagonally across the harrow 
marks. This covered the seed evenly, and smoothed 
the ground. The present year one crop of hay, equal 
to 2 tons per acre, was taken in May, and the after 
growth will give a second crop this month or next. 
Cows. —A cool, dark, clean stable for the cows, is 
for many reasons preferable, to a hot pasture in the 
middle of the day. Cows that have been kept up 
on moderate feed, will shrink in their milk, on being 
turned into a luxurious pasture on a hot day. Dry 
